Govt to launch national e-governance plan

NEW DELHI: The Government will soon launch the National e-Governance Plan.

Twenty-five projects in mission mode will be launched in 2006-07. Among them is Project MCA-21, to enable companies to file returns electronically and a project for setting up of common service centres and assigning unique ID to BPL families.

This was announced by the Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram while presenting the Union Budget of 2006-07 here today.

The Finance Minister said that the Government's intention was to bring a number of services online, in a web-based mode, including applications under the Right to Information Act, applications for house sites, ration cards, transfers of teachers, inclusion in the electoral roll, filing of police complaint, and issue of birth/death certificates and copies of land records.