January 22, 2020
Topic: Digital Governance
News:- Punjab to embrace Digilocker scheme.
What is Digital governance?
- Digital governance is a framework for establishing accountability, roles, and decision-making authority for an organization’s digital presence—which means its websites, mobile sites, social channels, and any other Internet and Web-enabled products and services.
About Digilocker scheme:-
- The Digilocker scheme seeks to reduce the distress and harassment occurring to the individuals while storing their documents.
- The scheme would provide the citizens with a cloud platform for storage, issuance and verification of some vital documents and certificates.
- The scheme is a massive step towards paper governance.
- All the government departments, state Public Sector undertakings, statutory Authorities, autonomous bodies etc will be implementing this scheme.
- Online documents verification by any Organisation could be done through this initiative, after taking the consent from the individual.
(Source:- The Tribune)
Topic: Literary Personalities.
News:- Punjabi writer, Inder Singh Khamosh, passes away.
About Inder Singh Khamosh:-
- He opened a new chapter in Punjabi literature by writing the biographical accounts on famous literary personalities.
Some of his famous writings are:-
- Kafir Masiha -. Based on Keo Tolstoy’s life.
- Darshan da banjara – Based on the life of Nikolai Gogol.
- Samundri Kabootari – on Anton Chekhov.
- Kuthali Peya Sona – on Fyodor Dostoevsky.
- Husan Prasat – on Pushkin.
- Lat Lat Laat – on Victor Hugo.
- He was born in Harike village of Barnala.
- He was a school teacher before he took to full-time teaching.
- He was 88 and he passed away in the United States of America today.
(Source:- The Tribune)
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