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Keeping in view the recommendation of the UT Administrator’s Advisory Council, the Department of Information Technology has requested all the departments to initiate e-governance in their respective departments and take full advantage of the services of the e-Sampark centres.

A UT statement today said the departments have been forwarded the recommendations of the sub-group of the Council for necessary action in this regard.

Parliament today approved the Companies Amendment Bill, 2006 which envisages implementation of a comprehensive e-governance system through the much-touted MCA-21 project.

The bill, earlier okayed by the Rajya Sabha, was passed by the Lok Sabha today.

Piloting the bill, Company Affairs Minister Prem Chand Gupta said filing and registration of documents is a statutory requirement under the Act which currently lays down procedures for filing of various documents in physical form and processes associated therewith.

The National Knowledge Commission has made public its recommendations on e-Governance.

"The current e-governance efforts are based on computerizing age-old processes left behind by the British Raj. Simply digitizing existing government processes merely adds an additional layer of expense, complexity, delay and confusion," said Sam Pitroda, Chairman of NKC.

With a dozen separate e-governance modules underway, online payments, biometric access and vehicle tracking to professionalise civic administration

Municipal Commissioner Johny Joseph might feel like Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible. Only, a computer will read, instead of his retina, his thumbprint that must match the digitised print on a card he’ll swipe as he marks his day’s attendance.

For, all 41 departments of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) have now been assessed, their individual infotech asset registers prepared.

Keeping pace with the Right to Information (RTI) act, the Science and Technology ministry has chalked out a plan to switch over to total E-governance and transparency by March next year.

“The aim is to usher in higher level of transparency in all areas including project management and procurement by March 2007,” Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal told reporters here on Friday. The Minister said that the concept of RTI was new with normal mindset being not to give information.