E-Governance Updates: 02/06/09

 

E-GOVERNANCE PROJECT BY ELCOT
Chennai
The Hindu Business Line  Business Standard  

With a view to prevent any malpractice in billing at Public Distribution System (PDS) shops and facilitate effective billing, the state-owned ELCOT has set up an e-governance project, a top official said.

The project, which has already covered 209 PDS shops, will cover nearly 28,000 PDS shops in the state soon, ELCOT Chairman Santhosh Babu told reporters here on Monday.

IT Minister Poongothai, who held a review meeting with the IT officials including IT Secretary PWC Davidar and Babu, said the IT parks coming up in Chennai, Coimbatore and Madurai would start functioning by year end, as most of the infrastructure and other works were over.

She said the economic slowdown had not affected the occupancy in these parks since they were “export-oriented'' SEZs.

There was no stagnation in recruitment by IT companies in the state, but there was only a “drop'' compared to the previous years, he added.

Surpassing last year's profit of Rs 13.25 crore, ELCOT made a profit of Rs 17.7 crore this year, she said.

 

CYBER CRIME COPS GET CRACKING
Mumbai
The Indian Express

The Mumbai Police’ specialized Cyber Crime police station is finally up and running. Located on the first floor of the Bandra-Kurla Complex police station building, this new dedicated police station, the first-of-its-kind in the state, was launched on May 30.

“The Cyber Crime Police Station is now operational. It will be in a position to register First Information Reports on its own and investigate cases. It will cater to all offences taking place in cyber space and all cases related to the Information Technology Act. The police station will register all cyber crime cases taking place across the city, and will also deal with tracking the source of terror e-mails,” said Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) Deven Bharti. The recruitments for the police station were finalized following polls in the city, and a specially trained team of over 50 policemen has been selected for the new venture.

“The police station will be headed by an Assistant Commissioner of Police, and we have assigned staff strength keeping in mind the frequency of cyber crimes. The city is divided into five police regions, and the new police station has a police inspector each for monitoring cases in all five regions. The staff at the new police station has been specially trained and their training will continue from time to time in collaboration with private agencies such as Nasscom,” Bharti added.

BANGALOREONE CENTRES WILL PROVIDE 30 MORE SERVICES
Bangalore
DNA (Bangalore edition)

BangaloreOne centres now have another feather in their cap. Apart from taking bills and issuing travel tickets, certificates pertaining to caste, income, birth and death – among others – can also be issued by the e-Governance department through a new decision.

The department, in association with the Revenue department, announced the launch of 30 services of the Revenue Department from BangaloreOne on Monday.

Elaborating on the process, an official said that anybody can approach the designated centres with necessary documents. The BangaloreOne centre will electronically generate the application for the service and forward the application and the documents to the Nemmadi back office in the Revenue taluk office. The application will then be processed and field-verified.