Jharkhand moves ahead on road to e-governance
The Financial Express, April 12, 2006

In a major initiative towards e-governance, the Jharkhand government on Tuesday embarked on a public-private venture to computerise all the 29 registration offices in the state.

The tripartite agreement of the department of registration, department of information and technology and CMC Limited was signed in the presence of chief minister Arjun Munda.

Registration secretary K Vidyasagar, IT secretary RS Sharma, and CMC vice-president Sibal Ghosh signed the tripartite agreement at the chief minister's residence here.

Claiming, that it was a major step towards efforts for good governance, Mr Munda said health, employment exchange, treasury and municipalities were other areas where e-governance would be extended to enable transparency.

Registration and IT minister Chandra Prakash Choudhury hoped the landmark agreement would reduce land disputes.

As per the agreement, the private service provider would prepare the site, install computers and man counters in all registration offices under the supervision of the sub-registrar concerned.