20 May, 2018; New Delhi Look and you’ll see an exciting landscape emerging in the banking arena. One where there is a billion-strong market actively seeking financial services but remains largely unattended to. These globally distributed prospective customers represent enormous earning potential for banks, but constitute the unbanked. The unbanked are those who do not […]
By R. Gandhi, Deputy Governor , RBI We have been focusing our attention on developing the payment systems in the country for the past thirty five years, starting from the computerization of clearing houses way back in early 1980s. Thanks to all these years? efforts, today we have a vibrant, innovating, efficient and secured payment […]
ICTpost Governance Bureau Agriculture has been a way of life and continues to be the single most important livelihood of the masses. Agricultural policy focus in India across decades has been on self-sufficiency and self-reliance in foodgrains production. The share of agriculture in real GDP has fallen given its lower growth rate relative to industry […]
PTI NEW DELHI: Investing in education of girls, especially the most marginalized, is required to make progress on most social indicators in India, according to UNICEF. To mark the International Day of the Girl Child, UNICEF organized a meeting with top Urdu editors in the capital. Speaking at the event, Urmila Sarkar, chief of education […]
ICTpost News Network New Delhi: June 4, 2017 Railways have introduced several IT enabled applications to bring transparency on the sidelines of Digital India initiative. The details and benefits accruing to passengers are as under: – 1. Computerised Passenger Reservation System (PRS) This system helps in computerised booking of reserved accommodation on trains in a […]
ICTpost Governance Bureau When the focus on e-Governance started in the late nineties in India, the Internet connectivity was abysmally poor. In rural India, there was practically no such connectivity. Therefore a significant amount of e-Governance focus was on connectivity and especially on setting up rural Internet kiosks, a shared access center, where the rural […]
PTI Jan 25, 2016:?Davos The combined value of digital transformation — for society and the industry — could be greater than $100 trillion over the next 10 years, according to a new research by the World Economic Forum (WEF). The research, which is part of the Forum’s Digital Transformation of Industries (DTI) project, focuses on […]
By Nirendra Dev Deteriorating soil health has been a cause of concern and that has been leading to sub optimal utilization of farming resources. Imbalanced use of fertilisers, low addition of organic matter and non-replacement of depleted micro and secondary nutrients over the years, has resulted in nutrient deficiencies and decrease in soil fertility in […]
ICTpost Governance Bureau As per recent reports, 20% of India’s urban households are denied access to safe drinking water, 58% do not have safe sanitation, and more than 40% of garbage generated is left uncollected in India’s cities for want of proper waste management.?Migration from rural to urban areas poses a major challenge to attaining […]
New Delhi: September 24, 2015 J P Nadda, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare released the National Health Profile (NHP)-2015 prepared by the Central Bureau of Health Intelligence (CBHI), here today. The E-book (digital version) of the annual document, which has been prepared for the first time, was also released. The National Health Profile […]
