Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin has launched two key e-initiatives to boost interaction between the government and the industrial sector.
The first one is a new web portal christened ‘e-Munnetram’, which provides the status of about 200 major infrastructure projects costing more than Rs 1 lakh crore. The next one is IT Nanban, an interactive platform to engage with the information technology industry.
The ‘e-Munnetram’ portal captures important details like the agreement date, beginning date, cost estimates, project progress on both financial and physical modes on a monthly basis, location data & GIS layers, photographs of the site on a periodic basis.
The e-portal permits heads of departments to update the progress periodically, flag critical issues and causes for delay if any.
IT Nanban enables all companies in the state information technology sector to interact with the government and contribute to policy-making.
The companies can access all the IT policies, GOs as well as tenders issued by the IT department. They can give feedback about the latest policies or issues that they are facing and need to be addressed.
The companies will be notified through email about the latest news and relevant work being done by the government and remain updated on potential business opportunities as well.
The Information Technology department will use the information about the companies in developing the policies and schemes that have the highest impact and coverage.
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IT Nanban portal will become an easy and transparent medium for the IT/ITeS businesses as it allows to directly participate and improve governance that would also increase the ease of doing business in Tamil Nadu.
Keezhadi Software
Mr Stalin has also released two Tamil computing software packages with advanced features which had already been developed by the Tamil Virtual Academy.
The Keezhadi – Tamizhinaiya Keyboard will function with three types of keyboards — Tamil’99 keyboard, Phonetic keyboard and Old Typewriter keyboard.
Tamizhi – Tamizhinaiya Unicode Converter will convert the text, file and folder that are typed in Vanavil and other fonts in doc, docx, Rtf, xls, xlsx, ods ppt and pptx formats. These can be downloaded from www.tamilvu.org at free of cost.
Tamil Nadu Information Technology Minister Mr T Mano Thangaraj, Chief Secretary Mr V Iraianbu, IT Secretary Mr Neeraj Mittal and Director of e-Governance Mr K Vijayendra Pandiyan among others were present on the occasion.
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