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integration key to enrich
state economy
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Our Convergence Bureau
21 September 2002 |
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 Chennai: It is an indisputable fact that the government owns large crucial data like census operations, through remote sensing provides crop growth, patterns and water resources, land records and other economic and commercial facts. But these data exists independently, preventing optimum usage.
The need of the hour is to integrate government-owned databases to save on wasteful expenditure. For instance, the criss-crossing of food commodities like rice and sugar could be avoided and wasteful expenditure saved if only integrated data is available, said Tamil Nadu Governor P S Ramamohan Rao.
Delivering the valedictory address at Connect 2002, an international conference on IT, communication technologies and bioinformatics, organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Rao also said by integrating the enormous data on water, water zones and water sheds, with the data on soil analysis and soil testing, a reorganisation in the crop pattern can be effected. This is an immense business opportunity to be tapped.
Terming the fears that business would go out of India as a result of the war tensions with the neighbouring country as a superficial reading of the conditions that prevail, he said business process outsourcing (BPO) is going to be the bread and butter for India.
Speaking on the e-governance, the governor said except for some states like Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, which have made some progress in this regard, many states are yet to embrace the concept.
Rao also pointed out Tamil Nadus weak spots infrastructure, water scarcity, transportation-related problems, lack of availability of quality commercial spaces, and untidy, unhygienic public places. He called upon the government and industry to join hands to form a task force to remove the weaknesses.
According to him, competition from other states is the single most threat to the business of Tamil Nadu, whose strengths include good social infrastructure, quality education and healthcare, and intellectual capital.
Speaking at the session, CII southern region chairman T Kannan said there is a need to supply more qualified people to the educational institutions to impart knowledge in various fields, especially IT.
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