E-Governance in India: Issues and cases

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Everyday, we read reams about how India is emerging as a global frontrunner in the realm of Information Communication Technology (ICT). But one ICT-enabled revolution that is flowing quietly like an undercurrent, eclipsed by the IT revolution, is getting ignored in the bargain. This book unearths the undercurrent, the rapid growth in e Governance projects in India, through which the government is not only facilitating online citizen services like bill and tax payment, delivery of government certificates, land registration, etc., but is also aiming to move towards a scenario, where citizens will actually be able to participate in day to day governance and policy formulationâ€”which is the ultimate objective of e Governance in every country. Our strengths in ICT are at last being harnessed for the benefit of citizens, and not just those in urban areas but in rural areas, as well. The book deals with issues such as capacity building in e Governance, public-private sector alliances, the National e Governance Plan (NeGP), IT infrastructure in terms of both software and hardware, reasons for success and failure, evaluation and ranking of projects to see whether they have succeeded only in fulfilling their prime objective or whether they have also been able to trigger off substantial second order, long-term growth effects. It assesses a large number of assorted cases, concentrating in detail on two of the most well known cases, Gyandoot and Bhoomi, and questions whether Bhoomi, the most reputed of e Governance cases in India has had any impact on marginal stakeholders. The book would be of interest to all government officials in public administration, teachers, researches and students of public administration, management and fellowship programs, NGOs in the field, financial institutions, IT, companies, and, in-fact, anyone who wants to know what the government is offering to its citizens and the sea changes taking place in the sphere of governance.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jayshree Bose

Jayshree Bose is a first class postgraduate and National Merit Scholarship holder from Calcutta University. She has had a prolonged career in the Mumbai media circles with national financial dailies such as Business Standard and Financial Express and magazines such as Businessworld. She served there for over 16 years in senior capacities such as Associate Editor and Assistant Editor, and has been a prolific writer on topics related to banking, insurance and the economy, which are her prime areas of interest. During her tenure at Mumbai, some of her articles led to a series of financial sector reforms. She was earlier a consultant with the Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR), an ICICI Bank-sponsored Business School and Research Institute at Chennai. She has also written and edited books on banking and finance for KPMG and Jardine Fleming and brought out special issues of the Indian Banks' Association (IBA) Journal on a turnkey basis. Jayshree Bose is now a Faculty Member-Consulting Editor with Icfai Books, a division of the Icfai University Press, where her work involves writing articles and editing books on her special areas of interest such as banking, insurance, the economy and business strategy. She is also a regular contributor to professional magazines on insurance and banking.