| Government of Jharkhand is committed to provide Simple, Moral, Accountable, Responsive and Transparent (SMART) governance to its citizens. The State believes that every citizen has a right to information pertaining to his own welfare needs and opportunities, to understand the process of governance and to know the rationale behind the decisions, which the State Government takes. He also deserves a quick and effective delivery if citizen services. Information Technology has changed the way we live and do business, The state Government of Jharkhand recognizes the power and potential of these technologies on the lives of the people. We believe that the development in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can be effectively leveraged to deliver a variety of information and services to the citizens effectively and efficiently. Accordingly, the Government has drawn up an ambitious plan to use the power of Information Technology (IT) to effectively deliver information and services to its citizens. Computerization of various departments, which the Government has taken up recently, aims at achieving this objective of effective and quick delivery of information and services to the citizens. What follows is a brief description of some of the initiatives, which the Government has taken in the area of e-Governance.
Goals of E-Governance :
The introduction of e-Governance offers a number of obvious advantages, which are common to all e-governance applications. From the citizen point of view:
- It empowers the citizen by providing him the information, allowing him to participate in the debates and exchange of views and opinion by consulting him.
- The citizen is represented in the Government.
- It engages a citizen towards establishing a healthy relationship between him and the Government and he is represented in the Government and feels a part of the decision making process.
- It almost always brings transparency in the Government process which results in improved public image and credibility to the Government.
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