Guidelines for Indian Government Websites
The "Guidelines for Indian Government Websites" was formally released in February,
2009 and has been included in the Central Secretariat Manual of Office Procedures
(CSMOP) by Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, Ministry
of Personnel, Public Grievance and Pensions, Govt. of India.
National Informatics Centre has developed these Guidelines as an initiative under
the National Portal of India Project. Development of these guidelines involved an
extensive consultation process involving representatives from National Informatics
Centre and various other Indian Government Departments, at the Centre and State
levels. Established and recognised Guidelines of other countries as well as International
bodies like ISO and W3C have also been referred to, while drafting these guidelines.
Success of the guidelines depend on their effective implementation which includes
plans for developing programs related to capacity building, training, handholding
and towards sensitization of the departments in the adoption and implementation
of these guidelines. NIC has undertaken Capacity Building initiative to provide
nationwide trainings/workshops to sensitise different stakeholders with respect
to compliance of GIGW.The Training and Workshop curriculum has been diligently prepared,
understanding the functions which play a critical role in website development life
cycle.
For more information kindly refer to:
http://web.guidelines.gov.in
Benefits of compliance to these guidelines are:
- Improve the overall usability quotient and technical competence of the Indian Government
websites vis-à-vis International Standards.
- Facilitate Indian Government websites
in achieving citizen-centricity while providing anytime anywhere delivery of government
information and services.
- Formulate policies for sustenance and effective maintenance
of the Indian Government websites through their life cycle.
- Achieve, in the
long run, a certain degree of commonality and standardization across the Indian
Government websites.
- Enhance the Government-Citizen Relationship.