Government Websites Updated and Outdated
SOME ten years ago, I suggested to the Director, Systems, CBEC to have the photograph of the Chairman, CBEC on the website of the CBEC. The Director told me, “if the Chairman gets arrested by the CBI (that was around the time that the then CBEC Chairman was arrested by CBI), I wouldn't know how to remove the photo from the website and it would take me at least four days to get it removed!”
Yesterday evening at 5 pm, some new ministers joined the Indian Cabinet and some took charge of different portfolios. How did the websites of these concerned ministries react to the event?
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs website reacted immediately and they had a picture of their new minister, Veerappa Moily uploaded immediately. They simply took off his information from the Lawmin website and uploaded it here. But the Law Ministry is yet to recognise Salman Khursheed, as their website still shows Veerappa Moily as their minister. Law is known for its delay.
Trains now run on time though they frequently derail and the Ministry of Railways was equally quick to update and showed Dinesh Trivedi as its new minister.
The Tribal Welfare Ministry is yet to accept Kishore Chandra Deo as its new minister. Environment Ministry is yet to get rid of Jairam Ramesh and they don't seem to be aware of Jayanti Natarajan. Other ministries like Rural Development and Science & Technology are also yet to acknowledge their new ministers.
In this e-age, perhaps the easiest thing to do is to start a website and the most difficult thing is to update it – especially if it is a government one!
Also see DDT's Dream Cabinet in - 20.05.2009