 Mr. Gaurav Tiweli, CEO of MyGovernance, Ministry of Electronics and IT, Government of India. Mr. Tiweli has been serving as the CEO of MyGovernance since September 2014. Mr. Tiweli started his career in IIS as an assistant collector in Kerala, before moving to Chhattisgarh. He was associated with National eGovernance Program of India and in 2014 he has taken over as the CEO of MyGovernance. Apart from being the guest of honour, he is also the President of the Secretary of the Government of India, Minister of Electronics and Information Technology. Mr. Tiweli will be presenting on the topic Infusing Enterprise Architecture into Digital Area Towards a National Strategy. Dr. Gaurav Tiweli. Good morning. My name is Seth Narayan sir. Steve, James, everyone. Friends. I, as I was introduced, so I represent the Secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and IT, Mrs. Arunan Sundar Gajal, who was initially slated to be here today due to some other urgent work. She was unable to make it. And it's a fairly exhaustive presentation just now about the different kinds of things that the open group is doing. And I'm sure many of you would have been familiar with all of those things. Some new things that you would have also seen and certainly it was a good learning opportunity for me because one has heard about Enterprise Architecture for a while. But really this is something that within the government, although the broad elements are there or they are starting to come in, but government-wide adoption of Enterprise Architecture is something which is still work in progress and it's going to take some time before the entire range of government activities is brought within the ambit. As you're all aware, governance in India in any case is a fairly complicated business. The division of powers between the central government, state governments and then subsequently to the local bodies as well after the constitutional amendments of the 90s. So we have the government of India, we have the respective state governments, we have the Bajayats, we have the Winsfields corporations and municipalities. So the separation of roles between all of them as envisaged by the constitution also makes it a little tricky in terms of how to implement a system like Enterprise Architecture because the roles, the rights, the responsibilities, the privileges that are available to different levels of government and different parts of the government are rather clearly defined but at the same time there's a fair amount of overlap which also exists there. For those of you who've been following the evolution of the IT and the governance systems in India, you would have noted that there have been fairly substantive changes and improvements that have been made in the systems way back in the 80s when the railways first came up with the governance system in the form of the ticketing solution. And this was around the same time that the NIC was also set up, the National Informatics Centre and which gradually spread its presence across the country but only within the ministries in the government of India but subsequently to the states and then down to the district level as well. It was probably a feature of those times that since connectivity and the level of understanding and appreciation of IT and the governance systems wasn't really that high within the government. So many districts, many states tried to evolve their own models of the governance. As a result, although there were certain areas which were performing very well there were some very interesting and very, very good initiatives that were adopted but there was also a fair amount of replication and reinvention of the wheel which was going on. So for the same kind of problem there would probably be a district collector somewhere in Andhra Pradesh who comes up with a solution but at the same time there would be somebody else in Rajasthan or somebody in Assam who's also creating a system and over the period of time we find about three years back Satharan Sir was then our boss in the ministry and I see combined a list of the different solutions that had been created for various governance activities and it turned out that if I remember the figure correctly there were more than 3000 different softwares for different activities were created but almost maybe 30-40% of them were solutions for the same subject for the same governance issue which were created at the same time in different states or in different districts. Now logic dictates that this kind of replication, this kind of duplication should not take place because it ties up resources and it also prevents us from optimizing the efforts that have been made but due to the lack of connectivity due to the lack of the ability to share knowledge and also probably due to the lack of something like the Glinger Act in the US which made it a mandate for IT systems to ensure that optimization was ensured in creation of new IT systems. What started happening was that many of the states started forging ahead many of the states were a little further behind. To address these things in the middle of the last decade the Government of India came up with the NEGP the National Key Governance Plan and many of you would have heard of it many of you probably would have also participated in some of the programs that were taken up under the NEGP. So connectivity through the statewide area networks data center services through the state data center program the e-district, the common services centers many of these programs were taken up and met with a substantial amount of success but then it's the nature of technology to keep evolving it's the nature of IT systems to keep growing and keep changing their form within a few years. So about two years back the Government of India now adopted the Digital India program and you can see the logo at the bottom right of the panel behind me and the Digital India program is probably the most concerted effort by the government to ensure that the most optimal IT solutions are adopted and not only adopted within a particular department within a particular ministry but adopted government-wide. Now when we talk about adoption of systems government-wide or enterprise-wide if you prefer the other word I would say that this runs a little bit counter to the way that we have been learning throughout our academic careers as we grow, as we proceed from school to college, university and specialized programs we are told that you are supposed to gain more and more knowledge about less and less that's what somebody once defined an expert as a person who knows more and more about less and less so you become too specialized you get into these niches and gradually there is a lack of an enterprise-wide focus which starts because of which whatever a group of people in a part of the organization are doing the other people are either not aware of it or they are not able to really appreciate it and which is why they are learning the knowledge the developments that have taken place in one part of the organization are often not adopted in another and the result is again duplication, replication, reinvention some of the elements of enterprise architecture have started coming up within the government of India in the last few years I can see some of my colleagues from NIC Mr. B. C. Mishra and his team so they have been working on these enterprise frameworks in a couple of ministries and I am sure later there will be some presentations and discussions about the work that they have been doing in the ministry of Pajayati Raj as well as the water and sanitation of my DWs and some other ministries but one of the major things that has happened in the last few years is the creation of Aadhaar the unique I.D. authority and again, Sathya Narayan sir currently he is also the chairman of UIDI and I think this is one of the most important building blocks towards an enterprise approach to the government which has evolved in the last few years again, some of you would have heard about the different numbers that are associated with Aadhaar the largest biometric identity system anywhere in the world close to about 1.1 billion people have been enrolled and registered whose biometrics are available within the system but Aadhaar by itself doesn't mean anything it's an identity system, yes but the real benefit that is coming out of Aadhaar is to be able to use this across the government as an identifier of all the people who are availing different governance services initially there was a little bit of a legal about the status of Aadhaar the passage of the Aadhaar Act in the parliament I think that also has been resolved very substantially and we found that across the government Aadhaar is being leveraged to be able to really identify the people correctly and to be able to provide services to them in the most efficiently targeted manner possible one of the very interesting numbers that came up a few months back which is part of the prime minister's speech that using Aadhaar the different ministries who have been providing different governance services especially the subsidy related programs have been able to eliminate a fairly substantial large number of ghost and fake beneficiaries and the benefits that are already accumulated on this account exceed about 6.5 billion dollars not million, 6.5 billion dollars more than 36 to 40,000 crore rupees have been already saved by leveraging this and the effort is still going on another example that has come up in the last few months is the National Scholarship Program as again many of you would be aware that there are a very large number of government initiatives targeting students across different communities and specifically targeting say people from weaker sections or women students providing them scholarships for education at all levels when a list was made it was found that there are about 11 different ministries and departments in the government of India itself which are involved in the process of giving scholarships of various sorts the total number of such scholarship programs was I think more than about 5,000 but each program each scheme, each ministry, each department had its own set of rules had its own set of procedures and it made it very very cumbersome for a student or his parents his or her parents to clearly identify which is the appropriate scholarship what are the scholarships that you are eligible for and how to go about obtaining it so bringing together the efforts of the different ministries of the different departments involved in this process a unified scholarship portal was set up by the government of India a few months back and I think this is a sea change in the approach that the government has been functioning because each ministry, each organization in the government is always known for guarding its turf very very fiercely there is a fair amount of domain battles which go on in the government at all levels and the adoption of the scholarship portal itself shows that the mindset within the government has been changing very very substantially now there is a unified portal all the different ministries that are involved in giving scholarships of various sorts have rationalized their procedures common procedures, common systems and for each of the people, each of the students who are applying gradually the Aadhaar seating of their databases is also taking place which means that instead of months for the scholarship amount to be released from the government of India from the state government on to the concerned organization or the district and then passing on to the student process actually easily takes several months can now be done in a matter of minutes from the moment of sanction the other related bank accounts the money passes straight from the government of India into the beneficiaries account so as you can see that there is a growing appreciation and understanding of the way an enterprise system can deliver the goods and some very interesting work is going on again in certain answers leadership and guidance and he will be there in the next session to talk about the work that he has been doing in the the Karate system in Andhra as well as the work that he is doing as chairman of the empowered committee on enterprise framework development within the government of India so on that note on that optimistic mode I will include my remarks I will again convey my secretary and the ministry of electronics and IT to everybody present here and we look forward to a day of very interesting deliberations and a lot of learning. Thank you.