In a bid to push adoption of e-Governance more aggressively, the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) has been told to embark on National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) 2.0.
The IT Department, under which e-Governance projects are taken care of, has been instructed to commission an independent assessment of progress and impact of NeGP during the XI Plan period, so as to know ground realities.
An apex committee that includes high ranking officials from DeitY, Department of Telecom and Cabinet Secretariat, in a recent meeting have also decided that there was a need to appoint dedicated mission leaders and project teams for mission mode projects (MMPs).
“The envisaged citizen centric services should be rolled out in Health and Education MMs at the earliest and integrated with e-Taal (Electronic Transaction Aggregation and Analysis Layer),” stated an internal note seen by
Web portal e-Taal is a web portal for dissemination of e-transactions statistics of national and state level e-Governance projects, including MMPs, under the Ministry of Communications and IT. About 124 crore e-transactions have been reported on e-Taal till date.
The Committee has also given DeitY to finalise the criteria and format for RFD (results-framework document), in consultation with MMP departments and Prime Minister’s Division of the Cabinet Secretary by December 31.
It will discuss in the next meeting on how to enable the adoption (of RFD) during 2014-15. It was also decided that all tenders exceeding Rs 10 lakh should mandatorily be brought under e-procurement ambit from January 1.
“This limit should be brought down to Rs 2 lakh over a period of two years,” the note stated. Instructions in this regard will issued by the Department of Expenditure.
Rising e-transactions “The number of e-service and e-transactions have increased substantially over the past 10 months. Though the numbers are large, these need to be further enhanced keeping in mind the huge potential of expanding such services,” the note said.
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