e-Governance

Vijay Agrawal 02D05008

Raja Agrawal 02D05009

WHAT IS eGOVERNANCE?

eGovernance is Electronic Governance – Governance that employs the opportunities and potentials that Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have to offer. eGovernance is simply e-enabled governance

ICTs (in this context) describe electronic tools such as computers, telephones (and other telecommunication equipment), Internet, the world wide web and other 21st century communication media

Benefits

1. eGovernance automates the major state functions and capacities (Legislative, Executive, Judiciary), thus facilitating the optimal functioning and better interaction of institutions attached to these three major wings of the state

2. eGovernance allows better interaction between the government, its institutions and people

3. eGovernance creates greater market opportunities for goods and services.

4. eGovernance initiatives lead to a process of transformation, which increases the effectiveness, efficiency and transparency of government and administration

Areas Covered

Hospital Information System (Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute for Medical Sciences, Lucknow and Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, New Delhi)

Laboratory Automation for Central Power Research Institute, Bangalore

Networking in institutions to enable enterprise-wide data exchange

Consultancy for developing framework for information system planning for Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh

Telephone Revenue Billing (Pune Telecom) eGovernance through Regional Languages

Cost Measures ...

In order to implement the strategy, the following tools will be necessary:

Websites Telecommunication Infrastructure Internet Provision (eMail, etc) Internet/Web-based services eg

ePayments Skills’ acquisition – Human Resource

Development

Examples …

No. of HouseholdsNumber availing

Banking Services Percentage

Rural 13.82 4.16 30.1

Urban 5.37 2.65 49.5

Total 19.19 6.82 35.5

Rural penetration of Banking and Insurance is very low Excess Dependence on Private Finance at very high Cost

Strategies

Bringing new farmers into Banking fold

Doubling Agriculture Credit in next three years as per Govt guidelines

Contact Information

http://www.cdac.in/html/egovidx.asp http://www.egovernance-consortium.org/ http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/

485/mittal.html http://www.wipro.co.in/itservices/

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