Deshpande, Shirish MDakhole, P S2011-03-102011-03-102011-03-02978-93-81232-01-9http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1634This paper discusses the concept of Information Literacy, its need and importance and IL standards.It also discusses the ICT policies of the government in India and initiatives taken by the government to promote various components of the information literacy such as computer literacy, IT literacy.The paper also discusses various e-Governance projects of the government which are playing aleading role to make the citizen an information literate.enInformation LiteracyInformation Communication Technologye-literacyArticle