E-governance can check corruption: Gadkari

MUMBAI, Oct 4:BJP president Nitin Gadkari today said e-governance can check corruption and �red-tapism� to a considerable extent.Addressing BJP�s national convention on �e-governance for good governance� here, Gadkari said information technology (IT) should be used to bring in transparency, rule of law and speed in working process and dynamism.�Corruption can come down by 70-80 per cent because of e-governance. It can benefit a person and life can become easy with it,� he said.The BJP leader also directed the IT cell of the state unit to prepare a module of e-governance in corporations and zila parishads for good functioning.�Application of technology in social life and rural development can prove beneficial to the people,� Gadkari said.BJP-ruled states like Gujarat, Karnataka and Chhattisgarh have been doing a good job with the inception of e-governance, he said.Emphasising that his party is committed to the people, Gadkari said they are in favour of modernisation rather than westernisation.Party representatives from 19 states participated in the convention. (PTI)