Day: October 3, 2017

A notice issued by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has invited applications from consulting firms to advise for execution of its e-Governance for Civil Aviation (eGCA) project. The eGCA project aims to automate the processes and functions of DGCA. The issue said that, “DGCA invites EOIs (Expressions of Interest) from reputed consulting agencies to provide consultancy services required to execute the e-Governance for Civil Aviation (eGCA) Project.” The aviation regulator aims to provide online services to its stakeholders like automated workflow, automatic generation of Management Information System (MIS)…

NSDL e-Governance Infrastructure Ltd. (NSDL e-Gov), a leading e-Governance Service provider, commences operations for NSDLgst, its GST platform for providing ASP and GSP services. This is a comprehensive and secure platform, which enables traders, dealers, businesses, chartered accountants (CAs) and tax consultants to upload invoices, file returns and upload information in the prescribed format. The platform is built using latest technology, combined with simplicity and innovation. This user-friendly platform can help large and medium businesses easily integrate their ERP and accounting solutions vide variety of interfaces. Moreover, the cloud based…

Barnala district has secured the first position in implementation of “e-office” — an important project developed by NIC Punjab. District administration has achieved this milestone with rigorous hard work of 4 months and continuous efforts of all the administrative officers and staff. NIC Barnala has also extended its full technical support in its implementation. Barnala Mankanwal Deputy Commissioner Ghanshyam Thori said, “Implementation of e-Office in all DC offices of the state is a big step taken by Department of Governance Reforms, Punjab to ensure good governance for the citizens. e-Office…

After resolving to implement Goa (Right of Citizens to Time-Bound Delivery of Public Services) Act to provide better services to citizens, Mapusa Municipal Council (MMC) is taking steps towards digitization of all records. With an aim to take services to the doorsteps of people, the civic body is gearing up to provide e-governance services. For instance, payment and renewal of trade licence, income certificate, NOC for power and electricity will soon be one click away. The municipality has invited expression of interest from firms to develop and manage the software…

Addressing the session on – A Digital Bridge Growth –at the IACC’s (Indo-American Chamber of Commerce) in Mumbai, Aruna Sundararajan, IAS, Secretary, Department of Telecommunications, Government of India, said that in the last eight months 216 million people have been brought under the ambit of financial inclusion using mobile banking. Now the number of people having bank accounts in the country has surged to 65%. “Never before such a massive scale of enrollment in the banking sector has happened in India. It is indicative of how digital space is connecting…

Law and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that 95 mobile manufacturing companies have set up their plants under the new government. “Today 95 mobile manufacturing factories have come in India and India is becoming a big hub of electronics and mobile manufacturing. 32 have come in Noida and Greater Noida,” Prasad said at Capital Foundation Annual Lecture. He was speaking on ‘Emerging Digital World In India’. “In Silicon Valley 51 per cent of new inventions are IT based and 14 per cent of those are created by Indian minds…

The Centre’s flagship Digital India scheme, to create a digitally-empowered society, may elude a vast section of the country’s population — the old and vulnerable — if one goes by a survey done in Delhi-NCR alone. A majority (75 per cent) of 5,000 old people surveyed by Agewell Foundation said that lack of computer skills and digital illiteracy was affecting their life in old age adversely. The survey found 85.8 per cent respondents to be digitally and computer illiterate. Of this, 76.5 per cent were men and 95 per cent…

Clarifying on media reports which said that the Railways is not accepting a number of financial institutions from using its payment gateway for debit cards, The Railway ministry said that it has not imposed any restrictions and debit and credit cards of all Indian banks powered with VISA and Mastercard are accepted. IRCTC or Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation said that it has provided seven payment gateways for accepting domestic debit and credit cards and has also provided direct integration to some banks as value added service to for…

The Centre has taken up highway projects worth Rs 34,100 crore to decongest the national capital and sought Delhi government’s support in expediting the work. Chairing a high-level meeting on ‘Projects on Decongestion of Delhi, Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari said a comprehensive exercise for decongesting arterial road network of national highways connecting NCT Delhi was on. He further said that projects were being expedited and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has taken up comprehensive development and decongestion of NH-1, NH-8 and NH-24. The NH-1, NH-2, NH-8,…

The nation-wide Swachhata Hi Seva campaign is now entering its second week. The inaugural week saw a wave of cleanliness activities across the country. In Chennai to keep the city ‘clean and green’, a battery of Judges from the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court joined hands with public, students, officials of the district administration, city corporation, police, Public Works and Income Tax departments in a massive cleaning drive along the Vaigai river. In Maharashtra 430 GPs have been declared ODF and over 58 thousand toilets have been constructed…