To mark the Good Governance Day, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad
today announced that the limit of postal life insurance has been raised from Rs
20 lakh to Rs 50 lakh, besides launching one-month rental-free MTNL broadband
and landline combo plans on new bookings.
The 21 schemes he announced also included support for international
patent protection in electronics and an Internet-based real-time system to
provide eServices in rural India.
December 25 is being celebrated across the country as Good Governance
Day, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said was ushered in by the previous
NDA regime led by Atal Bihar Vajpayee and is being carried out in this
government. It also coincides with Vajpayee’s birthday.
“Good governance can be effectively achieved through the vision of
Digital India of digital infrastructure as a utility to every citizen,
governance and services on demand and digital empowerment of citizens,” Prasad
said in his address.
In the last six months, the government has taken a number of landmark
initiatives. Digital India programme is committed to taking the cause of good
governance forward in letter and spirit, he added.
Key projects include time stamping of digital signature, Integrated
Indian Languages Virtual Keyboard for Android, PARAM Shavak (Super computer in
box solution), .bharat domain in Gujarati and Bangla, e-launch of Support
International Patent Protection in Electronics & IT scheme (SIP-EIT).
Prasad also handed over disbursements under the Modified Special
Incentive Package Scheme(M-SIPS) and Electronics Manufacturing Clusters (EMC)
disbursement.
The Department of Electronics and IT (DeitY) also launched Gyansetu,
which is an Internet-based real-time ICT system to provide eServices to the
rural population and e-Governance Competency Framework (e-GCF).
Another launch was that of C-DOT’s solution MAX-NG, a cost-effective and
smooth migration path to the Internet Protocol Multimedia Systems (IMS).
It will ensure a smooth transition from old telephone system to voice
over Internet protocol and will enable consumers to enjoy voice, data and video
services on existing landlines at affordable cost.
Telecom Secretary Rajesh Garg said the government has planned to cover
about 55,669 villages as yet uncovered by mobile connectivity all over India in
a phased manner by March 2019.
The focus is to reach remote areas like North-Eastern States, Himalayan
States, Border States and Islands and more importantly the Left Wing Extremism
affected areas in the country, he added.
DeitY Secretary R S Sharma said his department has taken various
initiatives like MyGov, Aadhaar-enabled Biometric attendance system, Jeevan
Pramaan, eGreetings, eSampark, National Digital Literacy Mission, eGovernance
Competency Framework to promote good governance.
— PTI
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