Guwahati municipal corporation (GMC) has launched e-payment facility for property tax, which is a prime source of revenue for the corporation. According to a report published by The Assam Tribune, the applicants can make payment through internet banking, credit and debit card. According to the report, the corporation has 1,76,099 holdings and a collection of around Rs. 25 crore.
The town and country planning wing of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation will soon offer services and permissions online, according to a report published in the Hindu. The online services will be made operational since February 1. Somesh Kumar, Commissioner, GHMC told reporters in Hyderabad that the online system will allow applicants to submit their documents and maps o
Kapil Sibal, union minister for communications and IT today launched a comprehensive programme in Delhi to make one person e-literate in every household. The programme has been aptly named ‘e-inclusion’ project, as digital knowledge today is helpful in bringing marginalised people into the mainstream. Sibal called digital literacy a form of liberation for people from being a
The advanced version of the low cost tablet, Akaash, is all set to be a reality by January 2014. “The tenders for Akaash 4 have been floated with Directorate General for Supplies and Disposals (DGS&D) and would be finalised in January 2014,” said Kapil Sibal, communications and IT minister. The minister said that a low cost device for digital knowledge access to every ch
The government today announced the launch of the national health portal in Delhi. The portal aims to serve as a repository of medical history of one billion Indians. The portal is funded by the union ministry of health and family welfare, and is being developed by the centre of health informatics, national institute of health & family welfare. The portal will be a single point of ac
All government and private department and industries have acutely felt the need for digitisation in the information and technology era. With the need to share information fast and error free, it needs to be coded into a form, which can be sent over a digital channel. “Digitisation has not just economical but social impact as well: for example the election process, census collection proces
The transaction website which provides the number of all the e-governance transactions taking place in India on a real time basis in,http://etaal.gov.in/etaal/login.aspx will have its version 2.0 soon. “E-taal version 2.0 will be out in two months time,” said Gaurav Dwivedi, director, e-governance, department of electronics and IT (DeitY). Dwivedi informed that the new versi
Healthcare will soon be a fully developed mission mode project under the national e-governance plan (NeGP), according to Rajendra Kumar, joint secretary, department of electronics and IT (DeitY). The mission mode project is aimed at the application of ICT in the healthcare and e-enabling of health services including tele-medicine. The architecture and policies including that of change
India will have an increased budget of $100 billion dollars from the current $30 billion dollars for the use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in manufacturing sector in India in 2020. “We need to find out how to spend this money on using ICT for improving different sectors of domestic manufacturing in India,” said J Satyanarayana, Secretary IT, Department of Electronics
The union human resource development minster Dr MM Pallam Raju asked the industry to participate more vigorously with government in skill development. Speaking at a conference on government public initiative for skill development in information technology and telecom sector in New Delhi today, he said we have to provide necessary skill to one crore twenty lakh youth joinin
The Union Cabinet has approved the National Policy on Universal Electronic Accessibility to provide electronics and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to people from all strata of society including differently abled people, according to a press release issued by the government. The policy will facilitate equal and unhindered access to electronics and ICTs products and
All necessary steps have been taken for introduction of the National Identification Authority of India Bill, 2013 in the winter session of Parliament likely to commence from the 1st week of the next month. The Union Cabinet has already approved the proposal submitted by the Ministry of Planning for moving official amendments to the Bill last month, according to an official release by Planning C
The new merger and acquisition (M&A) rules for the telecom sector have permitted a combined entity to have a market share in terms of subscribers. According to a report in Business Standard today, the share has been raised from an earlier 35 per cent. According to the report, the circles in which such a merger would now be possible include Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Mumbai, Gujarat, Har
Now semiconductor wafer fabrication companies (FAB) can submit their expression of interest for setting up FAB manufacturing units in India till November 25th. The Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeiTY) has extended the deadline from an earlier one of November 6th. According to a press release issued by the ministry, the government has recently decided to apprise p
Total broadband subscriber base in the country has increased from 15.28 million at the end of August 2013 to 15.36 million at the end of September 2013. This is a monthly growth rate of 0.52%, according to a press release by the Ministry of Communication and IT. Yearly growth in broadband subscribers is 1.90% during the last one year (September 2012 to September 2013), according
With the launch of the e-district portal in Thiruvananthpuram, Kerala is on its path to become fully digital. The state government hopes to achieve this target by 2016. The portal will enable all government services and transactions to occur in the electronic mode, mentioned a report in The Deccan Chronicle. As of now, only 50 percent of the services offered are digitized. The report qu
A report by renowned market research agency Gartner Inc. has predicted that government spending on IT in India will reach $6.4 billion US Dollars (USD) in 2013, a 7 percent increase over 2012. This forecast includes spending by government on internal IT (including personnel), hardware, software, external IT services and telecommunications. The report quoted Anurag Gupta, research direct
A Frost and Sullivan study has revealed that 60 percent of shoppers, between the age-group of 18-35 years, rely on social media for making their shopping decisions. A report in The Hindu Business Line quoting the study said that 60 per cent of the users, in the urban areas spend four hours or more on the internet. It also said that 60 million people are registered on Facebook and 20 mil
The government is all set to roll a new rural connectivity scheme to improve tele-density especially in rural India which stands at 41 percent at present. On the contrary, urban tele-density stands at a whooping 147 percent, pleading the government to fill the gap. The new scheme, according to a report in The Hindu Business Line, will provide internet enabled handsets to 25 million rura
Electronic authentication for `Know Your Customer` (e-KYC) through Aadhaar will give a push to the banking industry by reducing the time for entry of a customer in the banking system. According to a report in The Business Standard which quoted sources from various facilitators such as National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), Mastercard and Visa, pilot studies for e-KYC in the financial sy
