Re: What India Can Learn About E-Governance From Pakistan
Until Modi election, family WAS the government in India. Whether at the center or in the states. Whether Kashmir, TamilNadu, Rajastan, MP/UP etc …it is by the family members. Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi were only MPs and party leaders yet wielded more power than all ministers and PM put together. President had become a reitree, PM had become the ceremonial rubber stamp and the files were going to Sonia Gandhi and cronies. Her son in law was exmpted from airport checks and is still so! The states were and are even worse. Corruption and nepotism in unimaginable scale, seemed normal.
The last 10 years must be the darkest period in India where feudalism bordering on slavery was the norm in Indian politics which also made shambles of the economy. Not ONE sector has progressed in real terms. The only reason India is not bankrupt today is because the personal ambitions and drive of the aspiring middle class within India and abroad maintained a nationalistic average.
I am not at all surprised that India is lagging in e-Governance, taken as a whole and particularly considering India being the leader in software engineering. But fortunately that i svery easy to change. I wouldn’t be surprised at all of by next year this time, things have leap frogged.