E-Governance: A Step Ahead

India is emerging as a country where a number of experiments of e-Governance are taking place. E-governance is the effective use of Information & Communication Technology (ICT) to improve the system of governance that is in place, and thus provide better services to the Citizens. E-Governance is considered as a high priority agenda in India, as it is considered to be the only means of taking IT to the "Common Public". India gives a unique challenge to "e-Governance" professionals because of several reasons ranging from poverty, awareness, literacy, basic infrastructure, bandwidth issues, multilingual and cultural issues. This paper describes the benefits of e-governance in India further it tries to analyze the various e-governance schemes launched by government in India and what is the future of e-governance in India?