Nagapur: 19th National Conference on e-Governance will begin in Nagpur today. Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Nitin Gadkari and Minister of State in PMO Jitendra Singh will inaugurate the function.

The two-day conference is being organized by the Union Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances and Department of Electronics and Information Technology in association with the Government of Maharashtra.

The conference would have six plenary sessions on topics such as Governance with Accountability Transparency & Innovation for Citizen-Centric Services, Financial Inclusion- Jan Dhan, Aadhaar and Mobile and Direct Benefit Transfer, Urban Governance in Smart Cities, Cyber Security Framework for Citizen Centric Services and also the Decade of e-Governance – Way Ahead and Technology Enabled Education.

The annual conference serves as an effective forum for IT professionals of the Central and State Governments, Software Solution Providers and the Industry to interact and analyse various solution frameworks. Many new initiatives in e-Governance have emerged out of these conferences.