The Nasscom governance and ethics committee today released its recommendations aimed at further strengthening corporate governance practices in the domestic IT-BPO industry. The report of the committee that was chaired by Infosys mentor NR Narayana Murthy, enumerates a set of detailed voluntary recommendations with an objective to establish highest standards of probity and corpor
UID or aadhaar will have four hidden numbers as per a report published in Business Standard dated April 28. These four numbers will be post fixed to the 12 digit number. In an exclusive interview to Governance Now earlier, UIDAI Chairman, Nandan Nilekani had said that, "It’s a 12-digit number. There is the name. There is the date of birth. There is the sex. There is t
About 88% of the Regional Transport Offices (RTOs) in the country have been fully computerized. Further 100% connectivity has been achieved in 23 States/UTs.This information was provided by Mahadeo Singh Khandela, Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways in the Rajya Sabha today. As per the statistics 882 RTOs have been computerized as part of the project sanctioned by t
A man was arrested for allegedly creating a fake profile of BJP MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy on a social networking site and posting comments against other leaders on controversial issues like the IPL, police said. The man, whose identity was not revealed, was apprehended by a team of Delhi Police. Rudy`s personal assistant filed a complaint with Delhi Police last Friday a
Government is implementing a mission mode project (MMP) under the national e-governance plan (NeGP) at an estimated cost of the project is Rs. 1011 crore. The project is to be implemented in a planned and phased manner over a period of 4.5 years i.e. w.e.f April, 2010 to September, 2014. This was stated by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Shri Mullappally Ramachandran in w
The controller of certifying authorities (CCA) had directed Google India, Yahoo India and Microsoft (MSN Search Engine) to ensure that no advertisements of sponsored links in respect of sex selection appear on search results on their websites. This information was given by Minister of State for Health & Family Welfare, Shri Dinesh Trivedi in written reply to a question raised in Rajya Sabha
The Income Tax department and the Unique Identification Authority of India have agreed "in-principle" to come together for rolling out PAN cards with unique 16 digit Aadhaar number. Official sources said both the UIDAI headed by Nandan Nilekani and the Finance Ministry has held series of meetings on the subject and are now in the process of working out the modalities.
Data collection exercise under the unidque identity project, `AAdhaar`, being carried out by Smaarftech Technologies Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of Glodyne Technoserve Ltd, has begun in the Bind block in Bihar`s Nalanda district, Project Director of STPL Binod Mishra said today. The UID project caters to the identity and security of the poor and marginalised in the country and STPL has
Haryana Government has directed all Heads of Departments, Deputy Commissioners and Chief Executives of boards, corporations, agencies and authorities to take steps to counter cyber-terrorism. A spokesman of the Information Technology Department said here today that they had been asked to identify critical information assets and implement department`s information security policy to sec
The union minister for state for communication and IT, Sachin Pilot has announced that government will launch a special train to showcase e-governance in the country. T he joint endeavor of Department of IT and Ministry of Railways is to launch a mobile exhibition on train, to showcase vision and achievements in IT sector, especially e-governance. This train, on the theme of Sports and
Aiming to create a database of hardcore criminals, the government has launched a special project in 22 states for biometric identification of such law offenders. The Automated Finger Print Identification Systems (AFIS) for the purpose of identification of criminals has been introduced in 22 states and the Union Territory of Puducherry last week, a Home Ministry official said. Police sta
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah today appreciated the e-governance initiatives taken by the state transport department for providing efficient services to the people. Rosaiah, who discussed the initiatives with Transport Minister S Vijayarama Raju and top officials, expressed happiness that citizens need not approach agents and touts for securing a learning and driving licence.
The Union Ministry of Communication and Information Technology has assured full assistance to the University of Kashmir under the National e-governance scheme in terms of e-infrastructure. The assurance was given by Joint secretary, MCIT, Shankar Aggarwal to varsity officials while leading a high-level team here to review the implementation of the ongoing process of e-governance, Univer
The Government`s ambitious unique identity project aiming to give a 16-digit number to all citizens of the country was today renamed `AADHAAR` and its new logo unveiled. The Unique Identification Number project of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) chaired by IT czar Nandan Nilekani was renamed `AADHAAR` (foundation) as part of efforts to reach out to the common
BJP MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy has become a fresh victim of cyber crime with an unidentified person creating his fake profile on a social networking site and posting comments on controversial issues like the IPL. Rudy`s personal assistant filed a complaint with Delhi Police yesterday after the MP found that a fake profile was created on `Facebook` by an unknown person, police sources s
Three IT companies have been shortlisted by UIDAI for its software project, Business Standard reported today. According to the past reports Infosys, TCS, Wipro, Mastek, MindTree, Logica, Siemens, Mahindra Satyam, IBM and Accenture were the ten companies shortlisted for the project. As many as nineteen companies had responded to the Request for Proposal (RFP) for application softw
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has criticised computerisation scheme of Maharashtra police department, saying hardware of around Rs three crore was unutilised. "Lack of co-ordination between State Government and Ministry of Home Affairs has resulted in purchase of hardware for Common Integrated Police Application (CIPA) valuing Rs 2.97 crore which were ly
India hold the 58th position in the world on e-readiness ranking - an important measure of a digital society, Minister of State for Information Technology Sachin Pilot informed the Rajya Sabha today. Replying to supplementaries during Question Hour, he said e-readiness is the measure of the quality of country`s information community technology (ICT) infrastructure and ability of
Internet major Google, which recently pulled out of China due to censorship issues, has ranked India third in a list of countries from which it receives requests for censoring information. For the first time, Google has published a country-wise list of the number of requests received from governments, seeking either removal of information or more details. The list is based on req
The Reserve Bank today said it may permit banks to engage any individual to act as business correspondent (BC), a move that will provide more flexibility to banks for taking services to rural areas. The central bank proposes to permit banks to engage any individual, including those operating Common Service Centres (CSCs), as BC, subject to banks` comfort level and their carrying
