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Wednesday, 24 May 2017

08:52

Digital India Corporation

Digital India Corporation 

Digital India Corporation (DIC) will lead and guide in realizing the vision, objectives and goals of the Digital India program. It will provide the strategic support to Ministries/Departments of Centre/States for carrying forward the mission of Digital India by way of Capacity Building for e-Governance projects, promoting best practises, encouraging Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), nurturing innovation and technology in various domains. To ensure autonomy and viability of the organisation in the long run, the DIC, will also collaborate and mobilise partnerships with the industry, to evolve revenue based models for service delivery.       
To undertake these functions, Digital India Corporation will attract talent and resources both from government and market. The judicious mix of talent will ensure that government is equipped with a broad spectrum of resources for successful design of Digital India related projects.

Digital India Corporation shall have the following broad responsibilities:

1 To provide leadership and support to Government of India through MeitY, to steer and anchor Digital India and all related policy and implementation initiatives. To promote digital transactions including digital payments through various medium.  
2.To support MeitY in all its initiatives with policy and implementation related issues concerning various ongoing programmes & schemes in ICT domain and new initiatives necessitated as part of the Digital India vision. 
3. To support Ministries/Departments, both at Centre as well as at States and other stakeholders in crafting progressive e-Governance strategies, to promote Accountability, Efficiency, Efficacy and Transparency.
4.To source and make available from both the market as well as within government, pool of specialized technically skilled manpower for hardware, software, networks, cyber security and laws, standards, quality and testing etc. in ICT domain to Ministries/Deptts. on charge basis under the Central and State Government.  
5.To promote innovation and evolve models for empowerment of citizens through Digital initiatives and to promote participatory governance and citizen engagement across the government through various platforms including social media. 
6.To establish the National e-Governance Academy and to put in place an institutional mechanism for capacity building of government and its agencies, including assessment and evolution of suitable training packages/modules for capacity building for the Centre and States for Human Capital formation to enhance competitiveness for successful implementation of various projects/schemes in ICT domain to cut on cost and time over run. 
The Board of Media Lab Asia under the chairmanship of Sh. Ravi Shankar Prasad, Hon’ble Minister of Electronics & IT and Law & Justice, has approved on 16th May 2017 the proposal for fully realigning the purpose and objectives in line with Digital India vision. The approval of the Board ensures that the Digital India Corporation with a complete restructuring of its administrative components, will play the role of a leader in e-Governance space and take forward the projects and activities of Digital India and facilitate all stakeholders to realise its goals.

Source:PIBNEWS 
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Saturday, 13 June 2015

23:35

Develop railway stations on Public-Private Partnership model, Suresh Prabhu tells industrialists

Develop railway stations on Public-Private Partnership model, Suresh Prabhu tells industrialists


Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Saturday called upon industrialists to come forward for the development of railway stations on PPP model and assured them of full assistance from his ministry.

Addressing industrialists at the Jodhpur Industries Association hall on the second day of his Jodhpur visit, Prabhu termed the city as commercial hub of the country for its entrepreneurship and availability of minerals, specially lime.

He said these features can play an important role in taking the country to the desired heights in manufacturing sector.

On tourism potential in Rajasthan, Prabhu said the Central and state governments together are forming a company to explore the tourism potential in the state and addressing the rail-related issues in a better way.

"This company will generate funds for strengthening of rail infrastructure, making and implementing new projects and enhancement in the rail and passengers' facilities," he said.

Considering the tourism potential in Rajasthan, a new tourism policy will be drafted soon, which will provide new direction to the tourism industry in the state, Prabhu said.

He also met the erstwhile ruler of Jodhpur Gaj Singh II on Friday to explore the possibilities wherein the Indian Heritage Hotels' Association (IHHA) and the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) would work together for the promotion of tourism.

The discussions were centred around restoring and developing the heritage properties and unused ancient rail lines as a part of a tourist circuit. Singh said that heritage tourism has a huge potential and these properties can be utilised and promoted as added tourism attraction.

 Source :DNA
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Friday, 8 August 2014

07:59

100% FDI in Railways will benefit India in building strong infrastructure backbone: PwC India

100% FDI in Railways will benefit India in building strong infrastructure backbone: PwC India

FDI will help strengthen India’s railway infrastructure at the very crucial hour of global transformation – time to put full stop to undue populism for petty politics by the earlier governments – opines PWC India

New Delhi: “The opening up of FDI in Railways is a positive. It indicates that the Government is moving forward on its plan on developing PPP structures, as was announced in the Budget. Smaller projects like freight-stations and last-mile connectivity would be easier to structure, but would bring in limited funding. Projects like suburban rail and high-speed rail will continue to require significant budgetary funding, and hence structuring PPPs for FDI to supplement the Government funding, can be complex and will take time” said Manish Agarwal, Executive Director, PWC India.

Cabinet had taken the decision to ease the FDI policy in those areas of railways that are not going to affect security and sovereign authority of the sector and the nation. “So, overall the control would be with the Railways, ownership being with the Railways and essential operations being kept with in the Railways. Getting FDI would help in speeding up lots of handicaps which the railways is facing because they are unable to finance that due to nasty policies of earlier governments and therefore it was taken as a conscious decision,” he said.
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