National Informatics Centre, A.P. State Centre has conducted a 2 day workshop on eGovernance Standards under National eGovernance Plan (NeGP) held at Hyderabad on 20th & 21st of September 2006. Dr D. Swaminadhan, Member, National Advisory Council, Govt. of India, Vice Chairman, A.P. State Planning Board was the chief guest of the day. Sri M. Moni, DDG, NIC, New Delhi, Sri C.S.R. Prabhu, DDG, NIC, Sri P. Raghuveer, IFS, Addl. Secretary IT, Govt. Of AP were the other dignitaries present. The chairmen of the 5 tracks included Sh J. Satyanarayana, IAS , CEO, National Institute of Smart Governance, Hyderabad who chaired the track “Metadata & metadata standards for applied domains”, Prof Subba Reddy from Osmania University, who chaired the track “Network & Information Security Standards”, Dr. C. Uma Sankar from Sri Krishnadevaraya University PG Centre, Kurnool who chaired the track “Quality & Documentation Standards”, Dr. K. Narayana Murthy from the Dept. of Computer Science, Hyderabad Central University who chaired the track “Localisation & Language Technology Standards” and Dr. G. Subba Rao the State Chief Information Officer, Govt. Of Andhra who chaired the track “Technology Standards & eGovernance Architecture”. Sh B.V. Sarma, STD & SIO NIC, Hyderabad welcomed the gathering. Smt Suchitra Pyarelal, TD & Head, eGovernance Division, NIC HQ gave a bird’s eye view on the present status of eGovernance Standards. Sh M Moni gave the keynote address and congratulated the Conference team for the professionalistic approach. Sh S. Ramachandran, STD & Head of office proposed the Vote of thanks at the event.