Guest Lecture on "eGovernance: Conceptual Framework"

The department of CS & IT witnessed the presence of Mr. Pramod Agrawal Jt. Director(Election Commission) & Technical Director (DOITC&C) on saturday,24th July 2015. He enlightened the students about bureaucracy, Jaipur Development Authority, e-Mitra , e-Sanchar, ITC and DOIT&C.
The standard definition of bureaucracy defines a body of non-elective government officials or an administrative policy-making group and government characterized by specialization of functions, adherence to fixed rules, and a hierarchy of authority.
Further, he explained us about ITC. ITC is the abbreviation of Information Technology and Communication.Information and communications technology (ICT) is often used as an nextended synonym for information technology (IT), but is a more specific term that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and wireless signals), computers as well as necessary enterprise software, middleware, storage, and audio-visual systems, which enable users to access, store, transmit, and manipulate information. The term ICT is also used to refer to the convergence of audio-visual and telephone networks with computer networks through a single cabling or link system. There are large economic incentives (huge cost savings due to elimination of the telephone network) to merge the telephone network with the computer network system using a single unified system of cabling, signal distribution and management.

Mr. Pramod Agrawal has been a part of DOIT&C(Dept. of Information Technology and Communications) for a few years and thus he explained us about how the normal proceedings go there. He also showed us a video on the internal workings of Jaipur Development Authority(JDA).Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) has been committed to working for the benefit of the citizens of Jaipur with planned implementation of development schemes and is consistently striving to take Jaipur at higher levels of progress. Jaipur is one of the most well-planned cities of its times and planned development has always been central to its ideology.
he next topic he spoke about was e-Mitra. They are people who are assigned the job of helping normal people with computer or internet related jobs. They help people in filling forms online or making payments or getting their unique id cards online. Another major development in the e-governance sector is e-Sanchar.e S peech Application through Network fo automated C ommunication Help And Response project integrates mobile / telephony network with I.T. for generating voice calls for timely transfer of information to rural citizens under various beneficiary programs. The project integrates Data Migration, Text To Speech in Hindi and Automatic dialing and play back of pre-defined message to the beneficiary. At last he discussed about the recent projects that have been successfully accomplished by JDA and the goals they want to achieve in the coming years. The sole motive behind the hard work put in by these great men is to set Rajasthan as the most developed state in India.