Governance Now organized safe city conclave on September 30 in the capital, where in experts came together to bring home the point that for greater public safety in urban spaces the strategy has to be multi-pronged. Besides effective policing, according to the experts, social equity, better health and education facilities, urban planning and citizen’s duties play important role in making
As technology increasingly becomes a part of everyday lives, waste management of tech equipments such as computers, printers, laptops in large quantities becomes imperative. The e-waste management act was passed in 2011 which laid down several policies for the management and disposal of e-waste in India. This act also included the extended producer responsibility (EPR) policy which puts the res
Disability is the buzzword today which has led different corporate offices in India to come forward to show their willingness to work with and provide equal opportunities to differently abled people. In one such event, Springboard Consulting, which works extensively towards bringing people with disabilities into the mainstream, awarded different corporate organisations that work to enhance the
Near Field Communication, or NFC, has generated considerable interest of late. The tap-and-go payment using NFC attempts to offer an alternative to conventional card payment systems and a whole lot more. Not only is it conceptually appealing its applications are becoming increasingly diverse and are limited only by the inventiveness and ingenuity deployed. From unlocking devices to sharing medi
An app for booking e-tickets has been jointly created by the IRCTC and Windows. The app has been especially designed for a Windows 8 system. A report in The Economic Times mentions that the app will be in addition to the IRCTC portal, which is currently booking more than four lakh tickets per day, on an average. However the launch of the app will increase the numbers of e-tickets booked
Tata Consultancy Services has joined hands with Goa, to maintain a link between all the police stations in the state and provide real-time crime and criminal information in Goa. TCS will be responsible for implementing the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS), reported The Hindu Business Line. The company will be part of an eGovernance plan that will electronically l
Raghuram Rajan has big plans for Indian economy which were visible in his speech at the time of taking office as the governor of The Reserve Bank of India (RBI). As the 23rd governor of the RBI who has taken over in a time of crisis, he has a lot on his hands. Apart from helping the government in improving the economy, Rajan also wants banking to reach the interiors of India where 60 per cent o
The unique identification authority of India (UIDAI) has a new offering called e-KYC (electronic-know your customer) for streamlining the process of initiation of new customers at various facilities, especially banks. Speaking at the `e-KYC on boarding` workshop held in Mumbai on 19th August, UIDAI Chairman, Nandan Nilekani said that e-KYC will authorise UIDAI to give Aadhar details of
Osama Manzar, member of the working group for Internet proliferation and governance at the ministry of communication and information technology, writes in the Mint that elected representatives of the Indian people have negligible virtual presence. He cites the findings of a survey by the Digital Empowerment Foundation (Manzar is the founder of the organisation) and says that MPs, MLAs and panch
Nashik`s online platform to track and monitor the all-round progress of government school students, the Students` Academic Profiling System (SAPS), is yet to take off. According to a report in the Times of India, the zilla parishad administration was to launch it in January but ever since the transfer of the district officials whose pet project SAPS was, it h
The income tax department is creating an online repository to identify high tax demand cases for fast-track disposal and to identify frivolous appeals, according to a report in Business Line. The National Judicial Refernce System (NJRS) will be mammoth database of the litigation history of tax-payers of the country. The electronic database will replace the manual mana
LPG consumers have been categorised into Cash Transfer Compliance (CTC) customers (those who have complied with Aadhaar norms), and non-CTC consumers in Hyderabad. According to a report by Deccan Chronicle, only 30 percent customers are Aadhaar compliant in the districts identified for the direct benefit transfer for LPG. The report said that the non-CTC customers will get
The Centre plans to set up an Information Technology Investment Region (ITIR) in Visakhapatnam, said Union Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology Dr Killi Kruparani. Speaking at a daylong workshop on `Growth of IT-Vizag Region` organised by Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) in Visakhapatnam on Monday, the minister also announced that the gov
IT-city Bangalore seems to be faring poorly in Aadhaar enrolment. With 412 enrolment centres, the city needs to scale up urgently to serve its population. The enrolment seems to have been crippled by the limited number of stations at the enrolment centres. Government officials, according to a report in The Hindu, are concerned that the project has not been up to scale in th
With many projects under the national e-governance plan nearing the end of their implementation period, the union government is planning to launch the national information infrastructure (NII 2.0) which will make the implementation and maintenance of e-governance projects easier for states and central line departments. Under NeGP, states departments and central ministries have be
In a bid to do away with almost 2000 used electronic goods collected from various government offices, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) held its first electronic auction. The auction lasted for 24 hours and the civic body netted a profit of nearly Rs 7.35 lakh. The items up for bidding in the e-auction included printers, obsolete photocopy machines and computers. The mun
In a bid to preserve old official records, the municipal corporation of Delhi (MCD) will be digitising its property records. The digitising process will also include manually made layout plans. According to a Hindustan Times report, civic officials said that this step has been taken to preserve old records that were kept manually. Quoted in the article, a South corporation
Online registration will be mandatory for Classes 9 and 11 under the Uttar Pradesh Board. This initiative aims to curb cases of scams and mismanagement rampant in the state board. According to a report in the Times of India, a pilot project was launched last year in Meerut, Allahabad and Lucknow. The success of the pilot encouraged the Board to expand the project, explained direc
Small businesses in Indian cities are becoming increasingly vulnerable to Bot infections. There is an increase in bot infections as a result of jump in the number of phishing and virus bearing spam mails, says the Symantec Corporations Interenet Security Threat Report, Volume 18 (India Findings). “Primarily targeted at small businesses, Indian computer security is fac
With the government bracing up for the roll-out of the direct benefits transfer (DBT) scheme, public sector banks across the country have initiated the process of linking Aadhaar card numbers with the respective bank accounts of the beneficiaries. According to a report published in The Times of India, the move comes following a directive issued by the finance minister
