About n-Logue and Mr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Professor, IIT Madras

n-Logue and Mr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Professor, IIT Madras,

News is that Mr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala resigned from n-Logue Directorship ?

What is going to happen to all the FRANCHISEES ?

What happened to all the funds that were funded?

What happened to money given by Franchisees ??

Any one knows about this ??

What is the status of n-Logue now ?

Mr. Ashok Jhunjhunwla associated with MSSRF ??

M.S. Swaminathan
Research Foundation
3rd Cross Street, Institutional Area
Taramani, Chennai – 600 113, INDIA
Tel: +91-44-2254 1229, 2254 1698
Fax: +91-44-2254 1319
executivedirector@mssrf.res.in
www.nva-mssrf.org, www.mssrf.org

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Cheating in the name of e-governance. The case of n-logue and Mr.Ashok Jhunjanwalla:

In the name of providing connectivity and internet to the rural masses, the women self help groups of TamilNadu and elsewhere are being deprived of their livelihood by a clever business plan played by Prof.Ashok Jhunjanwalla of IIT, Madras.

This scam is targeted at the subsidy money received by the women self help groups from Government of India. Though the said IIT Professor knows that a 32 kbps outdated wireless system is not good enough for video conferencing, he has been promoting falsehood only to gain income though business.

Mr.Jhunjanwalla is a Director in the company which markets this outdated wireless product. It is to be noted that every district has a District Blindness Control society headed by the respective District Collectors which monitors and supports blindness control.

The entire funding comes from international agencies. Thousands of poor people get 100% financial assistance every year through this exercise.

Whereas Mr.Jhunjanwalla has been promoting falsehood by stating that his outdated wireless system could provide a solution to the blindness of the people through video conferencing (Tele medicine).

What could never be accepted in urban India is being sold to the rural women self help groups using Government contacts/orders with no benefit accruing to the poor women.

The Govt may look into this affair and stop the cheating that goes in the name of e-governance.

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Information Village project of MSSRF, ITC’s e-choupal, Drishtee’s Info Kiosks, n-Logue’s ….. (Dr Ashok Jhunjhunwala,. Faculty IIT, Chennai) …
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`This year 24 Indian cities will deploy CorDECT’

But Mr Ashok Jhunjhunwala, the father of CorDECT Wirelss in Local Loop (WLL), … Recently, the TeNeT Group has participated in the formation of n-Logue, …
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Project floated to provide Net, voice connectivity to villages

… will be formally launched on January 25, said Mr Ashok Jhunjhunwala, professor, IIT Madras. Meanwhile, n-Logue Communications, a company, which has been …
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ARTICLES WRITTEN ABOUT C. UMASHANKAR’s Achievements in eGovernance in Tamilnadu.

ARTICLES WRITTEN ABOUT C. UMASHANKAR’s

Achievements in  eGovernance in Tamilnadu.

An IAS officer who established first e-district in the country in 1999,
Please look into this and question yourself !!

Tiruvarur e-Governance Project – YEAR 1999 – 30 pages in detail.
Transformation of the India’s first e-district by tech. savvy I.A.S. officer Mr. Umashankar.

http://egovindia.wordpress.com/2006/07/19/process-automation-based-e-governance-implementation-in-core-government-functioning-in-tiruvarur-district-of-tamilnadu-india-2/

India E-district :: Process Automation based e-governance implementation

http://egovernance.wordpress.com/2007/01/06/india-e-district-process-automation-based-e-governance-implementation/_________

An IAS officer who established first e-district in the country, possibly the first in Asia. His e-governance made procedures simpler for the public and introduced transparency in the administration.

No entry for professionals

ANIL DHARKER Sunday, Jun 15, 2003

http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mag/2003/06/15/stories/2003061500170200.htm

Is there any merit in the argument that doctors and engineers need not apply for the IAS?

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Umashankar still cooling his heels

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/2001/07/26/stories/04262232.htm

By Radha Venkatesan July 26th, 2001.

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Land record systems revisited - October 2003,

http://www.gisdevelopment.net/magazine/gisdev/2003/october/landsr.shtml

C Umashankar
IAS, Commissioner, Disciplinary
Proceedings Salem, Tamil Nadu, India
umashankarc@yahoo.com

An integrated computerised land administration system is still at dream level all over India. The need of the hour in India is to formulate a scheme to integrate the text based land record data with the graphic (map) data. There are serious issues arising out of the above proposition due to the enormity of the task involved.

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What is e-governance? Why Bangalore One cannot be considered e-governance? By Mr. C. Umashankar IAS

What is e-governance? And why Bangalore one is  not e-governance?

 

Author: C.Umashankar IAS.,

Date: 17-3-05

 

What is e-governance? And why Bangalore one is  not e-governance?

Under e-governance scenario, the Government and its citizens/business houses should be able to transact all their activities or at least majority of activities without meeting each other using Information technology tools such as internet, public kiosks etc.

For example, when a citizen wants to get a ration card, he/she should be able to apply and get the ration card without physically going to the Taluka office. Similarly, when a widow wants to get a widow pension she should be able to get it by applying through the village or block level internet centre.

Or, a farmer wanting to get a land extract / cultivation extract should be able to do it without going to any government official through the internet or public kiosks.

Going to the Government offices and waiting there to get these services should be only an optional one. The citizens should have a choice of going to the internet centres or the government offices to get their works done with the Government.

 

This can be achieved only through the following steps:

1. Government offices should be computerised using online workflow procedure. That means all the paper based registers have to be given up and all government works have to be carried out only through computers.

2. All Government employees working in the areas where e-governance is proposed have to be computer trained and each one should be given user ID and password to operate the system.

3. All these government employees have to be trained in their area of operation in the software.

4. The Government servers should be connected to the internet so that the citizens   and business houses are enabled to access the Government information at any time and also enabled to file all their requests/applications online. The scope for meeting government officials should be reduced to the  extent that only where statutorily  such physical presence is required they  should be asked to meet the government officials.

5. All applications or requests from citizens/business houses should be received only through online procedure using internet as medium.

6. STD booths or similar public kiosks should be authorised to intermediate between the citizens and the government. This includes online remittance facility too.

 

A similar facility should be made available to the business houses too.

Why Bangalore One cannot be considered e-governance?

 

None of the above 6 parameters mentioned above are proposed to be built in Bangalore One.

1. Bangalore one does not offer any e-governance service. It is a mechanism to do collection of various remittances such as BSNL telephone bill, electricity bill, water taxes, property taxes etc. No citizen can file his/her application for any government services online. Bill collection and e-governance are two different areas.
2. Bangalore one does not intend to bring computers to government offices. Nor does it want to bring in online automation in government offices.
3. Bangalore one does not look at Government servants to get involved in the project. It relies only on private partners to do bill collection.
4. Bangalore one does not have any scope to provide service to the poor people.
5. Bangalore one does not have scope to provide service to the rural/urban women self help groups.
6. Bangalore one has nothing for the farmers and people living in rural areas.
7. Bangalore one does not aim at reducing corruption in Government offices.
8. Bangalore one does not envisage empowering the citizens, women or socially oppressed classes such as dalits.
9. A typical e-governance project should free the citizens from the corrupt government officials and make them feel free and empowered. Bangalore one does not have any scope for reducing corruption or empowering women, rural citizens, dalits, farmers and SHGs.
10. The user charges payable to the private company will be on permanent basis. The Government neither owns the bill collection software nor will it ever own it. It is a fraud on the people of Karnataka.
11. Bangalore one is intended to benefit only the private partners and possibly for the officials who have master minded it. There is a distinct possibility that the officials involved in Bangalore one might have agreed to promote it for a  percentage of commission from the Bangalore One revenue. For this commission they seem to claim that Bangalore one is an e-governance project whereas it is not an e-governance project.

 

Bangalore one is a fraud that is being imposed on the people of Karnataka.

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Mr. C. Umashankar IAS as MD of ELCOT achieved..

ELCOT – Electronic Corporation of TamilNadu, … on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_g72GcaIdc

It is great to see how staff have adopted to the new system. It is a commendable job to get them trained and make them accept, given the fact that motivation to do so would have been very low. Kudos to ELCOT and the Leadership to have taken this forward. Hope ELCOT can arrange for a fair or seminar to promote this in other states.

Linux free software for the blind,ELCOT’s efforts News clips

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eqtkJYtWKE

True Vision – Ubuntu Linux and ORCA for visually challenged ELCOT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzLIKxpZV0U&feature=related

ELCOT’s success story of Suse linux migration

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_g72GcaIdc&feature=related

Mr. Umashankar, IAS, MD of ELCOT, Interview on OSS by Hindu Businessline dated 19th Feb 07
http://www.thehindu businessline. com/ew/2007/ 02/19/stories/ 2007021900130400 .htm

Can Tamil Nadu Live Without Microsoft?

http://egovernance.wordpress.com/2007/01/06/can-tamil-nadu-live-without-microsoft/

Tamil Nadu spruces up Tier II cities��

Tamil Nadu spruces up Tier II cities��

To project Maduari, Coimbatore, Tiruchy, Salem, Tirunelveli and Hosur as next IT destinations

Thursday, January 11, 2007

http://www.ciol.com/content/search/showarticle1.asp?artid=93372

HYDERABAD: The Tamil Nadu government is sprucing up its Tier II locations with an intention of pumping in more IT investments to the State.

The State already has commenced the work to set up IT parks in Madurai, Coimbatore, Tiruchy, Salem, Tirunelveli and Hosur.

The onus of promoting these IT parks has been bestowed upon the Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu Limited (ELCOT). The IT parks would eventually be converted into SEZs.

“Tamil Nadu is having a growth of 32 per cent year on year. The growth could be more in the future,” said C Umashankar, managing director, ELCOT.

Software exports from Tamil Nadu for the year 2005-2006 was $3144.4 million.

Tamil Nadu is betting on its highly skilled manpower, continual power supply, proper law and order situation and flight connectivity.

The State has given its nod to increase the power generation to 6000 MW of power for the next three years, said Umashankar at a press conference here today.

He also informed that Tamil Nadu has a surplus power availability of 3000 MW. “We try not to give any power problem to the IT industry. The government provides a dual grid power supply to the industry. Power trigging is zero in Tamil Nadu.”

Umashankar also revealed that the state is looking at more software imports to Japan. ELCOT would soon roll out a Japanese learning course.

© CyberMedia News

Small town boy reboots Microsoft

Small town boy reboots Microsoft

GC Shekhar

Chennai, August 6, 2006

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1761926,0008.htm

He’d wanted to be the next Dhanraj Pillai, but the vista that destiny opened up for A Mahesh led to greener pastures in the world of technology.

The 24-year-old from small town Tamil Nadu has created a software that will add considerable muscle to Vista, Microsoft’s brand new operating system due for launch next year.

In all probability, Vista will incorporate Mahesh’s creation, which is an image browser, image editor, web browser, system tools and disk manager rolled into one.

In fact, Microsoft has already validated and awarded the product BETA2 iBRO.NET a patent protection certificate.

This means anyone may make use of Mahesh’s product using the validation key but would need to pay Microsoft a royalty a part of which would reach this shy lad from Palayamkottai in southern Tamil Nadu.

The first member of his family to reach the post-graduate level, Mahesh developed the BETA2 iBRO.NET as the fifth-year project for his integrated M Sc course in computer science. He chose Vista’s developer platform, where individuals are invited to contribute features for Vista.

“For sheer conceptualisation and acumen, his creation shows enormous scope and maturity. It’s a full fledged tool that would not only remove deficiencies in Vista but add never-seen features in the OS,” explained Dr Krishnan, professor of computer science at Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, who helped fine tune Mahesh’s creation.

For example, why a computer hangs remains a mystery to most. But Mahesh’s product can display the reasons. It can also optimise the download speed of a broadband connection when needed.

Unlike other OS, it can also display properties of all the drives in the computer simultaneously. “Before Vista is launched, I plan to add more features to make my product more comprehensive,” said Mahesh, whose father is a retired peon.

“Such a product would take a team of at least 10 people in a top IT company months to develop. But for a student from a rural background to do all this in just 5 months on his own is amazing,” observed N Chokkan, a columnist on computer.

Mahesh, who will soon join IBM at Bangalore, is unfazed by the recognition and remains grateful to his parents and R Panneerselvam, chairman of his school who waived his fees for the five-year course.

Govt. plans to form 25,000 more SHGs’

Govt. plans to form 25,000 more SHGs’

Staff Reporter

Utilise benefits of welfare schemes, says Minister

 

 

 

ATTUR: Agriculture Minister Veerapandi S. Arumugam called upon the members of self-help groups (SHGs) to take full advantage of the Government schemes to better their quality of life.

Participating at a loan distribution function to the member of the SHGs here on Sunday, the Minister listed out the efforts taken by the Government to promote SHGs in the State and said the Government was very keen on developing the SHGs.

Mr. Arumugam said the Government had planned to form about 25,000 more SHGs to benefit about five lakh women in the State in the current year. It had directed the officials to provide a sum of Rs. 45 per day to a SHG member while attending training programmes.

`Repay loans’

He further said the SHGs should start enterprises with the loan assistance from banks and subsidy from the Government. Asking the SHG members to put in hard work in their enterprises, he stressed that the SHGs should promptly repay the bank loans.

Tracing the history of the emergence of SHGs in the country, Mr. Arumugam said the members should guide the poor and the physically challenged persons in their respective areas to access the welfare schemes. The Minister distributed a sum of Rs. 82.40 lakhs as loans and revolving fund to a total of 206 SHGs. He also gave away welfare assistance, including old age pension to 51 beneficiaries, agriculture inputs to 10 farmers and saplings to three persons in the function. Earlier, he inaugurated an exhibition of products manufactured by the SHGs.

Collector N. Mathivanan, while presiding over the function, said members of the SHGs should remain united and take concerted efforts to improve their socio-economic conditions.

SHG members from Attur, Gengavalli, Talavasal and Pedhanaickanpalayam panchayat unions and Attur town took part in the function. Project Director of District Rural Development Agency Jegannathan welcomed. Senior officials of various departments were present in the function.

CMDA told to introduce e-governance system, Aimed at removing barriers and creating better interface between officials and public

CMDA told to introduce e-governance system

Special Correspondent

http://www.hindu.com/2006/06/22/stories/2006062208830100.htm

Aimed at removing barriers and creating better interface between officials and public

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File status can be tracked on website

Touchscreen kiosk at CMDA headquarters

Minister to monitor the system

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CHENNAI: The Minister in-charge of Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority, Parithi Ilamvazhuthi, on Wednesday directed officials to put in place a more effective e-governance system to infuse transparency and efficiency in service.

Presiding over a high-level review meeting here, the Minister said those who approached the CMDA for planning permission, layout approvals, land use rezoning or other services should be able to know about the status of their files without difficulty or delay.

The proposed e-governance system would remove the barriers and create better interface between the officials and the public, he said.

He wanted the officials to create a system under which every paper submitted would get an acknowledgement carrying a number. Anyone submitting a paper for approval should be able to track its status on the CMDA website. Top CMDA officials should also be able to track the movement of files within the organisation through the wide area network (WAN).

Mr. Ilamvazhuthi would be constantly monitoring the system using the WAN.

All these should also be made available at a touchscreen kiosk at the CMDA headquarters at Egmore. A grievance redress cell would be created for those having difficulty in getting relevant information, he said.

Rules in Tamil

Pointing out that development control rules (DCR), the norms that govern the built-up environment in the metropolis, were compiled only in English, the Minister told the meeting that the rules should also be available in Tamil. When it was pointed out that some technical terms needed accurate translation, he told them that translation could be done by academic experts and completed in a month.

The projects relating to information technology, social welfare and small enterprises would be given priority. The satellite city and Outer Ring Road projects were being reviewed, he said.

Tamil Nadu to launch e-Governance in December’06

Tamil Nadu to launch e-Governance in December’06 06 June 2006

The secretary for Information Technology of Tamil Nadu Government, Chandramouli, spoke to R Jai Krishna of CyberMedia News about the new plans and strategies to make the State IT friendly.  He said in his statement that there is a new Government in place and the government is geared up to make Tamil Nadu for a destination of IT investments. His ministry would like to project Tamil Nadu as IT-friendly State in the coming months by launching e-Governance programme shortly. Regarding the implementation of the project he said Tamil Nadu is already topping the list in terms of e-Readiness. The state is launching e-Governance by December 2006.

Tamil Nadu Government to set up IT task force

Tamil Nadu Government to set up IT task force 13 June 2006

The Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology, India, Mr Dayanidhi Maran, has suggested to the Tamil Nadu government to set up an Information Technology Task Force to address issues related to the IT sector. He stated that there would be a need for more coordination from IT people. Mr Maran said the first phase of the IT corridor between Madhya Kailash and Tidel Park would be ready by August — the corridor extends till Siruseri on the Old Mahabalipuram Road. He said that the delay of the project is due to bad planning.