Electronic
Delivery of Services in India has been in news for years
but its actual implementation is still to happen. Despite many rounds
of legislative drafting and governmental discussions, the Indian
electronic delivery of services bill 2011 could not see
the light of the day. The natural result is that e-delivery
of services in India is missing.
While rejecting the latest draft of the EDS bill,
the parliamentary standing committee on information and technology
gave few reasons like lack of resources, amendments must be made to
the information technology act, 2000 to accommodate electronic
delivery of services, inadequate time to ensure electronic delivery
of services by states, etc. All these apprehensions have no merit and
they deserve to be ignored.
However, the rejection of the EDS bill by the
committee is also blessing in disguise as the proposed bill was
highly deficient on many counts. Even the committee has given some
very good suggestions that can strengthen the new EDS bill that can
be passed by the Indian parliament.
It would be a good idea to involve techno legal
experts while formulating the next EDS bill so that various
deficiencies can be taken care of. A holistic EDS bill must be
formulated that takes care of all the aspects pertaining to
electronic delivery of services in India.
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