RCOM LANDS MGOVENANCE CONTRACTS
Chennai
The Hindu Business Line The Pioneer The Financial Express
Reliance Communications is said to have bagged the mGovernance infrastructure development contracts in Mumbai,
According to sources in the company, the mobile operator will set up the telecom infrastructure to launch mGovernance services in these circles. RCom will team up with the Government's local VAS service partners to implement these projects by connecting various government departments in these three Circles on the mobile data platform through its pan-India telecom backbone, said a highly placed official.
In Mumbai and
According to the sources, these projects can potentially generate over 20 crore daily transactions, estimated on the current usage pattern. All the services offered will be on chargeable basis. Different price points will be defined for each service.
UIDAI TO DRAFT RULES FOR VOLUNTEERS
Business Standard
Buoyed by the response of several eminent individuals to lend their services to 'The Unique Identification Authority of India', the body has made rules for such volunteers willing to help in the project.
The government project headed by Infosys founder Nandan Nilekani will take assistance of such people and NGOs to ensure that poor and marginalised people are included in the system.
"In order to ensure that the poor and marginalised are included into the system, it hopes to take the assistance of volunteers and NGOs.
"The UIDAI hopes that it will be able to areas of technology, awareness creation and enrolment. The Authority plans to have volunteers both on full time and part-time basis," a spokesperson of UIDAI said in a statement.
He said application for volunteers would be put up on the website 'www.uidai.gov.in' and shall assess if their services are required in their area of expertise.
"If the authority is satisfied that the applicant has the requisite specialised skills, experience and qualifications and there is no conflict of interest then the Authority will issue an offer letter along with the specific role for the volunteer," he said.
UIDAI has also come out with a Code of Conduct the volunteers need to follow.
ACES SYSTEM LAUNCHED
The Hindu
A new web-based software application - Automation of Central Excise and Service Tax (ACES) was launched by Additional Director General (Systems) of the Central Excise, Customs and Service Tax, New Delhi, D.P. Dash at the New Custom House here on Thursday
The new system enables automation of the working of Central Excise and Service Tax Department of Visakhapatnam Zone (comprising coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions of AP).
General Manager of HPCL M. Naveen Kumar, Telecom District General Manager P. Nagaraju, Central Excise Commissioner R. Shakuntala were among those who attended.
ACES, a workflow-based software application under Central Board of Excise and Customs, is designed to provide the trade an electronic interface with the Department and aims at reducing paper work, visits to the Departmental offices and improving transparency, accountability and efficiency in indirect tax administration in India.
The new system enables the trade and industry to take registration online, electronically file various statutory returns, intimations and permissions, refund claims and requests for provisional assessments. The users can view and track the status of their documents / applications online and also get business related alerts and messages.
THE $10 BN
Ganesh Natarajan
Deccan Chronicle (Bengaluru edition) The Asian Age
The Indian domestic opportunity for knowledge services has been for many years in a state very similar to the Indian economy itself through the nineties -threatening to take off but never quite gathering the momentum.
But the defining moment may now have arrived and there is no better example of that than the presentation made by the recently appointed secretary of eGovernance to the apex body of the Indian IT and BPO industry, the NASSCOM Executive Council. Sensing the mood of his audience which had moved from serious engagement in a discussion of global economic prospects to a casual approach to what was expected to be just one more statement of intent from the Indian Government, Rao, the charismatic secretary started by saying: "Please listen to me as you would to any other $10 billion customer."
That guaranteed full attention for a presentation on e-Government initiatives and budgets, which demonstrated the new government's intent to accelerate the process of domestic consumption of IT.
The e-Government opportunity in the domestic sector has already thrown up many mega projects like the national passport issuance plan and the unique identity scheme, which will both provide significant downstream opportunities for large as well as small companies to get a share of the pie.
With the National Institute of Smart Governance, a joint venture of NASSCOM and the Ministry of Information Technology developing the framework for engagement of the government with private sector consultants and systems integrators, the stage is set for multiple new projects in various neglected areas including land records, government procurement, citizen to government interfaces and efficiency and citizen services transformation across the board.
The significant areas of domestic transformation in the country, which will call for significant innovation in thinking, planning and implementation will be education and healthcare.
While the role of IT in Healthcare will have to transcend hospital computerisation and patient records to enabling telemedicine and other distributed healthcare services, the real value of IT will be seen in enabling scale in the higher education delivery processes across the country.
HOODA: CIVIC BODIES TO GO ONLINE
Rohtak
The Tribune
The government has decided to computerise all civic bodies to streamline their working and check alleged irregularities. This was announced by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda while redressing public grievances at a rest house here this morning.
The Chief Minister said his government was committed to weeding out corruption. He said details of all works and projects would be made available online and it would be easier for people to access information and track the progress regarding particular cases.
He said computerisation work would begin from civic bodies, including municipal committees, councils and corporations, so that development works got more attention and the common issues of residents were attended to immediately.
He said any person who felt disappointed with the progress regarding any project or scheme could take up the matter with the higher authorities. He said the civic bodies had been directed to take up the computerisation work of the house tax record in all cities and all the officials have been asked to put the record.
He said computers would be provided in all offices and would be linked with the Internet facility soon. The Chief Minister said the government had also taken up the work of making jails online.
SMALL BUSINESSES PLAYING AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN GOVT PROJECTS
Ashish Agashe
The Economic Times
Mumbai-based e-governance provider ABM Knowledgeware gets 100 per cent of its business from the government. But it’s eyeing a fifth of its revenues this year from a single clause in the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).
Under the scheme, which helps cities get funding for improving infrastructure, every applicant city has to start an e-governance system to get the funds. “We worked hard to prepare a good package which was selected by the Union ministry of urban development among the packages which the cities can pick up,” says the firm’s managing director Prakash Rane.
It is now being implemented in Mumbai, Nanded, Kalyan-Dombivili and
ABM Knowledgeware is among a clutch of companies working with the government on its flagship programmes and playing a pivotal role in making them happen through enterprise, zeal and hard work. Be it JNNURM, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), or the newly formed Unique Identification Database Authority (UIDA) headed by Nandan Nilekani, there are now greater synergies between the public and the private sector, especially emerging businesses.
Working with the government, of course, has it own challenges. Rane cites their inability to distinguish between tangible and knowledge-based solutions provided by his company. Moreover, being the trustees and not the owners of the money, officials are often criticised to be slow in decision-making.
“You must know the procedural complexities, and once you know that, I can tell you there’s no customer like the government,” says Rane.
Glodyne Technoserve, a Mumbai-headquartered company, has been working with the
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