Telangana State, AP have no govt websites in Telugu yet 

Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, the two Telugu-speaking States which have fought a legal battle to get classical language tag to Telugu language are the only States which do not have a website in Telugu language.

• No complaints received yet, says TS IT Secretary
• Steps would be taken, says AP IT Minister

Speaking to The Hans India, a senior official from the State Information Technology and Communications department pointed out, “all government websites should generally follow a four-step model of: Web Presence, Interaction, Transaction and Transformation.” These four-steps are in turn devised against the backdrop of the “e-governance Ready Models (ERMs).

However, the primary step of the four-stage model is the Web Presence that stipulates “information publishing and dissemination” and this has to be done in the official language of the state or languages having equivalent status. But, “neither Andhra Pradesh nor the Telangana state official web portals are following this model.

Further, the government websites have been categorized in terms of their usage into “Government to Government (G2G), Government to Citizens (G2C) and Government to Business (G2B), Citizens to Citizens (C2C), Government to Civil Society Organisations (G2CS) and the like.

Of these services both the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have the G2G, G2B in English language. The Andhra Pradesh government also has “Smart Village and Smart Ward” under the G2Cs to partner with civil society to take up development programmes.

But, according to the government website standards prescribed by the Government of India (GoI), the G2C services has to provide information about government provisions of its services, to citizens through the internet. But, none of the services of under any of these categories have their content in Telugu language.

Further clarifying on this, another senior official engaged in the IT initiatives said that both the AP and TS portals are just a replication of what the united AP had. It was against this similar backdrop that the GoI had directed all central government organisations to comply with the standard processes and their website should open in Hindi by default and have an English link and not vice versa.

When contacted the Telangana State IT Secretary Jayesh Ranjan told that they have not received any complaints on this issue. And, about 300 odd citizen services offered under the Mee Seva (Earlier: e-Seva) is being used by people across the State. However, the issue would be looked into, he added.

Responding to the same, Andhra Pradesh Information Technology and Communications Minister Palle Raghunatha Reddy said, “Steps would be taken to come up with the Telugu version of websites at State and district levels.”