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Government
has approved the National E-Governance Action
Plan for implementation during the year 2003-07
for creating an institutional framework for
the same and has also identified over 20 Mission
Mode projects at central and state levels to
be taken up under the plan. The plan, which
was presented to Prime Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee in November last, has been approved
in-principle and endorsement has been given
to the overall programme content, implementation
approach and governance structure, IT Department
sources said. The plan has approved a number
of Mission Mode projects for implementation
under the central government like income tax,
passport, visa and immigration, DCA21, insurance,
National Citizen Database, central excise, pensions
and banking. While endorsing the plan, the key
observations were that adequate weightage must
be given for quality and speed of implementation
in procurement procedures for IT services and
services should be outsourced wherever possible.
The Action Plan, which has sought full potential
of the private sector investment, has also embarked
on centralised initiative and decentralised
implementation. The Action Plan would lay the
foundation and provide the impetus for long
term growth of e-governance and institutional
mechanism, set up core infrastructure to create
a citizen-centric and business-centric environments.
Courtesy:
The Economic Times, February 15, 2004
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