National E-Governance Service Delivery Assessment

National E-Governance Service Delivery Assessment

  • It is a periodic assessment intended to improve the effectiveness of States/Union Territories and the Central Government in delivery of their online services to citizens.
  • It is released by Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions.
  • In this assessment, the service portals were evaluated alongside their parent Ministry/portal Department’s in this project.
  • The assessment was conducted by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) in association with its knowledge partners NASSCOM and KPMG in 2021.
  • NeSDA 2021 is the second edition of NeSDA, the first edition was launched in 2019 and it is a biennial study.
  • Categorisation of Portal:
    • All Government portals that were evaluated were divided into two main categories-
      • States/Union Territories/Central Ministry portal.
      • State/Union Territory/ Central Ministry Services Portals.
  • Parameters:
    • There were four main parameters of assessment: –
      • Accessibility.
      • Content Availability.
      • Ease of Use and Information Security.
      • Privacy for Central Ministry Portals.
    • An additional three parameters were also used for the Central Ministry Services Portals –
      • End Service Delivery.
      • Integrated Service Delivery.
      • Status and Request tracking.
  • Recent evaluation of NeSDA 2021:
    • In the case of MHA, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) Digital Police portal was shortlisted for evaluation under the Services Portal.
    • Accordingly, the main website of Ministry of Home Affairs was chosen as the parent Ministry portal for evaluation.
    • In the category of State/UT portal, among group A states- Kerala became a front runner and the progress was made by Tamil Nadu followed by Punjab.
    • Among group B states- Odisha being at top followed by Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
    • Among North-Eastern states Nagaland, Meghalaya and Assam are at top.
    • Among UTs, J&K topped followed by A&N, Puducherry, Delhi and Chandigarh.