Industrial Visit to Centre for E-Governance
3rd April 2024
ISTE student Chapter, Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurugram organized Industrial visit to “Centre for E-Governance” on 3rd April, 2024. 28 B.Tech CSE & CSIT students along with faculty Dr. Vaishali Dixit visited Centre for E-Governance, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY.)
The goal of the industry visits was to present students with the different e-Governance initiatives undertaken by the Government of India with the help of the National Informatics Centre, CDAC and other organizations, as well as the implementation roadmap for e-governance. Students were shown numerous apps, demonstrations, and presentations from active projects by the Centre for e-Governance (CeG). Additionally, it featured several social sector programmes in the areas of health and education. The CeG aims to consolidate the accomplishments made possible by the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) as part of the “Awareness and Communication” activity of the NeGP.
Mr. Sunil Kumar, Project Manager, CeG, addressed the students and discussed about National e-Governance Plans (NeGP). NeGP takes a holistic view of e-Governance initiatives across the country, integrating them into a collective vision, a shared cause. The ultimate objective of NeGP is to bring public services closer to citizens. He also talked about all mission mode projects (MMPs), which are implemented by Central Government, State government and both. The various projects implemented by Central Government are Banking, Central Excise, Customs, Income Tax (IT), Insurance, Passport, Pension, etc. Various State level projects are Agriculture, Commercial Taxes, e−District, Land Records (NLRMP), Municipalities, e-Panchayats, Road Transport, PDS, Education and Health. Various projects implemented in collaboration with Central Government and State Government are CSC, e-Biz, e-Courts, e-Procurement, and India Portal etc.
A Quiz competition based on Digital India and General Knowledge regarding technological advancements was conducted after the briefing. Deepanshu Shukla bagged the first prize, second prize winner was Nikita and third prize winner was Gargi.
For all the students, the visit was very beneficial and knowledgeable experience. They learnt about the e-Governance initiatives launched by Government of India.