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Inspector General of Police Sandeep M Tamgadge (centre-left), Director of Nielit Lanuwabang (centre-right), and other officials with the trainees, during the inaugural programme on capacity building in Information Technology and digital services for government officers at the National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology’s auditorium on March 20 in Kohima.[/caption]
Dimapur, March 20 (EMN): An inaugural training programme on capacity building in Information Technology (IT) and digital services including digital payments and Goods and Services Tax (GST) for Nagaland government officers was conducted at the National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology’s (Nielit) auditorium on March 20 in Kohima.
According to updates from DIPR, the programme was sponsored by the Ministry of Development of North East Region (Doner) and implemented by Nielit. Inspector General of Police Sandeep M Tamgadge was the chief guest of the programme.
In his speech, he compared IT ten years back with the present day by mentioning about its importance through examples of recharging s Direct-to-Home (DTH) television, booking for restaurants etc. He said, “IT has changed so drastically in the last ten years, now I don’t actually need to have any physical memory since my smart phone is good enough to practically remember everything”.
Explaining the purpose of the training, Tamgadge stated that public, government, and professional life are all concerned with IT and that it has taken control of our lives. He also asserted that, ‘five years down the line we are going to have a system of just going through the biometrics and the doctors will be able to tell you what kind of problems you have, same thing with e-Governance everything is going to be done through online application.’
‘Last year, in order to make digital payment easier, the government of India introduced Bharat Interface for Money application which can link accounts and make payments just through fingerprints and without cards or cash. It is our choice to remain stagnant or to move ahead and make our lives easier’, he added.
In proportion to the report, the director of Nielit Lanuwabang also gave his keynote address about the activities and the projects undertaken by Nielit since its inception in Oct. 2003. He stated that, in order to effectively offer service to the public, the first step is to empower the employees. In addition to his statement, he questioned, “Unless you know how to use IT, how can you give services to the citizens?”
It was also reported that the ministry of Department of Development of North Eastern Region shall be sponsoring the training of 50’000 government employees in three years across eight Northeast states through Capacity Building and Technical Assistance Scheme.
Training shall include the basics of office work, day to day operation of digital payment, GST etc. which will last for fourteen days, seven hours a day. The trainees will be provided with training kits and travelling allowance or dearness allowance for the outstation trainees. Biometric attendance will be taken and certificate will be generated online at the end of the training, it stated.
