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Detailed explanation-1: -Q. Which state’s education department has launched an e-governance portal named ‘Samarth’? Notes: The Uttarakhand education department recently launched an e-governance portal named ‘Samarth’, to make the education system more transparent in the state.

Detailed explanation-2: -Karnataka government has unveiled the Farmer Registration and Unified beneficiary Information System (FRUITS). FRUITS is an e-governance portal to create a repository of farmland information and farm loan details on a single platform.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Samarth E-Gov Suite is a purpose built platform for Universities and HEIs to deploy a digital framework of good governance. Samarth increases the efficiency of Institutions by enabling them to : (1) leverage digital technologies to define and govern administrative processes.

Detailed explanation-4: -E-governance, meaning ‘electronic governance’ is using information and communication technologies (ICTs) (such as Wide Area Networks, the Internet, and mobile computing) at various levels of the government and the public sector and beyond, for the purpose of enhancing governance.

Detailed explanation-5: -SAMARTH is an e-Governance platform, developed under National Mission of Education in Information and Communication Technology Scheme (NMEICT) of M/o HRD. SAMARTH toenhance productivity through better information management in the institute by seamless access to information.