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The Government of India is implementing the ‘Digital India’ programme with the vision to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. Digital India is an umbrella programme that covers multiple Government Ministries and Departments and is being coordinated by MeitY (the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology).
Various e-Governance initiatives taken by Government under Digital India programme are as follows:
♤ Under the National e-Governance Action Plan (NeGP) which is now subsumed under Digital India, core infrastructure components are being implemented such as
o State Data Centres (SDCs),
o State Wide Area Networks (SWANs),
o Common Services Centres (CSCs),
o State e-Governance Service Delivery Gateway (SSDGs),
o e-District and Capacity Building
♤ e-Kranti (Electronic delivery of services): The focus of the e-Kranti is to transform the e-
Governance services by expanding the
o portfolio of Mission Mode Projects (MMPs) in e-Governance under various Government Departments,
o undertaking Government Process Reengineering (GPR),
o work flow automation,
o introducing latest technologies such as Cloud and mobile platform and
o focus on integration of services.
Following are some of the successful e-governance initiatives which are being implemented in India.