e-Governance Conformity Assessment Centres

Department of Information Technology (DIT), Government of India (GoI) is facilitating the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) which seeks to create the right governance and institutional mechanisms and implement a number of Mission Mode Projects at the Center & State.

To ensure trust and confidence of the citizens and all stakeholders involved it is important to provide the necessary 3rd Party Audit and testing services for Compliance and certification to various mission mode projects. STQC, which is a Directorate of DIT, has been providing testing, audit, compliance and certification services in IT domain to the private sector. However, with the inception of NeGP, STQC has extended its services to many e-Governance initiatives and the recent one is MCA21.

Through this project, GOI has established 7 "e-Governance Conformity Assessment Centres (eGCA)" across the country centres (i.e. Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi, Kolkata, Pune/Mumbai, Guwahati) to provide the requisite facilities for testing, audit and certification.

The objective of the project is to create national infrastructure (region-wise) in terms of skills, knowledge and experience with technical and legal expertise in the areas of Information Security, Software Quality, IT Service Quality, Legal and ethical issues of web sites etc. so that conformity with applicable requirements and regulations can be assessed by independent Third Party rather than relying solely on the assertion of developers and service providers.

With this project eGCA will support

• 10 Central Government Mission Mode Projects : Income Tax, Passport visa, Immigration Project, MCA21, Insurance, National Citizen Database, Central Excise, Pension, Banking, e-office
• 10 State Government Mission Mode Projects : Land Records, Road Transport, Property Registration, Agriculture, Treasuries, Municipalities, Gram Panchayat, Commercial Taxes, Police, Employment Exchange
• 7 Integrated Services Mission Mode Projects : EDI e-Commerce, E-biz, Common Service Centres, India Portal, EG Gateway, E-procurement, E-courts

And other non-mission mode projects of various Ministries and State Governments. This support was made available in the form of Quality Assurance and Conformity Assessments to :

• State Wide Area Network (SWAN)
• Data Centre (DC)
• Common Service Centres (CSC)

To know more about STQC , visit the website http://www.stqc.nic.in (External website that opens in a new window)

The project is supporting eGCA centers at Delhi, Chennai, Bangaluru, Pune, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Guwahati. These center are equipped with state of art testing tool, skillset and knowledge on information security, SLA Management, Software Quality Evaluation etc. Kolkata and Bangalore centers are accredited internationally by A2La, USA for Software testing.

The project is extended up to september 2010. The eGCA center are providing services to various e Governance projects (both mission made and other projects) covering following areas :

• Smart Card Certificate along with NIC
• Website Quality Certification
• Capability approval of website designer and developer
• Information Security Management Certificate
• Information technology Service Management Certification
• Software testing and Quality Evaluation

Contact Details:

Delhi

U. K. Nandwani
STQC Directorate
Department of IT, Electronic Niketon
6-CGO Complex
New Delhi - 110003
Tel : +91-11-24362381, +91-11-2430 1382
Fax : +91-11-24363053

C. S. Bisht
STQC eGCA Center, Department of IT, Electronic Niketon
6-CGO Complex
New Delhi - 110003
Tel : +91-11-2436 2381, +91-11-2430 1382
Fax : +91-11-24363053

Guwahati

S. Maiti
STQC eGCA Center
Central Block, I & II Floor
HOUSEFEED Complex, Dispur
Guwahati-781 006
Tel : +91-361-2224 839
Fax : +91-361-2224 839
Email : etdcgw AT stqc.nic.in

Kolkata

Mitali Chatterjee
STQC eGCA Center
DN Block Sector V, Salt Lake City
Kolkata
Tel : +91-33-2367 4693
Fax : +9133-2367 4693
Email : itkolkata AT stqc.nic.in

Pune

Gautam Pal
STQC eGCA Center
Agricultural College Campus, Shivajinagar
Pune 411 005
Tel : +91-20-2823 6869
Email : itpune AT stqc.nic.in

Hyderabad

N. E. Prasad
STQC eGCA Center
Kamalanagar, ECIL PO
Hyderabad
Tel : +91-404-2712 2942, +91-404-2712 5910
Email : ithyderabad AT stqc.nic.in

Bangaluru

Hema Khurana
STQC eGCA Center
Peenya Industrial Estate
Bangalore-560058
Email : itbangalore AT stqc.nic.in

Chennai

R. Ravindran
STQC eGCA Center
VSI Estate , Thiruvanmiyur
Chennai- 600041
Tel : +91-44-24543711
Fax : +91-44- 2448 3793
Email : itchennai AT stqc.nic.in