E-governance and its Impact on Decentralized Planning

By : V. Nagarajan Naidu , S.P. Kumar

Page No: 181-193

Abstract
The process of E-governance made the service delivery by the government to citizen more efficient, transparent, responsible, accountable, participative and socially inclusive for accomplishing a good governance environment. Among the various layers of administration, the efforts of E-governance has a greater impacts at the local level planning units since local governments are the closest to citizens, and constitute for many, the main interface with upper tiers of government. The E-governance initiatives not only improved the real impact of decentralized planning efforts at local level, but also reduced the inequality in the distribution of fruits of governance among various socio-economic groups in the country. Identification and provision of needed critical success factors of E-governance particularly the development of infrastructure for the required institutional change is the need of the hour.

Authors :
V. Nagarajan Naidu : Associate Professor in Economics, University College, Thiruvananthpauram
S.P. Kumar : Assistant Professor in Economics, S.N College, Kollam.