New Delhi, December 25
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.
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