Question : Monitoring and Updation of Government Websites

Will the Minister of COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY be pleased to state:

(a) whether the Government has any mechanism in place to monitor and update the information uploaded in Government websites;
(b) if so, the details thereof;
(c) whether it has come to the notice of the Government that various Government websites are not updating the latest developments taking place in their departments and if so, the details thereof;
(d) whether the Government is taking any corrective measure to provide updated information to public; and
(e) if so, the details thereof?

ANSWER

MINISTER FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
(SHRI RAVI SHANKAR PRASAD)
(a): Yes, Sir.

(b): The Government websites are hosted in data centres of National Informatics Centre (NIC). While availability and security of these websites are monitored by NIC, the content on these websites is directly monitored and updated by the respective Ministries/Departments. For this, a senior officer of the Ministry/Department has been nominated as Web Information Managers (WIMs) to regularly monitor and get the latest development updated on the concerned website.

(c): No, Sir.

(d): Yes, Sir.

(e): NIC has developed a Common Minimum Framework (CMF) under the aegis of Digital India programme. The CMF will enhance not only the presentation of websites but also make the content updation by the Ministries /Departments easy. As part of the Early Harvest programme of the Digital India, it has been planned to migrate 100 websites of Central Government Ministries/Departments using CMF, smoothly.