NATIONAL E-GOVERNANCE PLAN (NEGP)
The National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) is the flagship plan scheme of the Department which primarily focuses on making critical public services available and promoting rural entrepreneurship. Out of the 31 Mission Mode Projects (MMPS) under the NeGP, 27 have been approved by Government of India. 23 MMPS have gone live and are delivering services electronically. The progress of the projects being implemented by DeitY under NeGP is as follows:
- State Data Centres (SDCs): Under this scheme, it is proposed to establish Data centres in all the states / UTs so that common and secure IT infrastructure is created to host state level e-Governance applications/data to enable seamless delivery of services duly supported by State Wide Area Network (SWAN) and Common Service Centres (CSC) established at the village level. As on date, 22 SDCs have been made operational.
- State Wide Area Networks (SWANS): SWAN is envisaged as the converged backbone network for data, voice and Video communications throughout a State/UT. While SWAN proposals from 34 states / UTs have been approved, they have been made operational in 31 states/UTs.
- Common Services Centres (CSCS): The CSCs are ICT enabled kiosks with broadband connectivity to provide various Governments, private and social services at the doorstep of the citizen. As on date 129,266 CSCs have been made operational in 33 states/UTs.
- e-District: The implementation of the e-District project approved in 2011 for period of four years is currently underway. e-District services have been launched in over 100 districts during 2012-13 and additional 200 districts are planned.
- Mobile Governance: DeitY has developed and notified the framework for Mobile governance in February 2012. The Mobile Services Delivery Gateway (MSDG) was operationalised in July, 2011 and has now become the core infrastructure for enabling the availability of public services through mobile devices. A mobile Applications Store has also been created and made operational in January, 2012.
- Rapid Replication Initiative: DeitY has undertaken an initiative to replicate the successful e-Governance applications to other states. Under the initiative, so far, the online e-Pass (Scholarship scheme) application has been successfully replicated the e-Hospital application of Tripura and Extended Licensing and Laboratory Node application of Gujarat has been approved for replication in 4 additional states. In addition to this, rapid Replication of HRMS application of Himachal Pradesh has also been approved for Replication in Jharkhand.
- e-Bharat: The Government of India received a loan of US$ 150 million from the World Bank towards programme management and financial support for the National-Governance Plan (NeGP). The project is envisaged to support NeGP’s countrywide plans of increasing the availability of online services for citizens to improve the quality of basic governance. Detailed guidelines for formulation of project proposals under the e-Bharat scheme have been issued to all the States/UTs.
- MeghRaj: To harness the benefits of cloud technology, DeitY has initiated a project named as ‘MeghRaj’ for creating a Government of India Cloud (GI Cloud) Computing environment at the national level. This will act as a common repository of cloud-based infrastructure resources and applications available on demand.
- NOFN Pilot Beyond the Fibre: Government has approved setting up of the National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) to provide connectivity to all 2,530,000 panchayats in the country. The vision of NOFN is to provide 100 Mbps broadband connectivity to all panchayats; to provide B2B Services in a non-discriminatory manner; to facilitate proliferation of GZC, BZC and P3P Broadband services in rural areas. During this pilot, 21 Common Services Centres (CSCs) are being upgraded as Digital Knowledge Centres (DKC).
- Gov: The www.dial.gov.in portal was launched in December 2012. Dial.Gov. will eventually encompass all welfare schemes across the central and state departments and provide the related information in a convenient manner.
- ‘e-Taal’: Electronic transactions Aggregation and Analysis Layer (e-Taal) is a web portal developed by NIC for aggregation and analysis of e-Transaction
