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IncomeTAX - CBDT grants relaxation in eligibility conditions for filing of Income-tax Return Form-1 (Sahaj) and Form-4 (Sugam) for Assessment Year 2020-21

Income Tax- CBDT grants relaxation in eligibility conditions for filing of Income-tax Return Form-1 (Sahaj) and Form-4 (Sugam) for Assessment Year 2020-21

Ref: PIB /9 Jan 2020

CBDT/03 Jan 2020
CBDT were notified vide notification dated 3rd January, 2020

The eligibility conditions for filing of ITR-1 & ITR-4 Forms were modified with an intent to keep these forms short and simple with bare minimum number of Schedules. Therefore, a person who owns a property in joint ownership was not made eligible to file the ITR-1 or ITR-4 Forms.

The taxpayers with jointly owned property have expressed concern that they will now need to file a detailed ITR Form instead of a simple ITR-1 and ITR-4.

CBDT/ 9 Jan 2020

it has been decided to allow a person, who jointly owns a single house property, to file his/her return of income in ITR-1 or ITR-4 Form, as may be applicable, if he/she meets the other conditions. It has also been decided to allow a person, who is required to file return due to fulfilment of one or more conditions specified in the seventh proviso to section 139(1) of the Act, to file his/her return in ITR-1 Form.

National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal -Cyber ​​Safety and National Security

National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal - Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) in New Delhi

https://www.cybercrime.gov.in/

 

Safe and secure nation by strengthening all aspects of national security mechanism.

Transactions on UPI have crossed US $ One Trillion in Financial Year 2022 and today we are first in the world in digital transactions
In 2012, 3,377 cybercrimes were reported and in 2020 the number of such reporting reached 50,000
More than 11 lakh complaints of different types have been registered so far on the cybercrime reporting portal launched three years ago, more than two lakh complaints have also been registered for social media crimes

National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal

Inaugurates by Shri Amit Shah 10 Jan 2020

Ref: PIB- https://pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1599067

The scheme to setup I4C was approved in October 2018 at an estimated cost of Rs. 415.86 crore, to deal with all types of cybercrimes in a comprehensive and coordinated manner.

Seven components I4C

National Cyber Crime Threat Analytics Unit,
National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal,
National Cyber Crime Training Centre,
Cyber Crime Ecosystem Management Unit,
National Cyber Crime Research and Innovation Centre,
National Cyber Crime Forensic Laboratory Ecosystem
Platform for Joint Cyber Crime Investigation Team. National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal- www.cybercrime.gov.in is a citizen-centric initiative that will enable citizens to report cyber crimes online through the portal.

It enables filing of all cyber crimes with specific focus on crimes against women, children, particularly child pornography, child sex abuse material, online content pertaining to rapes/gang rapes, etc.

700 police districts and more than 3,900 police stations have been connected with this Portal.

 

Forensic Science Capabilities Strengthening for Time bound and Scientific Investigation” at Kevadia, Gujarat (26 June, 2022)

 

forensic science capabilities available in the country, especially keeping in view the increasing dependence of the criminal justice system on forensic investigation.
 

Need for investigating agencies to be one step ahead of criminals in view of the use of technology
 

The Center is working with the state governments on a three-pronged approach to reforms in the field of police investigation, prosecution and forensics

National Automated Fingerprint Identification System (NAFIS)

 

Government has a zero tolerance policy against terrorism and NIA and other agencies are being strengthened to achieve a decisive victory, efforts are being made to build an anti-terrorism network by setting up NIA branches in all States before 2024 

Digital India- Reducing Corruption through Technology

DIGITAL INDIA, A Journey of Empowerment

Digital India

Ref: MyGOV

Aadhar play an important role -More transparency in India -Digital Linking Benami Property-Benami assets - linking with Aadhar

https://vishesh2014.blogspot.com/2017/11/benami-property-search-started-benami.html

Electronic Skill Credential

This electronic schema-based standard for describing credentials data in a machine-readable format (JSON-LD representation of RDFa) along with its printable human-friendly version to make credential exchange between digital agents open and reliable.

Certificates issued according to this specification can be aligned to one or more educational standards.
They are secured using digital signatures which employ asymmetric PKI and provide for severless certificate verification. This makes system more conducive for the diverse ecosystem in India where network connectivity may be absent.

The serverless nature also eliminates the added costs of verification infrastructure which may be challenging to operate reliably at scale.

Broadband over cable

One of the pillars of Digital India is to provide pan-India internet access through broadband highways. In sync to this, BharatNet is being successfully executed to provide optical fiber connection to 2,50,000 Gram Panchayats by 2019. Some experts have suggested that India can leverage its current cable infrastructure to provide last mile internet access via cable lines and ensure internet for all.

3 important question Broadband over cable

1) What are the possibilities from policy and technology perspective to maximize the usage of our cable network?
2) What are the potential challenges that could emerge in this process?
3) On comparing opportunities to challenges, does this emerge as a viable option?

Reducing Corruption through Technology

Government has endeavoured to remove corruption in every form and technology presents itself as one of the most potent tools. But, technological interventions work when the interventions are simple, transparent and include a public feedback mechanism. Utilising advancements in technology

Multi-pronged strategy to tackle the problem in an effective manner

1. Transferring benefits directly to beneficiaries
2. Making government procurements transparent
3. Digitization of service deliveries
4. Promoting Cashless Transactions
5. Jan Bhagidari
6. Open Government Data

Direct Benefit Transfer was a significant step towards plugging leakages. Amount transferred via DBT is increasing and leakages are reducing. The government has laid equal emphasis on citizens getting Aadhaar. The Jan Dhan-Aadhaar-Mobile (JAM) trinity will bring complete accountability in monetary transactions and eliminate ghost beneficiaries.

Additionally, Government e-Marketplace (GeM) was launched to make government procurements simple and transparent, eliminating any scope of corruption. Faceless e-assessment for income tax payers introduced from 2018 was another important step. Tax officers now communicate with the taxpayers through the ‘E-Proceeding' facility which reduces human interface.

The fight against corruption is a long and arduous one. Various online platforms have been introduced by the government, wherein the citizens can join forces with them by sharing their feedback and views. The decision to involve the honest citizens of our country in the fight increases the strength of the force against corruption to a great extent.

Prevention of Leakage and Proper Recycling of E-Waste

The electronics waste (e-waste) comprises of discarded electrical and electronic equipment, and poses serious challenges globally for improper disposal practices especially in informal sector.

MeitY has initiated the “Awareness Programme on Environmental Hazards of Electronic Waste through Digital India Initiative” over a period of five years to create awareness among the public about the hazards of e-waste recycling by the informal sector and educate them about alternate methods of disposing their e-waste.

Over 95 per cent of e-waste generated is managed by the informal sector. Integration of the informal sector and access to environmentally safe recycling technologies may reduce the health and environmental hazards. In addition to technology, capacity building, skill management, scientific recycling mechanism, business management training are also required for safe recycling of e-waste.

Digital Infrastructure
Digital Government Policy
Digital Services
Digital Payments
Information Security
E-Governance Standards
Open Source and Technology issues
Critical Information Infrastructure
IT Act
GIS (Geographic Information System)
Participatory Governance
SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud)
E Governance Project Implementation related aspects

eKranti- Electronic delivery of services

Electronic Service Delivery – “e-Governance is about the making use of ICT in systems of governance for a wider participation and a deeper involvement of citizens, institutions, civil society groups and the private sector in the decision making process of governance.”

various measures to improve the quality of services delivered to the citizens and have tried to reach different sections of the society to improve the social and economic status of the masses.

An authentic mechanism for ensuring a rational and objective assessment of these services

Digital Village

The vision of Digital India, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (GoI) has envisaged the Pilot of Digital Village with a view to showcase the transformation that Digital India Programme can bring about, to different stakeholders like Departments of Union Government, State Governments, Private Telecom Players, other corporate services providers and citizens especially living in the rural areas.

Digital Village pilot intends to provide a platform for availability of services such as tele-medicine, tele-education, LED street Lighting, Wi-Fi Hotspot and skill development to the people at the Gram Panchayat level in select blocks across various States and UTs. This project moves away from the traditional approach of e-Governance projects (that focused on creating infrastructure) and adopts a service based approach for pilot of the Digital Village.

The key sub components under Digital Village pilot Project are:
a. Tele Medicine services – which is realization of eKranti pillar of Digital India.
Under this service, a group of Primary Health Centers (PHCs) shall be parented to a lead hospital, which shall be a hospital of repute at block, district or state/UT level. Various consultation sessions pertaining to different fields of medicine shall be rendered under the Tele Medicine service.

b. Tele Education services – which is realization of eKranti pillar of Digital India.
Under this service, a group of rural schools shall be parented to a lead school. The lead school shall be a school of repute. The mode of delivery would be two way interactive sessions.

c. LED street Lighting and Wi-Fi Hotspot services – which is part of Digital Connectivity of Digital India.
There will be a high mast LED street lighting tower set up installed at common location in a Gram Panchayat. It would be used to provide free lighting at the common location. LED Street light will be operated from dawn to dusk.
As part of the initiative of digitally empowering the citizens, free access to internet would be provided for at least 5 hours per day.

d. Skill Development services – which is part of Digital empowerment of Digital India.
The VC and other infrastructure facilities available in resource centres shall be used for providing skill development training, holding information sharing sessions and organizing interactive sessions with experts, government officers etc.

Given this context, MeitY along with NISG has come out with draft Technical, Functional Specifications and Service levels (SLAs) for the digital village services.

Strategy for software sector by focusing to create vibrant Indian Software Product Industry

Make the Indian IT Industry move up the value chain and thereby sustain its growth trajectory, India has to adopt a paradigm shift in it’s strategy for software sector by focusing to create vibrant Indian Software Product Industry, where IT Products also contribute equitably and significantly along with IT Services. Though India is well positioned to further grow in services sector, however for holistic growth, there is a need for a National Policy on Software Products that can synergise the efforts of the Government and Industry to create a robust Software Product Industry, which enables the germinating ground for large number of Software product startups, promotes development of an ecosystem encouraging R&D and innovation, opens up multitude of opportunities of access to capital and helps build and improve the domestic demand. A National Policy on Software Products aligning with other initiatives such as Start-up India, Make in India and Digital India etc. can provide the springboard for India to emerge as a global leader in this important industry.

To drive the rise of India as a Software Product Nation and synergy with the ITeS sector, so as to place India as a leading player as creator, producer and supplier of innovative Software Products globally thereby enabling the IT Industry to sustain growth momentum.

Standard on Machine Translation Accept

This Standard (Code of Practice) document defines criterion for accepting the quality of translated content created by machine translation system. This standard will provide “minimum translation quality acceptability score” which indicates that the Machine Translation output is acceptable for post editing and making it useful for the intended purpose.

This standard also defines acceptability metric in the form of various parameters, which measures the quality of the output of Machine Translation system based on post-editing efforts required to make the translated content acceptable by the end user.

Digital Locker Interoperability

Digital Locker is a key initiative under Digital India, the Indian Government’s flagship program aimed at transforming India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. Digital Locker ties into Digital India’s vision areas of providing citizens a shareable private space on a public cloud and making all documents / certificates available on this cloud. Targeted at the idea of paperless governance, Digital Locker is a platform for issuance and verification of documents & certificates in a digital way, thus eliminating the use of physical documents.

The Digital Locker system has been envisaged as an ecosystem where multiple service providers will provide Digital Locker services such as Locker portals and Repository services for storing of e-Documents. To ensure seamless integration with various Digital Locker service providers as well as other stakeholders, an overarching architecture in the shape of Digital Locker Technology Framework Specifications has been evolved. This framework describes in details Open standards based API specifications to standardize open communication between Digital Locker service providers.

1.Consent-Tech-Framework
2.Digital Locker Technology Framework
3.Draft commercial Models for Digital Locker

Smart Health

Smart Health has to be designed keeping in mind to improve the health and wellness of our citizens. Smart Health should be able to provides comprehensive medical coverage including medical screenings, providing health care assistance and monitor various vital parameters of patients like subtle changes in pulse, respiration, heart condition, temperature and preventive warning on early onset of pneumonia (in small children) or other life-threatening problems, inside hospitals and at remote patient location including old people's home and ambulance.

What’s more in Smart Health?

• Connect any wearable or portable device to the cloud, pull and analyse collected patient data in real time
• Monitor patients at home using live video and audio streaming
• Monitor vital health indicators collected by portable devices such as smart phones and tablets
• Set intelligent emergency notifications sent to a physician or family
• Charts and diagram visualization based on data collected from health monitoring devices

We need innovative ideas on the following parameters which can be applied to IoT of Smart Healthcare Systems:-

• Inclusion of rural population in the system
• Creating awareness and acceptability of the Smart health
• Identify challenges in implementation