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including government services. These will create several lakh new
employment opportunities.
5) Broadband communication can revolutionalize all sectors of the
Indian economy. It can also bring about a paradigm change in the
content and delivery of education and entertainment. Therefore, a
comprehensive policy will soon be formulated to promote
affordable broadband connectivity. This will embrace all the
landline and wireless phone users, cable TV homes, and cinema halls.
Promotion of state-of-the-art wireless technologies will be a key part of
this policy.
6) India's economy, government and education will be IT-enabled at all
levels. Implementation of a national E-Governance strategy will
begin before August 15, 2004. E-Seva will be made the common
platform for citizens to pay bills for electricity, telephone, water, etc.,
register property, procure and submit government forms, etc. We will
drastically reduce the need for citizens to go to a government office for
services which can rendered electronically.
7) IT in Indian languages, including in the area of content creation,
will be given special thrust.
8) Postal services will be revamped, modernized, and IT-enabled to
provide a range of commercial and governmental services to the
people.
9) Every high school and every college in the country will be given
access to a high-speed Internet connection with access to rich
educational content in local languages.
Meeting The Challenge Of Water
1) The River-Linking Project will be launched before August 15,
2004. An initial set of identified schemes will be implemented, with
public participation, by 2015. An effective rehabilitation package for the
project-affected persons shall be finalized and implemented.
2) Massive encouragement and legislative backing for local and micro
initiatives such as watershed management, rainwater harvesting, drip
irrigation, de-silting of tanks, lakes and reservoirs, restoration of wells,
recycling of water, etc.
3) Cleaning up of rivers and traditional water bodies, with
community participation, will be supported.
4) Desalination plants will be set up in coastal towns.
5) An independent Water Tariff Authority will be set up in each
State to decide the water tariffs for industrial, commercial, residential,
and agricultural usage.
6) A campaign will be launched to make people aware of the need to
conserve every drop of water.
In view of the utmost importance and urgency of this issue, a
"National Drinking Water Program" will be launched within the
first thirty days. The Ministry of Finance will be directed to provide all
required resources to implement this program in a time-bound manner.
A Task Force will be set up to work out the modalities of this program,
including innovative ways of financing it.
Power
In 1998, the NDA Government inherited not only an extremely difficult
power situation, but also a defective power policy and a flawed sector
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