eGovernance Authority, Electronics & IT Agency, Innovation Society
GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH
ABSTRACT
ITE&C Dept – Blue Print – Reimagining Andhra Pradesh –
Role of E-Governance, Electronics
and IT – Setting up of (3) Entities for development of ICT
Industry – eGovernance Authority,
Electronics & IT Agency, Innovation Society -
Administrative Orders - issued - Reg.
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS
(Admin) DEPARTMENT
G.O.MS.No. 24 Dt. 08-12-2014
Read the following:
Government of AP Vision – Blue Print “Reimagining Andhra
Pradesh” version 4.0
Dated 9 th July 2014.
ORDER :
The residual State of Andhra Pradesh, formed on 2 nd June
2014, has many challenges
confronting it. The new State of AP has to be practically
re-imagined and reconstructed in a
planned manner, if the hopes and aspirations of its people
have to be fulfilled. To fulfill the
aspirations of the people, following Vision Statement has
been drawn up from the perspective
of e-Governance, Electronics and IT:
“To develop Andhra Pradesh as a knowledge society of global
repute, with a focus on
enhancing the quality of life of its citizens, through
high-quality education and healthcare,
increased productivity in agriculture and allied activities,
creation of requisite employment
potential by promoting electronics and IT industries, and
above all, by providing good
governance.”
2. As a first step to
realize this objective, a blue print Reimagining Andhra Pradesh – Role
of e-Governance, Electronics & IT has been released vide
reference read above, wherein the
broad approach to be adopted for realizing the vision has
been spelt out. Following are the
goals envisaged to be achieved by 2020:
• To be FIRST in India in Quality & Quantity of e-Services
• To be known as the Silicon Corridor of India
• To attract Investments of US $ 2 bn in IT and US $ 5 bn in
Electronics manufacturing
• To attain 5% share in national exports of Software
• To provide 5 lakh additional direct employment by 2020.
• To reach Gigabit to All Villages – Digital AP
• To make at least one person e-literate in every house.
3. To quickly
implement the recommendations made in the Blue Print and to achieve the
envisaged results in a time-bound and coordinated manner,
Government after careful
examination and consideration hereby constitutes (3)
Entities for development of ICT Industry
which would henceforth be named as eGovernance Authority,
Electronics & IT Agency and
Innovation Society. The Terms of Reference of the (3) Entities
along with the composition are
detailed below.
(1) e-Governance
Authority
Terms of Reference
a) One of the immediate tasks of the eGovernance Authority
is to work on giving a
concrete shape to the policies and frameworks required to be
put in place, as envisaged
in the Blue Print Document.
b) Designing and implementing an overall architecture for
realizing the vision of providing
ALL G2C and G2B services through multiple channels.
c) Defining a portfolio of G2C, G2B, G2E and G2G services
and prioritizing them for
implementation.
d) Establishing a new State Data Centre. The eGovernance
Authority should attempt to
design a state-of-the-art SDC, taking advantage of emerging
technologies like the Cloud
(e.gMeghRaj initiative of GOI) and the Big Data Analytics.
e) Take Fibre to the Village.
f) Facilitate the undertaking of an extensive Government
Process Re-engineering by the
line departments so as to make the delivery of services,
simple, convenient and
transparent to the citizens.
g) The service delivery infrastructure should be redesigned
keeping in view the need for
citizen convenience, accessibility, look and feel, branding
and financial viability of the
service centres.
Composition
The eGovernance Authority shall be constituted as a Society
under the AP Societies Registration
Act, 2001 and shall be headed by a CEO / Director who can
either be an eGov expert with
adequate experience and drive, with a passion for
transformation or from the IAS. In order to
effectively monitor the functioning of the society as per
the mandate set out in the Blue print,
the Authority shall have Governance structure with a II -
Tier mechanism as given below:
Secretary, IT may invite Prl. Secretaries/Secretaries/
Academicians/Industry Representatives
as and when required to Governing Council / Executive
Council for their value addition
(2) Electronics &
IT Agency
Terms of Reference
a) To create a set of policies relating to Promotion of
Electronics & IT as envisaged in the
Blue Print Document
b) To create a set of implementation guidelines to translate
the above policies into reality;
c) To take steps for getting clearance of GOI for ITIRs to
be established in the State;
d) To explore the potential for establishing electronic
manufacturing units and prepare
proposals for 10 Electronic Manufacturing Clusters in the
State (the number is
indicative);
e) To design blueprints for establishing the Mega IT Hub and
the other IT hubs at carefully
selected locations;
f) To design a plan for marketing the ‘Advantage AP’ brand
among top players in IT and
Electronics manufacturing sector globally and create the
roadmap to attract
investments into the Electronics sector to the tune of US$ 5
Billion by 2020, and into the
IT sector to the tune of US$ 2 Bil by 2020;
g) To create an employment potential of 0.5 mil by 2020 in
the IT and electronics sectors;
h) To identify the top electronic products/components for
which demand exists in the
country and take proactive steps to encourage creation of IP
and manufacturing
capacities for those products/ components in AP;
i) To administer the incentive schemes to be designed and
approved for the Electronics
sector;
j) To promote the Fabless semiconductor industry as a thrust
area;
k) To coordinate with the industry bodies in furtherance of
the above objectives; and
l) To identify the areas in which promotion of use of
electronics would lead to enhanced
productivity, like smart grids, smart meters, low-cost
access devices, smartcards etc and
promote investments/ innovation in such areas.
Composition
The Electronics & IT Agency shall be constituted as
Society under the AP Societies Registration
Act, 2001 and shall be headed by a CEO who shall be
technocrat, with wide industry experience.
In order to effectively monitor the functioning of the
Agency as per the mandate set in the Blue
print, the Agency shall have Governance structure with a II
- Tier mechanism as given below:
Secretary, IT may invite Prl. Secretaries/Secretaries/
Academicians/Industry Representatives as
and when required to Governing Council / Executive Council
for their value addition.
(3) Innovation Society
Technology survives and thrives through innovation. All the
3 areas, namely, e-Governance,
Electronics and IT are substantially technology-based and
hence innovation has to be
promoted. Moreover, specific capacities and skillsets are
required to be built/ harnessed for
successfully promoting these sectors. Hence the need arose
for a society for Innovation.
Terms of Reference
a) Creation of an Innovation Policy and agenda, with more
focus on Electronics and IT;
b) Design and establish an Innovation and Transformation
Academy for creating a pool of
highly talented professionals and entrepreneurs, who can
contribute significantly to the
development of the State.
c) AP has to take advantage of the situation to leapfrog in
terms of the technology and
business models, processes and procedures. The innovation
required for such
leapfrogging in all areas involving technologies, would be
the responsibility of the
Society.
d) Nucleating Start-up villages and providing guidance and
support for their growth;
e) Accelerating the implementation of the various schemes of
GOI for Capacity Building in
the ESDM sector, as already alluded to in section D2;
f) Creating and implementing a framework for enhancing the
quality of graduates in IT and
Electronics, with active collaboration of the Industry;
g) Launching a knowledge portal as the repository all best
practices in e-Governance, IT
and Electronics;
h) Designing innovative, futuristic and cost-effective
blue-print for the Information
Infrastructure and Systems required for the New Capital for
AP.
Composition
The Innovation Society shall be constituted under the AP
Societies Registration Act, 2001 and
shall be headed by a CEO who shall be technocrat, with
proven record of promoting innovation
in technology areas. In order to effectively monitor the
functioning of the society as per the
mandate set in the Blue print, the Society shall have the
Governance structure with a II - Tier
mechanism as given below:
Secretary, IT may invite Prl. Secretaries/Secretaries/
Academicians/Industry Representatives as
and when required to Governing Council / Executive Council
for their value addition.
4. The Governing
Council shall meet once in a quarter to review the performance of the
Society and to provide overall policy guidance and
directions for the efficient functioning of the
Society. The Executive council shall meet once in a month to
monitor the performance of the
above entities and pass such executive instructions as
deemed appropriate, to ensure that
objectives/goals envisaged are realized within the
stipulated time frames.
5. All the three
Entities shall function under the administrative control of ITE&C
Department. The three entities shall have freedom to
structure their organization as is deemed
appropriate with flexibility to hire the requisite
professionals/experts/ subject specialists as per
their requirement.
6. The department
shall take further necessary action to form the above three Entities,
following due procedures as stipulated under the AP
Societies Registration Act, 2001. The
societies shall be created as autonomous entities with
functional and financial flexibility to
enable them to deliver the predetermined goals. Appropriate
budgetary allocations for
functioning of the above Entities and execution of plans and
programmes as envisaged, shall be
made annually as per the requirement.
7. Copy of
this order is
available on Internet
and can be
accessed at
http://www.ap.gov.in/goir.
(BY ORDER AND IN THE NAME OF THE GOVERNOR OF ANDHRA PRADESH)
KONA SASIDHAR
SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT (FAC)
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