E-Governance will bring Good Governance to villages! - 07/02/2007
Jassi Khangura - Congress candidate from essentially a rural constituency Qila Raipur – is categoric that good governance can be brought to the villages only through e-governance.He reminds that for decades the average rural citizen has suffered the system whose imposing structures and hierarchy, officialdom, complicated legalese and cumbersome processes have intimidated him.
The biggest advantage of e-governance from the villagers’ viewpoint is the easy, time efficient and inexpensive access to equitable services. It also reduces the number of avenues available for corruption and selective dispensation thus offering a relatively clean option.
According to him the Congress government has put the state well on the way to a successful implementation of the four thrust areas – IT Infrastructure development, E-Governance development and Re-engineering, HRD and IT Education and Promotion of IT industry, employment and e-business.
In his opinion the rural areas will face the most significant challenge in terms of IT Education and Human Resource Development. Therefore a carefully planned strategy to tap the potential of the rural youth is urgently needed.
Keeping in view the immense value and reach that e-governance can deliver for good governance in rural areas, immediate steps need to be taken to pull all stops from the way to setting up citizen service centres, vocational training institutes especially those dedicated to IT in rural areas. There is also a need to invite participation and investment from one and all.
Jassi highlights that in the current elections, his party has made a sincere attempt to bring development focus and pressing issues of imparting good governance as the central theme of the agenda for elections in Punjab.
If elected, he will make e-governance for rural areas as the backbone of his mechanism of delivering on promises.
