Fourteen months now, and the project lay grounded for want of political will from the City Fathers. That Margao civic body had as many as three chairpersons in the last one year did not help in reviving the rupees half-a-crore project and help streamline day-to-day administration.
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The proposal was approved late Thursday at a state cabinet meeting here, said the official.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and the Bihar State Electronics Development Corporation, a state-owned IT body, are to design the software for the e-governance project. The Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (ILFS) will monitor its implementation.
Delhi information technology (IT) secretary, Dr G. Narender Kumar, speaking at a three-day 'South Asia e-Government Summit' organised jointly by the department of information technology, government of India, by the society for promotion of e-governance (SPEG), said that by January 2007 Delhi's Cannaught place will have free Wi-Fi (wireless) Internet services as part of Delhi Government's plan to make the capital Wi-Fi-enabled.
These 10 recommendations will be presented to the Government in 90 days and include setting up web portals on energy, environment, knowledge network, higher education, university reforms, intellectual property rights (IPR), agriculture, traditional knowledge, health information and issues related to plants, communicable disease and distance learning, he said.
But his successor government of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar approved a sweeping proposal late Thursday that will enable villagers to connect with the outside world and get easy information access, state Cabinet Secretary A.K. Chauhan said Friday.