TCS to increase focus on s-governance practices

HYDERABAD: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a global software and consulting

company is going to focus more on developing framework for smart- governance

practices. Aimed at making interactions between the government and citizens

(G2C), government and business segments (G2B) and the inter-governmental

agencies (G2G) friendlier, convenient, transparent and inexpensive. The

s-government practice has developed broad framework and products, which can be

customized to the needs of any government or individual department.






At TCS there are more than 600 people engaged towards developing projects on the
lines of s-governance practices. It has developed a framework, which will

provide services in three broad areas - information services, interactive

services, and payment services. The company has developed various products for

tax administration, motor vehicle registration and licensing and public

distribution systems among others.






The company has been working very closely with the state of AP on various
initiatives and one of the significant projects is www.aponline.gov.in- the

e-governance portal for the government of AP has been developed to offer the

people of AP anytime anywhere services. The portal will act as a direct

interface between the government and people enhancing efficiency and increasing

accountability.






Elaborating on s-governance practice TCS CEO, S Ramadorai said, "The
concept of e-governance is evolving in the country and our s-governance practice

has been going some work on the ground in the field. We have already worked on

projects with the state of West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. We are

in the process of talks with the government of Kashmir and Maharashtra to start

some initiatives in this direction".






"With the state government's plans to increase the Internet access in the
state through the public access mode, the portal is slated to become the common

man's medium to interface with the government. In a similar move we are also

developing and designing a portal for the state of West Bengal. It is going to

be launched sometime next month," informed TCS Head, S- governance

practice, V Chandrashekhar.






As of now TCS has a team of more than 1,100 software professionals located at
its Hyderabad center and over a period of two years it is going to double its

manpower strength at Hyderabad. "Our Hyderabad center is crucial to us

because of the availability of good manpower so we are hoping to increase the

strength to about 2,200 within two years," Chandrashekhar added.