The National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) is an initiative of the

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to make all government services available to the citizens of

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via

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. NeGP was formulated by the Department of

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and

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(DeitY) and Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG). The Government approved the National e-Governance Plan, consisting of 27 "Mission Mode Projects" (MMPs) and 8 components (now 31, 4 new added in 2011 viz Health, Education, PDS & Posts), on 18 May 2006. This is an enabler of

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initiative, and UMANG (Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance) in turn is an enabler of NeGP. "Meta data and data standards" is the official document describing the standards for common metadata as part of

's National e-Governance Plan.

The plan

Background

The 11th report of the Second Administrative Reforms Commission, titled "Promoting e-Governance - The Smart Way Forward", established the government's position that an expansion in

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was necessary in

. The ARC report was submitted to the Government of India on 20 December 2008. The report cited several prior initiatives as sources of inspiration, including references to the

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ONE programme. To pursue this goal, the National e-Governance Plan was formulated by the Department of

(DIT) and Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances (DAR&PG). The program required the development of new applications to allow citizen access to government services through

Common Service Centers Common Service Centres (CSC) (Hindi: जन सेवा केंद्र) are physical facilities for delivering Government of India e-Services to rural and remote locations where availability of computers and Internet was negligible or mos ...

; it aimed to both reduce government costs and improve access to services.

Criticism

Lack of needs analysis, business process reengineering, interoperability across MMPs, and coping with new

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trends (such as mobile interfaces,

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, and

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) were some of the limitations of the initiative.Revisiting NeGP: eBharat2020:The proposed future NeGP 2.0 by CSR Prabhu in CSI Communications Oct 2011 (access date 5 Mar 2012)
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References

External links

National eGovernance WebsiteInformatics An eGovernance publication
from

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Saaransh – A compendium of Mission Mode Projects under NeGP
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The plan

Background

Criticism

See also

References

External links