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Institute for eGovernment

This ground-breaking project envisages the setting up of such rural knowledge centers, covering all the remaining villages of Union Territory in a phased manner by the end of this year.

These Common Service Centres (CSCs) would be set up in villages in an equitable geographical spread with active participation from local rural youths for empowering the citizen through information dissemination and market linkages. The CSC scheme is being rolled-out on Public Private Partnership (PPP) model as part of National e-Governance Plan.

Adesh artap Singh Kairon minister for food and supply Wednesday said that this was for the first time that bonus would be paid directly to the farmers based on the records obtained from mandis. The minister said that database of paddy sold by farmers was being computerised every day. He said that even government has proposed to issue J form to the farmers online. He said that this was major step towards e-governance in agriculture which is based on Singapore model.

Mr Kairon alongwith the senior officers of Haryana, Punjab, Chandigarh Administration and Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) made these observations while announcing the mega IT event, e-Revolution 2007 to be held On August 2-3 here.

Rural development and panchayat minister Ranjit Singh Brahmpura today said that a scheme to connect all Gram Panchayats (GPs) with national e-governance would be launched in all the districts and 90 per cent cost would be borne by the Centre.

The Punjab Police, aiming at making all its personnel computer literate, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Punjab Information and Communication Technology Corporation (Punjab Infotech) for providing computer training to them.

The training to police personnel across all ranks would be given at Centre for Advance Learning in Computer (CAL-C) centres.

Disclosing this here today, PPCB's Member Secretary Babu Ram said whenever an application seeking consent to establish or operate a unit or renew permission is filed with the concerned regional office of the Board, it shall be entered into the database the same evening.

Presiding over a meeting of the Punjab State Empowered Committee for the implementation of Crime Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS Project) here Gill said that new inventions in IT and communications besides helping the investigators were posing a great challenge for security forces as criminals were using latest fads in technology to hoodwink the security network. He said that challenge before security forces was to move to step ahead the hi-tech criminals to pre-empt their nefarious designs.

Presiding over the meeting of Executive Board of Punjab Roads Bridges Development Board here this morning the PWD(B&R)Minister Parminder Singh Dhindsa said PWD (B&R) Department has been included in the first phase of computerization by the Department of IT by introducing e-procurement. He said that Government has decided that from 15th Jan, 2008 all works above Rs. 1.0 crores would be tendered electronically. Department of Information & Technology was in the process of establishing a suitable platform for these services. The Minister said that this would introduce greater competition and transparency in the public procurement.

Punjab state government and HCL Infosystems Ltd. entered into an agreement today to deliver e-District Services to the citizen. As a part of the project, prime bidder HCL Infosystems shall deliver a state of the art platform to deliver electronic services to the common citizen. HCL shall deliver these services using Humanitics Dimension's e-District Platform.

This decision was taken here at a meeting chaired by Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Thursday after a detailed presentation made by Arvinder Singh Bains, the director of land records settlement, consolidation and land acquisition.

The state plans to set up e-governance centres in all municipal towns and cities through the public-private partnership mode, minister for local bodies Manoranjan Kalia said.

'The project aims to bring high levels of citizen satisfaction through integrated service delivery on anytime, anywhere basis,' Kalia said after a pre-bid meeting here Tuesday.

Punjab is gearing up to roll out e-District pilot projects in Kapurthala and Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar (Nawanshahar) districts of the state.

It would be implemented by State e-Governance Society (PSeGS) under the aegis of Department of Information Technology. The pilot will be followed by statewide rollout in remaining 18 districts.

According to Punjab Information Technology Minister Abdul Aleem Khan, the Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) will spearhead the development of a 'genuine e-government culture' through investment in infrastructure and key personnel.

In tune with the revolutions happening in e-governance, the Chandigarh administration and the Punjab government separately announced some steps to go forward with the e-revolution tasking place in the country.

While Chandigarh announced that it will introduce e-stamping of the documents in the union territory, the Punjab government is set to computerize the District Transport Offices (DTOs) and outsource the registration and licensing work to streamline the process of vehicle registration.

Rodrigues said in a democratic system the rule of law was paramount, which envisages there should be no preferential treatment to anyone. It is the duty of all elected representatives to rise above the vested interests and personal priorities and to serve the people effectively.

Ranjit Singh Brahmpura Rural Development and Panchayats Minister Punjab expressed this on Monday.

The Municipal Corporation, Ludhiana, has been identified for the pilot project. Municipal Commissioner Vikas Pratap said that for this assignment, Punjab government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Microsoft, the international IT company.

The move would benefit thousands of those visiting police stations to get their complaints registered as computerization would not only streamline the system, but also make the process speedy. The police stations where the new process has been made applicable include Phases I & VIII, Kharar, Kurali, Sohana, Zirakpur, Derabassi and Lalru.