Impact of e-Governance
Improved service delivery: Using ICT for elections, census, computerizing government offices, digi lockers,e-health, e-education, and e-taxation. e-Governance has helped Corporates and other stakeholders to have convenient and secured online access to all services provided by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
Improve industry-business interaction: E-governance accelerates industrial growth processes as it has interlinked several services and is delivering as a common thread between different sectors.
De-bureaucratization: E-governance eliminates the distance between the people and the government in all services and reduces the dependence on the bureaucracy, ultimately tacking the problem of red-tapism.
Reducing corruption: By employing E-governance, Government can track the official’s activity online through streamlined E-Systems which is helping in eliminating corruption.
Linking of Services: Linking of AADHAR with MGNREGA daily wage payments helped to eliminate the bogus beneficiaries which was used to observe earlier, which effects the financial burden on the government. Linking both AADHAR and MGNREGA has helped reducing corruption.
Plug leakages: The e-governance framework has helped the government to plug about $27 billion in leakage by digitally transferring money via DBT (Direct Bank Transfer).
Automation in Administrative Processes: Traditionally administration processes use to have heavy dependance on the paperwork and filing work, but e-Governance systems have eliminated the dependence on traditional approach and rather web based systems have been installed which streamlines the whole process. Also Saharsa became Bihar’s first district to enable e-office .
Difference between e-Government & e-Governance
What is e-Governance: Electronic Governance or E-Governance is the application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for providing government services, interchange of statistics, communication proceedings, and integration of various independent systems and services. Through the means of e-governance, government services are made available to citizens in a suitable, systematic, and transparent mode. The three main groups that can be discriminated against in governance concepts are government, common people, and business groups.
E-governance is the best utilization of information and communication technologies to mutate and upgrade the coherence, productivity, efficacy, transparency, and liability of informational and transnational interchanges within government, between government agencies at different levels, citizens & businesses. It also gives authorization to citizens through access and use of information. Generally, E-governance uses information and communication technologies at various levels of the government and the public sector to enhance governance.
Some notable examples of successful implementation of E-Governance projects that have facilitated the successful synergy with governmental functions include projects like; the e-Mitra project in Rajasthan, the e-Seva project in Andhra Pradesh, CET which is the Common Entrance Test.