Kolkata
The Hindu Business Line
The electronic procurement system in the Stores Department of Eastern Railway (ER) was launched at ER's headquarters at Fairlie Place here on Tuesday. With this, the uploading of stores bulletin tender to EPS will help reduce the lead time for making the items available and save the expenditure. Inaugurating the system, V.N. Tripathi, General Manager of ER, stressed the need for achieving early the targeted procurement and sale of scraps through the new system, according to an ER release.
NSPOT, PEC TO SELL IMPORTED PULSES THROUGH E-AUCTION
Chandigarh
The Financial Express
To galvanise sale of pulses imported by state-run PSUs, NSPOT, promoted by leading commodities exchange National Commodities and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) and state-run trading company PEC will now expand their operations by selling pulses and other imported agri-commodities through e-auctions.
NSPOT and PEC had earlier successfully traded urad and tur on an electronic platform on a pilot basis.
This new effort aims at helping traders and processors from satellite locations apart from the main trading hubs to actively participate in the e-tendering system and get accessibility to PEC.
NSPOT is the only spot exchange to have traded pulses successfully on spot exchange platform.
By this association, NSPOT and PEC hope to bring in price transparency, convenience and efficiency to traders and bring the PEC, pulses traders and Dal millers/processors on to a common trading platform where varied market participants can buy directly from PEC.
This particular welcome move has enticed and brought in lot of enthusiasm among the pulses trading community.
AVAILABLE FROM JUNE: ONLINE ACCESS TO CENTRE-FUNDED STATE SCHEMES
Tarannum Manjul, Lucknow
The Indian Express
The National Informatics Centre (NIC) Uttar Pradesh is working on a website linking project that will enable one to access the progress of Centrally-funded state schemes on the click of a mouse.
The linking will enable any state to not only see Uttar Pradesh's progress chart on the scheme, but will also make accessible the good practices being followed by the state. Uttar Pradesh is the second state being linked with the Government of India (GOI) websites after Karnataka.
This forms part of the National E-Governance Programme (NEGP) that has been undertaken by the state. The GOI schemes that will be under focus in the linking project include: National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), the Janani Suraksha Yojna under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY), the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) and the Rural Drinking Water Mission.
GOVT'S E-GOVERNANCE POLICY BIASED, SAY OSS LOBBYISTS
Harsimran Singh, New Delhi
The Economic Times
India's open source software (OSS) lobbyists allege that popular software solutions from large companies, such as Microsoft, are being favoured in the proposed draft recommendations for the country's e-governance policy. The policy aims to adopt open technology standards and software for automating different government departments and functions.
It intends to guide the billion-dollar e-governance purchases and tenders, across government departments, for software and hardware over the next few years. The government has already allocated about $6 billion for various projects under the national e-governance plan.
According to people familiar with the draft recommendations, a meeting of the apex body on standards for e-governance was held last week, and the policy is close to being approved. ET was shown a copy of the proposed recommendations by one of the persons who requested anonymity.
"The recommendations given by an expert committee would make the policy very weak and would not favour open standards," said G Nagarajan, chairman, Free Software Foundation of India, which advocates that software should be free and open for all. The draft is also not clear on whether it will also impact existing e-governance projects or only new tenders. The draft policy, in its preamble, recommends that standards that are 'mature and have a large proliferation' will be considered. This is being contended by the OSS community that says that it will favour proprietary standards that have large proliferation amongst masses.
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