E- AUTHENTICATION FRAMEWORK FOR SECURE E-GOVERNANCE SERVICES

This paper is about the “How to deliver the secure services by the government to citizen without losing the privacy”. E-Governance is the service which is provide by the government to deliver and transform the
government services in easy, efficient, effective, transparent and accountable manner .e-Governance services may exchanges with in government, between government & government agencies of National,
State, Municipal & Local levels, citizen & businesses, to empower citizens through access & use of information. The services should trusted, secure and highly private. To meet these requirements, mechanisms,which provide secure management of information and facilities without compromising privacy and human rights, we need such mechanisms that relies on effective identity authentication. While traditional security measure such as passwords and PIN may be forgotten, stolen , or cracked ,by any unauthorized user to misuse .at that time biometrics system provides a very secure authentication mechanisms which is based on unique human physiological and behavioural characteristics that can be used to identify an individual or authenticate the claimed identity of an individual, but cannot be easily duplicated or forget or cracked .This paper discusses the role of biometric authentication in e-Governance environment to provide services efficiently and securely over the internet.