http://www.governance2.org Governance in the Global Village Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:52:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Your passport in three days, the ambitious Rs 1,100-crore Passport Seva Project (PSP) to be launched by the ministry of external affairs(MEA) on October 1 has been postponed - probably for another month. TCS was expected to roll out the first pilot Passport Seva Kendra, (PSK) at Bangalore and Chandigarh which ... http://www.governance2.org/2009/10/11/passport-in-3-days-scheme-postponed/ A Centre of e-Governance (CeG) has come up in capital New Delhi to disseminate awareness about e-Governance initiatives in the country. The CeG enhancement plan is a part of the "Awareness and Communication " activity under NeGP and seeks to bring the achievements under NeGP under one umbrella for the information ... http://www.governance2.org/2009/02/18/centre-of-egovernance-opens-in-capital/ The Centre for Development and Advanced Computing (C-DAC) has developed a software (called Cure@Home) which can be loaded on your personal computer and prescribe you remedy for diseases, besides guiding you on symptoms and lifestyle corrections you need to make to prevent future advents. Most importantly, the software is powered ... http://www.governance2.org/2009/02/17/good-health-just-a-click-away/ The citizens' dream of "anytime, anywhere" government services could be a reality by 2013 with the Centre deciding to pump in Rs 20,175 crore for as many as 27 projects for this purpose under its National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) in the next four years. The plan, jointly formulated by the department ... http://www.governance2.org/2009/02/17/govt-set-to-unveil-e-service-plan/ The first model e-court in the country that will make the judicial process more transparent and justice delivery system speedier, besides removing the bottlenecks was launched by the Gujarat High Court here on Sunday. Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan inaugurated the first e-court, which started functioning on a pilot basis ... http://www.governance2.org/2009/02/17/model-e-court-launched/ Backed by the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) of the Department of Telecommunications, Government owned Telecom company BSNLhas started rolling out wire-line broadband connectivity to rural & remote areas. DOT has signed an agreement with BSNL to provide 8,61,459 connections to individual users and government Institutions through rural and remote ... http://www.governance2.org/2009/02/17/subsidised-broadband-connections-start-rolling/ Dismayed over the poor response to the facility for online registration of birth and death in its limits, the Coimbatore Corporation is looking at ways to popularise the system. Establishing a network between the Corporation and private hospitals and reaching out to the public through the media are some of the ... http://www.governance2.org/2009/02/16/poor-response-to-online-birthdeath-registration/ Propelling itself into an era of e-Governance, the Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited (GUVNL) is fast implementing the IT solutions software, the e-Urja project. This software will not only increase GUVNL's operational efficiency, but also improve its customer service. An integrated solution and aims to share a centralized database with all ... http://www.governance2.org/2009/02/15/e-governance-to-improve-efficiency-guvnl/ Given laptops as part of the civic body's e-governance programme, councillors now want an extra Rs 5,000 a month so that they can hire a man to operate the computer. The e-governance programme — according to the municipality's Standing Committee chairman Vijendra Gupta — is aimed at making the Municipal Corporation ... http://www.governance2.org/2009/02/15/now-mcd-councillors-want-men-to-operate-laptops/ Haryana's Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU) Tuesday became a completely Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) campus with the commencement of an integrated telephony and internet system - the largest wi-fi campus in Haryana. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda inaugurated the facility on the university campus here. HCL Info-systems has executed the wide area networking project. The ... http://www.governance2.org/2009/02/01/rohtak-university-goes-wi-fi/