The Government's vision is to turn Kerala into knowledge society with sustainable economic growth, social harmony and high quality of life for all. The Government considers it its mission to achieve this vision through proactive measures meant to accelerate the process of transforming the State into a knowledge society. In keeping with the democratic traditions of the country, the Government will ensure that all sections of the society are included in this process of transformation and will adopt conscious, positive steps to confirm the inclusion of the disadvantaged sections of society in the transformation process.
The Government will also adopt such measures as are necessary to encourage the willful participation of the digitally privileged sections in the efforts to prevent the less privileged sections from getting marginalised in the transformation process. The Government will make use of ICT to ensure transparency, efficiency and quality of services to the citizens of the state. The Government shall promote appropriate applications of ICT to rejuvenate and strengthen the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors of the State's economy.
The Government will strive to improve the standard of living of the people through the use of ICT in all sectors, enhance productivity and efficiency, optimize utilisation of resources and increase the employment potential of the ICT sector. The Government shall make all efforts to provide the infrastructure for the rapid growth and adoption of ICT in the state, including, but not limited to access to ICT for all sections of the population,development of high speed communication facilities, infrastructure for the IT industry and development of human resources. The Government shall endeavor to create a favorable climate in the State for increased economic activity and investments in the ICT, ITES and knowledge-based industry sector. In doing so, the State expects to exploit to the fullest extent, the potential of these new sectors to generate stable employment, earn foreign exchange and promote long term investments.
The Government recognizes that Kerala's highly skilled and well educated workforce is a strategic differentiator as an investment destination. It shall continue to invest substantially in programs and initiatives to sustain this advantage. Government will make Kerala the cradle of highly skilled manpower for the knowledge-based industry. The Government realizes that Free Software presents a unique opportunity in building a truly egalitarian knowledge society. The Government will take all efforts to develop Free Software and shall encourage and mandate the appropriate use of Free Software in all ICT initiatives.
Interfacing between the Government and the industry from a business perspective
Interacting with potential investors. Enhancing the IT industry base ICT dissemination among the state citizenry to bridge the digital divide E- Governance Developing Human Resources for IT & ITES Advising the Government on policy matters
Services & Activities
File routing in the E & IT Department is revised as follows until further orders
E& IT (A) Department --> Under Secretary- I --> Additional Secretary --> Secretary
E& IT (B) Department --> Under Secretary- II --> Additional Secretary --> Secretary
E& IT (C) Department --> Under Secretary- I --> Additional Secretary --> Secretary
E& IT (Cell) Department --> Under Secretary- II --> Additional Secretary --> Secretary
WORK DISTRIBUTION OF SUBJECTS DEALT WITH IN ELECTRONICS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT
E & IT (A) Section (Ph. 0471-2518882)
E& IT (A) Department --> Under Secretary- I --> Additional Secretary --> Secretary
A1
A2
1
Infopark Kochi, Koratty, Cherthala
1
Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam
& Technocity, Thiruvananthapuram.
2
Smart City, Kochi
2
Kerala State IT Infrastructure Limited (KSITIL)
3
Cyberpark, Kozhikode
3
Cyberpark, Kannur&Kasaragod by KSITIL
4
Indian Institute of Information Technology
& Management Kerala (IIITM-K), Thiruvananthapuram.
4
Information Communication Technology
Academy (ICT Academy)
5
Indian Institute of information Technology, Kottayam (IIIT-K)
5
Matters related with software technology parks of lndia (STPI)
Inspection Reports of AG relating to Smart City, Infopark, Cyberpark & IIITM-K.
8
Papers relating to Hardware Mission
9
Subjects relating to Block Chain I Fin Tech, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, Internet of Things, e-Mobility and Cognitive Science
10
Papers relating to Department Vehicle
11
Miscellaneous papers of the section
E & IT (B) Section (Ph. 0471-2518883)
E& IT (B) Department --> Under Secretary- II --> Additional Secretary --> Secretary
B1
B2
1.
E-District/State Service Delivery Gateway (SSDG)
1.
IT Policy & IT Sub Policy
2.
UID Project, Aadhaar related papers
2.
State Data Centre (SDC-I & SDC-II)
3.
DBT Scheme
3.
Department WAN
4.
Digital Payments
4.
IPV4-IPV6
5.
Payment Gateway including Pay Gov India, SBI Mops etc
5.
Malayalam Computing
6.
M-Governance, M-Keralam
6.
Papers relating to Total Solution Providers
7.
Kerala Spatial Data Infrastructure (KSDI)
7.
Papers related to Steering Committee /Apex Committee on e-Governance
8.
Telecom related papers (RoW,uso, National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN),
National Knowledge Network.
8.
Papers relating to e-Governance
9.
Papers relating to Mobile Towers
9.
Conducting of e-Governance Meet/ Workshop/ Conference
10.
K-FON Project,K-FON Ltd (SPY)
10.
Skill Delivery Platform Kerala (SDPK) Project
11.
Kerala State Wide Area Network
11.
Public Wifi Project (KSWAN)
12.
Establishment papers of SeMT, Review
12.
Digilocker Project of SeMT
13.
Information Technology Act 2000 and Electronic Delivery of Service Rules 2010 (EDS Rules-2010)
14.
Appeal filed before the adjudicating officer under IT Act 2000
15.
Request for blocking Websites under the purview of IT Act
16.
Digital Government Advisory Board
17.
Government Enterprise Architecture
18.
Standardization of Short Term IT Courses
19.
E-Krishi, E-Waste
20.
Miscellaneous papers in the section
IT (C) Section (Ph: 0471-2518848)
E& IT (C) Department --> Under Secretary- I --> Additional Secretary --> Secretary
Cl
C2
1
Establishment papers ofKSITM
1
All papers relating to AKSHAYA Project.
2
FRIENDS Janasevana Kendram
2
All papers relating to Common Service
Centers
3
Subject Committee I Public Accounts
Committee Meetings
3
All legislature Committees except Subject
Committee and PAC
4
Budget Papers and Plan monitoring
4
E-Governance Awards
5
IteS Habitat Centre
5
Papers relating to MPs/DCs/HoDs Conference & Meeting of Chief Secretary with Secretaries.
6
Special Working Group/Departmental
Working Group ofE & IT Department
6
Papers relating payment of rent and electricity charges of NIC to C-DAC.
7
Women's Resource Centre
7
Papers relating to the Meeting of Syndicate
I Senate etc. of all Universities in Kerala.
8
Audit Report of AG I C &AG
8
Papers on CERT-K and Cyber Security related matters.
9
Papers relating to Governor's Address, Budget Speech
9
SPEED-IT
10
Standard Investment Subsidy on ICT
10
Miscellaneous papers of IT Department/Miscellaneous papers of Section.
11
All papers relating to ICFOSS
11
Parliament Section of IT Department
12
Papers relating to old Modernization of
Govt. Programme (MGP)
13
All papers relating to C-DIT
.
IT (Cell ) Section (Ph: 0471-2517205)
E& IT (Cell) Department --> Under Secretary- II --> Additional Secretary --> Secretary
Cell-1
Cell-2
1.
Implementation of Digital Document
1.
Information & Data Exchange Advanced Filing System (DDFS) System (IDEAS)
2.
Purchase of PC's and IT related of equipments for Secretariat
2.
Training on e-Governance to officers Secretariat
3.
Supply of Laptops to Officers and Ministers in the Secretariat.
3.
Training on UNICODE Malayalam Computing in Secretariat.
4.
Supply and support of lntemet Data Cards Users in the Secretariat.
4.
Creation of mail ID's for Secretariat
5.
Providing IT Assets to various Departments in the Secretariat on request.
5.
Citizen Call Centre/Secretariat Centre Call
6.
Payments related to Secretariat Wide Area Network (SECWAN) Project
6.
Files from other Departments for Remarks/ Concurrence/ Remarks for implementing IT related matters
7.
Setting up of Wifi hotspots in Secretariat. Kerala
7.
All files and papers relating to Startup Mission.
8.
Annual Maintenance contract of Hardware and Network in Govt. Secretariat.
8.
Implementation of e-Office.
9.
Support for Video Conference (including for other departments video conferencing)
9.
Monitoring creation of e-mail ID/EMD e-office.
10.
SECWAN Re-Engineering
10.
PG Diploma in e-Govemance (PGDeG)
11.
ASSET Management of IT related Course equipments in Secretariat.
11.
Virtual IT Cadre
12.
Miscellaneous papers of IT Cell
12.
Creation of IT Cell Division in Field Departments.
13.
Digitisation of Secretariat Records
13.
Capacity Building
14.
Papers on "websites and allied matters" including the domain Kerala.gov.in
14.
Papers on Working Group / Departmental Purchase Committee I Technical Committee meetings convened by Secretariat Departments I Line Departments as well as the meetings in which Secretary (IT) is invited as a member in Technical Capacity
15.
Common solutions such as Centralized procurement, Common VC Solution etc.
15.
Papers on IT project portal
16.
E-Procurement/e-tendering
17.
Matters related to IT projects implemented by line departments and Universities
Contact Us
Joint Secretary
Tel: 0471-2518509
Under Secretary I
2518941
Under Secretary II
2517080
us.itd@kerala.gov.in
E&IT(A) Department
2518882
ita@kerala.gov.in
E&IT(B) Department
2518883
itb@kerala.gov.in
E&IT(C) Department
2518848
itc@kerala.gov.in
E&IT(IT Cell) Department
2517205
itcell@kerala.gov.in
Officers Under Right to Information Act
State Public Information Officer
State Public Information Officer-I
HEMA. V
Under Secretary Electronics & Information Technology Department
Tel: 0471- 2518941
Email: hema100863@kerala.gov.in
State Public Information Officer-II
N C Santhosh Under Secretary Electronics & Information Technology Department