Tamil Nadu: Government Wants all Services to go Online

Chennai: Chief Minister M K Stalin said that he wanted all government services to go online and was hence increasing the number of e-service centres that had grown from 14,927 in 2021 to 33,554 at the end of 2004.

Inaugurating the ‘Umagine TN 2025’ Information Technology Conclave at the Chennai Trade Centre in Nandambakkam on Thursday, he said that in this digital era, since everything that people did would be digital based, the process should be simplified.

He spoke at length on the efforts taken by his government to promote the development of Information Technology and how the State’s Minister for Information Technology and Digital Services, P T R Palanivel Thiagarajan had been working hard to take the State to the next level of development on IT, which was launched by M Karunanidhi in 1999 through the opening of the Tidel Park in Chennai.

Today, not only had the State moved to the next level but hat also ensured that the development was not confined to the capital city of Chennai, he said, adding that Elcot Industrial Parks were now being set up in Tier II and III cities, which had helped youth from such small towns get jobs.

Speaking on the government's efforts to promote Artificial Intelligence, he said an Information Technology space was being developed in Coimbatore in two million square feet under Public Private Partnership.

Among the subjects chosen for discussion at Umagine TN 2025 are: Equitable Public Policy and Governance, Climate Impact and Sustainability, Economic Growth and Workforce Transformation, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Tech, Climate Change, Quantum Computing, Startup Ecosystem, Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming, Comics, Global Capacity Centre, Talent Development and Electric Vehicles.

More than 100 experts and 10,000 participants are part of the two-day high-level conference. An exhibition has also been organized along with the conference.