Govt to work with B-schools for e-gov

The Department of Information Technology, Government of India, will avail of consultancy services of premier mangement schools like the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) and Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon for assessing its e-governance projects.

The management institutes will be the third party project leaders and validators of government projects functional for a period of at least one year.

The department has identified 200 to 300 e-governance projects for external evaluation which include computerisation of land records, registration, income tax, commercial taxes among others.

"Institutes like IIM-A and MDI, Gurgaon, will be associated in a knowledge partnership and will take up roles of project leaders and validators for the e-governance projects implemented by the department of IT," said R Chandrashekhar, Additional Secretary, Department of IT, Govt of India.

It is estimated that the validations will take around three to six months to complete and will see an allotment of around Rs 40-50 lakh in the first phase by the goverment and around Rs 2 crore in all.

Earlier, the department had invited bids from research, marketing agencies and institutes to conduct third party assessment of its national-level projects on e-governance.

Parties identified to conduct the assessment include ORG Marg, Development Management Trust, Infrastructure Professionals, Development Research Services, TNS Mode and others.