Over the years, e-Governance has come to be looked upon as a key enabler for good governance. In the endeavour to bridge the digital divide between the government and the citizens, numerous innovative initiatives have been conceptualized and initiated under the Digital India programme including Digital Locker, eSign, Jeevan Pramaan, MyGov, eVisitor, MeghRaj and Biometric Attendance System that have caused seminal improvement in the transparency and accountability in service delivery process across the country. The Aadhaar enabled Biometric Attendance System has improved the productivity in offices while MyGov has been able to foster intimate partnership between government and citizens.
The need of the hour is to think beyond conventions for further strengthening the premise of Digital India and take it to the grass root level for transforming the country into knowledge economy, thus ensuring digital empowerment of every citizen and easy and equitable access to digital infrastructure.
Spearheading ICT in all its manifestations, NIC has always played a pivotal role in channelizing the prowess of e-Governance to the masses at every level by instituting best of technology. Continuing with its tradition, NIC has to work in decisive capacity for realizing the aims and objectives of Digital India.
I wish you all the success and hope that your focused and sustained efforts will continue to leverage e-Governance at all levels.
Tapan Ray