Fwd: [eGovINDIA] What eGovernance Secretary Rajeev Chawla is,advising and doing in GOK amounts to Deception and Cheating.

[dinesh]

is this a subject for a LUG or an FSUG folks to act upon?

-dinesh



   From: Venkat Kumaraswamy <vmkumaraswamy at yahoo.com>
   To: Secretary E-GovernanceDPAR-AR <secyegov-dpar at karnataka.gov.in>, 
secyegov at karnataka.gov.in



E KAVI, E Gov India, India RTI,
Judicial Reforms & India Whistle Blower's Action Group


Facilitating Emergence of  New India:
Based on Values of Transparency & Accountability, E Governance,
Natural Justice, Human Rights and Human Dignity

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March 14th 2006

Hello CS and other Secretaries of GOK,

You all need to look into the activities of eGovernance Secretary Mr.
Rajeev Chawla. He is leading GOK to Cheat and Deceive people of
Karnataka and all others in GOK.

GOK need to watch what is happenning in eGovernance in GOK !!

Even countries like Singapore does not mention what platform to use.
Singapore specifies in every tender "the applicaition software should
be compatible for cross platform deployment". Why not Karnataka State
and INDIA ?

Even WORLD BANK suggests to use OPEN STANDARDS and OPEN SYSTEMS.

Even our own President advises all of us to use OPEN SOURCE and OPEN
STANDARDS in all our systems.

Rajeev Chawla is favouring only ONE VENDOR for GOK. That is MICROSOFT.

Rajeev Chawla has made GOK to sign MOU with MICROSOFT for PROJECT SHIKSHA.

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Bangalore one is on Microsoft Platform. Bangalore One TENDER Documents
have been DOCTORED in such way that ONLY ONE PERSON can bid on the
TENDER which used MICROSOFT SOFTWARE.

There is a complained filed with LOKAYUKTHA on Bangalore One project.

There is PIL filed and admitted in High Court on Bangalore one project.

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Look at some of the implications of BHOOMI Project. This is going to
haunt GOK in the future. Please look at the reports that have been
sent to all of you.

Bhoomi: "E-Governance", Or An Anti-Politics Machine Necessary to
Globalize B'lore


Bhoomi and the political economy of land
Peri-urban Bangalore, Karnataka


Karnataka was formed in 1956 by merging the princely state of Mysore
with areas from other states and provinces: parts of Coorg, the
princely state of Hyderabad, and the Bombay and Madras Presidencies.
The link for 'land coalition' in Footnote 127, discusses the five
governance regimes, various aspects of land management, and the
functions of the Revenue department.  Under the five governance
regimes, land management systems recorded up to 1500 forms of tenures.

BHOOMI - Some Critical Observations:

Bhoomi Project has led to a shrinkage in the number of possible
land-holding types from 1500 to under 100. What does this mean and
what are the impacts of this?

Bhoomi project represents an ideological shift from the social reform
focus of land reforms to a purely technological phenomenon.

 From a purely technical point of view, Bhoomi project has locked
itself into Proprietary Microsoft Software.

The most vocal complaint of respondents has to do with the increased
delays that have resulted after the launch of Bhoomi.  Before Bhoomi,
we were told, obtaining a copy of an RTC, or a mutation, took 2-3
days.  These documents were made available at the village level via
the VA and, as one small farmer put it, the work could be 'fast and
efficient', at least in an emergency.

After Bhoomi, all categories of landowners said that any significant
change like a mutation takes 3-4 months.  This delay may be related to
the dependence of the farmers on agents or intermediaries.  Often, if
farmers visit the taluk office they lose their day's work, and they
may find that either the computer is down or that there is a power
cut.

THERE ARE SO MANY COMPLAINTS on BHOOMI Project which you all need to
look into the research Papers which will be provided to all of you.
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eProcurement Tendering in GOK. He is trying to favour C 1 INDIA.
Please read what C 1 INDIA is facing.


Sub: C1 India affairs


Please find below one more affair of C1 India management affair,
Karnataka has come up with a Tender for eProcurement on PPP model as
of Andhra Pradesh, Please look in to the matter if Good Business
Practices can be ensured:


Covansys has partnered C1 India Pvt. Ltd, a delhi based for offering
eTendering solution to MPLUN, Madhya Pradesh, India.company which is
in engaged in Rs. 38000 Crore eTendering scam in Andhra Pradesh,
India. For more details log on to www.mpez.net

C1 India has a IPR Theft case filed against them by a company called
Antares System, Based out of Bangalore India. The case is pending in
Delhi High Court, India.

C1 India is engaged in another legal battle with a company called
Nextenders, based out of Mumbai for NIC Tender for eTendering
solution. The same case in pending in Delhi High Court, India.

C1 India is engaged in another legal battle for a tender for
eTendering software floated by MMTC, India. The case is pending in
Delhi High Court, India.

In MPLUN Tender, Covansys/C1 India JV is not Lowest Bidder. The lowest
bidder is as per our market intelligence a MP based company
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GOK Karnataka Food & Civil Supplies Tendering is also on the wrong
footting by using BHOOMI INFRASTRUCTURE.

Tender for the computerization of food and civil supplies, favors
microsoft. But to keep everyone in dark the tender has been written in
a manner that it looks as if the entire software is free of cost.
Amounts to Deception and Cheating.

GoK is asking the vendors to use the Bhoomi infrastructure at the
tehsil level (which is on Microsoft) for application development and
implementation.

Phase I of KFCS tender will just get the application build on
Microsoft platform and deployed this year. Next year when this is
over, GoK will place order on Microsoft for licenses purchase and
hardware up gradation. The project value at present is estimated at 8
crores which includes mere 1 crore of application development and
deployment and remaining money for ration card printing and
distribution.

Where as in the phase II, its going to be Rs. 22 Crore order on
Microsoft, the application developer and hardware vender. In near
future it will start bleeding by paying huge sums of money as license
fee to Microsoft.

Regarding .NET, it is a white elephant when a more powerful
application software development environment in the form of SUN's
Netbeans is available free. This includes the Struts framework which
is very very powerful and time tested. This is open and free too.

Whereas .NET is a new platform. Except the name of microsoft, there is
nothing special about it. It is yet to gain full popularity among
users whereas J2EE architecture which is open and supported by
SUN/IBM/Oracle etc., through packages such as Netbeans, Tomcat etc.,
is more popular in the world. In enterprise environment people prefer
only J2EE. This includes Singapore e-governance efforts.

Analysis on the civil supplies tender:
If it is a web based application, then there is no licencing involved
at the Taluk level even if it is microsoft product. But quoting this
they are trying to add a processor which is not essential as in the
web based application the entire load would be taken by the web server
and not the local server. So, by adding a processor they are tying to
pay additional money to Microsoft.

At the State level if they are adding additional servers they need to
pay full licence to microsoft. For example .NET licence and mssql
server multi processor licence. Also they may have to pay for the
additional processor use of IIS server (web server software)

Here  Oracle and Db2 would also charge licencing fee for the database
but not for the deployment software unless the government wants oracle
application server or IBM's websphere. Currently the GOK may be using
microsoft's internet information server (IIS) paying a huge licencing
fee. The alternative is open source deployment software such as
apache's tomcat or resin or jboss. All these packages are available
free. Apache tomcat is supported by Apache foundation, sun micro
systems, Novell and IBM.

The point is that a fair deal is denied to OTHERS who are competitors
to Microsoft. This is improper. Let them give a fair chance to quote
for their database and in the quote if they become L1 they should be
allowed to deploy their database and or application deployment
software too.


In the name of saving money they are trying to promote microsoft.

This has to be stopped by GOK.

GOK need to agree for an OS neutral database, application software and
deployment software.

Singapore specifies in every tender "the applicaition shoftware should
be compatible for cross platform deployment". Why not Karnataka and
India?

If we say cross platform, then .NET, Internet information server and
ms sql server are out of the race. Because they are not cross
platform. They will work only under microsoft environment. Whereas Db2
and oracle would work under microsoft and linux environment.
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Now Mr. Rajeev Chawla has called for TENDERS for:

1. Procurement of Servers for Bhoomi Project at various Taluks.
2. Procurement of Laser Printers for Bhoomi Project at various Taluks.
3. Procurement of Blade Servers for State Data Center Augmentation.

All of the TENDERING process and documents for the above favours only
one VENDOR. Documents are prepared in such a way that ONE VENDOR can
only bid on these TENDERS. IS THIS TRANSPARENCY in GOK?
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Mr. Rajeev Chawla has neglected the Kannada Software Development in
Karnataka State.

With all these things happenning, GOK need to watch !!

If any questions on these, I would be willing to answer and write to all 
of you.

Thanks
Sincerely
signed by
V. M. Kumaraswamy, MBA