E-GOVERNANCE PROJECT TRAGICALLY FAILS?

PAKISTAN / ISLAMABAD : HOW THE HELL DID THAT HAPPEN? : Rabo, Haleema, Eman, Dee, Saima, Hussain, Faraz, Wajahat, Ali?

*The Federal Investigation Agency [FIA] has advised Senate body that from executing agencies, contractors be proceeded against*.

The Federal Investigation Agency [FIA} on Wednesday proposed scrapping ''ab initio'' a very *high profile* project to convert the operations of the -

Entire government to paperless records that did not materialise for a decade due to hopeless inefficiency on the part of the government machinery.

The agency  - FIA, has also advised that criminal cases against officials in executing agencies and foreign contractors such as LMK Resources be proceeded against swiftly for causing  unquantifiable losses to the poor people of Pakistan and the State.

''NO PROGRESS has been made to implement the e-governance project in the Capital Development Authority despite directions from the standing committee on Information Technology.

*There is only one solution : That arrests should be made.

Recover lost public money* New tenders should be floated and fresh contracts awarded* said the FIA Deputy Director urging the Senate Standing Committee.

The non-implementation of the project has cost the government more than Rs.1.5 billion in losses, the committee was told.

The FIA has been tasked with investigating the reasons for the failure to implement e-governance in all the departments separately.

Zilli on The World Students Society will be watching all developments on daily basis.