Under its ambitious plan to introduce e-governance in the State, the government expects to complete the process of setting up an IT connectivity backbone network linking taluka/district places with the State Secretariat by May next year with the help of Department of Telecommunication (DoT).

This was stated by Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel while addressing a conference of the heads of various government departments held here on Monday. The conference was organised by the Gujarat Informatics Limited (GIL) to apprise the chiefs of these departments of the e-governance process initiated by the GIL.

Patel informed senior officials at the conference that the GIL had already prepared as many as 15 common software application modules under the e-governance programme and the process of preparing IT solution provider panels would be over soon. Once the e-governance is introduced, it will make the State administration more transparent and efficient.

Science and Technology advisor to the Chief Minister N V Vasani said that common software modules prepared by the GIL related to works of registry, accounts, employees establishment, file tracking, inquiry, pension, court cases, worksheets, tumar, budget, annual plans, MPs’ and MLAs’ problems, besides people’s complaints.

Compiled from local news media