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| Admin sends strong note of caution to departments not switching to e-governance | | HoDs asked to provide services to common masses via online mode | | Early Times Report
jammu, Dec 10: The Lieutenant Governor administration is taking a strong note over the reports about government departments not taking adequate measures to implement e-governance and make services to the public hassle free.
Reports inform that the administration is taking a series of measures to ensure that digital governance is ensured in all major government departments and directions are being issued to the HoDs to leave no stone unturned in making the project a success story. "The departments have been asked to ensure minimal physical contact with the applicants and that the services must be provided through the online mode in order to ensure maximum governance to the masses already aggrieved by the decades of bad policy making," says an official involved in the government's digital governance project.
He added that a strong note of caution has been sent to the departments who have been found not doing enough in switching to the e-governance mode in spite of the funds made available for the purpose," the official added.
Pertinently, there were continuous complaints about the lapses by the government in modernizing the working of its offices and departments.
Even as almost every department in the state has its own website to provide online information to the people but none is being updated and contains obsolete information.
As per the reports, the erstwhile state government, in the past, had taken a major initiative about 16 years back to implement e-governance in all the government departments, Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs and other organizations under the centrally sponsored scheme. Most of the support is provided by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), which is a premier institution of the Government of India, established in 1976. Respective departments have to maintain the infrastructure which includes the software content.
Reports inform that the government is preparing a detailed list of the departments whose official websites are defunct or are containing obsolete and outdated content. "There will be answers sought from the administrative heads about why they haven't followed the Standard Operating Procedure vis-a-vis making the official information public. These administrative heads cannot give excuse of the internet blockade in Kashmir that came into effect on August 5, this year. The secretariat's IT department had kept the facility open for the uploading of the digital content during office hours," divulged the official. |
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