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1-Challenges To E-Governance in India PDF
1-Challenges To E-Governance in India PDF
people can use them easily. Hence, these Citizens, employees and businesses can all
websites can be more effective. If government have their biases with respect to how
websites will be designed in an easier format transactions should be processed. Government
only then these will be more usable for the entities and public policy administrators cannot
users who are not expert users of IT. ignore the changes that occur as a result of the
implementation of the ICT. Education about
vi) Services are not accessible easily: The concept of the value of new system is one step towards
e-Governance is claiming for increased reducing some of this struggle.
efficiency and effectiveness of the government,
but these goals will be achieved only if the x) Population: Population of India is probably the
service will be available to the 100% of the biggest challenge in implementing e-
citizens. So, every service should be accessible Governance projects. As population is
by anybody from anywhere and anytime. Even considered to be an asset to the country but it
if the users of Internet are growing but still also offers some other challenges e.g.
there is a major part of Indian population establishing person identities. There is no
which is not able to access e-Governance unique identity of individuals in India although
activities for variety of reasons, e.g. some Indian government is making efforts for
people may have limited access to Information providing unique identity to its citizens. Apart
and Communication Technologies and devices. from this, measuring the population, keeping
Therefore, government has to provide internet the database of all Indian nationals and keeping
access through public terminals as a part of this database updated and then providing the e-
their universal access efforts. governance services to the whole population
are major challenges.
vii) Confidence on technologies provided by
government: The implementation of public xi) Lack of integrated services: Most of the e-
administration functions via e-Government governance services which are offered by the
requires that the user must be confident and state or central government are not integrated.
comfortable while using the technology. He Lack of communication between different
must also trust that technology that he/she is departments of government may be its major
interacting with. Even the government should cause. Therefore, the information that resides
provide the measures so that the users can trust within one department has no or very little
the technology provided to them. The meaning to some other department of the
government has to make a balance between government.
ensuring that a system prevents fraudulent
transactions and the burden that extensive xii) Lack of awareness in people: Most of the Indian
checks can take place on people who are people are not aware of the benefits of e-
honest. Governance services. Even the government do
not pay much attention to make the people
viii) Separation: The separation that exists between the aware about e-Governance activities.
individuals, communities and businesses that Unawareness is a major challenge in the
have access to Information Technology and implementation of e-Governance projects.
those that do not have such access. Economic
poverty is closely related to the limited B. Economical Challenges
information technology resources. People who
are living below poverty line cannot afford a i) Cost: In developing countries like India, cost is one
computer and internet connection for of the most important obstacles in the path of
themselves to take the benefits of the e- implementation of e-Governance where major
Government and other on-line services. part of the population is living below poverty
Economic poverty is not the only cause of this line. Even the politicians do not have interest
separation; it may also be caused by the lack of in implementing e-Governance. A huge
awareness among the people. In India even amount of money is involved in
some of the economically stable people do not implementation, operational and evolutionary
know about the scope and services of e- maintenance tasks. These costs must be low
Governance. Indian government has to take enough so that to guarantee a good cost/benefit
some actions to narrower this separation to ratio.
effectively implement the e-Governance
projects. ii) Applications must be transferrable from one
platform to another: e-governance applications
ix) Struggle to Change: The struggle to change must be independent from hardware or
phenomenon can explain much of the software platforms. Therefore, these
hesitation that occurs on the part of the applications can be used at any platform
constituents in moving from a paper-based to a irrespective of the hardware or software and
web-based system to interact with government. from one platform to the other platform. These
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applications may also help on possible reuse by taken to protect the sensitive personal
other administrators. information of the people. Lack of security
standards can limit the development of e-
iii) Maintenance of electronic devices: As the Government projects that contain personal
Information Technology changes very fast and information such as income, medical history
it is very difficult for us to update our existing etc.
systems very fast. Regulations of different
devices and their different characteristics may v) Scope of applications: The very first step in
vary and the system in use must be capable to creating a good application is to define its
handle all the emerging needs. Maintenance is scope very well and everything else comes
a key factor for long living systems in a rapidly later. The applications which are provided by
changing technical environment. e-Government, their scope must be known in
advance for the accurate implementation of e-
iv) Low per Capita income: Per capita income means Governance projects.
how much each individual receives, in the
terms of money, of the yearly income vi) Tried and tested technologies: Technology tends to
generated in a country. This refers to what each get out of date very fast. Our government may
individual receives if the yearly national not be in position to buy new servers every
income is divided equally among everyone. Per year. So, it is better and safer to use
capita income of India is low as compare to the technologies and products which are tried and
other countries. Therefore, people cannot tested for longer periods of times than using
afford on-line services provided by the the latest ones.
government which is a challenge for
implementation of e-governance. vii) Geographical problems: Corporate networks reside
on reliable and controlled networks.
v) Limited financial resources: The Gross Domestic Government networks have to go into all areas
Product (GDP) is one of the measures o which are even unfriendly to live. It is,
national income and a countrys economy. however, costly to wire up all the villages in
GDP is defined as the total market value of all the country. So, e-Governance systems must
final goods and services produced within the have to use the wireless networks like existing
country in a given period of time. GDP of a cellular networks to reach the applications into
country is the measure of its financial strength. remote areas irrespective of the geographical
India has limited financial resources so as to issues.
implement and maintain the e-Government
projects properly. viii) Local language: The acceptance of English
language in India is very low. The e-
C. Technical challenges governance applications are written in English.
That is why e-Governance projects do not get
i) Interoperability: Interoperability is the ability of success. Hence, the e-governance applications
systems and organizations of different qualities must be written in local language of the people
to work together. The e-Governance so that they may be able to use and take
applications must have this characteristic so advantage of these applications.
that the newly developed and existing
applications can be implemented together. III. Conclusion
ii) Scale of applications: e- Governance projects have As the usage of Information Technology is growing
to be designed to scale from the day one. e- very fast, Indian government is making many efforts to
Governance is supposed to affect every citizen provide services to its citizens through e-Governance.
of the country, so e-Governance applications Although Indian government is spending a lot of money on
must have the scale to interface with every e-Governance projects but still these projects are not
citizen. successful in all parts of India. Unawareness in people, local
language of the people of a particular area, privacy for the
iii) Multimodal Interaction: Multimodal interaction personal data of the people etc. are main challenges which
provides the user with multiple modes of are responsible for the unsuccessful implementation of e-
interfacing with a system. An e-Government Governance in India. Government must take some actions to
application can be really effective if its users make the people aware about the e-Governance activities so
can access it using different devices. that people may take full advantage of these activities and e-
Governance projects can be implemented successfully. The
iv) Privacy and Security: A critical obstacle in participation of people can play a vital role in
implementing e-Governance is the privacy and implementation of e-Governance in India.
security of an individuals personal data that
he/she provides to obtain government services.
With the implementation of e-government
projects, some effective measures must be
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