kolkata some of bengals leading bureaucrats have started attending school again that is to learn how to use computersfiftyfour bureaucrats of joint to special secretary rank are currently on a fiveday sojourn to technologyland to overcome their fright of having to send or download emails or browse the internet for information that doitnow chief minister buddhadeb bhattacharjee may suddenly requirefrom november 3 these officials have started attending speciallydesigned courses with trainers from webel and tcs helping them to tell the difference between the computer mouse and the real onethe babus are also expected to pick up the variance between the chip munched while watching a film and the one that powers a computernot to mention the difference between ram as in computer memory and the one with hornswe are confident these officers would be immensely benefited by attending the programme and become more computersavvy in the days ahead it department special secretary ravi kant told tnn on wednesdayraising computer literacy is at the core of the governments egovernance agendawe are confident that once these officers return from the training they would be able to do a much better job of managing the portal and make it useful to the citizens kant saidthe it department is confident that the portal will stabilise by the end of this year and netizens will get updated and relevant information without a hitch he assuredwhen banglar mukh the governmenttocitizen portal was launched by bhattacharjee expectations were highthe political masters hoped that citizens would be able to email their grievances to ministers and even access tender forms from 82 information kiosks set up throughout the statebut kiosk owners who paid a licence fee of rs 40000 to acquire these machines complained that the facilities provided did not turn on prospective clients making it a lossmaking propositionnow the government will brook no excuse from recalcitrant bureaucrats with the necessary skills the officials who run the government will perhaps be more accessible to common menno longer offlinebanglar mukh the government to citizen portal was launched with high expectations it was meant for citizens who would directly email their grievances to the concerned ministerthe scheme never really took off largely because the site was never manned properlynow with the bureaucrats seriously learning the ropes the buddhadeb bhattacharjee government hopes to make the peoples portal more accessible