Enabling Startups to apply for Govt. Projects
Over the past few years, the startup ecosystem has witnessed exponential growth within the country, with a positive impact on the startup framework as well as the economy. Information and communication technology (ICT) has profoundly changed almost all aspects of society. It is now central to how people communicate, interact, make decisions and do business. This includes the way governments operate and deliver services, and startups providing out of the box approach to utilizing Information Technology.
We, with the vision to achieve Good Governance and facilitate inclusive growth, harnessing ICT and evolving eGovernance with improvement in services, bridging the digital divide and evolving Digital Rajasthan, are committed to provide efficient, reliable and transparent government to help startups and grow IT/ITeS, ESDM and Robotics in Rajasthan.
Rajasthan intends to play a pivotal role in various dimensions of the startup ecosystem, with the main focus on promotion of Startups and making Rajasthan the Startup, Incubation and Entrepreneurship hub of North India. We, through Rajasthan IT Day on March 21, 2016 forged the inception of a new era for making Rajasthan a platform and destination for Information Technology in India.
Rajasthan is aggressively moving on the path of being the IT Hub of India – ensuring an environment which is dynamic, supportive and reliable for development of IT as a sector.
We are creating IT standards and benchmarks on three pillars – Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability.
Rajasthan has proved to be the trendsetter in eGovernance initiatives, ensuring the maximum ease to residents till the last mile in connecting with the Government as well as getting benefits at their doorstep.
We are the first state in the country to have implemented an integrated and unified eGovernance Framework, ensuring a world class coherent environment of integrated platforms – maximizing utilization and minimizing investment for betterment of eGovernance initiatives in the state.
We are moving aggressively towards making Rajasthan the dream destination of IT investment and promotion in India and SAARC. We are committed to translating our vision into reality, utilizing initiatives like Digital India, Smart City, Smart Grids etc. along with the finer points of Governance – citizen centricity, service orientation and transparency.
We expect the IT Sector and Startups to assist, advise and partner with us in this journey towards achieving the Technology vision with seamless integration between departments and optimal investment encouraging innovation.
The formidable and enlightening support of IT industry shall act as a catalyst for our mission of bringing Information Technology achieve new heights in Rajasthan with an absolutely dynamic IT environment.
At the IT Day, our diverse and dynamic group of speakers and panelists provided in-depth insight, as well as, actionable and practical tools of engagement models, methods and mechanisms (3Ms); and were able to share how the 3Ms could be utilized to promote the IT sector in Rajasthan to become more effective in the on-going efforts of Government of Rajasthan in the sector.
With the aim to fulfil the commitment of promoting startups in Rajasthan, Be Startup – Rajasthan program is envisaged to be initiated by Department of Information Technology & Communication and RajCOMP Info Services Limited, which will ensure providing a platform for Startups in Rajasthan to showcase their skillset and talent, and give ample opportunity to get associated in eGovernance projects benefitting not just themselves, but also the state in the lager perspective.
To further our effort, Government of Rajasthan is initiating the “Be Startup – Empanelment Platform” providing enormous opportunity for the IT Startups to get engaged and work for the Government, getting experience as well as boost to grow. The details for the same are available at our Startup Promotion Platform website: http://itstartup.rajasthan.gov.in RISL envisages obtaining inputs and feedback on the draft RFP for the said empanelment from Startups and Entrepreneurs who intend to get engaged with RISL for its projects.
You are requested to provide your inputs/feedback on itday@rajasthan.gov.in by April 15, 2016. The same would be evaluated and considered with the final document pertaining to the empanelment.
I urge the IT industry to rise, participate and support whole heartedly to this endeavour of promoting Digital Rajasthan. I assure of our commitment to bring about this evolution in Rajasthan.
Akhil Arora, Secretary & Commissioner, Information Technology & Communication, Government of Rajasthan
