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A Bird’s Eye View of IT Policies Across India

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DQI Bureau
New Update

Special Focus on Agriculture, Health, Education, Local Language, Welfare of

the Socially Disadvantaged and E-governance

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Andhra Pradesh



Agriculture–
IT projects would be taken up in at least 25 departments,

including agriculture and health, over the next 5 years, out of which around 10

will extend to mandal level administrative units as well.



Health–
Access to quality health care a priority for the government

and IT with private sector involvement will be used to promote this goal.



Education–
Information Technology will be used in the area of school

education in two distinct segments, one comprising computer literacy and skills

in information technology and the other related to its use to enhance the

effectiveness of teaching in other subjects. Private sector will be encouraged

to support distance education. Networked Universities and Colleges will be set

up within the state.



Local language–
The Government of AP has appointed a Committee headed

by the Chairman of the Official Language Commission to design and develop

standards for use of the Telugu Font on computers, development of Internet

content in Telugu, translation of English content to Telugu and suggest the

steps necessary to promote the use of Telugu in computers.



Welfare of Socially Disadvantaged–
Government intends to make

conscious efforts to see that IT percolates to the middle class and people below

the poverty line. This translates to goals such as taking Internet to the

villages, Promoting IT-enabled education, Promoting Local Language interface and

Taking up socially relevant extension and outreach programs.



E-governance–
The government has several achievements in e-governance

to its credit. Involvement of the private sector in e-governance is a policy

priority. Integrated Citizen Services and computerization of the collectorate

are key focus areas. Government will set up a Centre for Good Governance. The

Andhra Pradesh Development Monitoring System is a GIS-based system has created

the base maps of all the 1122 mandals and the constituent revenue villages and

habitations together with a suite of applications which superimpose the thematic

data on the road network, the community infrastructure, basic demographic data,

soil and geomorphological data etc. This information is accessible on the web

and provides a tremendous support to research, analysis, project design and

monitoring in the area of development planning.

Assam



Education–
Encouraging use of IT educational institutions for employability



Local language–
Local language web applications



Welfare of Socially Disadvantaged–
Investment subsidy upto 15 lakhs for IT

units run by women, SC and ST entrepreneurs

Chandigarh



Agriculture–Focus on internet penetration in rural areas and on the IT

awareness of rural populations through agriculture and health departments.



Education–
Educational institutions to be computerised, Education department

to be connected online with educational institutions, focus on courses for

employability, free training for school students from weaker sections, creation

of a centralised library with educational CD-ROMs; emphasis on English, Hindi

and Punjabi content for schools; college curriculum to reflect latest technology



E-governance–Committee for implementation of the I.T. policy in
Administration to be set up in order to make optimum use of the power of I.T and

facilitate easy access to government offices through networking.

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Chhattisgarh



Education–
Proposed IT education project in schools and colleges as a part

of Indira Soochana Shakti (Indira Information Power)



E-governance–
Implementing CHOiCE, (CHhattisgarh Online information system

for Citizen Empowerment). CHOiCE centres will provide services including

payments, obtaining information or forms, submitting the same, tracking them and

getting delivery of the end service / product.

Delhi



Health–
To use the power of the IT to improve healthcare, empowering women

and economically weaker sections of the society



Education–
Enabling Literacy and Education for the masses, with focus on Using Information Technology to spread literacy and education on a mass scale

at affordable costs, upgrading the IT knowledge and skills of teachers on a

regular basis; establish computer laboratories in all government schools; launch

a literacy campaign in slum areas using ICT; upgrade Industrial Training

Institutes for providing training of skills for data entry, marketing,

transcription, call centres, content creation and data processing; set up a

premier Indian Institute of Information Technology to impart high quality IT

education; set up a Digital Media Library as storehouse of digitalised data

containing government records

Local language–To facilitate localisation of software, so that benefits of

IT could percolate not only in English language, but also in Hindi, Urdu, and

Punjabi

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Welfare of Socially Disadvantaged–To use the power of the IT to achieve the

objectives of eradicating poverty, improving healthcare, empowering women and

economically weaker sections of the society.

E-governance–To use e-governance as a tool and deliver a government that is

more pro-active and responsive to its citizens.

Goa



Education–
IT education made compulsory at secondary and higher

secondary-level for school students, creating the most advanced infrastructure

through private participation as well, by establishing autonomous institutes in

Information Technology throughout the state and providing training in

specialised advanced courses

in post-graduation and doctorate program

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E-governance–To enable and empower the common men to approach the

Government on-line, towards an effective, transparent and responsive

administration

Gujarat



Health–
information outlets for access information on health services - like

medical expertise available at different hospitals, on line medical services

etc.



Education–
Computer education, provide Internet connectivity to all

schools,create State library networks, setting up of Gujarat Institute of

Information Technology



Local language–
promotion of Gujarati

Haryana



Education–
One of the objectives of the I T policy is extensive percolation

of IT literacy and education in the State, basic courses to be designed to

provide ready employment opportunities in low end IT enabled services, promotion

of distance education using electronic classrooms, networking of Centres of

Learning through HARNET, citizens will be trained to making the e-citizen

interface successful



E-governance–
An IT initiative fund for e-Governance shall be established

for developing replicable and reusable models of e-Governance, IT innovations in

administration reengineering, IT supported resource optimization, decision

support systems, MIS, intranets and other applicable enabling technologies.

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Karnataka



Education–
Computers to be part of school and college curriculum.,

curriculum to be developed with inputs from industry, a premier institute called

IIIT to be set up, 225 training centers all over the state, primarily for the purpose of

training the unemployed educated youth in various IT skills to be set up, more

colleges.



Local language–
The Government of Karnataka with the active co-operation of

the Kannada Abhivruddhi Pradhikara, Kannada Ganaka Parishad , Kannada and

Culture Department as well as several Kannada researchers has already evolved a

common keyboard. The Government is committed to complete the process of

standardization and prescribe standard formats and codes for all the software

companies. The Government will provide incentives for the development of Kannada

software



Welfare of Socially Disadvantaged–
The Government of Karnataka proposes to

use Information Technology to track beneficiaries of social welfare schemes.



E-governance–
Computers to be used by different departments; departments to

be supported by Karnataka Government Computer Center as well as the National

Informatics Center.

Kerala



Health–
IT to serve as a platform for widening the reach of the advances

made by the State in health



Education–
emphasis on IT literacy; government to set up IIITM-K as a center

of excellence; focus on trained manpower to meet the requirements of the IT

industry; a fundamental IT module will be incorpo—rated as an essential

component of the curriculum for all degree courses in the state; curriculum to

be designed to ensure compatibility with requirements of the local industry;

government to facilitate the creation of subject specific e-learning communities

and establishment of a Media information & Resource Center for Education

under the IIITM-K as a nodal agency for the creation of educational content in

relevant disciplines.



E-governance–
service delivery through e-Governance; IT to be used to widen

participative local governance

Madhya Pradesh



Local language–
All the web pages of Government departments would be in

Hindi; use of Hindi to be promoted in all IT based databases and applications;

Hindi E-mail to be an important medium of communication between departments and

field level offices; public purchases of hardware/software, with bilingual

capabilities; partnerships with Hindi language news papers and other media

organizations based for popularization, dissemination as well as access to Hindi

formats; collaboration with the other Hindi speaking states for a joint

programme of promoting Hindi’s presence on the internet

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Maharashtra



Education–
By 2003, all the 637 Government and Semi-Government, Secondary

and higher secondary schools in the State will be provided with computer labs;

connectivity to be made available at Government cost to Government and

Semi-Government secondary schools.

Manipur



Education–
IT literacy to be emphasized in schools and colleges; basic

courses to be designed to provide ready employment opportunities in low end IT

enabled services; distance Learning through IT to be promoted through use of

electronic classrooms.



E-governance–
To use E-Governance to upgrade the standard and quality of

administration, and to provide citizen-oriented, efficient and cost-effective

government.

Meghalaya



Agriculture–
GIS infrastructure is being created for the Agriculture

Department and proposal for GIS implementation for watershed management is under

active consideration



Education–
In order to spread IT education throughout the state, distance

education programmes through Video Conferencing facilities and interactive

television to be conducted. Community Information Centres in all the thirty-two

blocks, for imparting computer education at the block level and also for

providing facilities for linkage to the Internet to be set up. Computer centers

being set up in schools to not only impart computer education but also enhance

knowledge in other areas of study.



Local language–
For providing information to the citizen effectively, all

information to be converted to local languages like Khasi, Jaintia and Garo.

Steps shall be taken to promote the use of local languages for creation of

content for Internet and a translation of English content to local languages



Welfare of Socially Disadvantaged–
Teleworking to be promoted for women to

work from their houses. Special incentives to encourage women entrepreneurship

in the IT Enabled service sector, such as easy access to venture capital/bank

loans, subsidised computer education, easy loans for procuring hardware/software

etc. to be provided.



E-governance–
GIS used in pilot phase for digitization and thematic map

generation of Shillong town; GIS infrastructure created in the Land Record

Departments

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Orissa



Education–
Two high-end IT training centres in the Government sector namely,

Orissa Centre for IBM Software and IDCOL Software Ltd. are already operational

in association with world leaders like IBM and Microsoft. An institute of

excellence called "Indian Institute of Information Technology" has

been planned.

Pondicherry



Education–
Encourage the use of IT in Educational Institutions



E-governance–
Encourage the use of IT in Government Departments

Punjab



Agriculture–
Leverage the use of IT in Agriculture for job creation



Health–
Enter into public-private partnerships in the area of health care

using IT



Education–
Use of Information Technology in delivery of Education to be

promoted; quality, reach, effectiveness and delivery of education systems to be

enhanced through the use of IT; Knowledge of IT to be imparted at both at school

and college levels, to create an IT enabled work force.



Local language–
conscious efforts to see that IT percolates to the middle

class and people below the poverty line to be made and towards this Local

Language interface to be promoted.



E-governance–
prioritize departments and agencies on rational criteria and

focus on the priority areas so as to computerize them over the next 3 to 5

years. e-governance should improve the quality of citizen services and citizen

interface with the government,.improve government interface with the agriculture

industry and trade, improve internal efficiencies in depts., ensure better

enforcement of law, promote outreach activities, take information and education

to the masses.

Rajasthan



Education–
increase the reach of IT both in terms of quality and spatial

coverage to improve the employability of educated youth of the State



Health–
A pilot project for Tele-medicine between a State level tertiary

hospital — Govt. General Hospital, Chennai - and a rural hospital — Walajah

Taluk Hospital — has become operational.



Education–
As a first step to make students "digitally literate",

an innovative public–private partnership program has been launched to

make Computer Science available as an option in all Government Higher Secondary

Schools in the State. 5 teachers per school per year in each of these schools

including the Principal, are also imparted computer literacy skills.



Local language–
Coding schemes for Tamil monolingual and bilingual scripts

have been finalized and notified; a "Tamil Software Development

Fund" with a corpus of Rs.5 crores has been set up to encourage the

development of innovative Tamil software–the fund has supported seven projects

till date. A "Center for Research and Applications of Tamil in

Internet" has been set up and is supporting research projects in cutting

edge areas of Tamil in IT; The "Tamil Virtual University" will

function as a facility for creating multimedia teaching content in Tamil for

both IT enabling of education and for training of teachers.



E-governance–
IT will be used in govt depts. Comprehensive guidelines for

development of (GIS) in Government and the public sector have been issued by the

Planning & Development Department

Uttar Pradesh



Health–
GIS solutions wherever available in the field of hospital and health

management will be procured and applied; Computerisation in medical and health

fields will be undertaken



Education–
IT literacy in rural areas to be promoted by opening at least one

learning centre in each development block over 5 years, one Computer Education

Centre in an intermediate/degree college in each block, IT literacy for all

students from Class VI level to degree level, teachers to be trained in computer

education;



Local language–
appropriate course material in Hindi for IT training to be

developed



Welfare of Socially Disadvantaged–
Computerization of the Social Welfare and

Women’s Welfare departments to begin

West Bengal



Agriculture–
Services will be delivered to citizens in rural in the

agricultural sector through weather forecasting at the district level in the

short term and the medium term, and publishing of price of commodities in all

major centres of the State and other States, and information about crop disease

management, and crop loans



Health–
Services will be delivered to rural areas in the areas of Health

& Medicine



Education–
Government to promote the setting up of an Indian Institute of

Information Technology at Calcutta (IIT—C), IT literacy at senior secondary

level and in professional institutions to be promoted



Local language–
Government will promote use of software tools in Bengali,

Nepali/Gorkhali and other local languages



E-governance–
use of necessary technologies for efficiency and transparency

in government to be promoted. IT literacy and training will be encouraged within

the Government. For a better citizen interface many e-services will be provided.

All important Government Policies, Acts, Rules, Regulations, Notifications which

have a bearing on the members of the public would be made available through the

Net or other networks.

–ITfC



The following states and Union territories do not have an IT policy:

Andaman & Nicobar, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Dadra & Nagar Haveli,

Daman & Diu, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Lakshadweep,

Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura (policy being finalized), and Uttaranchal.

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