Imagine an illiterate farmer in a remote village in Madhya Pradesh sitting at a desktop wired up to the WWW through a small VSAT link, powered by a tiny power generator by the side, and surfing away to glory downloading invaluable information about weather forecasts and sowing trends.
The Indian government under the aegis of Ministry of Company Affairs has recently launched a project called MCA-21. The project was formally launched at Coimbatore in February 2006 and is expected to go live all over the country before May 2006.
After ushering in a cyber revolution in Sitapur district, Amod Kumar, now the district magistrate of Faizabad, will introduce e-governance in the district through Lokvani, which empowers citizens to interact with government departments through the Internet.
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The department has selected Oracle to drive the project across the country. It has chosen Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware as the platform to develop a single national database based on a three-tier mode architecture to increase efficiencies and improve citizen services. This was announced by V S Mathur, Director General (Systems) in the department.
However, companies of our nation now have to increasingly not only hear about electronic legalities but also comply with the same, while engaged in their day-to-day operations and business functions. This is so because of increasing dependence on of the electronic format.
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