In Haryana, over 100 Information Technology Plans and Information and Computer Technology Project Proposals, amounting to Rs 389.42 crore covering 60 major departments and organisations had so far been approved in the State. It was stated by Haryana Chief Secretary, Dharam Vir during e-Governance Conference, which is organised by Data Quest at Chandigarh on Thursday. Haryana had already taken a lead in implementing State sector Mission Mode Projects identified under National e-Governance Plan of Government of India.
The Chief Secretary said that Haryana aspires to use e-Governance as a way of life for the people of the State in the near future to qualitatively raise their standard of lives. It would not be confined just as an instrument to be selectively used for the development of economy in selected areas only. He said that Haryana State Wide Area Network (ADHAAR) had been set up in the State as a communication corridor to connect State Head Quarter to District Head Quarters and further to Blocks, Sub-Divisions, Tehsils and Sub-Tehsils on a three-tier vertical structure. Haryana was the first State to rollout all Common Service Centers (CSCs) across the State for enabling the citizens to have easy access to citizen services. As many as 1159 rural and 104 urban CSC's had been established in the Public Private Partnership mode. In order to provide a state-of-the-art common central repository of all applications and data, a large scale State Data Centre with 35 TB storage capacities was being set-up at a cost of Rs 50 crore under the NeGP. With this, the State had now geared up to take the benefit of latest technology down to the grassroots of administration and the citizens.
The Chief Secretary said that the State had received 18 prestigious national e-Governance awards, including Winners award of TELECOMM India Excellence Award 2007 for the most progressive State Government in e-Governance from India Tech Foundation. Haryana had been treated as leader in e-Governance readiness index 2006 of the country.
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