What is E-Governance?

E-Governance allows citizens to

communicate with government,
and participate in the
governments' policy-making.
A Good E-Governance system can save
up to 70% of transaction cost.

E-Governance also creates ways for

transparency, cost reduction, instant
response
E-Governance may start with
digitization of operations and
ensuring smoother information flow.

But to take advantage of the best of

E-Governance is to use E-
Governance for Policy making,
measuring performance, building
consensus by collaboration and
feedback, increase revenue and
offering a truly responsive
Government.
Areas where E-Governance is
actively deployed.
– -  Policy & Decision Making
– -  Responsive & quality employee
Services
– -  Increase in Revenue and Target
monitoring
– -  Information assimilation and data
management for effective
Governance
The issues involved in creating E-
Governance system and implementing
it?
Vision and commitment of the Leadership
Changed perceptions of the people to accept
new systems
Planning and Funding
Resources – Committed and smart people
Technology
Time
Creation of Infrastructure across the system
End user training to use to systems
 Gyandoot
Rural citizens of MP have the opportunity
to access knowledge and a number of
government services on payment of a
small service fee.
Thirty-nine privately owned kiosks connect
with a district administration server
through an intranet.
The project is faltering after initial
success.
 Warana
Wired Village projects main aim is to demonstrate
the effective use of IT infrastructure in the
accelerated socio-economic development of 70
villages around Warana Nagar in the Kolhapur and
Sangli districts of the state of Maharashtra.

The existing cooperative structure has been used in

concert with high speed VSATs to allow Internet
access to existing cooperative societies.

The project aims to provide agricultural, medical,

and education information to villagers by
establishing networked ‘facilitation booths' in the
villages.
E-Governance in Noida city
Compaq India has joined hands with Electronics
Research and Development Centre of India
(ERDCI), Noida, to set up a competence centre
that would enable e-governance in Noida city and
various other states.

Residents will be able to pay electricity and phone

bills, file I-T returns, register marriages and
deaths, among other things at information kiosks
located in the city. Once the project becomes fully
operational citizens can pay utilities, get
grievance redressal and a variety of other
essential jobs through these info kiosks.
 "RajNidhi": Information kiosks

"RajNidhi" is a web enabled information kiosk

system developed jointly by Rajasthan state's
Department of Information Technology and
Rajasthan State Agency for Computer Services
(RajComp).

Earlier on March 23, 2000, Nayla became the first

village of Rajasthan to have a "Raj Nidhi
Information Kiosk" when the US President, Mr.
Bill Clinton visited this village to observe the
functioning of a Gram Panchayat.
 “raj-SWIFT": Rajasthan
government's Intranet
The Rajasthan State’s Department of Information
Technology (DoIT) has developed Government’s own
Intranet called as "raj-SWIFT". SWIFT here stands for
Statewide Intranet on Fast Track.
This system which has been built using Internet
technology and tools, would facilitate online data, text
and e-mail communication between the office of the
Chief Minister and all the 32 District Collectors on one-
to-one basis, thus bringing the Chief Executive of the
State and the district administration close enough to be
just a mouse click away.
 Mechanism of Single
Window Clearance System

To overcome the inordinately long time required

to obtain the statutory approvals/licences etc.
from various government departments/agencies,
the Bureau of Industrial Promotion & Office of the
Commissioner (Investment & NRIs), Government
of Rajasthan, has introduced a Single Window
Clearance System through a Single Composite
Application Form.
E-Governance in Panchayats
in Kerala
E-Governance Centre at
Haryana Secretariat

The Haryana Government has set up an

e-governance centre at the Secretariat to
effectively monitor information
technology in the state.
Centre for Electronic Governance, Ministry
of Information and Technology
The MIT website features the Centre for e-governance set up
by the Ministry of Information and Technology (MIT), Govt.
of India.
Apart from offering e-governance solutions and services, the
Centre showcases applications by various IT majors like
C-DAC, CMC, IQ Virtuals, Microsoft, NIC and Oracle. This
list will expand soon.
The Centre aims to offer services such as technical
consultation, proof of concept and thematic presentations,
apart from creating awareness amongst decision makers at
the Central and State level and helping them in defining and
implementing process and policy changes for effective
e-Governance.
 Government of Delhi

The official website of the Delhi government provides

a 'single window' for all the citizen’s information
needs and queries regarding the various public
services of the Delhi Government, ranging from
obtaining a driving license to getting a marriage
registration certificate made.
The site provides all relevant application forms for
downloading and printing.
 Parliament of India

Website of the Indian Parliament carries

information on the proceedings of both the
houses of the parliament, the Constitution
of India, various budgets, parliamentary
debates, secretariats, committees and
members of the houses, and links to other
central and state government websites.
 Department of Administrative
Reforms and Public Grievances

This is a section of the website of the

Department of Administrative Reforms
and Public Grievances under the Ministry
of Personnel, Public Grievances and
Pensions of the Indian Government.
It has well categorized links to
E-Governance initiatives from around the
world and a review of the Indian
experience with E-Governance.
E-governance initiatives

Networking of the Andhra Pradesh

Secretariat with district headquarters.
Compact — Computer Aided
Administration of Commercial Taxes,
which has already resulted in
realization of lakhs of rupees in taxes.

 Hazard Mitigation Information

System introduced in Andhra Pradesh.
 Aarakshi—an intranet for the Jaipur
City police
E-governance initiatives

Video-conferencing facility launched to facilitate

‘Bhagidari’ project in India
ITC plans to launch 30 more rural malls in 2005-06
ICRISAT using ICT to benefit dryland farmers
Tamil Nadu government to implement IT in its
agricultural department
Video-conferencing facility launched
to facilitate ‘Bhagidari’ project in
India

Bhagidari project is to enhance interaction between the

Resident Welfare Associations and the administration.
The Chief Minister has said that the facility has been set
up in three districts — South, Southwest and West — and
will be extended to the other districts in the next one-and-
half months.
The government planned to include residents’ groups of
slums and unauthorized colonies in the project.
ITC plans to launch 30 more rural
malls in 2005-06

In India, Indian Tobacco Company (ITC) Ltd plans to

open 30 more rural malls in 2005-06, in synergy with
its fast growing e-Choupal network, after
successfully implemented the country’s first private
sector rural mall known as Choupal Sagar at Sehore
in Madhya Pradesh. The construction of nine malls
three each in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar
Pradesh is nearing completion.
FACTS
The scenario in case of internet spread is gloomier and
hardly any rural areas have access to broadband internet
connections.
In India as on April, 2005 total no. of broad band
connections were only 2.28 lacs which is a meager 0.02%.

The primary reasons for the slow growth of internet in

country have been infrastructural bottlenecks, financial non
viability and absence of cost effective reliable technology.

With the advancement of technology, especially that in

area of Wireless in Local Loop (WLL), it has become
possible to provide internet facility even in remote villages
at affordable prices.