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<p style="text-align:justify">CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government
on Tuesday rolled out an ambitious e-Governance Policy 2017, which
enables public, government and commercial establishments to get all
their services through digital mode.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">The policy aims at achieving this
through a multi-pronged approach - promotion of proactive delivery of
online services to citizens, increase in the level of penetration of
broadband connectivity, to ensure the use of Tamil language and Tamil
unicode standard, encouraging m-Governance to use mobile technology for
providing services to citizens and making e-governance applications
suitable to differently-abled citizens.<br>
Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami released the policy at a simple
function at the Secretariat and Information Technology Minister M
Manikandan received the first copy.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify">Establishing an integrated environment
for delivering seamless Government to Citizen (G2C), Government to
Employee (G2E), Government to Government (G2G) and Government to
Business (G2B) services in a cost-effective manner, besides increasing
productivity levels within government are some of the key objectives of
the policy.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">A State-level apex committee for
e-Governance headed by the Chief Secretary would be formed for periodic
review of the implementation of the policy and would provide necessary
guidelines for its implementation. The departments would earmark 0.5 per
cent of their annual budget for e-Governance and would be encouraged to
increase the same to three per cent in a phased manner over a period of
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<p style="text-align:justify">“Considering the mobile phone
penetration among the people, all departments would ensure that their
applications are compatible to mobile access and utilise the common
mobile infrastructure provided by Government of India and the State
government like Mobile Service Delivery Gateway (MSDG) etc. Mobile
applications will be developed in English and Tamil Language using open
standards, to the extent possible. The State Portal and Government
Departmental Portals will be made ‘mobile compliant’ in due course,” the
policy said. </p>
<p style="text-align:justify">The policy made it clear that the
departments would ensure use of Open Source and Open Standard
technologies for software development, unless the use of proprietary
technology is unavoidable. This would enable respective departments to
prevent vendor lock-in, unnecessary cost on user licences and long-term
cost liabilities.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">The policy also envisaged setting up of
Knowledge Management Facility that would maintain Project Management
Information System (PMIS) related to e-Governance projects in the State.
Public Private Partnership would be encouraged in e-Governance projects
in the State to the extent possible. Social media will be leveraged to
increase the awareness on delivery of services to citizens.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">To promote paperless office and to
increase the efficiency of office work, e-Office Application will be
implemented in all government offices throughout the State. Steps will
be taken to ensure that government files/documents/records are made
available in a digitized form and are easily accessible to those
authorised for access. To enable proper identification and
authentication of electronic transactions, use of digital signatures /
e-Sign facility for online processing would be encouraged.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">State Resident Data Hub (SRDH), an
integrated framework which provides a unique centralised database of
citizens with Aadhaar linkage would be integrated with all e-Governance
applications wherever possible. The State would also come up with a
framework for using Aadhaar for the State government schemes, the policy
said.</p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div>
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