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E-governance equals good governance for the citizens of a country. The scale and ambition of the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) is impressive. Some important projects that are at various stages of implementation include Passport Seva, India Post, income tax services, ESIC, setting up 2,50,000 common service centers (CSC) across 6,00,000 and more villages; the National Population Register (NPR) and the Unique Identification (UID) project. A state wide area network (SWAN) and state data centers (SDCs) are being set up to support the implementation of these and other projects. The government has also initiated ‘GI Cloud’ initiative to keep pace with technological advancements.
Making public services conveniently accessible to over 1.2 billion people in India spread across a vast geography is not an easy task, but is nonetheless vital for India’s continued growth. The success of e-governance initiatives is pegged in the timely implementation and smooth running. Technology is not a constant and it is important that policy guidelines and framework give scope for deployment of innovative IT infrastructure, like engineered system that can easily scale and adapt to the changing governance and public needs.
(Mr. Mahadeo P. Jaiswal in Transparency Review, Journal of Transparency Studies)
“The crisis in credibility today is at all levels of government. Effective implementation is as important as the legislations themselves. Our solutions do not lie in thoughts between one election and another but in addressing the lack of transparency and accountability in governance structures. My politics has always been to enhance the participation of people with in the democratic frameworks so that their voices are heard not just once in five years but every today.”
