Meghalaya Enterprise Architecture Project (MeghEA)

Ministry of Electronics & IT

Context:

Meghalaya Enterprise Architecture Project (MeghEA) launched today

About MeghEA:

• The initiative launched by Union Minister of Electronics & Information Technology and CM of Meghalaya.
• The MeghEA initiative is spread across 6 pillars i.e. 
  • Governance,
  • Human Resources,
  • Entrepreneurship,
  • Primary Sector,
  • Infrastructure and Environment
• The project envisions to make Meghalaya a high income state by 2030.
• The project aims to improve service delivery and governance for the people using power of Digital technologies.
• The initiative is in line with Prime Ministers vision of Digital India that focuses on transforming the lives of common people.
• National e-Governance Division(NeGD), MeitY engaged with the Meghalaya State Government to build State Government capacities and initiate the project. Funds amounting to Rs. 5 crores were sanctioned for the following MeghEA project activities-

MeghEA was conceived to support the following digital government goals:

• A planned state government transformation initiative which demands efficient coordination between strategies, policies, processes, services and organizational capacity to absorb change.
• Coordinate all ICT initiatives under one umbrella to get a better holistic perspective, boost IT planning effectiveness and optimize costs and investments for better returns.
• Implement and ICT enable state government process reengineering to provide multi-channel service delivery in a manner that increases digital take-up and completion rates.
• Ensure that state government applications and systems provide end-users with information they need to make decisions and influence government operations.
• Craft an ecosystem for the digital economy to boost shared prosperity, by leveraging ICT for employment and growth.

Envisaged impact of the project MeghEA –

• Preparation of a vision and roadmap to achieve the MeghEA vision (including SDGs adopted by the State)and mission levers – Connect (connected citizen connected government), Collaborate (efficiently collaborating government)  and Empower (digitally enabled citizens).
• Adopting the approach of radical transformation and focuson process re-engineering of the department processes.
• Interoperability among various public, private and governmental applications leading to a connected ecosystem to foster innovation and promote secure data sharing.
• Improved and integrated deliveryof Financial services.
• Appropriate adoption of national platforms i.e. Aadhaar, Umang, DigiLocker, NCoG, eSign etc.

India Enterprise Architecture (IndEA):

• IndEA is a framework for developing a holistic architecture treating the Government as a single enterprise or more realistically, as an Enterprise of Enterprises, which are functionally interrelated.

• It is a structured combination of several Reference Models that, together, enable a boundary-less flow of information across the length and breadth of the government and facilitate the delivery of integrated services to the stakeholders, namely, the citizens, businesses and employees.
  • IndEA framework comprises 8 Reference Models, viz., Business, Application, Data, Technology, Performance, Security, Integration and Architecture Governance.

• It is a comprehensive and convenient framework for developing Enterprise Architecture to support Information and Communication Technology (ICT) enabled transformation across governments.

• It is a way to establish Unity in Diversity in the domain of e-Governance.
  • Federated Architectural Pattern is chosen for the IndEA framework for better administrative feasibility, need for decentralization of implementations, on-boarding of legacy/ ongoing efforts of e-Governance and above all, the need for state governments to have the flexibility to build state specific ICT services.

Benefits of IndEA:

• Provide a ONE Government Experience to the citizens and businesses.
• Enhance the efficiency of delivery of services.
• Improve the effectiveness of implementation of the developmental and welfare schemes through a holistic performance management.
• Enhance the productivity of employees and agencies through easy access to information.
• Bring in flexibility and agility in making changes to the systems to align with the best practices and to leverage the latest technologies.
• Realize cost-effectiveness through use of shared infrastructure and services.
• Maintain the right balance between security of data and privacy of personal information.

Source: PIB

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