क्योंकि दूरियों का मतलब फासले नहीं होता

The present society is knowledge society. What actually differentiates between present society from the traditional society is accessibility to information and knowledge for anyone who wants to have it, or who has the resources, irrespective of his societal position, rather than keeping the information only in the hands of a few only, and that of only privileged and sophisticated class of the society. Social taboos don't deprive anyone of learning. Definitely, ICT has been the biggest enabler for such a transformation of society.

eGovernance is an speaking execution of government desire to ensure citizen empowerment, timely and cost-effective delivery of citizen services, public participation in governance reducing the distance between the government and governed, having ICT at its core. Through this, the government wants to proclaim loudly - क्योंकि दूरियों का मतलब फासले नहीं होता.

eGovernance is a means to achieve good governance. Needless to say that freedom of information and effortless accessibility to citizen services are the core issues for enjoining citizens' faith in governance cutting across the centuries old barriers between the government and governed. It is step towards paving the way for trust the government bestows upon the citizens. It is a whole-hearted effort for ridding the citizen of the fear of 'being governed' he has had in his heart since long and with which he has been accultured right from his childhood.

With this objective in mind, the immense potential of ICT cannot be undermined to seek solution for achieving eGovernance. Let us not forget the Moore's Law in connection with the advancement of technologies of Information and Communication. In 1965, Gordon Moore predicted that the capacity of a computer chip would double every year. With the revolutionary growth of ICT seen everywhere, both vertically and horizontally, cutting across all boundaries of cast, creed, religion, land etc, it is hoped that service delivery mechanism will also gain momentum, resulting in more quality element interwoven in it coupled with association of more and more masses of common citizen. It will impact various other core issues of eGovernance too, and activities on such issues would get further ameliorated with a one to one harmonious relation with technology improvement. Once the information highway is further macadamized, more and more services with tremendous speed of data transfer would stand delivered at the door, i.e. at the PC of a common citizen.