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1 The nodal point and the prime mover for propelling IT
growth and implementation of plan of action would be a
registered society promoted by the Government- "Madhya
Pradesh Agency for Promotion of Information Technology"
("MAP_IT"). The Agency's high powered governing body would
be headed by the Chief Minister and would include the
Ministers of Industry, Higher Education, School Education,
Chief Secretary of the State Government, distinguished
representatives from the IT industry, NIC, Science and
Technology institutions, social sectors. The Chief Executive
Officer of MAP_IT world
be an IT professional of repute and would hold the rank of
ex-officio Secretary to the State Government.
The objectives of MAP_IT would be the following :
- To propel the growth of Information Technology (IT) in
Madhya Pradesh and implementation of the State IT Action
Plan for socio- economic development of the state.
- To coordinate with all the Government Departments/agencies
for sectoral and cross-sectoral promotion and use of IT in
Government and prescribe guidelines to enable smooth and
widespread induction of IT.
- Coordinate and Network with investors and Industry, Trade
organizations and financial institutions in public and
private sector to promote growth in IT sector.
- To generate awareness amongst citizens and demystification
of IT so as to promote its use as a comprehensive and cost
effective means of disseminating information.
- Coordinate manpower needs and human resource development
efforts for the above objectives.
- Coordinate and pursue development of all support
infrastructure including telecom infrastructure in the State
with the State Government and the Govt. of India and their
agencies.
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- Identifying and developing opportunities for furthering
innovative research of world standard on its own or in
collaboration with one or more institutions and/or industry.
2. Hindi is the medium of communication among governments and
the population over the largest landmass of India. All the
web pages of Government departments would also be in Hindi
to increase their reach. The use of Hindi would also be
promoted in all IT based databases and applications.
Further, necessary action would be taken towards the
following:
- To make Hindi E-mail as an important medium of
communication between departments and field level offices.
- To ensure that in all public purchases of
hardware/software, the systems being procured would have
bilingual capabilities e.g. all keyboards would be bilingual
facilitating.
- Partnering the Hindi language news papers and other media
organizations based in the state for popularization,
dissemination as well as access to Hindi formats.
- Collaboration with the other Hindi speaking states such as
U.P., Bihar, Rajasthan, Delhi and H.P. for a joint programme
of promoting Hindis presence on the internet by uploading
and enhancing Hindi resources. Easy availability of
standardized fonts would be part of this exercise.
- Collaboration with C-DAC for the setting up of an
institute and research center of world standing for
addressing problems relating to use of IT in Hindi computing
in these languages, promotion of software applications in
the vernacular, etc.
3. IT can not grow in isolation to the general pace and
status of economic development of the State and so the IT
policy will be dovetailed, giving it the pride of place in
the Industrial Policy of the State. Commercial tax
administration would provide opportunities for such
incentives by accepting computerized tax returns,
encouragement to computerized billing, bar coding of
inventory etc.
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4 The State Government would move the Government of India to
permit International Private Operators to create an
international gateway hub each at Bhopal and Indore.
5 Sub-block level connectivity to the villages / Village
Panchayats is a must for the introduction of IT for the
social sectors including rural development. The Govt. would
enter into MOUs with private entrepreneurs to establish
Information kiosks and Community Facilitation centres in the
rural areas.
6 The State electricity board (MPEB) would actively examine
whether it can leverage the right of way its vast supply
network by partnering with suitable private national or
international communications companies with capital and
technology in return for such right of way for connectivity.
7 Indore, Gwalior, Jabalpur and Bhopal would be developed as
IT cities. The required land will be identified and the
norms for the allotment of the land so identified would be
made to attract investments in the IT industry.
8 Content industry and remote services will be pro-actively
and vigorously promoted in the State to position M.P. as a
lead State, in the country, in this area as well as,
generate large employment opportunities in IT and IT enabled
services sector.
9 Venture Capital availability would be given special focus
by inviting FIs to be an integral part of States IT vision.
The M.P. Industrial Development Corporation or the MPFC
would work out a detailed proposal for dedicated venture
capital fund for IT.
10 MPSIDC and MPFC would formulate a special package for
providing financial assistance to the IT industry.
11 Hardware technology parks for manufacturing units in
computers, telecommunication equipment, entertainment
electronics and related ancillaries would be promoted and
established at Pithampur, Mandideep and Malanpur and other
industrial growth centres.
12 The existing schemes of self employment generation such
as the IRDP, TRYSEM, PMRY etc. would be utilized to provide
assistance to youth for setting up of Information Kiosks or
soochana gumtis to provide email, internet and other value
added services. The State has over 28000 STD PCOs at
present. A phased strategy to upgrade
these into information kiosks would be worked out in
consultation with basic service providers, banks and
industry department.
13 State Government would facilitate a single window
clearance system and a universal over-riding permission that
gives the right to enterprises to carry on with activities
with out barriers of any kind. Residential premises would be
allowed to setup IT units, particularly related to content
industry and remote services.
14 IT industries requiring electrical power upto 15 KVA
could be established without any locational restrictions.
Necessary amendment would also be made in Pollution Control
Act and the rules therein.
15 Procedures in respect of some of the existing regulatory
legislation relating to labour, factories, shops and
establishments for the IT related units would be
rationalized.
16 Leasing would be incorporated as a preferred option in
out- sourcing policies for items of high obsolescence.
Amendments to Store Purchase Rules would be worked out.
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17 IT Sub-plans: The annual plan of each department/sector
in Government would have a detailed sub-plan for IT. Every
department would be required to establish IT working group
consisting of senior officers and representative of
employees, a representative from MAP_IT, and also co-opting
IT professionals on voluntary or contractual basis from
other departments or agencies. There would be a nodal
officer or executive for IT related matters in every
department.
18 Budgetary outlay: A distinct budgetary head of account
for IT related activities would be introduced in the annual
budget from this fiscal year.
19 The State Government would impress upon the XI Central
Finance Commission of the need to modernize administration
at the level of State Government as well as at the level of
the PRIs. Additionally, modernization and computerization of
systems in the Panchayats, would be included in the list of
priorities for grants given as per the recommendations of
the State Finance Commission.
20 The financial resources for computer penetration for Gram
Panchayats presently numbering 31,126 would be met out of
the grants- in- aid for basic services, and/ or by financing
one educated unemployed Youth/Panchayat Karmi at each Gram
Panchayat HQ to own/operate a computer unit for various
value added services including information retailing through
kiosks.
21 An action plan would be prepared to ensure that all
offices of the district Government including those at the
sub-district levels are computerized and networked by the
year 200 In particular, the tehsil offices dealing with land
records, revenue legislation, land acquisition information,
collection and allocation of land revenue and cess to
Panchayats, payments of compensation, planning an execution
and expenditure on relief operations, information on listing
of revenue
court cases, monitoring of progress in disposal of revenue
case work etc. would be taken up for computerization by year
200 Offices such as those of the district governments and
the PRIs should be in a position to enable single window
facilitation after computerization.
22 Email facility would be extended to all employees to
encourage greater use of email facility for communication.
23 The mantra for introduction of IT in Government
departments would be Zero additional personnel costs, except
costs on training and re-tooling of the serving employees..
The present pace of training would be stepped up to match
computer penetration goals.
24 A special scheme of incentives would be introduced to
motivate all Government employees to become computer
literate. To do so in the shortest possible time frame,
there would be a strategy of contracting with public and
private sector training institutes for specially designed
short-term courses for different groups of users.
25 All hardware supplies would be contracted with a
compulsory clause on familiarization of employees in the
operations. All bulk procurement of generic software as well
as contracts on specialized application software development
would be out-sourced on similar conditionalities for
training.
26 Proposal to tie up with banks for hire purchase schemes
for the employees and provide interest-subsidy for purchase
of computers for personal use by employees would be worked
out.
27 All departments will move towards electronic
communication within the department. Necessary changes in
the office manuals would be worked out for this purpose.
28 Networks : Every department would establish a LAN by the
year 200 The District Government offices, the Collectorate
and the Zila Panchayats as well as all other large offices
would also establish respective intra-office networks.
29 The state unit of NIC provides a wide range of IT
services in Madhya Pradesh. The NICNET facility has enabled
networking with the districts and creation of many
information systems and databases in various
departments/sectors. These systems/databases would be
up scaled and/or augmented and made on-line seamlessly.
Detailed plans would be prepared especially in respect of
the following.
(i) The Agriculture Market Information System on commodity
arrivals and price movements in the major mandies
(ii) The Treasury Accounting Information System
(iii) The Commercial Taxes Information System
(iv) The databases under the DISNIC-PLAN, Village
Information System and Gram Sampark Abhiyan.
(v) The Transport Management System.
The schedule for implementation of IT based systems in
Government departments would be in phases.
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30 Role of NGOs: NGOs and non-government organizations would
be encouraged to establish Janpad (block) level centers
samadhan kendras for providing Hardware /Software or other
support services.. NGOs volunteering to establish such
centres would be encouraged to tie up with the mini ITIs,
rural polytechnics and ITIs for man power
and skill development under TRYSEM and other schemes .
31 Awareness campaign : Using both formal and non formal
channels, the State would disseminate information about the
applications, advantages to communities of the use of IT .
32 For the widest possible involvement of people and
communities in IT, benefits of computers and communication
resources to be provided at the village Panchayat and
sub-block or cluster levels must be utilised for rural
development activities, agricultural and horticultural
extension for farmers, career guidance for youth, technology
guidance for rural enterprises, micro level planning etc.
Communities and user groups or beneficiaries would be
actively encouraged to participate, in all such activities,
including in designing reporting formats and in deciding on
control systems or entering data as it is an important way
of demystifying the use of IT by and through communities.
33 All existing web sites relating to both Government and
non- government agencies of Madhya Pradesh would be linked
on a reciprocal basis.
34 The present public grievances redressal system of the
State Government would be upgraded to facilitate access to
citizens through any of the kiosks, Samadhan Kendras, public
facilitation centers or Government offices. It would be made
email based & strengthened to facilitate monitoring and
on-line responses.
35 The wired villages concept would be replicated with a
pilot in each district.
36 The State Government would stake its share of the claim
in the various schemes, which form part of the
recommendations of the National Task Force. Preparations for
drawing up suitable proposals in order to leverage
assistance as soon as GOI formally announces or launches
these would be started straight away by the corresponding
departments of the State Government.
37 The district Sainik Welfare Boards would list ex-service
personnel with background in communications and computers.
The services of IT hardware specialists from the Defence
Forces can be beneficially exploited by local
hardware/ancillary industry. Financial arrangements and
schemes would be proposed in collaboration with the Defence
Ministry, Banks/FIs for retired Defence personnel for
setting up IT training/services enterprises and IT kiosks.
The services
of retired IT qualified Defence personnel would be utilized
at school level for creating IT awareness in the
villages/districts.
38 Creation of Intranet: Creation of Intranet among
institutions in each social sub sector would qualitatively
improve the
services/training being provided by institutions with
resource and faculty constraints. To begin with, all medical
colleges in the State would be linked for leveraging each
others faculty strengths. Similarly, Tele or remote
referral consultancy through linkages with medical colleges
would be used to virtually upgrade the referral facilities
at sub-district and district hospitals. The medical colleges
would in turn tap institutions of excellence out side the
state for consultations.
39 UGC is sponsoring the INFLIBNET which seeks to network
all 176 Universities in the country. This would spur the use
of Internet and Intranet resources by not only the campuses
but even those local area networks that the University is
able to create. Madhya Pradesh would take advantage of the
INFLIBNET by promoting and developing
LANs for every University in the State by working out a
detailed strategy. Creation of virtual libraries in colleges
would also be a priority.
40 Creation of a Citizen Database: A unique social security
ID number would be introduced for those availing various
benefits such as social assistance, social security pension
etc. The BPL household survey, survey conducted for
electoral photo identity cards, etc. would form the database
for such an exercise to improve delivery of services
and eliminate leakage.
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41 Training for Government Employees: Training efforts,
which are at present confined to largely the NIC initiative,
would be multiplied. The existing Training institutions for
the training of employees of the various departments as well
as the State Academy of Administration would be upgraded to
meet the requirements. Training tie up with private
institutes using a common modular training package would
also be used for re-tooling of employees.
42 Employees engaged in course studies in IT through
distance education or other certification programmes would
be allowed to use office computers after work hours.
Recognition of computer time thus spent would be given due
credit by the institutions awarding certificates.
43 Computer penetration in all the high schools in the next
three years would be an effective way of spreading IT usage.
All PRIs and urban local bodies would get at least one
teacher or shiksha karmi in each high school, under their
control, trained in IT usage or familiarity.
44 The National Task Force has recommended suitable floor
space in Government buildings, which are not utilised during
non-office hours, could be given to private educational
institutions for IT training purpose in return for a
proportionate number of free nomnations of Government
employees for IT training. This concept would be extended to
permit commercial utilisation of schools/college/educational
institutions after academic hours in return for free
training of teachers, staff and students. Transparent norms
to facilitate this arrangement would be evolved.
45 Familiarization of PRI functionaries with benefits of IT
uses would expedite introduction of IT based practices in
these institutions. To begin with, Zila Panchayats and
Janpad Panchayats would be introduced to IT during the
training programs to be conducted for the newly elected
members in September 1999.
46 To meet the manpower needs of the State in IT, private
sector training institutions, and distance education format
would also be encouraged along with other Government
supported institutions.
47 The courses of study in the ITIs and polytechnics would
be upgraded and the training of teachers of these
institutions would be taken up simultaneously where
required.
48 Action would be initiated for capacity enhancement of
institutions imparting IT education in the State.
49 The State would gear for leveraging its share of benefits
from the GOIs decision to make computers and internet
access available to schools, polytechnics and colleges by
the year 200 Proposals would be prepared for accepting these
benefits in a phased manner each year.
50 The National Task Force has suggested setting up of
IIITs. The State would propose to the Government of India
setting up of at least one of the proposed IIITs in Madhya
Pradesh fully funded by the Centre and in addition, promote
private investment for setting up institutions of excellence
in IT at par with IIITs by land grants.
51 The Universities in the State would look at how IT course
modules can be introduced in the existing degree programmes
so that every student is exposed to concepts and rudiments
of applications in his or her own area of study.
52 The State would set-up a Virtual University as an
enhancement of Open University model and also a Virtual
School as an another dimension to the M.P. Open School.
53 For Demystification of IT and computers, the State
Council of Education Research and Training would develop and
include course material of an elementary nature to arouse
curiosity and satisfy young minds at the primary school
level
54 Madhya Pradesh would aim at creating computer awareness
among its masses of a magnitude far higher and not yet
achieved or aimed by any other State. It would be universal
in character. Only then can people benefit from the IT
policy and drive up demand for IT in the State as also throw
up the trained manpower. In the ultimate analysis people
must feel comfortable in using technology.
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