E-governance

Social media giant Meta on Thursday announced a two-year partnership with the Telangana government aimed at enhancing e-governance and citizen services using artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. According to a release, the strategic partnership will empower public officials and citizens with the latest emerging technologies like AI to enhance e-governance and citizen services. "Advancing ongoing efforts to foster innovation in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Meta today announced a two-year partnership with the Department of Information Technology, Electronics and Communications (IT, E&C), Government of Telangana," the release said. Meta will partner with the Telangana government to enable deployment of e-governance solutions leveraging Meta's open-source generative AI technologies including the latest 'Llama 3.1 model'. This will be focused towards transforming various aspects of public service delivery and e-governance, along with enhancing efficiency and ...

BLS E-Services Ltd on Tuesday said it has integrated UMANG into its platform, a move that will help the firm to offer more than 500 e-governance services. The company is a subsidiary of BLS International Service, which provides visa and consular services. The collaboration with the National e-Governance Division (NeGD) aims to ensure wider accessibility of the Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance (UMANG) services for citizens, facilitated through agents or human-assisted platforms, BLS International said in a release. UMANG is a digital platform launched by the Centre that offers a convenient and secure way for citizens to access a range of government services and information. BLS E-Services platform will provide a channel for citizens across India and overseas where they can avail major state and central e-governance services in multiple regional languages, the release said. Currently, UMANG has over 1 lakh global and 5.38 crore national users. With the integration

Alkesh Kumar Sharma, Secretary, MeitY, noted during the event that today's world is talking about digital transformation

The state will also roll out the Kerala Fibre Optic Network shortly, which will make access to the internet affordable/free

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will on Thursday declare the state as fully e-governed' where delivery of government services would be digitised, transparent and fast. The declaration of Kerala as India's total e-governed state' would be a major step in the southern state's journey towards a knowledge based society and economy, besides achieving cent per cent digital literacy, a government release said. This unique achievement, which comes decades after Kerala became the first fully literate Indian state and began its quest to become a fully e-literate society, has been realised through a set of visionary policy initiatives of the government seeking to transform the state into a digitally empowered society, the release said. The achievement would enable online delivery of a whole range of government services by leveraging state-of-the-art technology and platforms to build a single window service delivery mechanism called e-Sevanam which integrates more than 800 government ...

Public sector Indian Bank has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency, the city-headquartered bank said on Tuesday. The agreement is to integrate the Indian Bank Payment Aggregator platform with the e-Governance Applications of various departments in Tamil Nadu. "With this MoU, all government departments can avail plug and play platform for any payment related needs. The Indian Bank Payment Aggregator platform services shall offer timely and cost effective solutions to departments besides providing citizens and businesses with a seamless payment experience," Indian Bank said in a statement. Minister for Information Technology and Digital Services T Mano Thangaraj exchanged documents with the bank's executive director Mahesh Kumar Bajaj at an event here on Tuesday. "This MoU will enable easy access, transparency and quick delivery in services and cater to one of the top priorities of the TN government." Bajaj said. "Our payment aggregator servic

The government will spend some $200 million (around Rs 1,635 crore) to develop an AI ecosystem and make e-governance platforms more intelligent, said Chandrasekhar

Ramann joined Sidbi in the midst of the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic, he has been involved in crafting policies for providing timely liquidity, and schemes for restructuring support to MSME sector

Union Secretary Alkesh Kumar Sharma on Wednesday said the G20 presidency will provide India an opportunity to showcase its digital initiatives under e-governance to the outside world. Speaking at the two-day silver jubilee edition of national conference on e-Governance here, Sharma, Secretary for Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), said many countries in the world are looking at India, which has successfully implemented various e-governance initiatives. The conference, "Bringing Citizens, Industry and Government closer", was organised by the department of administrative reforms and public grievances in association with MeitY and Jammu and Kashmir government. "India is taking over the G20 presidency, which is a historic moment for the country and all of us. During the presidency tenure, the country will host about 200 events in 32 sectors at 55 locations, a couple of which will be held in Jammu and Kashmir," Sharma said. He said states and the Union territori

Decision is in compliance with 2017 RBI circular asking financial creditors to submit financial information to an information utility under Section 215 of IBC

Documents were to be open for public comments till September 21, civil society groups protest 'removal'

The documents are open for public consultation and the comments would be accepted till September 21

Rajasthan ranks first in state/UT service portals in Group B across all sectors (55 services provided online)

Govt's digital push founders on complex, buggy portals

The initial outlay was Rs 100,000 crore in ongoing schemes and Rs 13,000 crore in new schemes

Axis Bank has acquired over 57,700 shares in CSC e-Governance Services India Ltd for Rs 36.38 crore, the lender said on Thursday.

A cyber attack is no longer about one company or a government department. In today's world, an attack on one entity can easily escalate to several others

He said positive and development orientated approach, transparency, corruption-free system, fast track decision making process and social and national commitment will lead to good governance.

This would be a ten-fold growth over the last financial year, when CSCs had logged total sales worth Rs 10 crore

The MCA 21 Mission Mode Project is the e-governance initiative of the Corporate Affairs Ministry