• Soumitra Mondal

India as a nation, is based primarily on bureaucratic systems. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has now provided the means to provide its users with quicker, cheaper, more precise and easier communication, quality facilities, efficient storage, efficient work, data processing and sharing and use of information. This helps to provide tighter controls and raise sales. The benefits of ICT are advantageous to all individuals, parties, corporations, organisations or governments. However, this will require the government to reform itself, its procedures, its mindset, legislation, rules and regulations, and its way of communicating with people. In order to incorporate such a paradigm shift towards the e-governance module, e-governance plays the main role. E-Governance is no longer an option, but an absolute requirement of the day. E-Governance is concerned with government reform, automation of government processes and functions, and enhanced technology-based public service delivery systems such that government can be placed on an auto-pilot mode. Govt. of India launched several projects supporting e-governance, like e-seva, smart govt, digital India, e-kranthi, etc. In terms of e-governance implementation, however, some problems create barriers to e-progress. governance's This article objectively explores the different opportunities, status and difficulties of e-Governance implementation. The main objective of the work is to encourage scholars, writers, and educators to explore e-governance services in a new way towards excellence, to impart critical thinking in the theoretical, ideological spheres of the paradigm shift in the light of postmodern, globalised perspectives.

E-Governance, Paradigm shift, Prospects, Status, Challenges.

"E-Governance in India: Prospects, Status and Challenges", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no.1262-1270, February-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902D81.pdf

"E-Governance in India: Prospects, Status and Challenges", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no. pp1262-1270, February-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902D81.pdf