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Software Industry & Economy - Rural Development Government - E-Governance Panchayati Raj system gets Microsoft solution
At the first Microsoft Government Leadership Summit today, Microsoft and the Uttar Pradesh Technical University signed an MoU to address training needs 
Growth ahead: The Minister of Panchayati Raj, Youth Affairs and Sports, Mr Mani Shankar Aiyar, with Mr Ravi Venkatesan, Chairman and Corporate Vice-President, Microsoft India, during the “Microsoft Government Leadership Summit” in the Capital on Tuesday. — Our Bureau New Delhi, Nov. 27 The Union Minister for Panchayati Raj, Mr Mani Shankar Aiyer, today launched ‘SWARAJ’ an IT solution developed by Microsoft for managing the Panchayati Raj system in the country. The solution addresses the information needs for all the five tiers of Panchayati Raj namely the Ministry of Panchayati Raj at the central level, Panchayati Raj Departments at State level, District Administration at the District level, Panchayat Samitis/BDO at the Block and Gram Panchayats at the Village level. Microsoft has developed SWARAJ as a single integrated application, which can run in both connected and unconnected scenarios and can provide critical information on schemes, funds, land, and works besides baseline information to evolve Panchayat’s infrastructure and human development indices. It has inbuilt analytical tools to study the data colleted on a real time basis. At the first Microsoft Government Leadership Summit today, Microsoft and the Uttar Pradesh Technical University (UPTU) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to address the training requirements of technology students in the State. The pact focuses on a training programme that would be open to all final year and pre-final year engineering students graduating in computer science and information science; as well as final year students of Masters in Computer Applications. The MoU signed with UPTU involves an engagement for six months starting December 2007. The terms of the agreement include a three-month-long training programme that would be open to all students in UPTU’s member institutes. At the end of the training, one top student from each of the UPTU member colleges — selected through a test conducted at the end of the programme — would have an opportunity to apply for Microsoft student partner programme. In addition, the company has allocated 300 projects for UPTU under Microsoft’s Academic Projects Program. Microsoft would also train 90 faculty members of UPTU on its latest technologies. More Stories on : Software | Rural Development | E-Governance
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