Status of e-Governance Roadmap and Capacity

The wide scope and objectives of the NeGP program highlights the enormity of the tasks ahead. Considering the nature and scale of e-Governance initiatives planned under NeGP, the role of the State Government in managing these initiatives is envisaged to be very critical. It is also well recognized that for States to play their role effectively, significant capacities need to be built and resources need to be augmented with additional skills. Thus, for the success of NeGP, it is necessary to enhance the capacities in the State Governments and its Nodal Agencies to enable them to handle issues in a competent manner, with a holistic perspective and with better efficiency. Considering this the Planning Commission in the year 2004-05 had incorporated a special budget entry and had allocated funds as Additional Central Assistance (ACA) to all the States for initiating the NeGP program as communicated by Planning Commission, GoI to State Chief Secretaries. Planning Commission has issued broad guidelines for use of the ACA indicating that the first priority is Capacity Building. The detailed guidelines for use of ACA for capacity building have been issued by DIT as indicated in the broad guidelines issued by the Planning Commission. It is in this connection, the State Governments are required to prepare “proposals” and send to the Central Government providing details on how the capacity would be built and how the various gaps in terms of technical and managerial capabilities would be addressed. Subsequently, these proposals need to be implemented in the State.

• Letters were written to 23 Departments and 13 Corporations regarding this project on 11^th April, 2007.


• Draft e-Governance Roadmap was prepared after visiting the departments and corporations.


• Draft e-Governance Roadmap was discussed during the meeting of Committee of Secretaries, where some gaps were found in the report.


• It was decided to discuss the report with important departments and meeting was scheduled with these department in phases. These meetings were held in the month of July, 2007 and Final Report was prepared .


• Final document was again sent to all the departments for verification on 22^nd February, 2008.


• After receiving the feedback from department, final document has been prepared.


• Action plan for preparation of DPRs and computerisation of line departments, which are important, with the view of citizen centric services, has been discussed with M/s Wipro and they will submit revised e-Governance, Capacity Building Roadmaps and Detailed Project Report (DPR)2 Training Centres (fully equipped with 20 computers and teaching aids) have been setup in Mandi and Dharamshala for training of Government Employees in which basic computer training to about 1500 employees have been provided in last 2 years of operations.