Community information centres to open in Jammu and Kashmir

As part of the first ‘outcome budget’ , the government has unveiled its plan to establish 60 community information centres in Jammu & Kashmir by October this year. Internet-enabled, these centres will aim at bridging the digital divide as part of the national e-governance plan. Apart from J&K, Lakshwadeep and Andaman & Nicobar will also be connected through such information centres by January 2006. At least 487 centres have been established in the north so far. An amount of Rs 58 lakh has been released for the e-governance pilot gateway. Policy guidelines on state data centres are also under formulation. A core group has identified the areas for standards in e-governance.These are technical inter-operability, quality and documentation and data security. The report is awaiting approval from the ministry of communications & information technology. Line ministries have been advised to define the service levels of their mission mode projects. The department of telecom (DIT) has appointed Pricewaterhouse Coopers for this task which has submitted its report. More

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