Chalo Taluke - Gujarat Information Bureau

y Ravi S Saxena,
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Government Initiatives
ICT Enabling 360º Inclusion in Gujarat
e-Health
October, 2011
In just 60 days we have made requirement of services and meet with
Janseva Kendra operational in all 225 the ever increasing aspirations of the
Talukas for 110 citizen centric services common people. In Gujarat, we have
to be delivered through those. Under strengthened our state backbone –
ATVT, every Taluka in Gujarat is GSWAN (Gujarat State Wide Area
he story of IT & e- empowered and made self sustained to Network) to reach the last person
Governance in Gujarat offer a local platform. Such an effectively.
Addl. Chief Secretary
Department of Science & Technology
e-Governance e-Agriculture
& Environment
ICT
e-Revenue
e-Education
Tinitiated back in 1999. With innovative & unique concept of From only two years back,
continuous improvements and new decentralizing administration up to bandwidth has been increased from 4
experiences throughout the e-journey, taluka level will make governance MBPS to 71 Mbps. Gujarat is the first
Gujarat has rolled out various speedier, effective, transparent and state to go live for the State Data Centre
applications year on year for improving citizen centric. project in Oct 2010 along with 3 mini
administration with a view to achieve We believe that bandwidth is data centre setups. Today data centers
digital inclusion to transform a closely associated with people's lives. act as a convergence point between
common man's life. In recent years, we In the last decade of the ICT revolution open unsecured domain and sensitive
have rolled out various effective in India, we have seen dramatic government environment. Moreover,
projects through ICT for better increase in bandwidth demand & they enable departments to host their
Governance in the state. supply in all segments ranging from services/applications on common
Chief Minister Narendra Modi has a retail to government sector to deliver infrastructure which ensures efficient
vision for e-Governance as he mentions services effectively to the end user. We management and optimum resource
that “e-Governance to me is an easy, are attempting to enhance the utilization.
effective and efficient Government”. bandwidth which can facilitate future Another important initiative is e-
“Effective service delivery to the Gram. It is implemented in 13000+
citizens” has been the focal point of Gram Panchayats equipped with VSAT
every ICT initiatives in Gujarat. On the
occasion of the concluding ceremony of
Swarnim Gujarat, we launched Apno
Taluko, Vibrant Taluko (ATVT) in
order to empower people locally to
guide the growth process through
SWAGAT - State Wide
Attention on Grievances by
Application of Technology is
an innovative concept that
linked personal computers to provide
basic e-services and information
dissemination. The concept of e-Gram
came into existence in year of 2006.In
the absence of a data network footprint
of service providers through all the
Taluka Sarkar – a sub district citizencentric
approach where the unit of
governance and development is shifted
enables direct communication
between the citizens and the
villages in the country, Gujarat decided
to create one of its own through VSAT
technology, and pumped the bandwidth
from the district to the taluka level. directly from a mobile service provider.
chief minister.