EARTH NEWS SERVICE Jammu, Dec 17 |15: A daylong conference on ‘Digital India – Social and Financial Inclusion, Best Practices & E-Start-ups ’was held here today. Minister for Information Technology, Technical Education and Youth Services & Sports, Molvi Imran Raza Ansari was the Chief Guest on the occasion. Minister of State for Information Technology and Finance, Mr. Pawan Kumar Gupta was the Guest of Honour. The conference was organized by RHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry in collaboration with Department of Information Technology and JK Bank. Speaking on the occasion, Molvi Imran Raza Ansari said that coalition Government is committed to provide good governance to citizens of the state. He said e-governance is an effective tool which is improving delivery of services and also helps in curbing menace of corruption and procedural delay from day today administrative working. “The people of the State now want a Digital J&K. Mobile have already made place in rural, pahari and backward areas of the state.” The Minister said ,adding that the objective of Digital India is to take Government from Government offices right into the palms of people. Molvi Ansari said Government is ensuring that in coming years many more services from the Government shall be available to the people through e-governance. He said, “We are also working to create a transparent, accountable, efficient and effective IT enabled service delivery system for our citizens”. Referring to the initiatives and achievements of IT Department, the Minister said that the department has established the servers and secure environment for hosting of Government websites, e-services and data of various government departments.
