1UGC NET-Senior Research Fellow, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, DSB Campus, Kumaon University, Nainital, India, E-mail: ketkitara@gmail.com
2Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Kumaon University, Nainital, India
Online published on 25 August, 2017.
In a bid to reach the last mile man, PRI institutions have started to play an enlarged role in planning, identification and implementation of development programmes through the e-governance prototype called E-Panchayats. With Information and Communication Technologies making its foray in different realms of Government and Governance, the influence of the same has been vociferously felt by the grassroot Panchayats as well. This paper thus deliberates on how with the digitization of Panchayats not only the needs of the citizens are being met through the Government to Citizen Approach (G2C) judiciously but also a new chord of faith has been struck between the state and the citizens.
E-Panchayat, ICT, Governance, Transparency
