There´s a big scope of service delivery improvement and the government needs to think mobile first. The ´Digital India´ initiative aims at preparing India for a knowledge-oriented future. The programme´s objectives clearly highlight that it is a comprehensive
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Digital India: The next steps
The noble vision of having paperless governance needs to overtake a mindset and working style of decades. It needs the transition of people more than infrastructure at any juncture.
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City development plan has to take into account the integration process
Pratap Padode, Founder & Director, Smart Cities Council India, talks about the Council´s capacity building programmes and issues ranging from technology to finance.
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Suresh Prabhu launches Indian Railway knowledge portal
Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu has launched Indian Railway Knowledge Portal, www.kportal.indianrailways.gov.in. This portal is an aggregation of information, with links to resources of the Indian Railways, for the purpose of dissemination of knowledge, innovations and best practices.
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SMARTNESS IS RELATIVE
The word ?smart? has suddenly shot into prominence. Everybody is talking smartly about everything that is turning ?smart?. It all started with smart phones, then spread like wildfire, to smart technology, smart grids, smart schools, smart networks, smart cards, smart buildings, smart what not...and finally settled down with ?smart cities?.
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Fiscal issue may hurt ´Digital India´
India´s ambitious ´Digital India´ programme could get derailed due to the financial challenges faced by telcos
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The sum & substance
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, at the recent CII AGM could not resist bringing in the travails of the land law during the address. ´The land law of 2013 is detrimental to rural India,´ he stated in alarm.
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Post-Budget Impact Assessment
Increase in effective rates of additional duty of excise/customs levied on petrol and high speed diesel oil from Rs 2 per litre to Rs 6 per litre.
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Government to connect 55,000 villages with phones by December 2016
The telecom department plans to take mobile networks by December 2016 to nearly 10 per cent of Indian villages that are still unconnected, to make the government´s ambitious Digital India programme more pervasive.