09-12-21 Daily-Karnataka-KPSC Current Affairs

Founded as a not-for-profit Society in 2019, as an alternative to the National Informatics Centre (NIC), the Centre for Smart Governance (CSG) has made major headway into providing tech solutions to theKarnatakagovernment.

Once heavily dependent upon NIC, the technology firm which is run by the ministry of information technology, Karnataka found that the central agency was unable to scale up their manpower and provide quick solutions for the state administration.

So much so, that CSG has provided solutions to even Ponzi scheme repayments to investors, including the I-Monetary Advisory (IMA) and the Guru Raghavendra Co-operative Bank scam.
With a startup capital of Rs 10 crore, raised from various foundations and grants given by the government of India for specific projects, the company has been registered as a not-for-profit entity.

In fact, the Karnataka government has given the company a free reign to even approach other governments in adjoining states for their requirements and increase its own revenue generation.