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Subrata Mukherjee (right) with Tanmoy Chakrabarty in Calcutta on Friday. Picture by Kishor Roy Chowdhury
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Calcutta, Sept. 7: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has bagged a Rs 103-crore contract from the Bengal government’s panchayat and rural development department to create a biometric solution for workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).
The company, which signed the contract today, will design, develop, implement and maintain the biometric solution for a five-year period. It had earlier designed the solution in Andhra Pradesh.
“State-wide implementation will be well done in seven months. I believe this IT initiative will be the harbinger for a major e-governance transformation in Bengal,” said Tanmoy Chakrabarty, vice-president and head of government industry solutions unit, TCS.
The IT scheme will enable wage seekers to receive faster and accurate payments, while the government will be able to ensure that the funds reach the targeted poor.
“We expect that by IT-enabling the Bengal MGNREGS, job seekers will be able to get 100 days of work with full remunerative wages,” said Subrata Mukherjee, minister incharge for panchayat and rural development.
On why the Trinamul Congress-led state government was bringing in a Tata group company after the Nano project fiasco, the minister said the current government had nothing against a particular person or organisation even if it had a specific stance on Singur.
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