New Delhi, May 04: Commerce Ministry has emerged more IT-savvy ahead of Cabinet secretariat, Ministries of External Affairs and Telecom to be ranked at the top in terms of e-governance and it benefits, a study commissioned by IT Ministry said. "Department of Commerce is the benchmark for all the Central ministries and departments for assessing IT benefits. It has documentary evidences to prove that it has clearly observed impact of IT on productivity, it has observed benefits of implementing IT in their processes and have assessed ROI for implementing it in the process," the study conducted by Indian Market Research Bureau (IMRB) said.
However, the ministry headed by Arun Jaitley ranked fifth in overall "e-readiness scores", said the report submitted recently to the government. The topper of the over all list was Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievance.
The study was commissioned by Ministry of Communication and Information Technology to assess e-readiness of Central ministries/departments on five indices – e-governance, IT action plan/policies, IT people, IT infrastructure, process and IT benefits.
On the IT benefits, the Department of Commerce secured 93 out of 93 marks in the study while the other two close contenders were department of administrative reforms and public grievances and Department of Posts both securing 84 marks. Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports brought up the rear with five marks. Bureau Report