: This paper has been written with a presumption that E-governance has been successfully accepted in the Urban
Development & Municipal Affairs Department in the state sector of West Bengal due to wide awareness among major portions
of the government employees. The objective of the paper is to assess the success of such ongoing E-governance projects in the
Urban Development & Municipal Affairs Department and list the sources of impediments which are negatively influencing the
successful implementation of E-governance and review several influencing factors such as Politics, Awareness of Bureaucrats,
Citizens’ Acceptance and State-Central Relationship which has affected the growth or created challenges in implementation of
E-governance. The paper therefore predicts some factors which are required to be either avoided or welcomed for attaining
success in implementing E-governance
This research paper has made a confirmatory factor analysis of the primary information to deduce how much the respondents
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