Goa and Central govt enter e-governance MoU

In a bid to promote Goa government’s e-governance initiative, a Memorandum

of Understanding (MoU) was signed on December 23 between the state government

and the Central government.

DS Negi, Chief Secretary, Government of Goa and R Chandrashekar, Joint

Secretary, MIT, Government of India at the Secretariat signed the MoU in the

capital city Panaji.

According to the MoU, the central gover-nment will help the state government

in setting up of the single window interface ‘Mahiti Ghar’ for delivering

various govern-ment services to the citizens. Mahiti Ghars basically provide

services like online learning driving license and Form I & XIV. The state

government is in the process of adding more services to this list such as birth

and death certificates, driving license, etc.

Also identified in the MoU was the develop-ment, upgradation or assessment of

end-to-end software solution for various departments of government of Goa such

as revenue, municipal and panchayat offices, transport, land records,

registration, electricity, public works depart-ment, sales tax/ VAT, excise,

police, tourism, health, civil supplies and employment.

The central government has assured the state government to provide technical

assistance, to address the technology, financing, structuring of specific

business models, process re-engineering and organizational issues that need to

be dealt with in the course of implementation of the identified projects.

The technical assistance would include decision-making support and specific

rollout plans for identified projects that government of Goa may require.

Central government has also promised the state government to provide seed

funding through National Institute of Smart Government (NISG) to cover the cost

of the technical assistance.

There is also a mention of assistance for capacity building with the state

government to deal with issues relating to e-governance and funding for limited

roll-out in order to demons-trate viability, feasibility and prepared bid

documentation for statewide roll-out through Public Private Participation.

CyberMedia News Service


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