eGovernment http://www.egovonline.net/Comments on News This article gives me a lot of pleasure. In fact during my tenure as State Informatics Officer in Gujarat, I had taken the initiative of bridging the digital divide at the check posts. When I went to the CP near Shamlaji in himmatnagar, I had gone to the counter and immediately some one pushed a 50 rupee note. I spent the whole day there along with my colleagues. THis was at the Sales Tax Counter. I further probed why suddenly trucks dissappeared after the drivers were asked to show proper papers. I had made them follow two trucks along with me and found that the driver's licenses were retained by the Owners. And this factor was overcome by giving money to the people at teh Sales Tax. I also saw that the Transport Department man was lying on a cot and the trucks passing by would give money to a bearer. I came back to Ahmedabad and insisted the then Sales Tax Commissioner Mr Jose and teh Transport Commissioner Mr Arvind Agarwal to convene a joint meeting at the Check post and it was decided to impolement a common software on a stand alone basis. The NIC took responsibilities of providing the hardware and also teh software. We had also posted a person for atleast a month for maikng the system comfortable fo rthe people at the Offices there. Two months after the implementation, I again went to the CP and saw the Officials very happy as they said that they could recover their quota of funds in less than fifteen days. When I asked why they were not raising more fund, they said that the truckers used a bye pass where there was no CP. I asked them if they had informed teh Commissioner the answer was in the negative. When I returned back to Ahmedabad, I wrote a note to teh Commissioner about this and immediately, he installed a mobile squad on tehBye pass. Ten days later, About 150 truckers gathered at the original checkpost and destroyed the computers, etc. This excited the then Chief Minister and the process of bridging the digital divided started. THis process may also be followed by other States. Leakages are happeniong there. Thus there is a need to strenthen the Check Posts and involving all Stakeholders as a single window system. Thanks Friday, October 13, 2006 http://www.egovonline.net/news/news-details.asp?newsid=507 Dr Subir Roy Great. an excellent presentation. Keep it up. Wednesday, September 27, 2006 http://www.egovonline.net/news/news-details.asp?newsid=782 Vipul Kumar