E-governance is easy-effective-economic, says Narendra Modi

Ahmedabad on Monday played host to two concurrent conferences on e-governance - International Conference on Governance (ICEG-2011) and the 3rd Regional Knowledge Sharing Summit (KSS-2011).

The two-day event, which is being jointly organised by the state government's department of science and technology in collaboration with Computer Society of India, IIT Delhi, aims to share research findings and explore current e-governance experiments. Being held at the Nirma University, the conference is being attended by leading government officers, professors, students and corporate honchos.

Inaugurating the conference, chief minister Narendra Modi defined e-governance as easy-effective-economic governance with a view to applying technology in everyday life. Modi was also awarded the maiden e-Ratna award for enabling Gujarat on the e-governance front. Modi said that Gujarat has laid an ICT network to redress people's grievances down to the village level. Explaining the details of e-energy projects in Gujarat, he said that villages in the state are connected with three-phase electricity supply under the Jyotigram Yojna.

A plenary session on 'Inclusive growth through egov' was organised post the inauguration which was chaired by R Chandrashekhar, secretary, department of IT, ministry of communication, GoG.