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CM asks Karnik to join IT advisory panel

Dr Kiran Karnik, President, NASSCOM met CM Digvijay Singh in the state

recently. The informal meeting was attended by Chief Secretary PK Mehrotra; P

Prakash, Program Director, Forum for Information Technology Awareness (FITA); R

Parshuram, Secretary, IT; SR Mohanty, Secretary-Industries; Rakesh Shrivastava,

CEO, MAP-IT, with others. CM stressed to form a union of professionals from all

walks of life to speed up the process of making MP an IT compliant state. He

invited Dr Karnik to join the state advisory committee on IT. Dr Karnik

expressed his desire to work for the empowerment of people through IT.

E-governance in Nagpur

In a move to improve efficiency in the administration through IT, the State

government would be introducing e-governance in its existing setup in the region

on the occasion of Rajiv Gandhi birth anniversary celebration. The e-governance

would be introduced as part of the major campaign to bring about administrative

reforms initiated by the Maharashtra Government. The campaign is aimed at

bringing in dynamism in State administration and making it more efficient.

Additionally, steps would be taken to make administration people-oriented,

reduce nonproductive expenditure, increase revenue collection and simplify

administrative procedure by removing unwanted regulations and laws.

Computer forms for MPSSC exams

With a view to provide candidates immediate results about examinations

conducted and to maintain transparency in results, the Madhya Pradesh State

Service Commission (MPSSC) has decided to use computer forms. The decision will

come into effect from the forthcoming preliminary examinations of the MPSSC

State Judicial Services. A press release said that the application forms for the

Judicial Services examinations will be published in the ‘Rojgar Aur Nirman’

in its next edition to come out on August 30th, 2001. The Commission will accept

applications only published in the 'Rojgar Aur Nirman' copies from either its

agents or its office.

Websites of all government departments

All government departments should develop their own websites within six

weeks, said the Chief Secretary, PK Mehrotra, recently. He said this would help

the common people a lot. The inter-departmental correspondence should also be

carried out via the Internet, so that the least time is wasted and the working

is completed within as little time as possible, he said. He stressed on the need

for increasing the efficiency and speedy clearance of public-related work so

that public grievances are redressed at the earliest. The need of the hour is to

provide relief to the common people, Mehrotra added.