Haryana government has decided in principle to bring domestic workers under the ambit of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY). An official spokesman said here today that under this scheme, smart card based cashless health insurance cover of Rs 30,000 per annum is provided to a family of five. All pre-existing diseases would be covered, he added. Apart from hospitalisation expen
In a ray of hope for the Maharashtra secretariat where a large number of computers were damaged in fire, the data from the damaged hard disks can be retrieved through Magnetic Ferrous Microscope (MFM), a cyber forensic expert has claimed. Even if the hard disk is submerged in water, the data can still be recovered. The hard disk should be carefully picked up from the spot, properly pack
Software industry body Nasscom on Monday extended the term of its president Som Mittal by one-and-a-half years till early 2014 at a time when the Indian IT industry faces challenging times amid the global economic slowdown. Mittal`s term was to end in December and the decision for extension of term was taken by the Nasscom`s Executive Council, which met in Chennai today. "S
The department of telecom has issued a show cause notice to Etisalat DB for closing down its operations in violation of licence conditions. Etisalat DB licences were cancelled by supreme court in February 2 but are valid till September 7. "Its network stopped working even before the supreme court order from January 19. This is against licence conditions. As per SC order, th
In a first, the Gujarat high court has launched an online bail application system, made available to all convicts and undertrial prisoners of Sabarmati Central jail from Monday. "Acting chief justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya inaugurated the pilot project yesterday and it is now operational through the Gujarat high court`s website," said G R Udhwani, the registrar general of the HC
Faced with complaints of delay in issuance of passport, the ministry of external affairs on Saturday held `passport melas` in seven cities to address the growing demand and promised to rectify problems relating to its issuance in the next few weeks. The two-day melas were held in Delhi, Ghaziabad, Lucknow, Amritsar, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad. Hundreds of people turned up
Ramco Systems, has announced the successful go-live of its ERP software for Equipment Rental Management industry at Al Faris Equipment Rentals (L.L.C), owners of the largest fleet of Mobile Cranes in the UAE. The entire process from blueprint to go-live was completed in a record time of 100 days. Ramco Equipment Rental Management has enabled Al Faris have effective control over costs an
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Saturday signed an MoU with the Andhra Pradesh Police to implement a crime tracking system in the state. The Crime and Criminal Tracking and Network System (CCTNS) is a `Mission Mode Project` under the National e-governance plan of the union government and an outlay of Rs 2,000 crore has been made to implement it across the country. The system
Taking forward the state government`s agenda of e-governance in Bihar, the general administration department has opened an account at the social networking site - Facebook - to maintain transparency in its functioning, official sources said on Saturday. The Facebook account was opened on June 20 and as many as 266 persons have become its follower, the sources said. The departmen
Knowing the exact location of a train was never so easy as one can now track it on a mobile phone. A joint team of railways and IIT-Kanpur has developed a technology - the real-time train running information system - which enables a mobile user to access information about the exact location of a train. One has to type the train number and SMS it to 09415139139 or 09664139139 for
Ambala district of Haryana has taken a lead in modernisation of land records in the state by digitising cadastral maps for better land administration. A cadastral map shows the boundaries of land, usually with areas of individual trac digitising cadastral maps for better land administrationts, for purposes of describing and recording ownership for the purpose of taxation. The ge
Union minister of state for IT and communications Sachin Pilot on Thursday said that the demand for Indian IT and IT-enabled services (ITeS) sector will cross the USD 300 billion mark by 2020. "IT sector is contributing about 8 per cent of the GDP. We crossed USD 100 billion mark. We are looking to cross 300 billion of IT and ITeS exports by 2020," Pilot said in his inaugural
The Reserve Bank on Wednesday directed Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) to ensure opening of Aadhaar- enabled banks accounts for beneficiaries of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and other social security schemes, for facilitating electronic transfers. "In view of the timelines attached to implementation of Electronic Benefit transfer (EBT) for routing MGNRE
Not satisfied with the pace of enrolment for Adhaar number, Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday asked chairman of Unique Identification Authority Nandan Nilekani to expedite the process in the city. In a meeting with Nilekani, Dikshit expressed her unhappiness in slow progress in enrolment for Adhaar numbers and asked him to take steps in removing the hurdles. "
To undo the damage caused due to the poor design and implementation of Passport Seva Kendra (PSK) project, the ministry of external affairs (MEA) has announced a slew of measures, as reported in one of the dailies. According to MEA, this would help PSKs in regaining the trust of people apparently lost failing to realise its own vision of delivering passport related services in a "timely, t
Very soon India may surpass China, not in economy and science and technology but internet censorship. Even as past few months witnessed topmost political executives jumping on social media bandwagon to connect with citizens and create `open government`, a recent report from Google shows the government’s rigidity on Internet censorship has increased in the last six months of 2011.
Union minister of state for communications and IT, Sachin Pilot, on Monday announced a Rs 567 crore IT project especially meant to upgrade e-governance and IT services in all the north east states. Pilot reviewed the progress of ITC schemes, BSNL and postal services in the region and implementation of Ministry`s flagship scheme, the National e-Governance Plan and directed all agencies t
In a bid to transform itself as the first choice port in eastern India, Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) has engaged National Informatics Center (NIC) to upgrade its current IT system, which will help the port to plan its resources better and bring down costs. The port aims to complete Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution implementation by March 2013. "At present, technical
The government will form a committee headed by cabinet secretary to handle broader issues involving foreign investments made under bilateral agreements with other countries. It is learnt that the finance ministry has informed the department of telecom (DoT) that a new committee will be formed to oversee broader issues arising out of bilateral investment treaty (BIT) or bilateral investm
Tata Teleservices has approached telecom tribunal TDSAT seeking a direction to the government for allotment of additional airwaves for GSM services before proposed spectrum auction. Tata Teleservices has filed two petitions before the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) last week for allocation of additional spectrum. The pleas are scheduled to come for hearing on
