We have seen the Center
and State
level Mission Mode Projects (MMPs) taken up by Government of India under
National e-Governance Plan (NeGP).There are certain governance
responsibilities, which are to be jointly undertaken by both center and state
governments in India. The following are key MMPs considered from IT perspective
to increase the efficiency in governance (source: http://mit.gov.in).
I wonder how many
people know about how IT is being applied for e-governance in India ! After all these are certain good things being done by (any) government in the last decade or so.
Common Service Centre (CSC)
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CSCs were conceptualized as the front end service delivery outlets
enabling smooth and transparent governance even at the village level. Under
the scheme, over one lakh internet enabled kiosks are being set up in the
rural areas spread across more than 600,000 villages.
I used a CSC utility payments. I
heard about entrepreneurs in tier-3 cities taking up the setup of such CSCs
in an incentive-based model.
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e-Courts
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The objective of e-courts is to develop, deliver, install and
implement automated decision making and decision support system in courts all
over the country. Case Filing, Scrutiny, Registration, Case Allocation, Court
Proceedings, Details entry of a Case, Case Disposal & restoration,
Transfer of Case, Certified copies of orders and judgments, Case status,
Calculation of court fees, Cause lists,
Institution Registers, and Court Diaries, Monitoring of pendency
in the courts.
It seems there are 3 crore pending
cases in courts in India. Can the government not increase the number of
courts and court employees? Will the IT-enablement alone solve the problems?
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EDI/e-Trade -
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Conceptualized to facilitate effective and efficient mode of
transacting
business in the area of foreign trade. The project is being
pursued in trade regulatory and facilitating agencies like Customs, Ports,
Airports, Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), Banks, respective
Container Corporation of India (CONCOR), export promotion organizations etc.
Never heard about any issues at the
border with respect to trade or customs (except for bollywood stars not
declaring their valuables appropriately). Guess this MMP should have been
implemented on very much effective in operation.
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India Portal - http://india.gov.in/
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There are over 5000 websites on the internet of various Indian
government entities that include Ministries, Departments, States/Union
Territories, district administration, organizations. The National Portal of
India provides a single window unified interface for all these websites and
acts as a logical front end to the e-governance initiatives under various
central/state/UT government schemes and programs.
Does the government really need so
many websites?
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National e-Governance Service Delivery Gateway (NSDG) - https://nsdg.gov.in
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Different departments in the Centre, States and Local Government
cooperate,
collaborate and integrate information across the various levels,
domains and geographies through NSDG.
Does this mean we won't hear
ministers say - "The file has not come to my table yet. I have not seen
the file"?
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e-Biz - http://dipp.nic.in
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To transform the business environment in the country by providing
efficient, convenient, transparent, and integrated electronic services to
investors, industries and business throughout the business life cycle.
After moving from License-Raj to
Liberalization (1991 onwards), we have seen tremendous growth in business and
economy in India. The businesses does not really seem to have much of
problems with respect to approvals, extensions and funds.
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e-Procurement
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The e-Procurement MMP has been designed to take into account
Government procurement of goods, works as well as services. It covers all
aspects of procurement right from intent of tender to tender preparation,
bidding, bid evaluation and award of contract.
Could the government not use the applications from this MMP for CWG Games held in Delhi last year? |
Vijay,
ReplyDeleteYou have not mentioned about MCA21 (http://mit.gov.in/content/mca21). It is a central mmp which got many accolades.
Joseph
Thanks for stopping-by Judes.
DeleteSplit all the MMP summaries into three sections - Center, State and Integrated. MCA21 is mentioned under the Center related MMPs at http://lifemeetsdigital.blogspot.in/2012/03/e-governance-in-india-center-level-mmps.html.
I will request you for a guess post in your favorite domain in the near future :-)