Role of ICT in E-governance: an experience from rural India

Abstract

In the Rural India, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) plays a big role for the overall socio-economic development in the villages. Currently many more projects are going on in India, which is purely based on the e-governance mode. In spite of various hindrances, it is found that Indian is moving smoothly towards digitization. Rural E-Governance is a fresh concept of applications which has shown the importance of ICT in the realm of rural growth in India. As government of India has a dream to digitalized India by 2020, so now it is urged to understand the relationship between the application ICT and people or technology and society at a larger perspective. In this paper both the primary and the secondary data is utilized. For the primary data, the experimental method is used. The paper is purely based on descriptive and analytical methodology. In this paper, try to understand the role of ICT and the issues and challenges face in the rural India with a suggestion to combat with it.