NIC AND ACCESSES TO INFORMATION THROUGH OFFICIAL WEBSITES OF DISTRICTS OF UTTAR PRADESH INTHE INFORMATION AGE: AN EVALUTATION
Keywords:
Nic, E goverence, website visibilityAbstract
PURPOSE: The purpose of the article is to look in to the various aspects of official websites of districts of Uttar Pradesh . It targets to know the problems and challenges come in to the way of timely access to information of public interest through these websites .It will try to investigate what could be done to enhance public reach to access to information regarding governance.
Methodology: The study is survey based in this evaluative observation of official website of various districts have been done . As UP is a big state having more than seventy districts . Therefore it is difficult to study websites of each district . To overcome this all the districts of the state are arranged alphabetically and every tenth district’s website is selected for evaluation under various attributes .The Public perception and public opinion regarding these has also taken into account .
Findings: The study reveals that these official websites are of immense importance as an information gateway for large section of population. Due to lack of any standardization and absence of any defined policy regarding insurance of timely access to information these stand for behind in serving the purpose . It is found that low information literacy and absence of information culture are serving as hurdle ponits in proper access and usage of information .
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