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New Products LaunchedPayment Bank to Begin from March 2017
A
week-long celebration of Good Governance Week was organized by Department of
Electronics and Information Technology starting from 25th December 2015. A
National event on Good Governance was inaugurated on 28th December 2015 by Shri
Ravi Shankar Prasad, the Hon’ble Minister of Communications & Information
Technology (MoCIT) in India Habitat Centre at New Delhi. This event involved
active participation from Department of Electronics and Information Technology
(DeitY), Department of Telecommunications (DoT) and Department of Posts (DoP)
and their agencies.
Speaking
on the occasion, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad reiterated the commitment of the
Government towards the successful implementation of ‘Digital India’ which would
help to transform India into a truly digitally empowered society and knowledge
economy in the 21st century. He said the government is aiming at empowering
people of India through digitalization. Millions of citizens have already
joined in this initiative and invited others to do so. He said e-services
should reach more people at the earliest and sought cooperation from State
Governments, industry and acadmecia in the early achievement of this
objective.
Sh.
Ravi Shankar Prasad also announced that India Post would be launching Payment
Banking by March 2017. He said after the successful turn around of BSNL, new
initiatives have been taken for improving performance of MTNL. He also
announced launch of free incoming all over the Country by MTNL from New
Year.
The
event saw the launch / inauguration of new 23 products / eServices.
The
key launches are as follows:
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Department of Telecommunications
Inauguration of Wi-Fi hotspots at Har ki Pauri,
Haridwar and Dargah Sharif, Ajmer.
Announcement of Pan India Free Incoming Roaming
Facility for MTNL Customers.
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Department of Posts
Launch of Post-Terminals (Rural ICT - RICT) – handing
over Post Terminals to rural Post Masters.Click
here to know more
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Department of Electronics and Information Technology
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· Launch of National Centre of
Geo-Informatics
· Launch
of e-Payment Portal
· Launch
of Olabs for Schools
· Launch
of Information Security Education and Awareness (ISEA) Phase-II
· All
India BPO Promotion Scheme
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· North
East Business Process Outsourcing Promotion Scheme
· Transfer
of Technology for “ICT Centre on Tactile Graphics” at IIT Delhi
· Announcement
of Setting up of NIC Data Centre at Bhubaneswar
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The detail on each of 23 new products / eservices is available at the Digital
India Portal (www.digitalindia.gov.in).
The
awards for best performing States/Districts during the Digital India Week event
(1st July – 7th July, 2015) were given to:
State
level – Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh and Meghalaya.
District
level – 77 Districts across 29 States/UTs.
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