The scheme, part of the Central government’s National e-Governance Plan (NeGP), will be implemented in all 30 districts with the setting up of 5,713 CSCs across gram panchayats in the coming months. The CSCs will provide hundreds of Government to Citizen (G2C) and Business to Citizen (B2C) services such as payment of utility bills, booking of railway…
Sajal Roy had invested ₹1.60 lakh in a common service centre (CSC) of Sahaj e-Village programme at Ramgopalpur village, in South 24-Parganas district of West Bengal, in 2007, with the intention to offer e-governance services. Unfortunately, the e-governance project did not take off in majority of the States, including Bengal. Roy had to depend on…
The scheme, part of the Central government’s National e-Governance Plan (NeGP), will be implemented in all 30 districts with the setting up of 5,713 CSCs across gram panchayats in the coming months. The CSCs will provide hundreds of Government to Citizen (G2C) and Business to Citizen (B2C) services such as payment of utility bills, booking of railway…
Electronic learning – the use of electronic media and devices in education – is likely to be as effective as traditional methods for training health professionals, says a study. Students acquire knowledge and skills through online and offline e-learning as well as or better than they do through traditional teaching, showed the findings of the…
Telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday said that e-commerce investment in India has been rising and will stay in India. “Our position on retail FDI is well known, that is part of our national manifesto, and even the investors know it very well, we have come with a massive majority,” he said adding, “However,…
Hollywood, the glamorous film industry of the world’s biggest votary of free speech, the US, has withheld the release of “The Interview” after threats linked to North Korean hackers upset over the comedy built around the assassination of its leader, Kim Jong-un. The US and North Korea are in a diplomatic face-off, with Pyongyang denying…
The government has asked all central and state departments and ministries to stop using private email services for official communication and instead use indigenous services provided by NIC, to prevent “misuse” or “leakage” of classified data. A recent circular, accessed by PTI, issued to all government bodies by the CERT-In under the Union ministry of…
As the government draws out the blueprint of 100 smart cities across the country, India’s first smart city project at Dholera is expected to get a boost at the seventh edition of the Vibrant Gujarat Summit. The Dholera Special Investment Region (SIR) is expected to be one of the main investment draws at Vibrant Gujarat…
The year 2014 recorded an all-time high number of cyber crimes instances and in 2015, there would be further spike in number of cases, Supreme Court lawyer and cyber law expert Pavan Duggal said here on Saturday. He was speaking at the workshop on ‘Important trends and developments in cyber law,’ organised by the New…
The year 2014 recorded an all-time high number of cyber crimes instances and in 2015, there would be further spike in number of cases, Supreme Court lawyer and cyber law expert Pavan Duggal said here on Saturday. He was speaking at the workshop on ‘Important trends and developments in cyber law,’ organised by the New…