Bhatkar state e-governance panel chief

Architect of the Param supercomputer,scientist Dr Vijay Bhatkar has been appointed chairman of e-governance committee for the state.

Architect of the Param supercomputer,scientist Dr Vijay Bhatkar has been appointed chairman of e-governance committee for the state. With the state taking a lead in implementation of e-governance for providing better services to the citizens,the separate panel has been formed to prepare an e-governance policy.

The committee of experts will prepare and submit a draft e-governance policy after two months.

This has been validated through the recent e-readiness assessment report published by Government of India.

Maharashtra has been named amongst the leaders where the state has given priority to e-enablement of citizen centric services through e-governance and the same has also been reflected in the government manifesto which states that priority needs to be given to delivery of citizen services and should be made available at places near home like setu centers or common service centres.

The committee would help monitor all the facilities under e-governance ensuring a standardised and seamless implementation of projects and allow departments to collaborate,use and share data in an interoperable environment.

While the policy will ensure a standard guideline for all e-governance implementation in the state,which the state departments can easily refer and adhere to.

The committee will also take the opinion of citizens,industry associations,corporate,academia and consider the best practices from India and abroad,while drafting the policy. The committee is also expected to study the existing policies with respect to e-governance,and incorporate the required elements from the same to ensure consistency and interoperability.

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The policy will address e-enablement of service or online service delivery.

The expenses with respect to the working of the committee will be borne by Setu Maharashtra.

The other members include-Dr Deepak B. Phatak (Subrao M Nilekani chair professor,IIT Bombay),Dr G Sivakumar (professor,computer science and engineering department,IIT Bombay),Dr Ajay Bhushan Pandey (principal secretary,IT),NY Jantre (secretary,administrative reforms and O&M),Suresh Mhatre (VP Tata Consultancy Services),Vijay Mukhi (president,FIST & consultant – Technology Practice) Dr Anand Deshpande (founder,chairman and managing director,Persistent Systems Ltd),Rajiv Vaishnav (vice president – member Outreach,Nasscom),Rajiv Vaishnav,(vice-president member Outreach Nasscom) and Vijayalakshmi Bidari Prasanna (director,IT).

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