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Policy
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One
of the first States in the country to announce a separate “IT Policy”
in the year 1997
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All
enabling executive orders (www.tn.gov.in/gorders/it.htm)
to make the policy operational issued.
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“Tamil
Nadu IT Council” chaired by the Chief Minister has been constituted.
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One
of the first States in the country to have a comprehensive policy for
non-exclusive use of the public right of way by organizations in the
private/public sector for laying high bandwidth optic fibre cables
throughout the State (www.tn.gov.in/gorders/it7-e.htm)
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Software companies (including services and training) in
Tamil Nadu are assured of uninterrupted power supply, and exempted from
Pollution Control regulations, Factories Act
and Chapter II of the Tamil Nadu Shops & Establishment Act.
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2002-03 |
6316 |
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2003-04 |
7621 |
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2005-06
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13615
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2006-07
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Tamil in IT
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Coding schemes for Tamil monolingual and bilingual scripts
have been finalized and notified.
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A certification mechanism,
supported by the Tamil software industry has been put in place to certify
compliance of hardware and software offerings with the standards referred
to above.
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So far 26 software and hardware offerings have been
certified which conform to the standards and have been authorized for use
in Tamil Nadu Government and its institutions.
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Government of Tamil Nadu is a member of the international
“Unicode Consortium” (www.unicode.org)
to deal with issues regarding the coding of Tamil characters.
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A “Tamil Software Development Fund”
with a corpus of Rs.5 crores has been set up to encourage the development
of innovative Tamil software – the fund has supported seven projects
till date.
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A “Center for Research and Applications of Tamil in
Internet” has been set up and is supporting research projects in cutting edge areas
of Tamil in IT.
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The three reputed Universities, i.e. Anna University,
Chennai, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Regional Engineering College,
Tiruchirappalli, authorized to set up one Endowment Chair each for Tamil
in IT.
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The “Tamil Virtual University” (www.tamilvu.org)
will promote the learning of Tamil by interested students anywhere in
the world through the Internet. It will also function as a facility
for creating multimedia teaching content in Tamil for both IT enabling
of education and for training of teachers. A certificate programme and
a degree programme has been launched. A digital library has been setup
by Tamil Virtual University (TVU). The TVU is also responsible
for dealing with all technical aspects of Tamil in IT including
interaction with the Unicode Consortium.
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IT in Education
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Computer Science syllabus for Classes 11 and 12 of the State
Higher Secondary Board has been completely revised and updated.
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As a first step to make all our students “digitally
literate”, an innovative public - private partnership program has been
launched to make Computer Science available as an option in all
Government Higher Secondary Schools in the State.
1197 schools in the State producing 40,000 students per year
have been covered. Further, 5 teachers per school per year in
each of these schools including the Principal, are also imparted computer
literacy skills. This program
is fully operational.
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Based on the success of the school program, a one-year
computer literacy program for students in all 60 Government Arts and
Science Colleges, all 11 Medical Colleges, the only Dental College and in
all 5 Law Colleges in the State has been launched. This will
cover about 30,000 students every year. This program will also include
Internet skills. The program is fully operational.
IT
in Government
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A State Government web site,
www.tn.gov.in
has been created to provide information of relevance to the citizens.
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All State level Government tenders in English and
Tamil are included in this web site.
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Orders issued by every Secretariat Department in Government
that are of direct relevance to the public at large are being included in
this site (www.tn.gov.in/gorders/Default.htm).
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The web site has a wealth of documentary and statistical
information about the State. In
addition, it has more than 300 application forms in English and Tamil for
use by citizens (www.tn.gov.in/appforms/).
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A comprehensive database of all
agricultural land records throughout the State has already been
created (Tamil
Nilam : Tamil Nadu Infosystem on Land Administration and
Management).
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Comprehensive guidelines for development of Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) in Government and the public sector have been
issued by the Planning & Development Department (www.tn.gov.in/gorders/pndgo.htm).
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Application software has successfully been developed, tested
and commissioned for the Sub-Registrars offices and District Registrars
offices ( http://www.tnreginet.net
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This system has been made operational in 450 such offices.
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Application software has been developed and tested for the
Regional Transport Offices (RTOs), Zonal RTOs and the Transport
Commissioner’s office. This
has been commissioned in 99 offices so far.
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Application software for Assessment Circles in the
Commercial Taxes
department ( http://www.tnvat.gov.in
)
has been implemented in all the 323 assessment offices.
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A pilot project for Tele-medicine between a State level
tertiary hospital – Govt. General Hospital, Chennai - and a rural
hospital – Walajah Taluk Hospital – has become operational.
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A “Video-Conferencing" facility has been set up
between the State headquarters and all District headquarters using VSAT,
Leased Lines and ISDN
dial-up connectivity.
IT Infrastructure
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Six agencies have already been permitted on a non-exclusive
basis to create high bandwidth optic fibre cable networks that will cover
every single district in the State. These are M/s BPL Broadband,
DishnetDSL, Bharti Telesonic, Macronet Private Ltd. (subsequently renamed
as Reliance Infocomm Ltd.), Estel Communications Pvt. Ltd. and Bharti
Telenet Ltd. This will make Internet access possible in every corner of
the State. Reliance Infocomm, DishnetDSL and Bharti Telesonic are in the
process of physical implementation of their projects.
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Tamil Nadu has the highest rural telephone connectivity in
the country with nearly 86% of all its villages in Tamil Nadu covered.
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Software Technology Parks of India, Chennai
(
http://www.chennai.stpi.in/stpc.html )
has been given financial assistance in the form of interest free loans and
grants to set up international data links at Madurai, Tiruchirappalli,
Tirunelveli and at NSIC/Guindy/Chennai. This is in addition to the STPI
and VSNL facilities already available in Coimbatore.
The facility at NSIC/Chennai has become operational. The facilities
at Madurai, Tiruchirappalli and Tirunelveli have also become operational.
This will facilitate the spread of the IT industry, including software and
IT enabled services and will create employment opportunities in all parts
of the State.
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A pilot project called “Sustainable Access in Rural India
(SARI)” - is being implemented in Madurai District for providing both
telephone and Internet access in every village through “Wireless in
Local Loop (WLL)” technology developed by the Telecom and Network Group
at IIT Madras. This project is sponsored by the MIT Media Lab, Center for
International Development, Harvard University and IIT Madras and is
supported by the Government of Tamil Nadu (www.tenet.res.in)
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A similar project has been launched by IIT Madras in
association with EID Parry group of companies in 271 villages in
Nellikuppam in Cuddalore District.
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“TIDEL Park”, a one million square feet IT park (www.tidelpark.com),
has been inaugurated. All 100% of the available space in TIDEL
already stands marketed.
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A 1000 acre IT park has been developed by the State
Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu (www.sipcot.com)
in Siruseri village, 20 km south of Chennai, for allotment of land to IT
Companies, who wish to build their own campuses. Several IT companies have
already booked land in this facility.
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The 1700 acre Mahindra Industrial Park,
a joint venture of TIDCO, IL&FS and Mahindras, 25 km south on the
Chennai Airport on the National Highway, is also being developed to meet
the need of both IT and logistics industries.
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The “Tamil Nadu Infotech Fund”, a Tamil Nadu specific
venture capital fund jointly promoted by the Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO
– tidco.gov.in ), IL& FS Venture
Corporation and SIDBI, has funded several innovative projects.
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e-Services
Policy
Note 2008-2009
Citizen Charter
IT
Enabled Services (ITES) Policy of Tamil Nadu 2005
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Department Page
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