E-Governance: Short Notes

[no_toc] e-records e-records are ‘born digital’ records which includes emails, databases, images, word-processed documents, intranets, websites etc. Electronic records helps in ensuring effective and efficient business environment. e-office Mission Mode Project e-office is one among the 44 mission mode projects ..

Rural India and E-Governance

India is a nation of villages with 72% of the population residing in 638,387 villages as per the Census 2011 data. In rural areas, people are often deprived of getting benefit from the integrated development programmes. The use of e-governance ..

Section 66 of the IT Act

Following up to the UN resolution on Electronic Commerce, India had passed the IT Act, 2000 in May 2000. This act was substantially amended through the Information Technology (Amendment) Act 2008. The Section 66A of the IT Act penalized ‘sending ..

E-Kranti: National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) 2.0

The National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) was formulated by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) and Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances (DAR&PG) to reduce government costs and allow citizen access to government services through Common Service Centres (CSC). It ..

E-governance- applications, models, successes, limitations, and potential

The objective of E-Governance is to bring about ‘Simple, Moral, Accountable, Responsive and Transparent’ (SMART) governance. The rationale of E-governance is in its need in reducing red tape; promotion of knowledge sharing to facilitate improvements in quality of governance; fulfilling ..

Whistleblower Protection (Amendment Bill), 2015

The Whistleblower Protection Act 2011 act protects the whistleblowers who make public interest disclosure of corruption by public servants. The act also makes provisions for false complaints. The act came into force in May 9, 2014. Salient Features This act ..