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The additional outlay of Rs 1,300 crore over the previous year’s allocation is also expected to send an election-eve message to the masses that the Vajpayee government is laying emphasis on providing good governance.

The NKN when established will enable scientists, researchers and students in knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer. It would enable use of specialized applications, which allow sharing of high performance computing facilities like e-libraries, virtual classrooms and very large databases.

Speaking to presspersons during a break at the launch of the T.A. Pai Managament Institute Centre for e-governance Research and Education, Mr. Vidyashankar said six BPOs, on the public-private-partnership model would come up in districts this year. He said one was functional near Bagepalli and another was coming up near Shimoga. The Government was providing part of the infrastructure and each BPO would seat 200 staff. “These BPOs will provide backup for services related to the Social Welfare Department, gram panchayats and so on,” he said.

Delivering his Keynote Address at ASSOCHAM Summit on E-Governance here today, Mr. Rao said that such e-governance projects would aim at building capacities through private-public partnership since government has little IT resources at it’s command.

The minister said the government would launch more "ambitious" e-governance programmes to increase its service to the common man.

The ministry of health and family welfare will invest close to $50 million (Rs250 crore) in the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization’s (CDSCO) e-governance initiative. The initiative, the first of its kind in the world, will be developed by New York-based technology solutions provider MGRM. The application aims to enable transparency and efficiency in the working of the CDSCO.

The Right to Information Act will fail to deliver in India if information is not available and accessed by people online. This was stated by, Chief Information Commissioner, Central Information Commission, Wajahat Habibullah.

“Our vision is to make all government services available to the common man in his locality, through common service delivery outlets and ensure the efficiency, transparency and reliability of such services at affordable costs to realize the basic needs of the common man,” added Singh.

The program was undertaken with the aim to provide effective governance through computer penetration. This will take place within the Panchayati Raj institutions that covers 210 rural local bodies across 19 districts.

Talking to reporters after releasing the new Telephone Directory of Baroda Telecom Circle here today, Satyapal said that they have been penetrating rural areas with Broadband services in a big way.

Chaakri.in, an initiative of Srei Sahaj e-village (a subsidiary of the Kolkata-based `1000-crore Srei Infrastructure Finance) helped a computer illiterate youth in Sankupur Village, Ajay Sardar who once ran a stitching shop to back his family, to fetch a job in Eureka Forbes as sales executive. Srei Sahaj, which launched Chaakri to provide jobs to talented youngsters in villages, plans to set up 28,000 common service centres or e-governance kiosks under the national e-governance plan. Following suit, many other job portals are opening up for rural markets which will also enable recruiters to avoid travelling to various parts of the country and the contingent costs that accompany.

The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is installing eight OC-LANs and around 100 DSLAMs (equipment for broadband) in the next six months, which will ensure that the entire rural Pune is covered.

Secretary Siddharth of the department said this at a seminar on "Driving Value Creation through ICT", organised by the Bengal Chamber of Commerce. He talked about how the administration has benefited from information technology. He also, cited the e connectivity in 277 gram panchayats in Burdwan and the digitisation in state treasuries and telemedicine facilities in the state as examples. The department has identified 50 schools in North and South 24 Parganas for the next academic session.