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The department of e-governance has proposed to integrate five welfare schemes with Aadhar numbers. The government has chosen to integrate services connected to employment, housing and pension schemes, hoping this will increase Aadhar's 'mass appeal'. The pilot project will include the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Scheme (MNREGS) and the Rajiv Gandhi Awaz Yojana, the Ashraya housing scheme, Bhagyalakshmi and the social security and pension scheme.

Dr Atiur Rahman Governor, Bangladesh Bank egov's Shally Makin talks to Dr Atiur Rahman, Governor, Bangladesh Bank, and discusses how technology has been deployed for financial inclusion projects in Bangladesh How is Bangladesh making use of ICT for financial inclusion? The Government of Bangladesh started this dream of Digital Bangladesh and financial inclusion came as

The Mukesh Ambani led, Reliance Industries Ltd is likely to bid for mobile telephone spectrum in the upcoming auction to complement its wireless broadband services with voice call facility. RIL is most likely to put a direct bid, a source privy to the development said. If for some reasons it is unable to make a bid by itself, the company may fund purchase of spectrum by another company and then acquire it.

Dr Kwabena Duffuor, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, has asked the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) to design and pursue innovative strategies that would aid the state to derive value for money in its procurement processes. He said to achieve significant headway by way of socio-economic development, conscious efforts must be made to improve public procurement.Dr Duffuor made the call in an address read for him at the fifth public forum, organized by the PPA in Kumasi, on Thursday.

Dr Kwabena Duffuor, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, has asked the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) to design and pursue innovative strategies that would aid the state to derive value for money in its procurement processes. He said to achieve significant headway by way of socio-economic development, conscious efforts must be made to improve public procurement.Dr Duffuor made the call in an address read for him at the fifth public forum, organized by the PPA in Kumasi, on Thursday.

Renu Budhiraja Senior Director & Head of Department State Data Centre Division, Department of Information Technology, Government of India How many State Data Centres are planned under the NeGP? The Scheme was approved for all 35 States/UTs. 32 SDCs are going to be constructed. Chandigarh has opted out of the scheme.

Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency is organising a 26-day long e-District training programme in Ariyalur district of Tamil Nadu. As part of the training, the revenue staff of the district, including tahsildars, revenue inspectors, and village administrative officers. The objective of the training is to train them on providing various revenue documents such as income certificate, community certificate and domicile certificates electronically.

Manoj Agarwal IGP, SCRB, Government of Gujarat Gujarat IG of Police Manoj Agarwal heads the State Crime Records Bureau (SCRB). He has an important role in the implementation of the Home Department Integrated IT Solution that would bring about far-reaching changes to the functioning of the state's Home Department, including the police. In a discussion

"Our Common Service Centres (CSCs) are a major achievement, as they allow farmers to register for wheat procurement under minimum support price," says Hari Ranjan Rao, Secretary to Chief Minister and Department of Information Technology, Government of Madhya Pradesh Tell us about your plans for bringing growth to the IT sector in Madhya Pradesh.

"The government of India has embarked upon an ambitious plan for adopting Electronic Toll Collection systems across the National Highway network," says Sanjay Bandopadhyaya, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, Government of India Please tell us about the initiatives taken by the Ministry of Road Transportation and Highways to make transportation services citizen centric and friendly. In order to improve the services, w

Technology is playing an extremely important role in helping banks meet targets of Financial Inclusion and bring the marginalised into financial mainstream Arjun Ghugal, General Manager, Bank of India Financial Inclusion (FI) means linking people without any banking facility to the formal banking system and fulfilling all their financial requirements. It also involves ensuring that ..

Chandan Dange Director Technology, Ultimate ITPL Tell us about the Election Management Project, with which you have been involved in Maharashtra. The Election Management Project has been conceptualised to conduct local body and urban local body elections in a transparent, fair and efficient manner. The common voter is at the focal point of this initiative.

MTNL's mobile, landline and broadband connections can be availed by just sending an SMS or communicating online. The company has operations in Delhi and Mumbai only.The service will be charged as per normal SMS rate of the operator. the company has started similar facility through its website as well.For Mumbai, MTNL has started booking of broadband connections through a toll free number.

A workshop on urban governance was organized in Kolkata on Tuesday where chairpersons and mayors of several municipalities and municipal corporations of the state were present. The progress of schemes that was discussed in the meeting were the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission ( JNNURM) scheme, Swarna Jayanti Sahari Rojkar Yojona scheme, the urban livelihood mission scheme, housing for urban poor, national social assistance programme and the BSUP schemes.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will lay the foundation stone for the Rs 5,100 crore Kochi Metro Rail Project on Thursday. The project linking the 25 km Aluva-Pettah stretch will be executed by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation. However, it is yet to sign an MoU on the division of work between the two agencies - DMRC and KMRL.

Rajesh Bahadur Managing Director, NICSI (National Informatics Centre Services Inc.) "The primary aim of NICSI…

India's largest telco Bharti Airtel has tied up with Microsoft to sell the software giant's office productivity suite to small and medium businesses in India. For Airtel, the partnership will help boost its intent to derive a larger portion of revenue from data services and for Microsoft, the tie-up will give it easy access to a large pool of potential customers in India who prefer to pay for software based on what they use instead of the traditional model of high upfront investment for licences.

The Bihar government moved closer to nearly four million residents of Gaya district spread over 24 blocks and 332 panchayats, as Gaya formally became an e-district thereby making the people just a mouse click away from the government. Gaya administration entered the cyber world on Sunday afternoon at a function organized at Hasrat Mohani auditorium to mark the occasion.

Andhra Pradesh is poised to add 200 MW of wind power farms shortly and has accorded clearance for 2,636 MW of wind power generation capacity, according to Minnie Mathew, Chief Secretary, Andhra Pradesh. Delivering her inaugural address at the CII Conference, she said the State currently has an installed capacity of 197 MW of wind energy and plans to lay special thrust on boosting generation capacity from renewable energy sources. She said the State Government is working on a tariff mechanism for renewable energy which will make it lot more attractive for wind and solar power generation companies.

Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has taken steps to strictly enforce latest Radiation standards in respect of Electro Magnetic Radiations (EMR) for Mobile Towers that came into effect from 1st September 2012.

Promising incentives and uninterrupted power, the BJP ruled Chhattisgarh on Thursday held a road show…