ELCOT sets up E-governance project

With a view to prevent any malpractice in billing at Public Distribution System (PDS) shops and facilitate effective billing, the state-owned ELCOT has set up an e-governance project, a top official said.    

The project, which has already covered 209 PDS shops, will cover nearly 28,000 PDS shops in the state soon, ELCOT Chairman Santhosh Babu told reporters here today.    

IT Minister Poongothai, who held a review meeting with the IT officials including IT Secretary PWC Davidar and Babu, said the IT parks coming up in Chennai, Coimbatore and Madurai would start functioning by year end, as most of the infrastructure and other works were over.    

She said the economic slowdown had not affected the occupancy in these parks since they were "export-oriented" SEZs. There was no stagnation in recruitment by IT companies in the state, but there was only a "drop" compared to the previous years, he added.    

Surpassing last year's profit of Rs 13.25 crore, ELCOT made a profit of Rs 17.7 crore this year, she said.