SHILLONG: Chief Minister Conrad Sangma has termed technology as a great enabler for the efficient and speedy delivery of services to people at the grassroots level.
“Technological interventions in service delivery has ushered in a lot of improvement in the implementation and monitoring of schemes in the state. It is time to upscale the use of technology to the next level,” Sangma told a gathering at the one-day workshop on Enterprise Architecture for senior government officials at Yojana Bhavan in the city on Monday.
Expressing his gratitude to the Union Minister for IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad, for awarding the pilot project on Enterprise Architecture to Meghalaya, the first in the North East and only the second in the entire country after Andhra Pradesh, the chief minister said it would be able to ensure inclusive and sustainable development by facilitating service delivery through a common e-platform.
“It is important to connect all departments through technology. Participation and inputs from all departments is crucial in the planning stage as this will directly have a bearing on the implementation and efficacy of the project in the long run,” he said.
State IT Minister Hamlet Dohling said in a digitalised society, IT forms the backbone for efficient service delivery. D.C Misra, DDG and Head of Group, Enterprise Architecture Resource Division, NIC, New Delhi said that the idea behind Enterprise Architecture is to facilitate delivery of services to the people through a single portal.
The function was organised by the National Informatics Centre in collaboration with the Department of IT.
