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Every department has adopted e-Governance to create easiness for citizens. Since applications are domain-specific, each department develops its application with the help of the government of private vendors. Since the department works in silos, many times they are forced to collect repeated information. Since applications are designed in different techniques using different standards, it will be difficult to establish a connection between the two.   The government of India has published a list of standards ( https://www.meity.gov.in/content/standards-policies ). Many departments have failed to comply with these standards. As a result, we end up in keep on asking same information repeatedly from an individual in every department, in a different format, at various locations and for different purposes. And also there will be huge pressure on infrastructure to maintain these multiple data, adding additional costs to the government.    Following standards are to be considered while de

      Non-Adoption of Master Data Management India has 662538 villages, 283967 local bodies and 736 districts. Many villages have the same name. Have you ever wondered spelling of your district, city, village, wards, etc., are different in various records given by departments.  Department uses a different naming convention for its administrative purpose. Some use Census code, a few uses Local Government codes and others use their code. Census code changes during each cenus. Data across departments becomes fragmented and duplicated  Due to different codes for the same places, sharing data among programs and across systems is often impossible because of integration issues. This creates a huge roadblock in consolidated reporting. Many times it leads to dispute. Thereby reducing the chances of Improving service delivery, streamlining operations and efficient Decision Making. Since data is stored in various databases, storage infrastructure is also more, which adds a huge cost to the stat

Different Levels of Maturity in e-Governance Applications Now in the era of Digital India, every department has adopted e-governance as mandated by Government. Depending on the driving forces applications have designed and developed. Heads of the department are driving forces for such initiatives. If HOD is tech-savvy, he adds a lot of value addition to the application. If HOD is not tech-savvy, he purely depends on consultants or at the mercy of an application development agency. As the posting of the HOD keeps changing, so the application. Over a while, the different applications will be in different maturity levels.   A typical e-Governance life cycle is as follows  In each of the tasks, there are sub-task as below  e-Governance Strategy Development Needs Assessment Define clear vision & objectives Prioritization of services and projects Incorporate domestic and global learnings Identify institutional structures & capacities for i