The State National Informatics Centre (NIC) will soon launch the ‘single sign-on’ (SSO) system for e-services in the State which will provides secure auto-login to all apps.
During an interaction with officials at a review meeting held in Tura yesterday, Deputy Director General of NIC, Meghalaya, Timothy Dkhar informed that the centre will also start the ‘Sandes App’ an instant messaging platform developed by NIC to minimize the costs of e-governance.
Urging the officials to be in tune with e-services, informed that e-billing to the Drawing and Disbursing Officers (DDOs) will soon start in the state and the NIC will implement various applications this year.
At the meeting, Deputy Director General, NIC, New Delhi and NIC State Coordinator of Meghalaya, Rajender Sethi, reviewed the progress and implementation of various e-Governance projects in West Garo Hills where he stressed on the need to address issues and problems relating to e-governance and urged government officials to raise their respective issues pertaining to implementation of e-governance projects and e-district services.
West Garo Hills Deputy Commissioner, Ram Singh highlighted the problems and issues pertaining to implementation of e-governance projects and e-district services and requested the NIC to be more user-friendly.
During the review meeting, DIO, NIC, Tura, Sengre M Sangma, through a power point presentation highlighted the implementation of various e-governance projects and e-services being provided by the NIC to various government departments and others.
In her presentation, she also apprised the visiting officials of the NIC of the lack of man-power, lack of equipments and connectivity issues of NIC, Tura.
During the meeting, the officials of the line departments also interacted with the NIC officials and apprised them of their respective issues and problems.
