'Data centres set up for e-governance not useful'
Monday, 28 March 2011, 15:17 IST
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Patna: The Bihar government admitted that over 6,000 data centres set up for e-governance across the state were not "too much useful" because of the failure to link them with block offices. Replying to a short-notice question of Durga Prasad Singh (JD-U) in the state Assembly, Information Technology Minister Sahid Ali Khan said over 6,000 'vasudha kendras' were set up in Bihar till date since 2007 which were just catering to recharge of coupons for mobile and train e-ticketing. "These centres are not too much useful...No type of certificates are being issued by these kendras," Khan said. Because of non-linking of data centres and block offices, achievement of the dream of e-governance failed, he said. Khan, however, said the state government through its own resources had formulated projects worth Rs 400 crore for attaining e-governance which would be made possible within next two years.
Source: PTI
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