Panchkula prepares for e-governance conference

All the leading information technology players along with 35 states and union territories would particiapte in the National Conference on e-Governance that would be held in Panchkula tomorrow.

The union minister of communication and infornation technology, A Raja, would inaugurate the event and release the e-readiness report.

According to Secretary, Industries and Information Technology, Haryana, PK Chaudhary, the focus areas in the eleventh national conference on e-governance would be agriculture, health and education.

He informed that the plenary session on the interface between farmers' empowerment and information technology would discuss the impact of ICT (information, communication and technology) for the benefit of farming community.

He said that the paricipation from the corporate sector and the academic institutions was arranged at the same platform, to synchronise the changing requirements of both.

The issues pertaining to telemedicine and maintaining of health records electronically would be taken up in the conference.

The national awards for e-governace would also be conferred during the two-day event.

Chaudhary added that Haryana had launched its SWAN (state-wide area network) to empower citizen-centric developement.

He said that the CSCs (community service centres) at village level (to begin with, a cluster of six villages would be covered for each centre) would provide information on crop prices, weather forecast, etc. It would later include more services.