IT LITERACY IN GOVERNMENT

The Government shall implement an IT Literacy Enhancement Programme for its employees to achieve 100% IT lilteracy in the Government by 2007. IT literacy will have a minimum level of defined proficiency which will include word processing, e-mail, data entry and access etc. Suitable incentive/ disincentives shall be designed to achieve desired level of proficiency for government servants.

SMART CARDS

SMART Cards based citizens ID with multi-functions that enable citizens to interact with services, make payment, act as a Voter ID, obtain ration card, passport, driving license and vehicle registration etc. shall be introduced in association with the private sector by the year 2005.

USE GIS TECHNOLOGY TO LEVERAGE PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT

The State shall use GIS extensively, in integrating, analysing and visualising different types of data for spatial planning, environment protection, utility management, traffic regulation etc., Digitised Base maps of districts of Uttar Pradesh already available with different department like RSACUP, Bhoomi Sudhar Nigam, Land use Board, Agriculture etc shall be consolidated at one location under department of I.T. and Electronics and shall be given to users to be utilised for providing GIS based services. Addition/ Augmentation of digitised base maps shall be made as and when required. Uttar Pradesh Spatial Decision Support System Project (UPSDSS) shall be extended to encompass all the districts.
World class G.I.S. solutions wherever available in the fields of land record management, watershed management, master plan preparation, revenue collection, registration of documents, tourism facility management, agricultural input management, hospital management, State Plan preparation, law and order administration etc., will be procured and applied in State Government departments.

SMART CITIES

Developing NOIDA/ Greater NOIDA and Ghaziabad, Kanpur and Lucknow as Smart Cities by the year 2005, Allahabad, Bareily and Agra by the year 2006. Gorakhpur, Moradabad and Varanasi will be developed into smart cities by the year 2008, rest of the Divisional headquarters by 2010.

INCREASING COMPUTER PENETRATION

Active help of UPDESCO and other suitable agencies like NIC and other public sector corporations will be taken for increasing the use of computers in Government departments.