Extensive use of modern ICTs in contemporary science has generated enormous new opportunities for scientific investigation but also not the little issues for science policy. The science policy principles and institutional arrangements of the past fifty years were questioned and called upon to meet new and demanding challenges. The most pressing challenges in the sphere of science are provoked by a contradictory mixture of new technological potentialities and old political regulations.

The proposed paper analyzes augmented capabilities and illustrates them with original empirical data of Russia's science monitoring. But main attention will be concentrated on such untoward effects of ICT uses as:
a. further decrease of the institutional attachment and loyalty of researchers,
b. fostering the fragmentation of research networks into less diverse and ever more selectively homogenized research specialities,
c. increasing the degree of stratification and inequality of access to scientific resources.

Abstract ‘BPR’, the hot new management buzzword, has its relevance in Government too, and Information & Communication Technology (ICT) plays a vital role in reengineering any organization.

Before the start of the reengineering exercise in HBSE in the year 2003, there was rampant corruption with a nexus operating between scheming schools, officials of the education department & the board and teachers which made the state of Haryana infamous for widespread copying. Accuracy was uncertain, human drudgery was involved in various branches of the board due to use of obsolete methods & procedures and the clients (about 1.1 million candidates & 7600 schools) were provided sub-standard services.