Govt to launch national e-governance planÂ

The Government will soon launch the National e-Governance
Plan. Twenty-five projects in mission mode will be launched in 2006-07. Among
them are Project MCA-21, to enable companies to file returns electronically and
a project for setting up of common service centers and assigning unique ID to
BPL families.

The Finance Minister, P Chidambaram while presenting the
Union Budget of 2006-07, announced this. The FM said that the Government's
intention was to bring a number of services online, in a web-based mode,
including applications under the Right to Information Act, applications for
house sites, ration cards, transfers of teachers, inclusion in the electoral
roll, filing of police complaint, and issue of birth/death certificates and
copies of land records.

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