IT in India's public sector

IT costs

How much does the Indian government spend on IT?

The Indian government will spend 368 billion rupees (about $6.95 billion) on IT products and services in 2013, up 10.5% from 2012 when 333 billion rupees (about $6.28 billion) were spent^[1] reported]. This amount includes the costs of government organizations for internal IT systems, including equipment, software, external IT services and telecommunications services.

The largest expense will be telecommunications, which includes both direct communication services and network equipment. Here, costs will increase by 6.8% in 2013 and reach 118 billion rupees (about $2.23 billion) compared to 111 billion rupees (about $2.01 billion) in 2011.

The maximum growth rate of government spending is expected in the software segment - by 18% in 2013, most of the funds will come from software for desktops and infrastructure systems.

India's IT industry will benefit indirectly from major government projects, including the creation of the country's resident biometric database (Unique Identification Authority of India - ^[2]/), as well as the creation of the National Optical Fibre Network and the computerization of tax authorities in individual states.

Indian UID is in some way an analogue of the Russian UEC: citizens of the country will receive an individual card with a biometric carrier of information, with the help of which they will have access to social benefits, will be able to pay for travel in railway transport. Mobile access is also provided

According to Anurag Gupta, research director of Gartner, the UID citizen identification system will soon begin to be used for authentication when receiving social benefits directly from banking organizations, which will reform the social benefits system.

The Government of India, on the verge of national elections in 2014, will expand the operating infrastructure of UID by developing a network of mini-ATMs, increasing the financial involvement of the population in the operation of the new system.

In addition, the Government of India is investing heavily in the development of broadband Internet access. Also significant initiatives are the creation of electronic chips, digitalization of academic databases throughout the country, registration of vehicles, issuance of driver's licenses, and so on.

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Major projects

2009: E-Government Service Centers

Electronic Public Services Service Center Structure in India

As of July 2009, 96.3 thousand e-government service centers (CSC) were created in India, of which 22 thousand were connected to broadband networks.

CSC Development Map in India for 2009

2010: NeGP Program

NeGP (National e-Governance Plan) is the Government of India's plan to develop electronic public services for the country's population. The implementation of the plan is overseen by the Information Technology Department of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of the Government of India.

NeGP is also monitored and coordinated by the National e-Governance Advisory Group, which met for the first time on 12 November 2010. The group is led by India's Minister of Communications and Information Technology.

The plan includes the development of the infrastructure for the provision of e-government services (National/State Service Delivery Gateway (NSDG/SSDG), access infrastructure Internet in (State Wide Area Networks), (statedata centers State Data Centers - SDC), as well as public service centers (Common Services Centers - CSC), as well as relevant forms of service delivery (eForms).

India e-government infrastructure consists of National eGovernment Intranet (NICNET, ERNET and other providers), National eGovernment Data Center (State Data Centers,), and Security Infrastructure (PKI etc.), Resource Centers for eGovernment Resource National, Center Infrastructure

Key NeGP Initiatives

NeGP consists of 27 key sub-projects (Mission Mode Projects - MMPs), of which 10 are central, 10 state, and 7 more integration, including the National Portal of India. The plan was approved on 18 May 2006 by the Government of India.

The exchange of knowledge within the program is carried out within the framework of the eGov Knowledge eXchange portal, launched by the non-profit organization NISG. Within the framework of the portal, experience is exchanged about the implemented projects and joint work on errors.

2015

Indian e-government is being built on open source software

On March 30, 2015, it became known that the Indian authorities intend to use open source software in electronic government. Also, the introduction of proprietary software for solving specific problems is not excluded.

According to a policy document released at the end of March 2015, free and open source software should be considered a priority for all new electronic government projects implemented by federal and state authorities in India. Those IT systems that run on the basis of "closed" software will have to switch to Open Source.

India opts for Open Source for e-government economically

Federal and state bodies are prescribed preferences for open source software in public procurement. If you want to use other products, government customers will have to explain why they chose these solutions.

The implementation of the e-government project is taking place within the framework of the large-scale state program Digital India, following which it is planned to make public services available to all citizens in the country, while minimizing interaction between the state and members of society, as well as making the most of information technologies. The authorities are striving to expand the service as soon as possible, but in view of the limited budget, doing this without the use of open solutions would be problematic.

Another factor that prompted the government to switch to Open Source is the desire to exercise "strategic control" over its electronic management programs in the long term, said online publication PCWorld.^[3]

However, not all means of providing public services to citizens and businesses will be built on open products. Exceptions are provided in areas where, from a functional point of view, it is impossible to use open source software or there is not enough experience to implement such solutions. In addition, preferences for Open Source can be removed in cases where we are talking about urgent and strategically important projects. For these purposes, commercial software created by Indian developers can be used.

Digital India

In 2014, less than 20% of India's population of about 1.2 billion people used the Internet. The main barrier to Internet access is cost. In this regard, in July 2015, the Indian government launched the national program "Digital India." It is designed to ensure electronic access of the population to public services by developing the Internet and improving the communication infrastructure. Implementing a plan to connect rural areas to high-speed networks and improve digital literacy is among the top priorities of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. ^[4]

The Digital India program provides for the creation of broadband highways, which by December 2016 will cover 250,000 local administrations and will allow delivering electronic services to the most remote corners of the country. The government also pays great attention to the development of mobile communications: by 2018, mobile technologies should become available to residents of more than 40 thousand villages.

Incentives for India's new billion consumers:

• broadband in every home;
• Rapid adoption of mobile technologies
• public services;
• young workforce;
• application economics;
• social media;
• training and education;
• digital entertainment.

The digital economy and digital identification personalities will help make economic activities more transparent and open up new opportunities in areas such as:

• public infrastructure;
• "smart" cities;
• e-government and public services;
• national broadband;
• digitalization of cable networks;
• mobile technologies (4G/LTE);
• expansion of Level 3 operators in cities and towns;
• Public safety and the Internet of Things;
• Deploying Wi-Fi networks to schools.

The government program "Digital India" provides for the provision of infrastructure as a communal service, which will significantly expand the digital capabilities of the country's residents. According to industry experts, by 2020, more than 140 million Indians who do not use banks today will have access to mobile financial services, and 75 million children will be able to use online education.

When Digital India becomes a reality, the country will have a billion consumers, which will serve as an incentive for unprecedented technological, social and economic change. The new digital infrastructure will give the population the opportunity to join the digital world, create a society with minimal digital barriers and give a powerful impetus to the development of entrepreneurship, innovation and creative ingenuity. The proliferation of infocommunication technologies in India not only promotes education and business, but also opens the way for an open, electronic government. In other words, technology and communications will help the government become more transparent and controlled. The plan developed in India for the creation of e-government provides for the provision of all public services to citizens in electronic form.

2017

Email service for 5 million government employees

electronic engineers information technology India ^[5] million in the summer^[6] 2017 about the program of dramatic expansion and transformation of a single government email service. At the moment, its user base is 1.6 million people. It is supposed to be brought to 5 million, covering all employees of the structures of both the central government of the country and the governments of the Indian states. At the first stage of the program, each government employee will receive the email address @ gov.in.

The next stage of the program will be the creation of an internationalized government email service, under which each employee will receive the address @ सरकार.भारत ("Government of India" in Hindi). However, stimulating the use of internationalized addresses and domains is indicated by the secondary task of the program. The first was called strengthening the security of government data, as well as increasing the productivity and efficiency of government agencies.

2022: Hackers attack Indian civil servants with paid Google ads

On November 4, 2022, it became known that the Transparent Tribe cyber group was associated with a new campaign aimed at Indian government organizations. Hackers distributed Trojan versions ON for two-factor authentications Kavach. More. here

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See also

Overview of IT in the regions of Russia 2015

• Russia in IT ratings
• Information Society and Co-Financing of Regions
• E-Government of Russia
• Digitalization of the regions of Russia
• Statistics on the use of ICT in the Russian public sector
• Electronic public services in the regions of Russia
• Interdepartmental Electronic Interaction System (MEA)
• Development of SMEV in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation
• Universal Electronic Card (UEC)
• UEC in the regions of Russia
• Digitalization of healthcare in Russia
• IT in the education of the Russian Federation
• Concept of MPSC
• Informatization MPSC My documents
• Audit of MPSC compliance with IT recommendations
• MPSC. International experience
• Chief information officer of Russian Regions
• Base analysis Chief information officers Russian regions 2014
• IT in the public sector (global market)
• IT in the US public sector
• IT in the EU public sector
• IT in the UK public sector
• India IT Market

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