Lok Sabha Question No. 318 (STARRED), answered on 2019-01-02
Subject: Technology to bring Transparency
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: VIJAY KUMAR HANSDAK, MANSUKHBHAI DHANJIBHAI VASAVA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINSTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO.*318

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 02.01.2019

## TECHNOLOGY TO BRING TRANSPARENCY

## *318.      SHRI VIJAY KUMAR HANSDAK: SHRI MANSUKHBHAI DHANJIBHAI VASAVA:

Will the Minister of ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY be pleased to state:

- (a)    whether the Government has utilised technology to bring transparency;
- (b)    if so, the details thereof;
- (c)    whether the websites of the Ministries and subordinate offices remain    either out of order or are not updated regularly; and
- (d)    if so, the action taken by the Government in this regard so as to provide  the benefit of present technology for transparency to the people and the outcome thereof ?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI RAVI SHANKAR PRASAD)

- (a) to (d):     A statement  is laid on the Table of the House.

## STATEMENT REFERED TO IN REPLY TO LOK  SABHA  STARRED QUESTION NO.*318 FOR 02.01.2019  REGARDING  TECHNOLOGY TO BRING TRANSPARENCY

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(a): Yes, Sir.

(b):  National Informatics Centre (NIC) an attached office of Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, provides ICT services to Government offices across the country. Following are some key projects that help in promoting transparency.

## 1. Central Public Procurement Portal

Government has mandated online electronic tendering and also emphasized that all tender enquiries be  published  in  Central  Public  Procurement  Portal  which  provides  complete  transparency  on  the various tender notices issues , bid received , results of bid evaluation and also the details of Award of the tender.

## 2. Eoffice

eOffice is  being  used  by  government  offices  to  usher  in  efficient  and  transparent  inter-government and  intra-government  file  transactions.  eOffice  is  digital  workplace  solution  for  automating  file processing  in  government  offices.  It  is  based  on  Central  Secretariat  Manual  of  e-Office  Procedure (CSMeOP). The product is built as single reusable system to enhance transparency whereby files can be tracked and their status is known.

## 3. National Portal of India

National Portal of India -https://india.gov.in , along with the services portal -https://services.india.gov.in  are  the  one  stop  solution  for  information  dissemination  for  the  citizen. This has created transparency in government function, policies, schemes, services, etc.

## 4. Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India

Government of India under the  aegis  of  National  Data  Sharing  and  Accessibility  Policy  (NDSAP) initiated  Open  Government  Data  (OGD)  Platform  India (https://data.gov.in) .  The  objective  of  the policy is to provide proactive access to Government owned shareable data in open/machine readable format. OGD India has datasets  in an open format that citizen could use, reuse and redistribute free of cost.

## 5.   MyGov

MyGov  (www.mygov.in) ,  is  Government  of  India's  citizen  engagement  and  crowd  sourcing platform, aims to promote active citizen participation for better governance. It facilitates continuous engagement between government and citizens using a range of engagement methodologies.

MyGov has created a participative democracy, making optimum use of technology to reach out to citizen and motivate them to chip in ideas and endeavours for nation building, metamorphosing these ideas  into  action  and  acknowledging  specific  contributions.  To  solicit  the  ideas  and  views  of  the citizen, various activities on MyGov consist of essays, quizzes, surveys, blogs, discussions, talks, etc.

## 6.     S3WaaS - Secure, Scalable and Sugamya Website as a Service

S3WaaS has been built  with  an  objective  to  empower  the  District  Administrations  across  India  to generate,  configure,  deploy  and  manage  the  district  level  websites  for  publishing  district  specific information  and  services  in  an  accessible  way.  The  standard  Information  Architecture  of  the  sites helps  districts  to  disseminate  information  such  as  schemes,  services,  tenders,  jobs,  and  other  local governance activities,  etc.  in  their  local  language.  This  has  helps  in  promoting  transparency  at  the grassroot level. Till date more than 477 districts have been migrated to this system.

(c)  and  (d):    NIC  hosts  the  Government  Websites.  However  respective  Ministries/Departments  are responsible for their Websites along-with the Content.

There are Guidelines for Indian Government Websites (GIGW, URL: http://guidelines.gov.in) which have been adopted by Department of  Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances (DARPG) and made a part of Central  Secretariat Manual of Office procedure. The Guidelines deal with entire life cycle of a Government website and also guide on the types of web information which a Government website should provide. It is the responsibility of the respective Ministries/Departments to ensure the citizen centric information as prescribed in the GIGW is available on the website and is kept up-todate for the consumption of the citizen.

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