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E Governance

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 E-government: Refers to the delivery of national or local government information and services via
the Internet and ICT (Information and Communications Technology) to citizens or businesses or other
governmental agencies
 Types of E-Governance:

1. G2G: Central Government provides online portals for information to be accessed by Local
Government
2. G2C: Government provides online governance initiatives for Citizens such as online
registration of property
3. G2B: Government provides online governance for Business etc. such as online environment
clearance for construction project
 Characteristics of e-governance:
1. Low Asset specificity
2. Reduction in information uncertainty
3. 24x7 service availability
4. Disintermediation
5. Low information asymmetry
6. Better audit trial
 Benefits of e-governance:
1. Greater transparency
2. Reduced Corruption
3. Increase in efficiency of government services
 The Berlin-based corruption watchdog Transparency International (TI) has put India at rank 79 out
of 176 countries in its latest Corruption Perception Index in 2016

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 E-governance Initiatives:

1. Digital India Program: Launched by the GOI to ensure that Government services are made
available to citizens electronically by improved online infrastructure and by increasing
Internet connectivity or by making the country digitally empowered in the field of
technology
 Nine pillars of Digital India Program
 Broadband Highway
 Universal Access to Mobile connectivity
 Public Internet Access Programme
 E-Governance – Reforming Government through Technology
 E-Kranti - Electronic delivery of services
 Information for All
 Electronics Manufacturing
 IT for Jobs
 Early Harvest Programmes
 Digital Locker, Attendance.gov.in, MyGov.in, Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) Mobile
app, E-Sign framework, E-Hospital application, National Scholarship Portal and E-
Sampark are some of the services provided under Digital India Program
 Coordinated by MeitY (Ministry of Electronics and IT)
2. Pradhan Mantri Garmin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan:
 Cover 6 crore households in rural areas to make them digitally literate
 One of the largest digital literacy programmes in the world
 25 lakh candidates will be trained in the FY 2016-17; 275 lakhs in the FY 2017-18; and 300
lakhs in the FY 2018-19
 Each of the 250,000 Gram Panchayats would be expected to register an average of 200-
300 candidates
 Outlay: Rs. 2,351.38 crores
 Implementation of the Scheme: Ministry of Electronics and IT
3. National E-Governance Plan
 Launched in 2006
 Now, subsumed under Digital India Program
 Consists of 27 "Mission Mode Projects" (MMPS) and 10 components
 Formulated by the department of electronics and information technology (DEITY) and
department of administrative reforms and public grievances (DARPG)
 Outcome of the 11th report of the Second Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC),
titled “Promoting E-Governance - The Smart Way Forward”
 Steps taken by the government for e-governance infrastructure:
 Aadhaar Digital Biometric Identity Infrastructure
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  Digital Locker
 Open Data
 GeM – Government E-Market Place
 GI cloud (Megh Raj)
 Common Services Centers
 SWAN – State Wide Area Network
 Electronic Transaction Aggregation & Analysis Layer (eTaal) portal
 National e-Governance Service Delivery Gateway (NSDG), a MMP under the NeGP
provides seamless interoperability and exchange of data across different
departments in the Centre, States and Local Government
 State e-Governance Service Delivery Gateway (SSDG) – exchange of data among
government departments
 Mobile e-governance Service Delivery Gateway delivers Government services
over mobile devices using mobile applications
 State Data Center: Requires the States to consolidate services, applications and
infrastructure to provide efficient electronic delivery of G2G, G2C and G2B services
4. Some more services under E-governance taken by Government:
 Jeevan Pramaan -- an Aadhaar based Biometric Authentication System for Pensioners
 National Centre of Geo-informatics (NCoG)
 Mobile Seva
 Provision of Universal Service Obligation (USO) fund
 Unified Mobile Application for New Age Governance (UMANG) application launched by
the government provide a vast unified platform to citizens to access more than 200 e-
Governance services from the Centre, States and even from local bodies
 Digital India and implementation of BharatNet – to strengthen broadband infrastructure
5. E-Kranti:
 Vision: “Transforming e-Governance for Transforming Governance”
 44 Mission Mode Projects under e-Kranti, further classified as state, central or integrated
projects
 Key Principles of E-Kranti:
 Transformation and not Translation
 Integrated Services and not Individual Services
 ICT Infrastructure on Demand
 Cloud by Default
 Mobile First
 Mandating Standards and Protocols
 Language Localization
 Security and Electronic Data Preservation

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  Mission Mode Project (MMP): An individual project within the National e-Governance
Plan (NeGP 2.0) that focuses on one aspect of electronic governance, such as banking,
land records or commercial taxes etc
 MMP (Mission Mode Projects) By Central Government:
 E-office
 Immigration, Visa and Foreigner’s Registration & Tracking (IVFRT)
 Pensions
 UID
 Banking
 Posts
 MMP (Mission Mode Projects) By State Government:
 e-Governance in Municipalities
 Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems
 Public Distribution System
 Health
 E-Panchayat
 E-District
 National Land Records Modernization Programme (NLRMP)
 Integrated MMP (Mission Mode Projects);
 E-procurement
 E-Courts
 E-Biz
 Common Services Centers: Offer web-enabled e-governance services in rural areas,
including application forms, certificates, and utility payments
6. Recent initiatives:
 Direct Cash Transfer
 Aadhaar Enabled Payment system (AEPS)
 MyGov Citizen Portal
 Digital Cloud for every Indian

 UN Report on E-Governance:
1. Released in 2016 (once in 2 years)
2. Measures e-government effectiveness in six sectors, namely
 Education
 Health
 Labour and employment
 Finance
 Social Welfare
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  Environment (added in 2012)
3. Incorporates three important dimensions that allow people to benefit from online services
and information:
 Adequacy of telecommunication infrastructure
 Ability of human resources to promote and use ICT
 Availability of online services and content
4. Tracks progress of e-government development via the E-Government Development Index
(EGDI): Weighted average of three normalized indices and these indices are bases on three
dimensions
 Telecommunications Infrastructure Index (TII) based on data provided by the
International Telecommunications Union (ITU)
 Human Capital2 Index (HCI) based on data provided by the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
 Online Service Index (OSI) based on data collected from an independent survey
questionnaire that assesses the national online presence of all 193 United Nations
Member States
5. 1 rank: UK and India’s Rank: 107th
st

6. E-participation index: India’s rank 27th

 Current Affairs related to e-governance (July,17 – October, 17)

1. Two day Regional conference on Good Governance “Good Governance and Replication of
Best Practices” held in Nainital, Uttarakhand from 9th of July
2. Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated computerization of PACS (Primary
Agricultural Cooperative Societies) and launched RuPay Kisan Credit cards in the state on 1st
of July 2017
3. Kerala CM launches ride sharing app for techies G-Ride
4. President Pranab Mukherjee launched digital initiatives Swayam, Swayam Prabha, National
Academic Depository and National Digital Library in New Delhi to push e-education
5. Arvind Kejriwal launches e-RTI, Delhi becomes 2nd state to accept online applications
6. Railways launch RailCloud to optimise server management, resources
7. Janahitha grievance redressal system launched in Telangana
8. Mumbai Metro launches India’s first mobile ticketing system
9. India ranks 23 of 193 countries on Global Cyber security Index 2017 – UN
10. FM launches a new tax payer service module ‘Aaykar Setu’
11. Power Minister launches merit order dispatch of electricity App, portal for flexibility in coal
supply for IPPs
12. Centre launches GST Rates Finder app to verify accurate tax rate under GST regime
13. Indian Railway Minister launches new integrated mobile app SAARTHI
14. UIDAI launches ‘mAadhaar’ app
15. Govt launches ‘SHe-Box’ portal for Sexual harassment
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 16. “Mobile App for Road Maintenance “Aarambh” launched
17. National Centre for Seismology launches ‘India Quake’ – An App for Earthquake Parameter
Disseminatio
18. Dr. Harshvardhan launches “Sagar Vani” – An Integrated Information Dissemination System
19. Delhi police ties up with Uber to enhance women safety
20. Humraaz app: Indian Army developed for soldiers to track their details
21. MahaDBT, MahaVASTU: Two online portals launched by Maharashtra Government
22. Athletes can identify prohibited medicines with “Pharma Jan Samadhan” app
23. Home Minister Rajnath Singh launches digital police portal
24. National Cyber Coordination Centre made operational: Government
25. Telangana launches Smart Streets Lab
26. Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh launches live twitter wall on ‘Bharat Ke Veer’
27. Karnataka MOU with Microsoft to develop India’s first Farm Price Forecasting Model
28. Kerala Government has launched E-waste disposal in state schools
29. Nungthaang Tampak becomes North East’s first 100 % computer literate village
30. IRDAI launches central database of insurance sales persons
31. Andhra Pradesh first to implement Bharat QR digital payments to make Vizag less-cash city
32. Government launches e-RaKAM portal
33. IRCTC launches ePayLater: Enables book now and pay later option
34. Maharashtra launches web portal to help with competitive tests
35. Vice President launches Sports Talent Search Portal
36. On September 14th ,2017 the two-day Regional Conference on ‘Good Governance and
Replication of Best Practices’ began in Goa
37. NeSL gets final nod to become India’s first Information Utility
38. First batch of 1000 E-rickshaws flagged off in Gurugram
39. Govt launches hackathon ‘OpenGovDataHack’ to promote app ideas
40. Ministry of Railways permits m-Aadhar as one of the prescribed proofs of Identity for Rail
Travel Purpose
41. NITI Aayog and IRF Geneva signs Statement of Intent in the field of Intelligent
Transportation Systems
42. Andhra Chief Minister declares 2017 as e-pragati year
43. Government launches Electronic Negotiable Warehouse Receipt System
44. VVPAT to be used in all Booths of Gujarat Assembly Elections, first time with EVMs
45. Govt to procure 10,000 e-vehicles from Tata Motors
46. First e-court of Jammu & Kashmir inaugurated in Srinagar
47. Gujarat government signed MoU with Google for Digital Gujarat
48. Assam govt signs MoU with Google to increase digital litera
49. Gujarat government launches ‘Gyankunj Project ‘in schools
50. Government launches DIKSHA portal to teachers

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 51. Government sets up online service for importers, exporters to resolve all foreign trade-
related issues
52. Bandhan Tod: App to fight child marriage launched in Biha
53. Union Home Minister launches PENCIL Platform for Effective Enforcement of No Child
Labour Project
54. Thaawarchand Gehlot launches ‘Divyang Sarathi’ Mobile App
55. FSSAI launches online platform “FoSCoRIS” for food inspection & sampling
56. Government approved Rs 2,000 crore to set up Aadhaar units in post offices
57. Rajasthan Assembly becomes first in India to call motions online
58. Government makes use of Public Finance Management System mandatory for central
schemes
59. Madhya Pradesh launches ‘Single Click Pension Delivery’ scheme
60. NHAI launches App to track projects
61. Indian Air Force launched mobile health App ‘MedWatch’
62. Mumbai civic body opens online portal for business approvals
63. GSTN launches excel-based offline tool to file initial GSTR-3B returns
64. Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu launches CIPAM’s Website
65. ERO-Net launched in Rajasthan

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