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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 ...

  Resource Hopping Government, while implementing various e-Governance project, hire man power from market on contractual basis in various capacity to fill up various technical skill gaps. Most of the times their salary/package is on par with the market. Unlike private sector, hiring process in government has long approval cycle and  bench is not allowed. By the time interview is scheduled 1/5th of the candidates refuse to attend interview, siting long gap from application to interview. And in the interview, many candidate’s skill set never matches to their attractive 'CV’. We hire them for particular period, which most of the candidates are not willing. With all these pain, once appointment letter is issued to the candidate, three in ten refuses to join quoting wonderful reasons like, I need gym, office is not good, I can’t travel, I can’t work on Saturday, I need canteen, I can’t work after 5m, etc., etc. Later in many instances we have come to know that, these candi...