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information on service depts. in bilingual format
CHENNAI NOV. 25. The Tamil Nadu Government has drawn
up a programme to provide Internet information, in a "bilingual
format", on all major service-oriented departments, Vivek
Harinarain, Secretary, Information Technology, said here today.
The Government was confident of disseminating
information bilingually at least by March next. The services of Tamil
Virtual University were being utilised. Mr. Harinarain was addressing an
Indo-UK seminar on `Promise and Potential of e-governance' organised by
the Academy of Management Excellence.
A pilot project was currently under way to issue
web-enabled light motor vehicle licence through Regional Transport
Offices. S. Ganapathy, DGP Training, Police Training College, said that
as part of the curriculum, a basic 7-month course in computer handling
had been imparted to constables. The first such batch of 3,540
computer-trained constables would complete the course on November 30.
John Thornton, Director of e-Government — a UK-based improvement and
development agency — , said one of the major factors for the success
of IT initiatives in the U.K. was "political will" and
citizens' responsiveness to it.
The ACME Director, S. Ramchander, and R.Venugopal,
said the seminar was part of a series of events planned as a partnership
between the ACME, Chennai, a leading management education, training and
consulting organisation and the British Council, U.K.'s international
organisation for educational and cultural relations. |
