A team of experts from Jadavpur University and IIT, Kharagpur will evaluate the tenders and select the best proposal. Once that is done, work for reviving the portal will begin. A lot of facilities will be available to the public through the portal, which will be highly interactive and informative. For instance, payment for different government services can be made through the portal through credit cards.

Launched with much fanfare on March 8, 2003, by chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee at a five-star hotel, Banglar Mukh (Face of Bengal) soon turned into a major embarrassment to the government and started being referred to as Banglar Kalo Mukh (the dark face of Bengal) in newspaper editorials.

The portal was launched with the main objective to highlight the activities of all government departments and provide detailed information about the ministers, MPs, MLAs and the district administration.

The second objective was even more ambitious: Eighty-two kiosks were set up in and around the city to provide internet services to the public. The attendants at these kiosks would also provide government forms and tender documents and thus, bridge the government-to-citizen (G2C) gap.