Ed note. UN Dispatch contributor Lois Parshley is in India this week, on a health focused reporting fellowship supported by the United Nations Foundation
Governments and public sector organizations around the world are facing to reform their public administration organizations and deliver more efficient and cost effective services, as well as better information and knowledge to their stakeholders.
A good higher education system is required for overall prosperity of a nation. A tremendous growth in the higher education sector had made the administration of higher education institutions complex. Many researches reveal that the integration of ICT helps to reduce the complexity and enhance the overall administration of higher education.
Health Care sector in India has witnessed significant growth during the last few years, both in quality and capacity. In spite of such developments, heath care facilities in the country remain inadequate to meet the needs of the citizens, particularly in rural areas, where approximately 70% of the people live.
This article highlights the need for initiating a healthcare business model in a grassroots, emerging-nation context. This article’s backdrop is a history of chronic anomalies afflicting the healthcare sector in India and similarly placed BRICS nations. In these countries, a significant percentage of populations remain deprived of basic healthcare facilities and emergency services.
The paper intends to underline the features of e-governance at local selfgovernment level in rural India and examines the viability of the e-panchayats in making the local-self governance citizen-centric for efficient, responsive, costeffective, result-oriented mechanism for faster pace of rural development.
Ed note. UN Dispatch contributor Lois Parshley is in India this week, on a health focused reporting fellowship supported by the United Nations Foundation
