The future of India is in its cities. We at eGov believe that the citizen-centric platform we have built using the right tools in the hands of ULB employees and senior administrators enables high-quality urban governance and a better quality of life for citizens.
eGov has been working for 17 years with governments, citizens, and ecosystem partners to transform urban systems at scale. Ease of access, improved experience, and rapid resolution of complaints are at the core of what we do – and we strive to innovate and improve our services everyday.
We started by working in the trenches of wards and ULBs of Karnataka in 2003 to understand problems on ground and how Digital Platform can help in making cities better. Over the last 17 years, we have worked with 14 states in more than 1000 ULBs across India to ensure that every citizen in every city of India should be able to access all services they need with ease and transparency. While the progress we’ve made is exciting, we know there is still much more to do to build a thriving, digitally-enabled ecosystem in all 4000+ towns and cities in India.
Catalyse urban transformation and enhance ease of living and ease of doing business at national scale
Embedding an open digital infrastructure to transfrom governance in 4400+ ULBs by 2024
Trust
Collaboration
Ownership
Courage
Openness
Empathy
We keep our promises and create an environment where people feel safe in expressing their opinions. We listen carefully, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully. We own up to our shortfalls and are not embarrassed of being vocally self-critical.
We challenge ideas and not individuals. We show respect and value for the skills, experiences, creativity, and contributions of our ecosystem and embrace diversity. Listening to and acknowledging the feelings, concerns, opinions, and ideas of others is our way of interacting. We share information, ideas, and suggestions in a respectful manner. We support the final decisions of our ecosystem, even if not in total agreement, in line with the larger goal.
We care about the outcomes of our approaches and acknowledge our mistakes and failures. We are go-getters and take initiative to address societal challenges and distribute the ability to solve these challenges.
We make tough decisions without agonizing and take calculated and informed risks. Resilience is a quality that we imbibe and exercise.
We are open and share relevant information with others in a timely and effective manner and encourage others to do the same. We are open to learning and exploring new approaches of working in the ecosystem.
We listen to understand rather than to respond, and engage with kindness, conscience, and people-mindedness. We observe and use our ears, eyes and “gut instinct” to understand the entire message that is being communicated. We go deep to identify root causes and solve the underlying problems.
eGov plays the role of a trusted advisor and enabler of state leadership by collaborating with all actors in the ecosystem including policy advisors, technology and civic tech partners to enable the government entities to successfully implement their urban transformation programs.
Years of enabling the government for citizen-centric service delivery
Citizens benefited from our platform
Digitally enabled cities and towns
Citizen grievances addressed @96% redressal
of Public Money Saved
Citizen’s properties on DIGIT platform
Andhra Pradesh redefined the quality of Urban governance with improved service delivery to citizens and standardised processes across ULBs. AP used a platform approach to replace legacy systems with an integrated system of 22 modules.
Andhra Pradesh was crowned as the Gems of Digital India 2018 for excellence in eGovernance. Sri M S S Somaraju, Joint Director received the Award.
Andhra Pradesh topped in implementation of the AMRUT at the national level, during the first three years of the Mission. Shri K Kanna Babu IAS received the Award from the Hon’ble Minister for State Sri Hardeep Singh Puri.
eGov was honored with an award under Smart ICT Award category for Puraseva in Smart Cities India Awards 2017. Award was collected by Viraj Tyagi, CEO, eGov Foundation.
The property tax website of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) was awarded ‘Best e- Governed Project,’The website, implemented by eGov facilitated self-assessment of property tax by property owners, on-line calculation and payment of tax through credit card.
Chennai Corporation won the prestigious award for the successful implementation of online integrated public grievance and redressal facilities. The facility includes the civic body’s 1913 helpline; a mobile number for sending details of grievance through SMS; and its website.
The Citizen’s Choice category of eINDIA Awards 2010 for Municipal IT Initiative of the Year was awarded to eGovernments Foundation, under the Municipal IT Private sector initiative for the Municipal eGovernance project done for Municipal Reforms Cell (MRC).
Presented to Sri. Anjum Parwej, DMA by the honorable president of India on 27th October 2010. eGov implemented Birth & Death (B&D), Fund Based Accounting System (FBAS) and Public Grievance & Redressal applications in all 213 Urban Local Bodies of Karnataka.
The property tax website of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) was awarded ‘Best e- Governed Project,’The website, implemented by eGov facilitated self-assessment of property tax by property owners, on-line calculation and payment of tax through credit card.
eGov bags the prestigious “Order of Merit” at Business World Smart Cities Conclave & Awards, 2016. We were recognised for our implementation of “eGov Smart Platform” and “Puraseva” app across 110 ULBs in Andhra Pradesh.
Corporation of Chennai won the best eGovernance award at the CII Connect 2014. The award was presented for the “efficient use of IT” by providing a hassle-free system for public welfare services, improving the quality, accessibility and effectiveness of government services.
The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) was conferred on 37th Skoch Summit on ‘Minimum government, maximum governance’ .NMC had developed 11 types of modules and made the working system of 11 departments fully computerized.
Project Aasthi (GIS based property tax information), Directorate of Municipal Administration, Urban Development Department was declared the Bronze Award Winner for the National Awards for e-Governance 2010-2011 under the category – “Excellence in Government Process Re-engineering
Kerala State won the2018 e-Governance Award securing the 1st Place in Best eCitizen Service Delivery. The first prize in the e-citizen service delivery category is shared by the Urban Affairs Directorate and the Mining and Geology Department.
Andhra Pradesh was crowned as the Gems of Digital India 2018 for excellence in eGovernance. Sri M S S Somaraju, Joint Director received the Award.
Andhra Pradesh topped in implementation of the AMRUT at the national level, during the first three years of the Mission. Shri K Kanna Babu IAS received the Award from the Hon’ble Minister for State Sri Hardeep Singh Puri.
eGov was honored with an award under Smart ICT Award category for Puraseva in Smart Cities India Awards 2017. Award was collected by Viraj Tyagi, CEO, eGov Foundation.
eGov bags the prestigious “Order of Merit” at Business World Smart Cities Conclave & Awards, 2016. We were recognised for our implementation of “eGov Smart Platform” and “Puraseva” app across 110 ULBs in Andhra Pradesh.
Corporation of Chennai won the best eGovernance award at the CII Connect 2014. The award was presented for the “efficient use of IT” by providing a hassle-free system for public welfare services, improving the quality, accessibility and effectiveness of government services.
The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) was conferred on 37th Skoch Summit on ‘Minimum government, maximum governance’ .NMC had developed 11 types of modules and made the working system of 11 departments fully computerized.
Project Aasthi (GIS based property tax information), Directorate of Municipal Administration, Urban Development Department was declared the Bronze Award Winner for the National Awards for e-Governance 2010-2011 under the category – “Excellence in Government Process Re-engineering.
Chennai Corporation won the prestigious award for the successful implementation of online integrated public grievance and redressal facilities. The facility includes the civic body’s 1913 helpline; a mobile number for sending details of grievance through SMS; and its website.
The Citizen’s Choice category of eINDIA Awards 2010 for Municipal IT Initiative of the Year was awarded to eGovernments Foundation, under the Municipal IT Private sector initiative for the Municipal eGovernance project done for Municipal Reforms Cell (MRC).
Presented to Sri. Anjum Parwej, DMA by the honorable president of India on 27th October 2010. eGov implemented Birth & Death (B&D), Fund Based Accounting System (FBAS) and Public Grievance & Redressal applications in all 213 Urban Local Bodies of Karnataka.
The property tax website of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) was awarded ‘Best e- Governed Project,’The website, implemented by eGov facilitated self-assessment of property tax by property owners, on-line calculation and payment of tax through credit card.
eGov was founded in 2003, as a collective of world-class technologists, strategists, and policy professionals with an enduring commitment to solve India’s societal challenges. We are problem-solvers and responsible builders of communities and ecosystems, motivated by a sense of responsibility for making the country better — and the thrill of finding solutions that can improve crores of lives.
Managing Trustee
Professor Sadagopan is the Founder Director of IIIT-Bangalore. He had taught at IIT Kanpur and IIM Bangalore earlier. He is a product of Madras University and Purdue University, USA. He has been associated with many key transformational IT Projects with Social Impact including Railway Reservation System, RTGS, IMPS, Khajane and State Data Center / Wide Area Network in several States.
Managing Trustee
Srikanth is the Managing Trustee of the eGovernments Foundation which he co-founded with Nandan Nilekani in 2003. He was also ‘Head of Technology’ at the UID Authority of India. Setup the Technology Center for the development, design and operations of the Aadhaar system to issue a National ID to all the 1.2 billion Indian.He is currently the CEO of Khosla Labs.
Director-Engineering
Elzan is the head of software implementation at eGov with 19 years of industry experience handling various states implementations and partner-led deliveries. She has been an integral part of the organization from the past 15 years where her contribution extends from product management, development and delivery of the product suits.
She is instrumental in the success of eGov's presence in various locations like Chennai Corporation, New Delhi Municipal Corporation, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab and many more
CEO
Viraj Tyagi is the CEO of eGov Foundation. He is passionate about the impact of a jugalbandi of public digital platforms, policies and ecosystem in solving complex societal problems at scale and speed. Prior to joining the impact sector Viraj was an entrepreneur and corporate leader with wide ranging experience in building large businesses in Europe and India..
He is a serial entrepreneur, active investor in start ups and a mentor to entrepreneurs. Viraj was the CEO and co-founder of NettPositive – one of the first Big Data and Analytics companies in India. He is also a co-founder of fintech start-up - Finnable. He is on the board of several start-ups and companies . He is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Management – Bangalore (IIM-B) and Indian Institute of technology (IIT – BHU).
Chief Operating Officer
Chandar has 25 years of experience in enterprise software application management across manufacturing, telecom and media domains. He has experience of working in both start-up and mature environments, and has taken a start-up team to a medium sized enterprise of 2000 people. Chandar has played key roles across Business Enablement, Program management, Product Engineering, Consulting, Account Management and Process Engineering.
Prior to joining eGov, he was Senior Vice President of Client Solutions & Business Enablement at Prime Focus Technologies Limited. Before that he had worked with Wipro for 10years, where he worked in various roles in software delivery . He is an Electrical & Electronics engineer from College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University.
Chief Technology Officer
Abhishek is the CTO of eGovernments Foundation. He comes with 18+ years of diverse technology, product building and client handling experience, solving problems, and building world-class products. He is an alumni from IIT-Delhi (Integrated M.Tech in Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology). He is an avid reader and loves Music, Dance, Drama and travel.
Vice President-Strategy & Partnerships
Hiren Doshi is a passionate digital entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in the tech industry. He currently leads strategy, partnerships and business development at eGovernments foundation which focuses on catalyzing urban governance transformation in India. Prior to eGov, he led adoption for Sunbird, a population-scale digital learning infrastructure created by Ekstep.
Prior to Ekstep, Hiren played various leadership roles at Amazon, Flipkart and Infosys. He built one of the fastest growing brand advertising business for Amazon in India. At Infosys, Hiren led its foray into Greater China market and also led the Retail & CPG business in Europe. As an entrepreneur, he has successfully incubated start-ups in the digital industry and he mentors founders of many young start-ups on business and growth strategies.
Hiren did his MBA (Finance) and B.E (Electronics) from Mumbai University. He is also a GCPP alumnus of the Takshashila Institution and a Fellow of India China Institute, The New School.
Vice President- Engineering
Dhananjay is VP- Engineering at eGovernments, he comes with 18 years of diverse Engineering experience with Product and Services background. Before eGov, he has managed large engineering teams in various roles in Retail, Telecom, Healthcare, and Manufacturing domains across geographies. He is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Management – Bangalore (IIM-B). He loves to explore new technologies and trending topics be it Cloud computing, Blockchain, IOT, Chatbot, AI or ML
Vice President - Delivery
As VP Service Delivery, with a Master's in Engineering, he leads the Operations and Support Team and manages our major client for the last 9 years with result based Operational Support. He has extensive experience in driving product / technology strategy in Municipal and Government business environments with strong expertise in Technical consulting, New product commercialisation, Product innovation, Quality systems and leading-edge Citizen Centric technologies. He demonstrated strong acumen in spotting emerging Need-of-the-hour technology opportunities and developing niche product capability aligned to business plans.
Vice President – Special Projects
Krishnakumar is focused on creating and deploying solutions seeking profound outcomes in urban governance. Effectiveness of Citizen Services and governance. He has 22 years of experience spanning leadership roles in Tech Mahindra where he spearheaded new practises in the company. He began his career as a strategic consultant. He is a Six Sigma Black Belt and holds an MBA from SP Jain University.
Vice President - Delivery
Raju leads the Implementation and Platform Adoption at eGov. Raju comes with 14+ years of strong track record of driving large transformations in banking domain across geographies. In his previous avatars, he drove complex multi entity transformations at Infosys across Middle East and Africa for their financial platform Finacle. Entrepreneur at heart, Raju co-founded, scaled and successfully exited his startup in the financial domain.
Director- Policy & Advocacy
Gautham leads eGov’s policy initiatives with the Government of India and partner states. He started his career at Janaagraha where he led the Ward Infrastructure Index Program and was a founding team member of The Education Alliance. Gautham has a MIB degree from Fletcher where his studies focused on social enterprises and leveraging business models to reach underserved populations. At Fletcher, Gautham organized and co-chaired the first Tufts Innovation Symposium on Scaling Innovation in Emerging Markets.
Vice President- Product
Jojo Mehra leads product management eGov. He is a digital innovations professional with experience in leading product development, business model innovation and digital strategy. He is passionate about the role that digital technologies and innovation can play in addressing some of the most pressing societal challenges we face. He believes that we have entered a new techno-economic paradigm that is changing our work, our cities and our societies and that it is incumbent upon us to ensure that this change works for the many and not just the few. He was part of the early team at some of the pioneering digital start-ups like rediff.com and Yoomedia Plc. and also co-founded a shared accommodation platform and an HRtech startup. Jojo holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Loyola College (Chennai, India), a postgraduate degree in Creative and Media Enterprises from the University of Warwick (UK) and recently attended a Master’s programme in Technology Governance and Digital Transformation from the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance at Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia).
Prof. S. SadagopanProfessor Sadagopan is the Founder Director of IIIT-Bangalore. He had taught at IIT Kanpur and IIM Bangalore earlier. He is a product of Madras University and Purdue University, USA. He has been associated with many key transformational IT Projects with Social Impact including Railway Reservation System, RTGS, IMPS, Khajane and State Data Center / Wide Area Network in several States.
Srikanth NadhamuniSrikanth is the Managing Trustee of the eGovernments Foundation which he co-founded with Nandan Nilekani in 2003. He was also ‘Head of Technology’ at the UID Authority of India. Setup the Technology Center for the development, design and operations of the Aadhaar system to issue a National ID to all the 1.2 billion Indian.He is currently the CEO of Khosla Labs.
Elzan MathewElzan is the head of software implementation at eGov with 19 years of industry experience handling various states implementations and partner-led deliveries. She has been an integral part of the organization from the past 15 years where her contribution extends from product management, development and delivery of the product suits.
She is instrumental in the success of eGov's presence in various locations like Chennai Corporation, New Delhi Municipal Corporation, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab and many more.
Viraj Tyagi Viraj Tyagi is the CEO of eGov Foundation. He is passionate about the impact of a jugalbandi of public digital platforms, policies and ecosystem in solving complex societal problems at scale and speed. Prior to joining the impact sector Viraj was an entrepreneur and corporate leader with wide ranging experience in building large businesses in Europe and India.. He is a serial entrepreneur, active investor in start ups and a mentor to entrepreneurs. Viraj was the CEO and co-founder of NettPositive – one of the first Big Data and Analytics companies in India. He is also a co-founder of fintech start-up - Finnable. He is on the board of several start-ups and companies . He is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Management – Bangalore (IIM-B) and Indian Institute of technology (IIT – BHU).
Chandar Muthukrishnan Chandar has 25 years of experience in enterprise software application management across manufacturing, telecom and media domains. He has experience of working in both start-up and mature environments, and has taken a start-up team to a medium sized enterprise of 2000 people. Chandar has played key roles across Business Enablement, Program management, Product Engineering, Consulting, Account Management and Process Engineering.
Prior to joining eGov, he was Senior Vice President of Client Solutions & Business Enablement at Prime Focus Technologies Limited. Before that he had worked with Wipro for 10years, where he worked in various roles in software delivery . He is an Electrical & Electronics engineer from College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University.
Abhishek Jain Abhishek is the CTO of eGovernments Foundation. He comes with 18+ years of diverse technology, product building and client handling experience, solving problems, and building world-class products. He is an alumni from IIT-Delhi (Integrated M.Tech in Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology). He is an avid reader and loves Music, Dance, Drama and travel.
Dhananjay SinghDhananjay is VP- Engineering at eGovernments, he comes with 18 years of diverse Engineering experience with Product and Services background. Before eGov, he has managed large engineering teams in various roles in Retail, Telecom, Healthcare, and Manufacturing domains across geographies. He is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Management – Bangalore (IIM-B). He loves to explore new technologies and trending topics be it Cloud computing, Blockchain, IOT, Chatbot, AI or ML
P.R. KrishnamoorthyAs VP Service Delivery, with a Master's in Engineering, he leads the Operations and Support Team and manages our major client for the last 9 years with result based Operational Support. He has extensive experience in driving product / technology strategy in Municipal and Government business environments with strong expertise in Technical consulting, New product commercialisation, Product innovation, Quality systems and leading-edge Citizen Centric technologies. He demonstrated strong acumen in spotting emerging Need-of-the-hour technology opportunities and developing niche product capability aligned to business plans.
Krishnakumar ThyagarajanKrishnakumar is focused on creating and deploying solutions seeking profound outcomes in urban governance. Effectiveness of Citizen Services and governance. He has 22 years of experience spanning leadership roles in Tech Mahindra where he spearheaded new practises in the company. He began his career as a strategic consultant. He is a Six Sigma Black Belt and holds an MBA from SP Jain University.
Raju SinghRaju leads the Implementation and Platform Adoption at eGov. Raju comes with 14+ years of strong track record of driving large transformations in banking domain across geographies. In his previous avatars, he drove complex multi entity transformations at Infosys across Middle East and Africa for their financial platform Finacle. Entrepreneur at heart, Raju co-founded, scaled and successfully exited his startup in the financial domain.
Gautham RavichanderGautham leads eGov’s policy initiatives with the Government of India and partner states. He started his career at Janaagraha where he led the Ward Infrastructure Index Program and was a founding team member of The Education Alliance. Gautham has a MIB degree from Fletcher where his studies focused on social enterprises and leveraging business models to reach underserved populations. At Fletcher, Gautham organized and co-chaired the first Tufts Innovation Symposium on Scaling Innovation in Emerging Markets
Jojo MehraJojo Mehra leads product management eGov. He is a digital innovations professional with experience in leading product development, business model innovation and digital strategy. He is passionate about the role that digital technologies and innovation can play in addressing some of the most pressing societal challenges we face. He believes that we have entered a new techno-economic paradigm that is changing our work, our cities and our societies and that it is incumbent upon us to ensure that this change works for the many and not just the few. He was part of the early team at some of the pioneering digital start-ups like rediff.com and Yoomedia Plc. and also co-founded a shared accommodation platform and an HRtech startup. Jojo holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Loyola College (Chennai, India), a postgraduate degree in Creative and Media Enterprises from the University of Warwick (UK) and recently attended a Master’s programme in Technology Governance and Digital Transformation from the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance at Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia).
Hiren Doshi Hiren Doshi is a passionate digital entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in the tech industry. He currently leads strategy, partnerships and business development at eGov Foundation.
Prior to eGov, he led adoption for Sunbird, a population-scale digital learning infrastructure created by Ekstep and played various leadership roles at Amazon, Flipkart and Infosys. He built one of the fastest growing brand advertising business for Amazon in India. As an entrepreneur, he has successfully incubated start-ups in the digital industry and he mentors founders of many young start-ups on business and growth strategies.
Hiren did his MBA (Finance) and B.E (Electronics) from Mumbai University. He is also a GCPP alumnus of the Takshashila Institution and a Fellow of India China Institute, The New School.
Founder
Nandan Nilekani is the Founder of eGov Foundation. He was most recently the Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) in the rank of a Cabinet Minister. Nandan Nilekani is currently the Co-founder and Chairman of EkStep and was previously the co-chairman of Infosys Technologies Limited, which he co-founded in 1981.
Nilekani received his Bachelor’s degree from IIT, Bombay. He is the author of “Imagining India” and co- authored his second book with Viral Shah, “Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations”.
Managing Trustee
eGov has been working for 17 years with governments, citizens, and ecosystem partners to transform urban systems at scale. Ease of access, improved experience, and rapid resolution of complaints are at the core of what we do – and we strive to innovate and improve our services everyday.
With DIGIT- Trade License, Property tax and m-Collect, Uttarakhand advanced their technological ability, to keep the municipal services adapt to changing times and bring it closer to the citizens, at their fingertips.
With DIGIT- Trade License, Property tax and m-Collect, Uttarakhand advanced their technological ability, to keep the municipal services adapt to changing times and bring it closer to the citizens, at their fingertips.
With DIGIT- Trade License, Property tax and m-Collect, Uttarakhand advanced their technological ability, to keep the municipal services adapt to changing times and bring it closer to the citizens, at their fingertips.
With DIGIT- Trade License, Property tax and m-Collect, Uttarakhand advanced their technological ability, to keep the municipal services adapt to changing times and bring it closer to the citizens, at their fingertips.
The initiative of transforming services offered by Urban Local Bodies to citizens through a digital platform has been undertaken through support and technical assistance from National Institute of Urban Affairs and eGov Foundation and will be achieved in a very short duration”
Shri Shailesh Bagauli, IAS Principal Secretary (Urban Development), Uttarakhand
“Digitisation of Andhra Pradesh through eGov’s platform has really benefited govt employees by saving almost 19hrs of their time every week. Earlier the citizens used to run around to access municipal services. Today the ULB officers run around to deliver services to the citizens”
-Shri Kanna Babu, Ex. Director, CDMA
The AP govt recently rolled out the prestigious Ward Secretariat Program for doorstep delivery of 24 urban services. This was rapidly enabled on the Core Municipal Platform, ensuring easy roll out and consistency of operations.”
Shri GSRKR Vijay Kumar, IAS Commissioner, and Director – Municipal Administration, Andhra Pradesh
In 2008, as a part of the comprehensive eGovernance initiative that was meant to provide efficient services to citizens, administrators and corporators by implementing integrated governance solutions, NMC revamped the entire legacy system with eGov’s integrated e-governance system based on open technologies for over 60 functions of the ULB.
