Monday, March 26, 2012

Electronic Delivery of Services Bill

Electronic Delivery of Services Bill or in the copy hosted in the Lok Sabha site


1)     The Electronic Delivery of Services Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 27th December 2011. It has since been referred to the Standing Committee for Information Technology. The reason for introduction of the Bill and its salient features are explained below.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Poor quality work in Governments

PDF document on Report of Committee for Computerization of Land Records

The above link opens the PDF document on the Report of Committee for Computerization of Land Records. While I have not read the report, it must be good as the convener of the Committee is Shri Rajeev Chawla and he will not sign off on shoddy work.

What is to be highlighted is that the manner the report has been uploaded on the website. The most optimum way would have been to make a PDF of the word document, however in this case the dealing official has photocopied the spiral bound report and uploaded it and one sees the spiral binding.

The disadvantage of this method is that the size of the scanned file increases substantially placing load on the servers and bandwidth required to down load the file. It is a mere example of both the lack of application of mind and lack of care in undertaking passing of shoddy work

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Ms. Rita A. Teotia appointed Additional Secretary in Department of Information TechnologyInformation Technology

Ms. Rita A Teotia an 1981 batch officer of the Gujarat Cadre of the Indian Administrative Service has been appointed as Additional Secretary in the   Department of Information Technology.

Her current posting is in Gujarat where she is the Principal Secretary for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj. Previously between March 2007 to February 2009, she was the Principal Secretary in Health and Family Welfare Department of Government of Gujarat.

In her stint in Government of India also she worked as Joint Secretary in the Department of Health and Family Welfare.

In her long career in Government she has held diverse positions in both Central, State and District Administration

Presentation on e-District MMP