Indian government is extremely actively operating towards e-governance and also the voters with access to internet-enabled computers and smartphones too expect to a better life. After all, who does not prefer to use the web possibility provided by most the organizations and save time by avoiding the long queues at totally different utilities and departments.
However, the most important irony is that a lot of government or PSU websites that supply on-line solutions for public or enterprises are a lot of of a web headache for them. a number of these have navigational problems, others are updated just once in few months, whereas several others have serious style or usability flaws.
Here are a number of government websites that vie for the highest honours in 'unfriendliness' and are absolute to irk you:
IRCTC (https://www.irctc.co.in/)
IRCTC has been claimed by several jointly of the simplest government websites however all that glitters isn't gold. albeit the booking time underneath Tatkal quota has been reduced to 24-hours, however logging within the IRCTC web site throughout the first morning hours is solely next to not possible.
What is worse, it's been thus for an extended time while not being addressed. A web site that ought to be optimised for all form of web connections, together with the slower ones, isn't so. Hence, you may notice plenty of problems in gap the positioning and having the ability to effectively search and/or book and cancel a price ticket quite an ordeal.
The site is kind of content serious. In fact, it's serious attributable to the amount of advertisements displayed on it. Also, it takes plenty of your time to refill data|the knowledge|the data} like 'To' and 'From' information and then viewing the trains on the market etc and if you successfully manage to log-in and refill the shape, by then safely expect the tickets to be 'sold out'. Why not have basic pre-filled data being retained for every login?
BSNL (www.bsnl.co.in/)
BSNL's web site is as patchy as its cellular network. Though seemingly a lot of often updated as compared to different Sarkari websites, BSNL's web site could be a labyrinth in itself. The content on the web site is badly sorted and also the developers have left it for the guests to sift through the data helpful to them.
In case you're yearning for broadband plans, then be ready for this: A journey through multiple tabs, jargons and convoluted data that may leave you pulling you hair than enlightening you concerning BSNL's over-priced plans. If you click on Home BB Plans, a pop-up can open with BSNL assuming all Indians live in Maharashtra!
Passport (www.passportindia.gov.in/)
Planning to travel abroad? obtaining your passport renewed online? Then make certain your pc or your laptop and web don't suffer any glitches. In case any tech issue happens whereas you're filling up your type, you've got to fill all the data everywhere once more.
And that would be quite a journey in itself given what quantity of precise detail must be filled!
MTNL (www.mtnl.net.in/)
The state-run MTNL web site provides you a control as if you're viewing a page straight out of a web site that belonged to the start of this millennium.
Though most data is obtainable on its page, the web site has navigational challenges. for instance, if you're navigating through the tabs provided on the highest, the drop down menu hides behind the advertisements running below and you cannot see the last drop-down menu possibility.
NDMA (http://ndma.gov.in/ndma/index.htm)
NDMA web site could be a 'disaster' in itself. The name of the web site overlaps the tabs that are given below. As you progress over the tabs, particularly 'About us' and 'NDRF', rather than a typical cursor for hyperlink, it shows you 'I' cursor that is usually viewed whereas highlighting.
Immediately below it, you'll be able to see a poorly done slideshow in the middle of incomplete caption and 2 virtually unrecognizable buttons for 'previous' and 'next'. Well that's quite a quake for the user.
Environment ministry (www.envfor.nic.in/)
If you're thinking that setting ministry is 'idle' then it indeed is. apart from the website's homepage, the web site suffers from serious update problems. The events and also the press section don't appear to be updated in the least. Incidentally, the 'Events' section was last update in March 2010. most for a caring ministry that prides itself in saving India's dwindling ecology!
Agricultural promoting data Network (www.agmarknet.nic.in/)
If you've got to see the daily costs for the cereals, vegetables etc, and you happen to go to the Agmarknet web site, you'll be able to imagine landing in an exceedingly (vegetable) soup, or is also a fish market.
Department of Health and Family Welfare (www.wbhealth.gov.in/)
Running underneath the govt. of India and ministry of health and family welfare, this departmental web site appears to supply over fifty active links.
But upon clicking them, you will be redirected to a blank page on a similar link with an arrow marking 'Back'. it's as 'unhealthy' as any modern-day web site will get.
However, the most important irony is that a lot of government or PSU websites that supply on-line solutions for public or enterprises are a lot of of a web headache for them. a number of these have navigational problems, others are updated just once in few months, whereas several others have serious style or usability flaws.
Here are a number of government websites that vie for the highest honours in 'unfriendliness' and are absolute to irk you:
IRCTC (https://www.irctc.co.in/)
IRCTC has been claimed by several jointly of the simplest government websites however all that glitters isn't gold. albeit the booking time underneath Tatkal quota has been reduced to 24-hours, however logging within the IRCTC web site throughout the first morning hours is solely next to not possible.
What is worse, it's been thus for an extended time while not being addressed. A web site that ought to be optimised for all form of web connections, together with the slower ones, isn't so. Hence, you may notice plenty of problems in gap the positioning and having the ability to effectively search and/or book and cancel a price ticket quite an ordeal.
The site is kind of content serious. In fact, it's serious attributable to the amount of advertisements displayed on it. Also, it takes plenty of your time to refill data|the knowledge|the data} like 'To' and 'From' information and then viewing the trains on the market etc and if you successfully manage to log-in and refill the shape, by then safely expect the tickets to be 'sold out'. Why not have basic pre-filled data being retained for every login?
BSNL (www.bsnl.co.in/)
BSNL's web site is as patchy as its cellular network. Though seemingly a lot of often updated as compared to different Sarkari websites, BSNL's web site could be a labyrinth in itself. The content on the web site is badly sorted and also the developers have left it for the guests to sift through the data helpful to them.
In case you're yearning for broadband plans, then be ready for this: A journey through multiple tabs, jargons and convoluted data that may leave you pulling you hair than enlightening you concerning BSNL's over-priced plans. If you click on Home BB Plans, a pop-up can open with BSNL assuming all Indians live in Maharashtra!
Passport (www.passportindia.gov.in/)
Planning to travel abroad? obtaining your passport renewed online? Then make certain your pc or your laptop and web don't suffer any glitches. In case any tech issue happens whereas you're filling up your type, you've got to fill all the data everywhere once more.
And that would be quite a journey in itself given what quantity of precise detail must be filled!
MTNL (www.mtnl.net.in/)
The state-run MTNL web site provides you a control as if you're viewing a page straight out of a web site that belonged to the start of this millennium.
Though most data is obtainable on its page, the web site has navigational challenges. for instance, if you're navigating through the tabs provided on the highest, the drop down menu hides behind the advertisements running below and you cannot see the last drop-down menu possibility.
NDMA (http://ndma.gov.in/ndma/index.htm)
NDMA web site could be a 'disaster' in itself. The name of the web site overlaps the tabs that are given below. As you progress over the tabs, particularly 'About us' and 'NDRF', rather than a typical cursor for hyperlink, it shows you 'I' cursor that is usually viewed whereas highlighting.
Immediately below it, you'll be able to see a poorly done slideshow in the middle of incomplete caption and 2 virtually unrecognizable buttons for 'previous' and 'next'. Well that's quite a quake for the user.
Environment ministry (www.envfor.nic.in/)
If you're thinking that setting ministry is 'idle' then it indeed is. apart from the website's homepage, the web site suffers from serious update problems. The events and also the press section don't appear to be updated in the least. Incidentally, the 'Events' section was last update in March 2010. most for a caring ministry that prides itself in saving India's dwindling ecology!
Agricultural promoting data Network (www.agmarknet.nic.in/)
If you've got to see the daily costs for the cereals, vegetables etc, and you happen to go to the Agmarknet web site, you'll be able to imagine landing in an exceedingly (vegetable) soup, or is also a fish market.
Department of Health and Family Welfare (www.wbhealth.gov.in/)
Running underneath the govt. of India and ministry of health and family welfare, this departmental web site appears to supply over fifty active links.
But upon clicking them, you will be redirected to a blank page on a similar link with an arrow marking 'Back'. it's as 'unhealthy' as any modern-day web site will get.