E-Governance in India: The Progress Status

The book discusses the concepts of E-Governance from the understanding of a naïve user. While providing introduction to the concept, it shows the status of E-Governance in India through various measures, and its progress through different case studies. The historical development of E-Governance around the world and its rise in few developed and developing nations have also been discussed. The book also elaborates the establishment of E-Governance in India in detail and then compares the progress in Indian states through different measures and metrics. The structure of the E-Governance in India has been explained, including the explanation of the details related to National E-Governance Plan. The book is a combination of theoretical and practical concepts defined over various aspects of E-Governance in India. This book serves as the first stage reading material for any individual working in the Indian region on E-Governance.

Sunil K. Muttoo is Professor at Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delhi, India. He received his PhD in Coding Theory and M.Phil. in Mathematics from University of Delhi and M.Tech in Computer Science and Data Processing from IIT Kharagpur, India. His areas of interest include Information Hiding, Coding Theory and E-Governance. He has over 200 publications at national and international forums.

Rajan Gupta is a Research and Analytics Professional and Assistant Professor at University of Delhi, India. He is one of the few Certified Analytics Professionals (CAP - INFORMS, USA) around the world and is also serving as CAP-Ambassador in Asia Region. His area of interest includes E-Governance, Public Information Systems, Multimedia Data processing, Data Mining and Data Analytics. He has over 50 publications at various national and international forums.

Saibal K. Pal is Director - Information Technology and Cyber Security, Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO), Delhi, India. He received his PhD in Computer Science from University of Delhi and is an Invited Faculty & Research Guide at a number of national institutions. His areas of interest are Information & Network Security, Computational Intelligence, Information Systems and Electronic Governance. He has more than 200 publications at reputed national and international forums.