Pain points in e-Governance – 9 : Noncompliance to Data Standards
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