Archive - Sep 22, 2011

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Information Communication Technology (ICT) is rapidly gaining the center stage for future world economic growth and development. While ICT is gaining prominence as an engine for economic growth it also promises to have far reaching potential for the delivery of social services, enhancing the effectiveness of government administration. However to achieve improvement in services building up of community databases is critical in third world, where record keeping systems are deficient [Vongpanitlerd et.al, (1992)].

The application ‘Sakarma’ is thought of as a generic system for District Panchayats, Block panchayats, Corporations and Municipalities. A Decision Support System (DSS) can hardly function in district panchayat presently since no consolidated information on their corporate functioning is readily available.

Achievements at a glance:

The decision of the Kerala State Government to devolve 35-40% of the Ninth five year plan outlay, for projects and programmes to be implemented by local self governments, posed seve