news I-T Department Goes Hi -Tech for Watching Criminals To conduct focused investigations and take matters handled by criminal intelligence wing to their logical conclusion, Income Tax (I-T ) Department vetted blue print. I-T Department is under discussion to have central facility distributed architecture for phone
taping, latest forensic hardware and software for cyber snooping, all India data mining for money tracking, plugging into overseas server to obtain data to track money trails, tax evasion and fraud. Under the Blue Print, the directorate will house a centralised repository of data gathered from
telephone and Internet intercepts, banking and market transactions, cross border deals and ATMs. To analyse this data and suspicious activities, the department will also attain state-of-art forensic tools, including software to follow cash trains, track money laundering, conduct forensic audits, mine books and other texts, as well as plug into overseas servers and social networking sites. Scope and structure of proposed directorate is yet not finalised and is under discussion and expected to monitor real time information and gather intelligence from various sources to help develop cases for action leading to search and prosecution, maintain record of financial activities, as well as coordinate and share information with other intelligence agencies.
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Assam Gears up with IT for a Transparent and Efficient Governance For a horizontal connectivity under NEGAP, Assam’s Hon’ble chief minister Tarun Gogoi has launched Assam state wide Area Network (ASWAN) and Assam online portal (AOP). Major highlights of the launch is AOP designed for common delivery services for G2C, G2B, G2G and G2E, common window for various departments for information dissemination, centralized modular applications for departments, status tracking of citizen’s application, integration of e-mail with AOP; Secretariat Less Paper Office (SLPO) broadly for implementing less paper
office for efficient and time bound decision making, automated uploading of notifications, orders for public viewing Secretariat computerisation under AOP project deploys 2000 thin client, Gigabit network with adequate redundancy for failsafe connectivity, FOSS, integrated training facility of employees, a collabora-
tive portal, repository of government notifications, and document repository. The Project ‘State Wide Area Network for the State of Assam’ is implemented by the State designated SWAN Implementing Agency i.e., M/s. AMTRON Ltd., Guwahati. Under the ASWAN horizontal connectivity plan the Assam Secretariat is to be linked with other Directorates, Staff College, Senior Officers Colony and the MLA hostel, Residence of Hon’ble Chief Minister of Assam.
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IT Policy for Bihar Coming Up Bihar Information Technology minister Shahid Ali Khan recently announced that the state will soon have its own IT policy. Inaugurating the UGC sponsored “INFLIBNET: awareness workshop for colleges of Bihar”, jointly organised
by the Department of Computer Science, Patna Women’s College, in collaboration with A N College, the minister said, “We have already linked 1,000 schools through the Internet and going to connect more institutions, hospitals and offices.”
He added that e-Governance is necessary for better development of a state. The government is also all set to implement the Centre’s National Mission in education in ICT for connecting educational institutions through broadband.
e-Governance department. According to the state’s e-Governance Principal Secretary MN Vidashankar, citizens above 15 years of age have to furnish documentary evidence prescribed by the authority as proof of identity, home
address and date of birth under ‘know your resident information’. “Biometric details such as photograph, fingerprints and iris (prints) will be taken during registration for preparing the UID number card,” Vidyashankar said.
Karnataka To Get UID In All Districts The Karnataka government has now extended the Unique Identification (UID) number project Aadhaar to the remaining 28 districts of the state following its successful implementation in Tumkur and Mysore districts. “The cabinet has decided
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to implement Aadhaar in all districts to ensure every citizen residing across the state has a UID number, which will be helpful in establishing one’s identity for several benefits,” the state’s Higher Education Minister V.S. Acharya informed.
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The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), set up by the central government under the chairmanship of Nandan N. Nilekani, co-founder of Infosys Technologies, is the implementing agency in coordination with the state’s