Accordingly, the National Institute of Smart Government (NISG) and department of personnel and training, government of India are launching a 14-week training programme for the selected officers from all the states.
The purpose here is to develop a team of e-champions from among the civil servants, who could lead the country into the era of e-governance.
In this connection, the chief secretary and the principal secretary IT, received a letter from Ajay Sawhney, joint-secretary (training), department of personnel and training, government of India, stating that to develop a nucleus of 4/5 officers in every state for developing skill in the areas of information technology and e-governance, a specific training programme is being organised.
The letter further states that e-champion programme has been designed to be one of the most important enablers of a successful implementation of the national e-governance plan conceived by the Union government.
Senior official in the IT department told The Times of India that one of the critical factor responsible for slow growth of e-government project, was lack of champions who have the right skill, knowledge, aptitude and leadership qualities.
"Keeping this in mind the Union government has decided to organise a specific training programme for developing at least 100 e-government champions in different states and central government departments over the next three years,'' said the official who added that annually over Rs 3,500 crore is being invested by the Centre on e-government.
On being contacted on phone the principal secretary IT Zohra Chaterjee, who along with district magistrate Sitapur Amod Kumar were in Cochin to attend a three-day national conference on e-governance, admitted that a letter in this regard was received by the state government.
While informing that the process of selecting the officers for the said course was on, the principal secretary said, ''in this national conference Amod Kumar was awarded National Icon Award for excellence in the field of e-governance and in recognition of software Lokvani developed by him.''
Quelle: TMCnet, 06.02.2006
