Bikash
Choudhury
- In
spite of single window clearances, India still stands at the bottom on
“ease of starting and doing business” and in another dimension if the
efficiency of Govt. sector increase by x%; the competitiveness of Indian
business could be enhanced by 3x-5x%. The logic and the reason is very
simple; even today Indian business post 25-40% of their net profit due to
some dole/concession or advantage provided by Govt. and therefore, Indian
Industry/Business have neither truly focused on Competitiveness nor
Exploration of overseas market. And, therefore we don’t see many Indian
- Former
PM Rajiv Gandhi introduced computers in the country in a big way and
started NIC (National Informatics Centre) to make all Govt. transactions
digital to improve efficiency, substantially. However, currently less than
10% of transaction in Govt. happens through digital medium; which can be
scaled up to 100% in just over 26 months; eight months for Software
Development and eighteen months for the roll out.
- Govt. needs
to hand over the project to a consortium of Indian Software & Hardware
Companies in partnership with NIC. The consortium would develop the
software and provide all the hardware on an arrangement for monthly
payments on number of transactions and number of terminals used for a
period of 15 yrs, though the rates can be revised every five years.
- This
project could create huge demand for highly skilled jobs; demand for
technical education would also improve that would utilize the capacity for
engineering education in the country. The scale and scope of the project
of connecting and networking 10 million Govt. functionaries in Central
& State Govt. would also create huge demand for Idle funds in our
Banking system, Financial services and products in ICT Industry. There are
possibilities of demonstration effect on other related sectors as well; helping
to kick start the Indian Economy little faster.
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