ADMINISTRATIVE DEVELOPMENT AND E-GOVERNANCE

Information and communication technologies are playing an important role in the daily lives of people, revolutionizing work and changing the way of doing business. It has a valuable potential to help meet good governance goals in India. It is effective and to promote openness and to ensure efficacy, transparency, accountability, responsiveness, participation and inclusion in the delivery of public services. "ICTs (Information and Communication Technology) are effectively showing new dimensions to old institutional setups. It is generally believed that ICT has considerable potential to improve governance capabilities and transform relations with customers. The initiatives of government agencies and departments to use ICT tools and applications like internet and mobile devices to support good governance, strengthen existing relationships and build new partnerships within civil society, are known as e-governance initiatives (Valentina 2004) E-Government is the term for the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in public administration to change structures and processes of government organizations. It can be an engine of development for the people. It is the application of information & communication technologies to transform the efficiency, effectiveness, transparency and accountability of informational & transactional exchanges with in government, between govt. & govt. agencies of National, State, Municipal & Local levels, citizen & businesses, and to empower citizens through access & use of information. In the fast moving world of automation and digitization India also has full flagged ICT framework for implementation of egovernance, and through this new technological innovations our work, lives and society have been changed. It is open and transparent: public administration capable of comprehending citizens? expectations and it is accountable and open towards democratic participation; by providing timely information and facilitating cooperation among regions, the e-governments are believed to help public managers solve long-lingering problems such as poverty, corruption, and diseases. Egovernance, which is a paradigm shift over the traditional approaches in public administration, means rendering of government services and information to the public using electronic means. The interaction between citizens or businesses with government, which traditionally occurred in an office, has been facilitated by e-government through ?the use of ICT to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, transparency and accountability of government? (World Bank).