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India's largest e-governance initiative by the Ministry of Company Affairs
and a Mission Mode Project (MMP) under the Government of India's national
e-governance plan, was launched recently in Tamil Nadu. With this, Chennai
joined the elite group of 17 centers, wherein MCA-21 has already been
successfully implemented, including New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, and
Hyderabad.
MCA-21 initiative is a flagship program being executed by the Ministry of
Company Affairs in partnership with Tata Consultancy Services on a
public-private partnership (PPP) model. Under the program framework, TCS is
responsible for designing and implementing the program - owning, operating and
maintaining the system for a period of six years after successful roll out at
all the sites, across India.
The program is designed to 'facilitate' the delivery of services while
ensuring 'compliance' at the same time. The key benefits of the MCA-21
program include incorporation of companies online, simplified and ease of
convenience in filing forms and returns with MCA, total transparency through
e-governance, timely redressal of investors grievances. The program would also
allow public inspection of documents anytime, anywhere, and focus on MCA
employees to shift from registry functions to regulatory functions.
Launching the landmark project in Chennai, Dayanidhi Maran, Union
Communications and IT Minister, said that the MCA-21 project was the largest
full-scale deployment of Information Technology in the Government of India, in
the shortest possible time frame and would revolutionize the way India Inc
interfaces with the government.
“The MCA-21 program will bring about a service transformation in terms of
ease and use and is slated to be a benchmark e-governance project in the
country,” Maran said.
“Such mission mode e-governance projects have seen major changes in
governance systems in India. Government agencies and departments as well as
private entities, which want to play a role in e-governance transformations,
will all be encouraged to work on the lines of the MCA-21 project,” the
minister said.
Reiterating the UPA government's commitment in the National Minimum Program
envisaging promotion of e-governance on a massive scale, the minister said the
government has a vision and a dream. “The program incorporates 27 MMPs and
eight support components to be implemented at the central, state and local
government levels,” he added.
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