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| West Bengal gearing-up for
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| One of the major initiatives was the government's policy of not concentrating or limiting the growth due to the lack of infrastructure, but taking it to the tier-2 cities and towns, where the industry would not only be able to find untapped talent but also at affordable cost. E-governance has the potential to bring about multi dimensional changes and the cascading effect will benefit everybody down the line, including industry and citizens.
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The Government of West Bengal has initiated various measures to take the fruits of the information technology to the common man, by establishing Six thousand common service centers, right from the city to the village block level, through the private-public partnership (PPP) model. The Department of Information Technology has identified various services as mission mode projects, apart from certain integrated projects, where the citizen - eNagariks - would be the beneficiary. These include land records, road transport, property registration, agriculture, treasuries, municipalities, gram panchayats, commercial taxes and police departments. Other projects that come under e-governance would be the e-commerce, e-business, common service centers, and setting-up of the EG gateway, e-courts, and e-procurement. The common service centers (CSCs) will serve as a front-end for most of the government services for a nominal fee and would be broadband enabled, thus connecting the rural citizens through the Internet. The project is being implemented on the PPP model and would cost pan India Rs 5,742 crore, of which the Central Government's contribution would be Rs 856 crore. Each State Government will contribute Rs 793 crore. The private partner is expected to invest the remaining amount and the partner will be entrusted with the running of the CSC on a BOOT (Build-own-operate-transfer) model. To achieve all these, the Union Government has initiated the setting-up of State Data Centers as well as Disaster Recovery Centers in all the States for taking the e-governance framework forward. For this the West Bengal Government has already commenced building the State Data Center to be completed by 2010. The State Data Center would be connected to the Common Service Centers (CSCs). The State government has established the State Wide Area Network (SWAN) to connect all the CSCs. eGovernance initiatives are seen as a potential employment generator and a major contributor to the country's GDP. IT industry has been suggesting measures and the State Government is not only taking it in a positive note but also implementing it.
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