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RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

In pursuing this study both the doctrinal and non-doctrinal approach would be

taken into account. It will be mainly library based and doctrinal in nature. The

study will be based on primary secondary sources. From the primary sources

various books on the Legal Aid and some specific book have been relied upon.

The secondary source have been referred to and applied upon the articles which

are written by eminent judges, academicians, lawyer’s journals etc. published in

leading law journals.

The material has been collected from various sources that of articles, books,

various law journals, newspaper and internet. It contains viewpoint of many

jurists and advocates. Doctrinal or library based research is most common

methodology employed by those undertaking research in law. In this type of

methodology material is collected from number of sources like books, article, law

journals, newspaper and internet. It contains viewpoint of many jurists and

advocates. It is concerned with legal prepositions and doctrines. Doctrinal

research is basically concerned with the discovery and development of legal

doctrines for publication in textbooks or journals

This assignment focuses on the philosophy of legal clinics. A proper and

systematic research has been made to understand the concept of clinics in depth.

The whole assignment has been divided into various heading starting from

introduction of the concept, to its evolution, development, types, benefits, problems, and conclusion. The assignment thus provides a complete picture of

legal clinics. The material was collected and arranged in order. This assignment

emphasises the concept of Legal Aid in India. A conclusion in the last section is

given that gives complete and quick gist of the whole subject.



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SYNOPSIS

The rise of e-government has been one of the most striking developments of the

web. As the Internet supported digital communities evolve, and assuming that

they do indeed grow to incorporate individuals around the country (and globe),

they present the national governments with a number of challenges and

opportunities. In an e-government project, a substantial amount of documentation

is done like maintenance of land records, police records and so on. Each

department is critical so that only authorized people get into the network and

access the information. An understanding of the information security technology

and the need for its implementation is key for safer, secured and smooth

functioning of e-governance undertaking.

As the newly elected Modi Government introduces rapid e-governance and

connectivity of the government offices programs, it is high time to discuss the

issue of security in the e-governance schemes legally and technically. There has

been rapid surge in the use of the information technology in India and it has also

greatly impacted the working of Indian government. But how far are these steps

safe to upload crucial files on the internet. Modi cabinet was highly criticised

after its decision to use WhatsApp to inform and update the core cabinet members

on a WhatsApp group. Since the data under the WhatsApp are the property of the

WhatsApp Inc., such information sharing was not deemed right with respect to it.



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INTRODUCTION

The gradual penetration of Information Technology (IT) in all facets of human

existence is leading to multidimensional and often unpredictable changes. It is

changing the way individuals interact with each other and with society, and the

way in which societies involve individual in its evolution process. The way of

governing a country is no exception to this changing scenario, which is sweeping

across the world. Government around the world is carefully weighing electronic

developments and their consequences. India is one of the countries where this

trend seems to be catching on. IT enables governments to explore new ways of

creating knowledge and getting citizens involved in the decision making process.

It is expected that IT would be the great enabler for responsive and good

governance in times to come when 4E' of E-Governance would stand for

excellence. 1 E-Governance is one such crucial IT driven initiatives that will allow

the government to make information easily available, transparent and in an

interactive manner. In fact, e-governance is a step of government towards creating

smoother interface between government, citizen and business for SMART

(Simple, Moral, Accountable, Responsive and Transparent) governance.

1 Ventatesan, J. (2000), "Right to Information Bill Approved in Karanataka", in Hindu Daily, 27th August, NewDelhi.



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CONCEPTUALIZING E-GOVERNANCE

The concept of e-governance is of recent origin in Information Technology. The

emerging concept has brought about a paradigm shift in IT usage and applications

for good governance. The word 'governance' is often used. But it is a term that is

not always precisely defined, although several international organizations have

tried to define governance and what it covers. Generally, governance refers to the

system of directing and controlling the actions, affairs, policies and functions of

a political unit, organisation or nation. E-governance, or electronic governance,

is an attempt of government to harness information technology to improve the

efficiency or effectiveness of the executive function of government including the

delivery of public services. It can be defined as, "The application of electronic

means in the interaction between government and citizen (G2C), and government

and business (G2B), as well as in internal government operations (G2G) to

simplify and improve democratic government, and business aspects of

governance". So e-governance governance is lot more than online voting or

electronic town hall or just delivering services online. It is all about how

government, business and citizens interact on an ongoing basis the system of e-

governance is supported by 5 pillars: (!) Computer, (2) Connectivity (3) Content

(4) Consumer and (5) confidence building. 2 "Computer" in this context refers to

all the hardware and software requirements of government. "Connectivity" refers

to all the information carriers system, bandwidth etc. "Content" refers to the

information that is exchange between the 'consumers' of the system. "Consumer"refers to the entire human and human substitutes system that access and uses the

'Content' in the e-governance system. "Confidence building" refers to such of

these measures that helps the citizens develop a confidence in the e-governance

and encourage them to take to e-transformation. Objectives of E-Governance We

are moving on from IT to Information Communication Technology (ICT) and

2 Tiwari, M. D. (2002), " E-governance: Issues, Directions and Applications", in Agarwala, N. Kamlesh andTiwari, M. D. (Ed.), IT and e-governance in India, Macmillian India Ltd, pp 10-15.



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from ICT to Information Society (IS), according to Richard Heeks. But only

technology can't solve anything unless the objective is properly stated and sought

to be achieved with deliberate action. With a strategic objective to support and

simplify governance for all parties (Govt., Citizens and Business), by using ICT

for attaining good governance, following broad objectives of the E-Governance

can be identified.

• Impart a citizen -friendly image of government.

• Deliver essential services to citizens.

• Ensure transparency and right to information in governmental activities.

• Create healthy relationship between govt, and citizens, and enc ourage their

participation in governance.

• Enhance citizen empowerment and democratization.

• Enhance producti vity and efficiency of administrative functions.

• Eliminating poverty.

• Encourage for direct participation of citizens in govt, policy -making process

and development efforts.

• Creating a business friendly environment.

• Eliminating touts and undesirable practices such as delays, harassment and

unnecessary documents.

• Improving the overall quality of life of the common man.

• Providing prompt delivery of services at the doorsteps.



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BENEFITS OF E-GOVERNANCE

E-governance has emerged because of the increasing interest of government and

citizens around the world to experiment with and learns to exploit new media and

the latest technologies. It involves new styles of leadership, new ways of debuting

and deciding policy and investment, accessing education, listening to citizens and

organizing and delivering information and services. If e-governance is

implemented successfully, it can provide following benefits for development. 3

• Increase the accessibility of ind ividual citizens to information and services that

allows them to influence govt, operations.

• Opportunities to earn a living by learning a new skill in the knowledge based

economy.

• Producing same output at lower total cost.

• Opportunities to trade a nd banking online.

• Reduction in time and paperwork.

• Supports effective decentralised decision making by providing an efficient

information flow.

• Various govt, departments find it very easy to perform their functions like

collection of tax, water charges, professional taxes etc.

• Enhance access to information and communication across large distance.

• Deliver essential services to citizens.

• Improving agriculture productivity.

• Improves resource management.

3 Sumanjeet and Mehlawat, Sameer (2004), "E-Commerce in the Indian Legal Regime", Indian Journal ofApplied Economics, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp 1 76- 181.



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The global shifts towards increased deployment of IT by governments emerged

in the nineties, with the advent of the World Wide Web. The technology as well

as e-governance initiatives have come a long way since then. With the increase

in Internet and mobile connections, the citizens are learning to exploit their new

mode of access in wide ranging ways. They have started expecting more and more

information and services online from governments and corporate organizations

to further their civic, professional and personal lives, thus creating abundant

evidence that the new “e -citizenship” is taking hold. While the emphasis has been

primarily on automation and computerization, state governments have also

endeavoured to use ICT tools into connectivity, networking, setting up systemsfor processing information and delivering services. At a micro level, this has

ranged from IT automation in individual departments, electronic file handling and

workflow systems, access to entitlements, public grievance systems, service

delivery for high volume routine transactions such as payment of bills, tax dues

to meeting poverty alleviation goals through the promotion of entrepreneurial

models and provision of market information. The thrust has varied acrossinitiatives, with some focusing on enabling the citizen-state interface for various

government services, and others focusing on bettering livelihoods. Every state

government has taken the initiative to form an IT task force to outline IT policy

document for the state and the citizen charters have started appearing on

government websites. The term e-government is of recent origin and there exists

no standard definition since the conceptual understanding is still evolving. Thegenerally accepted definition is: E-governance is the application of information

& comm unication technologies• Improving internal efficiency

• Exchange of informati on with citizens, businesses or their government

departments



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• Reducing costs or increasing revenue

• Re -structuring of administrative processes

There are similarly endless ways to utilize Information and communicationtechnologies to provide efficient and transparent solutions to citizens without

security threats.

• Enables marketization by supplying information related to the market and

enhances public services.

• Transparency in judicial and administrative work.

• All notifications and circulars can be put online, so that cases can be disposed

faster.

• Helpful in confidence building among the citizens and the government

machinery.

• Market expansion and organiz ed job creation and its overall impact on the macro

economy.

• Transition from cumbersome procedures for clearances to improved relations

by providing quick approvals.

• It is an innovative way of administration. It facilitates easy monitoring and

tracking of files. There is no place for red-tapism.



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E-GOVERNANCE IN THE INDIAN LEGAL REGIME

The Parliament of India has passed its first cyber law, the Information

Technology Act, 2000. The purpose of this Act is to promote not only e-

commerce but also e-governance in India (Kaur and Singh, 2002). With a view

to facilitate electronic governance, the IT Act, 2000 establishes the legal validity

and enforceability of digital signature and electronic records, as well as secure

digital signatures and secure electronic records in the govt, offices and its

agencies. This is helpful in developing the citizen's interaction with the

governmental office hassle free. Section4 to 10 of IT Act, 2000 deal with

provisions relating to electronic governance ( Taxman’s IT Act, 2000).

• Legal recognition of electronic records (sec. 4 ).

• Legal recognition of digital signatures (sec. 5)

• Use of electronic records and digital signatures in govt. etc. (sec. 6)

• Retention of electronic records (sec. 7)

•, Publication of rule, regulation, etc., in electronic gazette (sec. 8)

• Acceptance of electronic documents cannot be insisted (sec. 9)

• Power of central govt, to make rules (sec. 1 0)

E-governance Implementation Issues in India A government with no paper but

information directly in the hands of people is creating a real democracy in India,

according to Kiran Bedi. But e-governance cannot operate in an institutional

vacuum. It can succeed only in an enabling institutional environment and a set of

influencing factors. On studying various e-governance projects, following

inferences about various issues that are involved in implementation of e-

governance in India can be drawn.

• Infrastructural Issue



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• - Legal issue

• Administration issue

• Security issu e

• Social and cultural issue

• Financial issue

• . Economic issue In addition to these power problems in various states, poor

rural telecommunication and network connectivity are the major issues to

implement e-governance. Obstacles in the Implementation of e-governance

Projects in India.

Despite the island of excellence, e-governance has not been able to make rapid

progress in India. There are many reasons behind it. Some of the most important

areas under:

• No clear roadmap with measurabl e milestones.

• Focus on computerization and hardware spends, low emphasis on process re -

engineering.

• Poor management of knowledge and human resources.

• Non -compatibility between IT projects and business processes.

• Lack of coherent government pol icies.

• Government unwilling to commit funding.

• Over ambitious project.

• No above the line treatment of IT spend.

• Viability of public -private ownership uncertain.



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• Corruption, inefficiency, and incompetence present in public services and

welfare/ development projects.

• Lack of baseline data and availability of information needed for decision -

making.

• Low funding from Government of India and International Funding

Organisation.

• Lack of co -ordination between different service agencies.

• Ps ychological fear of IT.

• Brain drain of IT professionals from our country, has lessened the speed of e-

governance in India. Pre-requisites for e-governance implementation in India E-

governance is a tool. Itself it can't do anything. For its successful implementation

it requires proper environment in which e-governance can be operated. So before

implementing e-governance model, there are some pre-requisites. Some of the

most important in context of India are as under:

• Large scale computerization.

• Capability of use of local language in the IT sector.

• Creation of adequate and appropriate IT infrastructure.

• Changing the mind-set of government functionaries.

• Standardization in data encoding, application logic, user interfaces etc.

• Kno wledge networking for better governance.

• Creation of PKI and certification authority



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ACTION NEEDED FOR PROMOTING E-GOVERNANCE IN INDIA

In order to accelerate the usage of information technology in the governance,

government of India has already adopted some credible initiatives in this

direction. Centre for E-Governance, a new division within the Ministry of

Information Technology, was set up on 15th August 1999. The Union

Information Technology minister declared 2001 as the year of 'E-Governance'

Add to this, entire Indian Parliament has passed the Information Technology Act

2000, to boost e-governance and to make electronic transactions safe and secure

in India. These initiatives demonstrate the commitment of Union Government to

embrace information technology in all the sectors of Indian economy. But all

initiatives cannot be implemented successfully, especially in the developing

countries like India. As mentioned above, three are many stumbling blocks in

implementation of e-governance in India. In addition to these, government in

developing countries boasts too much and delivers too little and not sufficiently

responsive or accountable. Therefore, it is very much necessary to keep in mind

some additional action plan, while drafting e-governance project. E-governance

projects should be guided by the following:

• A clearly focused vision of what is objective of introducing e -governance.

• Areas of public funding should be clearly spelt out.

• Strong IT infrastructure for e -governance implementation.

• Building e -governance awareness and commitment

• There is a strong need to evaluate the e -governance project before its

implementation.

• E-governance project should not be over ambitious.

• Establishment of national networks



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E- GOVERNANCE IN UTTAR PRADESH

The progress made by the state of Uttar Pradesh in various areas, be it education,

health, housing, food, or infrastructure bears testimony to the commitment of the

government towards ensuring the upliftment of the poorest of the poor. The

government is now making pioneering efforts to improve the quality of

governance through various e-Governance initiatives. In addition to successfully

implementing the various Central Government flagship schemes at the state level,

the Uttar Pradesh Government has also taken the initiative to conceptualise and

launch a number of flagship schemes spanning various areas at State level.

Various projects such as State Wide Area Network (SWAN), State Data Centre

(SDC), Common Service Centre (CSC), State Portal and various mission mode

projects such as e-District, CCTNS (Police), etc., are being implemented in the

State. Uttar Pradesh government is effectively using IT to make the

administration quick, responsive, transparent, hassle-free and accessible while

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UTTAR PRADESH: STATE INTRODUCTION

Uttar Pradesh is the rainbow land where the multi-hued Indian Culture has

blossomed from times immemorial. Blessed with a variety of geographical land

and many cultural diversities, Uttar Pradesh, has been the area of activity of

historical heroes like – Rama, Krishna, Buddha, Mahavira, Ashoka, Harsha,

Akbar and Mahatma Gandhi. Rich and tranquil expanses of meadows, perennial

rivers, dense forests and fertile soil of Uttar Pradesh have contributed numerous

golden chapters to the annals of Indian History. Dotted with various holy shrines

and pilgrim places, full of joyous festivals, it plays an important role in the

politics, education, culture, industry, agriculture and tourism of India.

Garlanded by the Ganga and Yamuna. The two pious rivers of Indian mythology,

Uttar Pradesh is surrounded by Bihar in the East, Madhya Pradesh in the South,

Rajasthan, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana in the west and Uttaranchal in

the north and Nepal touch the northern borders of Uttar Pradesh, it assumes

strategic importance for Indian defense. Its area of 2, 36,286 sq. kms. Lies

between latitude 24 deg to 31 deg and longitude77 deg to 84 deg east. Area wise

it is the fourth largest State of India. In sheer magnitude it is half of the area of

France, three times of Portugal, four times of Ireland, seven times of Switzerland,

ten times of Belgium and a little bigger than England.



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Some Powerful and important projects under Uttar Pradesh Government are

like :

Lokwani

E-suvidha

E-seva

Koshvani

Jan Suvidha Kendra

Srishti

Bhulekh

LOKWANI

Lokvani is a Hindi word which means “The Voice of people”. This projec t started

by the government for providing information like Birth Certificates, Death

Certificates, Income Certificates, land record and job opportunity creation, under

a single window. This gives the security and opportunity for accelerated

development. Lokvani is a public-private partnership project started in the district

of Sitapur in Uttar Pradesh, India on 9 November 2004. After the success in

Sitapur the project was replicated in all the 70 districts of Uttar-Pradesh. 4 In a

Lokvani Centre, More than 31,000 complaints were registered in a short duration

of 7-8 months, out of which approximately 90% complaints have been disposed

of successfully. A noteworthy fact is that 10% complainants are women from

rural interiors, despite the female literacy rate being as low as 12.74%. 5 In UP 8districts have started the Lokvani project, currently around 1,200 Lokvani

Kendras are active and operational.

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http://sitapur.nic.in/lokvani/allabout/Lokvani_tiss.pd5 http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/egov/ifip/nov2005/article1.htm



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The following services are offered through Lokvani Centers:

a. In Lokwani project government provide online obedience, monitoring and

clearance of public grievances/ complaints.

b. Single window services

Income Certificates

Caste Certificates

Domicile Certificates

Birth Certificates

Death Certificates

Income Certificates

Tendering services

E-SUVIDHA

E-Suvidha provides an interface to citizen to interact with government

departments. Government of Uttar has decided to create and develop an electronicconnection between the common citizen and the Government Departments under

the NIC this project called e-Suvidha. Government Society, is registered as under

the Societies Registration Act, 1860. e-Suvidha has projected to implement an

Information Technology enabled Public Utility Interface across the state of Uttar

Pradesh and to begin with initially in the city of Lucknow and selected

Technology enabled Public Utility Interface across the state of Uttar Pradesh and

to begin with initially in the city of Lucknow and selected Technology Partners

through Open Tender for providing Total Solution Based Package Comprising of

Hardware, Software and Connectivity for Deployment, Customization and

Successful Implementation of e-Suvidha on Build Own Maintain Transfer

(BoMT) financial model basis. 6 In e- Citizens can avail any service from any of

6 http://www.esuvidha.goup.in/content.htm



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the eSuvidha Service Centers across any counter without any jurisdictional limit.

All e-Suvidha Service centers accept all forms forms of payments including credit

cards.

E- SEVA

E seva is the form of services provided by the government or any institutions. E-

government aimed at providing speedier and well-organized public services

including issue of all the citizen related certificates, receiving all sorts of utility

bills, redressing grievances, etc.In other words we can say E-seva is a new pattern

in citizen services. It provides online transaction to citizen and save time and

money. In E-Seva various departments covered like: Regional Passport Office

(RPO), Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), Commercial Taxes, Transport,

Medical and Health, Tourism etc. Some Services of E-Seva are:

a) Electricity Bill

b) Air ticket boking

c) All Post-paid bills

d) Movie Ticket

e) Insurance Premium

f) DTH services

g) Permits and Licences



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KOSHVANI

Koshvani project is developed to maintain the financial Transaction of the state

and to fetch transparency into Government Transaction. It is very helpful in

Financial Controllers of different department. This will help more than 6000

DDO’s of state to reconcile the receipt and payment details with treasury figures.

More than 160 HOD will be benefited to get there grant/scheme wise progressive

expenditure/Budget details. 7

JAN SUVIDHA KENDRA

The Jan Suvidha Kendra (JSK) was first started in Jhansi district of Uttar Pradesh,and since then it has been replicated in many other districts. It was launched in

the public interest on 10th June, 2009 in the Collect orate campus, Jhansi. The

project has led to the creation of a platform for contact less, quick, responsive,

cost-time-labour saving, easily accessible 24X7 service for speedy and qualitative

disposal of public grievances. The four most important requirements essential for

any e-governance initiative to be successful are Reliability, Replicability,Sustainability and Security. The JSK project fulfils all these four requirements.

SRISHTI

Sristi is project which started by the uttar Pradesh government. It is very helpful

for government to fetch the information like locations i.e. Blocks,

Tehsils/Talukas, Districts, Divisions and State etc. In this project numerous tables

and graphs are generated by different departments to understand the issues related

to development and accordingly decisions taken on the priority areas for

plummeting regional imbalances. Geographical Information System (GIS) has

started a powerful tool to represent complex data on maps in recent years. Power

of GIS can be subjugated if thematic maps are drawn for regional comparison

taking MIS data. In this project this government website provide Maps for

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Blocks, Tehsils/Talukas, Districts, Divisions and State are being generated

dynamically clubbing village boundary polygons on respective standard codes

More than 1.07 lacs Village Polygons has been used for generating :

75 District boundaries

303 Tehsils/Talukas boundaries

822 Blocks boundaries

17 Divisional boundaries

4 Regional boundaries of the State

To exploit the potential of GIS for getting benefit in the process of decisionmaking, there is a need to initiate a process of data integration of various

departments with maps for pooling different information on common standard

codes.

BHULEKH

Bhulekh which means bhu + alekh (Land + Records).It provide all type of

information related to land either business or agriculture land to the owner and

buyer. National Informatics Center (NIC) is developed a website which is very

famous and well known as www.bhulekh.up.nic.in. NIC the all kinds of land and

property related information via just use of internet. Every tehsil of Uttar Pradesh

state had uploaded their all kinds of land records for villages wise, Taluka wise,

name wise, Khasara number wise, khata wise and khatoni wise. The

bhulekh.up.nic.in comes under the rule of Records of Right (ROR) and Right of

Information (ROI) means that the every common citizen have complete right to

get all kind of information of their query. Bhulekh portals provide Land Record

Information of land property in UP. The portal consist of various forms and

applications related to the land deals, information about land value etc.



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INFRASTRUCTURE FOR E-GOVERNANCE

The Government is committed to enabling the delivery of Government Services

to the citizens at their doorstep in an efficient and transparent manner through the

network of Common Service Centres. We are speeding up the computerisation of

various government departments that have a significant public interface. The

records with the government departments are being digitised to ensure that there

is seamless delivery of services through a dedicated delivery network or through

the internet. To provide connectivity of 2 mbps bandwidth, a network of 885

nodes connecting all the Districts, Tehsils and Blocks to the State capital has been

established. It acts as a conduit for carrying all the data to and from the

government offices and establishments; essentially it serves as an efficient intra-

governmental super highway of information. The State of Uttar Pradesh is

planning to connect all the departments through this network, as well as

increase/upgrade the current bandwidth being provided. The State Data Centre

(SDC) has been established to serve as a centralised reservoir for data,

information and services from different departments in the state government. The

State Data Centre acts as the shared infrastructure across various departments, it

integrates and provides various G2G, G2C and G2B services in an efficient

manner. Various applications for different State Government departments, such

as Basic Education, Home/Police, and Commercial Tax etc., have been hosted in

the State Data Centre. Now Uttar Pradesh is planning to make the SDC cloud

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ENABLING EASY ACCESS TO GOVERNMENT SERVICES

Common Services Centres (CSCs) have been envisioned as the frontend delivery

points for taking the Government, Private and Social Services (G2C and B2C

services) to the rural citizens. We have also established an institution called

Lokvani, responsible for delivering e-services to the common people. At present

we have 3300 Lokvani Kendras, 15,800 Common Service Centres, and 100 E-

suvidha Kendras. More than 26 government services are currently being provided

to the citizens through these centres. The state portal went live on 1st August,

2012. The portal has been developed to provide departmental services and

information to the citizens electronically. Within a short period of time, more than

1 crore e-Transactions have happened through this portal. Uttar Pradesh is one of

the early pioneers in the digitisation of land records. Anyone can go and see his

or her land records through a computer from any part of the world. The

digitisation of land records was completed more than four years ago. The system

is completely secure and it is quite popular with the citizens. We have a system,

where the land records get updated every week, because of the fact that there are

transfers of land due to property transactions, gifts, inheritance, etc. You can also

take a printout of the land records. The system, as it has been designed, is working

flawlessly. In the next phase, we are trying to develop a system where you can

get the land records digitally signed. Once this system is in place, a citizen will

be able to walk into an authorised centre and take digitally signed land records.

Today unsigned copies of land records are available to everyone. The site fromwhich one can get the land records in Uttar Pradesh is called Bhulekh. It is located

at: http://bhulekh.up.nic.in/. The e-District project is successfully running in six

districts of Uttar Pradesh – Ghaziabad, Gautama Buddha Nagar, Sultanpur,

Raebareilly, Sitapur and Gorakhpur. Under this programme various Government

services, including issuance of Caste, Income, Domicile, Handicap, Birth/Death

(Rural & Urban) certificates, Revenue Court, Ration Card related services are



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being provided. Till date, more than 90 lakh e-Transactions have happened using

this application in six e-districts through Jan Seva Kendra/Jan Suvidha Kendra/

Lokvani Kendra. The District e-Governance Society (DeGS) has been constituted

in all the Districts to ensure that there is smooth implementation of the

programme. Regular training programs are being organised to make all the

stakeholders familiar with the new automated system. These programmes cover

various topics related to e-Governance such as e-Governance Project Life Cycle,

DPR, RFP Preparation, Use of Digital Signature etc.

DISTRIBUTION OF FREE LAPTOP SCHEME

In order to enable the growth of IT literacy in the state, under an ambitious scheme

laptops are being distributed to the students who have passed class 12th exam

from government schools, government aided schools and private secondary and

senior secondary schools. The scheme was launched in March 2013. The

configuration of laptop is 14 inch display, 1 GB internal memory, 500 GB harddisk capacity, webcam, 3 hours battery backup and Bluetooth / Wi-Fi. It

comprises 3 USB ports, media card reader, a headphone or speaker out port, DVD

writer and supports three languages English, Hindi and Urdu. This scheme has

gone a long way in bridging the digital divide, because it is leading to a situation

where every school in the state has hundreds of laptops and tablets.



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INDUSTRIAL SECTOR: THE ENGINE OF GROWTH

Uttar Pradesh has traditionally been an agrarian society, and the industrial sector

presents a huge opportunity for improving the employment opportunities within

the state. The State Government has made a number of progressive policies in

order to provide a fillip to industrial development. The State Government plans

to use Information Technology as a vehicle for economic development of Uttar

Pradesh. We are working with the aim of having inclusive growth to create a

vibrant society with a high quality of life. The government has developed a new

IT policy that will reinforce the position of Uttar Pradesh as an attractive

destination for Information Technology companies. The state intends to promote

Tier- II cities like Lucknow and Agra as next generation IT hubs which can

facilitate a holistic development of Uttar Pradesh and its people.

E-governance is poised to take a big leap in Uttar Pradesh with the state lining up

a slew of initiatives to empower citizens in line with the 'Digital India'

programme. It is putting in place a system which would deliver vital services to

citizens directly through the computer, mobile phone or tablet, practically

eliminating the necessity of pursuing officials.

By December 2014, 26 citizen-centric services of eight departments had

conducted over 37 million e-transactions through the e-District/State

Portal, 14,500 Common Service Centres (CSCs) and 300 Lokvani centres

(LCs). The Uttar Pradesh government is likely to provide 90 more services

through the network of CSCs and LCs, according to a CyberMedia

Research press release.

The e-District project had been implemented as a pilot project in six

districts in 2008. It is now being rolled out in the remaining 69 districts.

Under the rollout, e-Governance cells/computer labs are being establishedin each district headquarters with 14 computers.



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Laptops are being provided to each sub-divisional magistrate and 'tehsildar'

for improving efficiency through an end-to-end automated system.

District e-governance societies (DeGS) have also been constituted in each

district. The project had gone live in 21 more districts by January 2015.

In a significant development, the state administration has decided to accept

self-declaration forms instead of sworn affidavits, along with an

application for availing such services.

The IT Policy 2012 is helping to develop Agra and Lucknow as IT hubs

under PPP (Public-Private Partnership) arrangements.

Under this policy, IT companies setting up their units in the state are

eligible for 100 percent exemption from stamp duty and five percent

interest subsidy (not exceeding Rs.1 crore) for a period of five years.

CyberMedia Research (CMR) in partnership with Dell is co-hosting

'Government Connect' series of roundtable across India, including

Lucknow, on the theme "Future-ready IT, for future-ready government".

The aim is to bring together decision makers, domain experts from the IT and e-

governance on a common platform as solution providers and management

consultants. The session in Lucknow will be inaugurated by Om Prakash Singh,

the Uttar Pradesh minister for tourism, and Manoj Kumar Pandey, the minister

for science and technology, later this week. This programme is currently focused

on developing necessary infrastructure, human capital, engaging with investors

and ensuring policy implementation.



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CONCLUSION

In this assignment, we have given an overview of egovernance initiative in Uttar

Pradesh. There are lots of Governance projects run by state and central

government. India is moving towards achieving e-governance. In spite of these

efforts, the state having the poorest record in egovernance is Uttar Pradesh, when

rated on the ICT policy and vision and their priorities for e-Governance. UP is

one of the largest and the most populous state of the country. It requires huge

efforts for implementing projects/applications across the state, and supporting

them. Government has started number of projects to resolve all the problems

which are mentioned in my assignment. My assignment could not completed

without this definition

“Good governance is perhaps the single most important factor in eradicating

poverty and promoting development” - Kofi Annan 8

8 http://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/19798/1/Birner.pdf



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