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1. Introduction
Nowadays, e-governance in the Indian economy is seen as a complementary subject of information security, where e-service delivery ensuring the information technology (IT) policy development is the main focus. Apart from important instructions, the policies in the segment of e-governance framework are important for implementing procedures and security controls in various organizations and sectors. To frame security IT policy and support the process of e-services delivery to citizen, the area of information security governance is more challenging in the context of meeting the Indian objectives of sustainable development. Various implementing frameworks and routes have been developed as processes to fill the present gaps of the governmental development, where many actors are involved in the process of e-governance process implementation. Leading actors, i.e., the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), the Government of India (GoI), has taken a number of policy measures in the recent years of e-governance. Those measures are crucial for achieving the vision and objectives of a recently launched programme on Digital India. The programme is seen as one of the keys to sustainable development. In the area of information security and e-governance, IT policies are envisaged to provide the necessary support to all central ministries and various departments for running the central sector initiatives up to the state level. In this reference, all the States and Union Territories are being transformed by leveraging emerging technologies, making use of newer business models and revamping existing projects. The aim of such project-based services is to implement the vision and deliver the services electronically to citizens in an efficient, transparent and affordable manner. These policies also draw their strengths from national and international best practices in their respective domains as well as inputs from subject matter experts from Government departments, industry and academia. In addition to this, information security policy (the so-called IT policy) initiatives are endeavouring to chart out the roadmap for implementation of e-governance projects and to extrapolate best practices and key reform principles that can help the government implement a new paradigm of governance in the country (Government of India, 2008, 2016, Second Administrative Reforms Commission, Eleventh ARC Report, and e-Government Survey, United Nations Public Administration Network). The projects cover a number of important areas like open source...