State Gazette

The details are still being fine-tuned but soon prospective brides and grooms, across the state, should be able to post their personal details on a government-sponsored portal for a nominal fee. Those looking for a match will then be able to surf through the database to try and find perfect partners.

Meanwhile, in a bid to break the myth that e-services only benefit people in urban centres, an ambitious IT convergence hub, Cyber Grameen, was launched in a remote village in Nellore last week. The project will harness the power of rural broadband connectivity to provide a range of services and applications, including telephony, telemedicine, high-speed Internet and e-mail, distance learning, banking, insurance and agriculture-related information and inputs. It will also deliver government services and information through e-governance schemes already launched in the state.

That, however, is not all. In a bid to boost work culture among government employees, Naidu’s government is considering a proposal for introducing close-circuit video cameras in offices to monitor their daily goings-on.

In fact, digital cameras will soon be distributed in all district offices of the state to click and catch errant employees. How else can the CEO’s corporate mantra succeed, if there’s no electronic surveillance?