The Haryana Government will organise “Digital Haryana Summit” in Gurugram on Friday to bring together industry experts, policy makers, academicians and corporate leaders for scripting State’s digital transformation journey aligned with the Digital India vision.
The day-long Summit will witness seven sessions with inaugural address by Union Minister Information Technology, Ravi Shankar Prasad while Chief Minister Manohar lal will deliver keynote address.
The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) would be partner for this event.
The State Government would launch SARAl Citizen delivery tracking Portal Felicitation on the occasion. Besides, four policies of Haryana including IT & ESDM Policy, Cyber Security Policy, Haryana Tower Policy and Start Up Policy would be formally launched by the Manohar lal Government.
The Chief Minister would also hold a round table meeting with industry leaders during the concluding session of the Summit. Apart from Haryana Cabinet Minister, Union Minister for Steel, Birender Singh,
Union Minister for State Housing and Urban affairs Rao Inderjit, Union Minister of State, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Dharmender Pradhan and Union Minister of communication (independent charge), Manoj Sinha are scheduled to address various sessions
“Digital Haryana Summit” would be organised at Hotel leela Ambience, Gurugram as a part of swarna jayanti celebrations of the State,” said an official spokesman.
The spokesman said that different sessions would be organised during the day-long summit including sessions on ‘learning from global stories of transformation’ smart cities, ‘Haryana-The next ESDM Hub’, — skilling for the future technologies, driving geo governance-making new starts in Haryana, leveraging NOFN to bring the next 22 million online (monetisation of NOFN and building a PPP model around it), digital government-transforming into a digital state and my story-inspiring the next unicorn.
An MoU will also be signed between Haryana Government and United Nations for setting up an innovation lab in Gurugram.
In line with Digital India vision, Haryana Government has been giving great emphasis on promotion of IT and e-governance projects and its applications in the Government offices, boards, corporations and other institutions. The IT Department has already established the SeMT (State level e-Governance Management Team) consisting of IT professionals to provide consultancy to various Mission mode Projects (MMPs) and state specific IT & e-Governance projects at the state level.
The Electronic and IT Department of Haryana will also set-up an in-house e-governance unit to be known as the IT Management Office (IT-MO) for the state. Every other department would also set-up an in-house e-governance unit called the project e-governance management team (PEMT). Apart from this, every District would also have an in-house e-governance unit, known as the District e-Governance Management Team (DeMT).
The State Government has also chalked out its IT cadre policy with an aim to provide stability and continuity in the engagement of IT manpower and provide a mechanism for continuous induction of IT specialists on contractual basis from the market.