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Building Nation Through e-Governance Our partnership with government agencies has helped achieve significant gains in different domains By Sambit Sinha, Head- Defense and Central Government Business,
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-Governance is a tool for ensuring good governance. It is a form of e-business in governance and refers to processes and structures needed to deliver electronic services to the citizens. Efficiency, transparency, accountability, effectiveness, speed and accuracy are some of the salient features of e-Governance. Here are some projects implemented in partnership with the government which have enabled e-Governance in the country.
G2C – Patient Care in Hospitals
G2B/G2C – Travel & Transportation Domain Indian railways is one of the world’s largest networks. In 2005, we were asked to automate the movement of the rolling stock spread across 74 Control Offices for a better planning and decision making environment across 7000 railway stations, covering 104,000 km of route and handling 17m passengers every day. It took us four years to implement our charter which was to automate the Manual Recording System that was over 150 years old, having been implemented at the time of introduction of the railways in India. Increase in revenue, improvement in punctuality and better management of freight operations have been the major gains of this project. The Railways can now understand how to better utilize the inventory and rolling stock, and can also plan to improve punctuality of trains. Today you can track trains in real time online. This is made possible by accessing data from our application. Converting operations from a manual to a computerised mode was a big challenge, particularly in the smaller towns and villages
2200 locations across India through notified health centres numbering over 1500. Multi-department engagement, integration of diverse systems across 150 Hospitals and 1400 dispensaries, multi-department engagement and handling the huge volume of data are some of the key challenges we faced in the project. This solution would have significant benefits for govt employees. The beneficiary can avail of medical facilities from any centre; the processing of claims related to medical expenses have been expedited significantly; the system has eased coordination across 1500 plus Health Centers as manually-created records have now been replaced by electronic databases. Easy availability of data will also have significant positive impact on the quality of decision-making.
where familiarity with computers is not as common as in our metros.
G2C - Policing Domain we are implementing a Crime and Criminal Tracking System which will give seamless access to data pertaining to criminals and crimes across the country. Here again the challenge is to integrate 14000 regional nodes and 6000 head police station. Integrating diverse system, migration of historical data, handling multilingual records etc., are some of the major challenges in this project. The benefits from this project would be significant in terms of seamless flow of information across police stations across the country and we see this impacting lives of citizens in a very significant manner.
G2G - Insurance Domain We have implemented an ERP Solution for implementing a Health Insurance Scheme for more than 10m Govt Employees across
In Delhi today, all MCD hospitals run our application. Right from patient registration to discharge, the entire process has been automated. One of the largest municipalities in the world, MCD offers free medical services to all residents of Delhi. A resident can today walk into any MCD hospital, give his pathology sample and view the report online in the evening. Such facilities were earlier available in private hospitals but to see such facilities in government hospitals is really good. Integrated online electronic medical records; effective utilization of hospital resources; better control on inventory; integration of online Electronic Medical Records and easy generation of statutory and operational reports have been some of the major benefits of the project.
Challenges In a disparate IT landscape, project delays were significant. Business process change manangement is another significant challenge, as is capacity building and building acceptance for new systems. Creating a Standard Financial Model for egovernance projects, Business Process Change Management and handling internal politics that hinder progress ane other important challenges any egovernance project faces. So far we have seen more penetration of ICT in the urban sector, but we believe going forward, we believe the rural sector would be a major beneficiary. Green computing, service delivery over the UID framework and Social Computing would be major drivers of egovernance initiatives in the coming times. September 2011 / www.egovonline.net / egov
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