AN e-GOVERNANCE PUBLICATION FROM NATIONAL INFORMATICS CENTRE
VOL 23 No.4 April 2015 ISSN 0971-3409
http://informatics.nic.in InformaticsInformatics JEEVAN KHOYA PRAMAAN PAYA
WEB RATNA AWARDS 2014 ICT IN Web Ratna Awards 2014 DISTRICTSJeevan Pramaan Update eVisitor: IT Solution for Visit Management Goa Excise Management System (GEMS) Implementing Business Continuity Plan VISITOR using Active-Active Hosting Strategy ICT in Districts: Hazaribagh, Amravati, Kangra & KotaGOA MANAGEMENT EXCISE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS INFORMATICS Volume 23 No. 4 April 2015 EDITORIAL
PATRON eb Ratna Awards Dr. Ajay Kumar, IAS recognizes the exemplary and sustainable EDITOR-IN-CHIEF e-Governance initiatives Neeta Verma in the realm of World W Wide Web. Instituted ADVISORY PANEL in the year 2009, Web Ratna Awards have Dr. Shefali S. Dash come a long way in accelerating the cause of e-Governance at all levels of Government, Sanjay Gahlout providing necessary impetus in spreading Dr. B.N. Shetty innovative eGov Apps in the web space, G.S. Bansal urging others to emulate the best practices in M. Vinayak Rao ICT. Web Ratna Awards 2014 were conferred recently by the Hon’ble Minister of Communications & IT- Shri Ravi Shankar EDITORIAL BOARD Prasad in a ceremony on 25/03/2015. R. Gayatri Vivek Verma In our E-Gov Products & Services section, we bring out some of the significant Rubaiyat Ali ICT initiatives implemented across the country. e-Nijukti, KhoyaPaya, Goa Anshu Rohatgi Excise Management Systems (GEMS), Unified Birth and Death Registration Mohan Das Viswam System in Andhra Pradesh, etc. are highlights of this section. A new section- Prashant Belwariar Spotlight features on the Challenges in Govt. Procurement of IT Goods & Services. WEB VERSION In Guest Column, Shri Lalit Das, IPS & Special Secretary, Home Department, Lokesh Joshi Government of Odisha talks about Implementation of IVFRT MMP in Ritu Ghai Odisha, while in Spotlight, Shri Rajesh Bahadur, MD, NICSI has provided an account on the challenges in Government Procurement of IT Services. PRINT, CIRCULATION & DISPATCH The Technology Update section emphasizes on the importance of Anita Arora Implementing Business Continuity Plan and Active-Active DR Strategy while Anita Bhardwaj District Informatics section covers updates on the latest ICT developments Jasvinder Kaur in Hazaribagh, Amravati, Kangra and Kota districts. The Awarded Products section provides glimpses of various award winning ICT initiatives developed EDITORIAL ASSISTANCE and implemented by NIC. Bhuvan Chopra Our regular sections such as Cyber Governance, International e-Gov Updates GRAPHICS ASSISTANCE and In the News would apprise you on the latest technological developments Anand Kumar in India as well as the world. Biswaranjan Pati Send us your views and feedback on the articles to help us in enhancing the Vijay Kumar Maurya quality of the newsletter. Happy Reading. INFORMATICS Is Published by National Informatics NEETA VERMA Centre, Department of Electronics & Information Technology, Ministry We invite your valuable articles and write-ups for Informatics. of Communications & Information Please send your inputs/contributions/feedback to our State Correspondents or else Technology, Government of India directly to us at the address below: A Block, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003 Editor-in-Chief Room No-375, 3rd Floor, NIC-HQ PRINTED AT A-Block, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road VIBA PRESS PVT. LTD. New Delhi - 110 003 C-66/3, Okhla Industrial Area, Phase-II, [email protected] New Delhi-110020 (INDIA)
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LEAD STORY
4-10 Web Ratna Awards 2014
E-GOV PRODUCTS & SERVICES
11-12 e-Nijukti: An Online System for Managing Job Oriented Skill Development & Training in Odisha 4-10 13 Jeevan Pramaan Update GUEST COLUMN 32-33 AMRAVATI: Pioneering 14-15 eVisitor: IT Solution for Visit Aadhaar based DBT Schemes Management 24-26 Implementation of IVFRT MMP in Odisha 34-35 KANGRA: An Emerging ICT 16 KhoyaPaya: A Citizen enabled District Centric Portal for Missing SPOTLIGHT and Vulnerable Children 27 Challenges in IT Services 36-38 KOTA: Making Rapid Strides Procurement in Government in ICT 17-18 Unified Birth and Death Registration System in ACCOLADES Andhra Pradesh TECHNOLOGY UPDATE 39-40 Awarded Products & Projects 28-29 Implementing Business 19-20 Goa Excise Management Continuity Plan using Active- Systems (GEMS) Active Hosting Strategy 41-42 INTERNATIONAL E-GOV UPDATE 21-23 Use of Hybrid Survey DISTRICT INFORMATICS Methodology and Bhu- 43-44 CYBER GOVERNANCE Sarvekshan Software for 30-31 HAZARIBAGH: Using ICT for 45-48 IN THE NEWS Resurvey in Bihar Smart Governance
19-20 24-26 30-31
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ood governance is one of the key ingredients of growth and development. Over the years, e-Governance in India has steadily evolved into a potent tool to foster transparency, accountability, efficiency and public G participation in government systems, strengthening the awards premise of democracy.
In a run up to Government of India’s effort to promote and uphold the 2 014 use of World Wide Web for enhancing the efficiency and transparency of government mechanism and encouraging its speedy transition towards Digital India, National Informatics Centre (NIC), under the ambit of India Portal (http://india.gov.in) organized the third edition of Web Ratna Awards. Instituted in the year 2009, Web Ratna Awards is one of its kind awards in India which has honored the works of different government bodies on the web based platform.
Web Ratna Awards since its inception has played a major role in recognizing the noteworthy and sustainable initiatives in the realm of e-Governance for better delivery of information and services. At the same time Web Ratna Awards have re-established itself as an important platform to disseminate information about such path breaking initiatives. At the same time, Web Ratna Awards has also encouraged numerous departments to take up and replicate the successful innovations which have been recognized on this platform.
All in all the Web Ratna Awards in itself has created a benchmark for various Government Agencies in India enabling and encouraging them to strive for better utilization to promote innovation in the web
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awards 2 014 space to add on to public delivery and efficient governance. In addition to this it has also created a healthy culture of competition pushing them to do better and add to the larger goal of promoting Web based e-Governance application. The idea of Web Ratna is one of the key components in the Digital India initiative, doing its bit to promote exchange of information and values which run key governance aspects on the World Wide Web platform ultimately leading to digitally empowered society and a knowledge based economy.
THE EVENT AT A GLANCE The third season of Web Ratna Awards was Web Ratna Award Event in progress marked by unprecedented fervor. The award ceremony was held on 25th March 2015 at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Hon’ble Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad graced the occasion and presented the awards to the distinguished winners.
Shri RS Sharma, Secretary, Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), Shri Tapan Ray, Additional Secretary, DeitY and Dr. Ajay Kumar, Director General, NIC also graced the event. Senior officials from Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY) and NIC were also present at the ceremony.
Web Ratna Awards 2014 Compendium and Release of Web Ratna Awards-2014 Compendium Index of Government Websites were also released during the event.
THE PROCESS E-Governance initiatives of Government Ministries and Departments across India were evaluated under various categories. Three awards Platinum, Gold and Silver were presented in each category to the winners shortlisted from the nominations received under each category. The categories included Citizen Centric Service, Open Data Champion, Outstanding Content, Innovative Use of Technology, Comprehensive Web Presence –Ministry and Comprehensive Web Presence-State/UT. Open Data Champion is a new addition to the awards. It honors Ministries/Departments who have contributed Senior Offficials present during the event datasets to India’s Open Government Data (OGD) Platform (data.gov.in). Contd. On Page 9...
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“ Web Ratna Awards by the “ These Awards are being “I congratulate NIC for keeping National Informatics Centre, conferred in different categories up with the tradition of Department of Electronics & which touch upon different aspect honouring the exemplary Information Technology would of e-Governance. I am happy e-Governance initiatives using indeed go a long way to promote to learn that a new category of World Wide Web as a medium. e-Governance initiatives and to Open Data initiative is added harness the medium of World in this edition of awards. DeitY I hope these awards will serve Wide Web (WWW) for delivery and NIC have a greater role to as a source of inspiration for of Government Information and play in leveraging technology for others to follow. Services. “ “ realization of Digital India. “ Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad Shri RS Sharma Shri Tapan Ray Hon’ble Minister of C&IT Secretary, Addl. Secretary, DeitY DeitY
“It’s my pleasure to stand here “ We had received total 315 “ On behalf of NIC, I take on the occasion of conferment nominations for Web Ratna this oppurtunity to heartily of Web Ratna Awards-2014. Awards 2014, from all over the congratulate the winners of It is extremely important to country. All the nominations the prestigious Web Ratna recognize exemplary initiatives were evaluated based on Awards 2014. Your sustained to drive healthy competition efforts towards e-governance all across the government. scientifically formulated criterion. has enabled your department A spectrum of parameters All shortlisted nominations were including creative design, ease in delivering quality services. equally deserving. I wish Web I hope to see many more of use, ready updation, quality Ratna Awards will go a long way of content etc. are taken into awardees to join our journey account while deciding the in making websites inclusive and in future.“ awardees. “ accessible.“ Dr. Ajay Kumar, Ms. Neeta Verma Ms. Alka Mishra Director General Deputy Director General Sr. Technical Director NIC NIC NIC
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Award Winners OPEN DATA CHAMPION
There are total six categories of awards and winners for each of these categories are decided on the basis of content currency, relevancy, updation, website usability, accessibility, scalability, technology, design, interactivity among the other critical parameters.
CITIZEN CENTRIC SERVICE Platinum Icon: Office of Registrar General & Census Commissioner
Platinum Icon: Passport Seva Project Gold Icon 1: Planning Commission
Gold Icon: National Safai Karmchari Finance Development Corporation Gold Icon 2: Ministry of Statistics & Program Implementation
Silver Icon: Passport Seva Project Silver Icon: Ministry of Water Resources
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OUTSTANDING CONTENT INNOVATIVE USE OF TECHNOLOGY
Platinum Icon: Ministry of External Affairs Platinum Icon: mKisan-Government of India Portal for Farmer Centric Services
Gold Icon 1: Kerala Tourism Gold Icon 1: Computerization Project of Madhya Pradesh, Commercial Tax Department
Gold Icon 2: Ministry of Tribal Affairs Gold Icon 2: e-Services, Department of Commercial Tax, Tamil Nadu
Silver Icon: Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region Silver Icon: e-Sahakar, Maharashtra
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COMPREHENSIVE WEB PRESENCE - COMPREHENSIVE WEB MINISTRY/DEPARTMENT PRESENCE – STATE
Platinum Icon : Ministry of Information & Broadcasting Platinum Icon: Maharashtra
Gold Icon: Ministry of Health & Family Welfare Gold Icon: Tamil Nadu
Silver Icon: Office of Controller General of Accounts Silver Icon: Uttarakhand
...Contd. From Page 5 Online nominations were called from various Government specifically designed for each category of the Web Ratna entities and overwhelming response was received for all Awards. The distinguished Jury thereafter reviewed the the six categories. An extensive process for evaluation of shortlisted nominations and finalized the awards in each filed nominations was followed which was conducted in category. two stages. In the initial stage, entries were screened based on a scientifically formulated Evaluation Matrix which was
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JURY
The esteemed, high-level Jury of Web Ratna Awards-2014 consisted of senior members from Government, Academia, Institutes and Organizations. Hon’ble Minister has felicitated the esteemed Jury members for their role in deciding the winners after evaluating the entries on various parameters. The names of Jury members are - Shri RS Sharma, Secretary (DeitY), Dr. Ajay Kumar, DG (NIC), Dr. Rajendra Kumar, JS (DeitY), Ms. V Vidyavathi, JS (ARC, DARPG), Ms. Neeta Verma, DDG, (NIC), Prof. MP Gupta, Dept. of Management Studies (IIT Delhi), Ms. Rama Vedashree, Vice President, (NASSCOM), Shri Shyamanuja Das, Director/Columnist (Juxt Consult Research & Consulting Pvt. Ltd.) and Ms. Anjali Kaushik, Associate Professor (Management Development Institute). Shri Ram Sewak Sharma
Dr. Rajendra Kumar Dr. Ajay Kumar Ms. Neeta Verma
Prof. MP Gupta Ms. Rama Vedashree Shri Shyamanuja Das
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Employment & Technical Edited by PRASHANT BELWARIAR Education and Training
Department (ETET) was disha State Employment initiated by Government Mission (OSEM) under of Odisha with National ETET conducts various skill development & Informatics Centre (NIC) O training programs serving as the knowledge with an aim to create employment partner to increase job opportunities for the unemployed youths in the state. opportunities and skill Dr. CHANDRA SEKHAR KUMAR, IAS, The State Employment Mission Commissioner-Cum-Secretary, ETET Department development in the state roped in NIC Odisha as a knowledge with the use of ICT. The partner to increase job opportunities I am happy to note that NIC online application (www. and to manage programs through Odisha State Centre is bringing an extensive use of ICT. The portal- article in Informatics. NIC is our empmissionodisha.gov.in) plays www.empmissionodisha.gov.in plays knowledge partner in various ICT a pivotal role for instituting a pivotal role in providing e-services based services including e-Nijukti which is a very good product for less effective e-governance and and bridges the gap between government and citizens. Details of qualified, unemployed youths who essentially bridges the gap unemployed youths are captured lack proper skill set and knowledge to compete and get suitable job online and as per their ability between government and opportunity. This product is generic are imparted with necessary skill citizens. Less qualified youth and can be rolled out PAN India. development & training. They are of the state are captured assessed online by an assessing body before the certificate is distributed. online through this system c) Project Implementing Agency and imparted with necessary The software is developed in Open (PIA), skill development training. Source i.e. Linux, JAVA, JBOSS, d) Training Centres, PgSQl and Enterprise DB. The entire Further, certificates are cycle in the process i.e. registration of e) District Employment Officer (DEO) , issued to the candidates after candidates, imparting training & batch online verification by various allotment is done randomly by the f) Assessing Bodies recognized assessing bodies. The portal provides by RDAT (Regional Directorate of assessing bodies. names of the trained job-seekers Apprenticeship Training), which can be absorbed by the private g) Job Providers. organizations. ODISHA STATE STAKEHOLDERS EMPLOYMENT MISSION The various stakeholders for the e-Nijukti initiative are: (OSEM) OSEM invites application online from Dr. R.N. BEHERA a) Job Seekers, less qualified youths across the state Sr. Technical Director [email protected] b) OSEM, and impart them skill development
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& training programs. The application basis of quality of facilitates easy monitoring and keeps the training provided a check on spurious and duplicate and skills acquired. candidates. Post completion of this, NCVT PROJECT IMPLEMENTING certificates are issued AGENCY (PIA) to the candidates PIAs can register themselves online which facilitate them and get the approval from OSEM in getting job. for training and placement activities besides adding training program, JOB PROVIDERS Training Centres and trainers. PIA Job providers can counsel the online registered collaborate with candidates and enhance the batch PIAs for getting strength. trained skilled manpower. The list AWARDS AND ACCOLADES of unemployed skilled manpower The portal has earned the following TRAINING CENTRES is available on the portal for the recognitions and awards: Training Centre can update bio-metric employers. attendance of candidates and notify yye-India 2014 the same through email/SMS. CHALLENGES FACED yySKOCH Digital Inclusion Awards Odisha is an underdeveloped state for the year 2012, 2013 & 2014 JOB SEEKERS of India with low penetration of ICT yyEDGE-Information Week Magazine Unemployed youths can get in rural and backward areas. Though Award 2014 information about various training literacy rate is 73.45 % (2011 Census), programs available and other related the IT literacy rate is still very low. information from the website. They can PROPOSED SYSTEM There is lack of awareness among the The system is in the process of register online or can contact DEO/ youth regarding the benefits derived PIA or Common Service Centres for integration with other departments from the programmes organized by the same. Auto-notification via SMS/ that conduct skill development the Government. e-mail is generated after registration training programs with common giving information regarding date of A tribal living in a remote location of database platform. Analytics will be batch commencement, trade etc. Odisha or any illiterate/semi-illiterate used to forecast the skilled manpower person who do not have access to produced and skill manpower ASSESSING BODIES internet can come to the nearest CSC required in the state. The system Assessing bodies identified by RDAT for registering online. They can get all will be moved on to National Cloud assess the candidates online on the information through this portal. ‘MeghRaj’ in near future. CONCLUSION e-Nijukti facilitates skill development and training with the objective to provide job opportunities to less qualified, unemployed youths. It also checks wastage of public money by preventing duplicate entries across the departments which are integrated with the system.
For further information: Dr. R. N. BEHERA Senior Technical Director National Informatics Centre Odisha State Centre, Bhubaneswar e-Mail: [email protected]
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Jeevan Pramaan Update
Jeevan Pramaan Portal Edited by database, the banks and other Pension MOHAN DAS VISWAM Disbursing Agencies can automate (www.jeevanpramaan.gov. their backend wherein the DLCs nitially targeted towards can be easily picked up from Jeevan in) was launched by Hon’ble Central Civil and Pramaan portal to update the pensioner Prime Minister on November Defence pensioners, database. Seeding of Aadhaar Number Jeevan Pramaan has in pensioners’ accounts would facilitate 10, 2014. Jeevan Pramaan started necessary automatic updation of pensioners’ I amendments in the database. initiative provides facility relevant rules by yySpecial camps have been held in Controller General of Accounts to coordination with Defence and EPFO to pensioners to submit recognize it as a method to provide organizations. life certificate digitally. The system Aadhaar based Digital Life while providing genuine help to the yySeveral State Governments have Certificates (DLC) which pensioners will also help in reducing come forward to have the facility for the leakages which may be happening their pensioners. Haryana, Himachal are maintained in a central due to payment of pension to the Pradesh, Goa, Manipur, Odisha and pensioners who are not alive. While Punjab are some among these states. digital repository at NIC. the system allows remote marking Efforts are underway to extend the of DLCs, so far, the facility has been facility to pensioners of these states. extended in the assisted mode for most yyCollaboration with pensioner cases due to newness of the facility. organizations like Ex-Servicemen Nearly 30,000 CSCs were identified as Welfare Organizations, Bharat Jeevan Pramaan Centres at the time of Pensioners etc. has been established to launch of the portal for providing such enlist their support to create awareness facilitation. among pensioners about the scheme. The number of Digital Life Certificates received through the Jeevan Pramaan WAY FORWARD portal as on March, 2015 is 1,06,700 yyCreating greater awareness (out of these, nearly 74,000 pertain to various Banks, 19,000 pertain to DPDO As we move to next annual cycle and 11,000 pertain to EPFO) and for life certificate i.e. in November, 72,000 DLCs have been successfully there is a need to create widespread verified by various Pension Disbursing awareness among pensioners for Agencies (PDA). availing this facility. A sustained and strategic publicity campaign through The following steps have been taken media such as posters, advertisement since the launch of the portal: in magazines having longer shelf life yyNSDL Centres NIELIT Centres, needs to be carried out. NIC offices etc. across the country yyExtending Scheme to other major other than CSCs have become Jeevan pensioner groups Pramaan Centres for pensioners to submit their life certificates. Focused efforts are essential in Railways, Post and Telecom to yy The client version of the Jeevan encourage their pensioners to use the Pramaan software available for facility. Similarly, State Governments Windows and Android environment which are not on board would also provides the facility through which the need to be encouraged to avail this pensioners can submit DLC from their facility. home with the use of PC, laptops or smart phones with biometric devices attached. For further information: RAJIV RATHI RAJIV RATHI yyAutomatic updation of pensioner database with DLCs: To further Senior Technical Director Senior Technical Director [email protected] [email protected] reduce efforts to update the pensioners’
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eVisitor, a web based Edited by If the visitor has registered once, for MOHAN DAS VISWAM the subsequent visits, he/she can give application system developed provide reference of old registration by National Informatics he eVisitor application number, mobile number or personal Centre is a citizen service to provides online interface details to facilitate quick registration at the MHA operated reception counter. facilitate submission of online for the visitors of department/ministry requests by individuals for http://eVisitors.nic.in is the URL for T to register for visiting new visit registration, while http:// visiting government officers officials. The data is processed for eVisitors.nic.in/eVisitormis is the of Ministries/Departments generating passes for the visit after due URL for the processing by officer consent of the approving authority. concerned and subsequent issuing of located at various Bhavans. The system features the facility to visitor pass by PRO/Reception. This facility is available check request status any time at the eVisitor site (http://MyVisit.gov.in) through the Home Page of FROM VISITORS’ by specifying the request registration PERSPECTIVE number. The status of the visit the Ministry website, which eVisitor facilitates online registration approval/change in visiting time/ directs the visitor to eVisitor features, SMS and eMail integration, redirection is communicated to the check current status of the visit site ie., http://MyVisit.gov.in. visitor through SMS/email. In case, approval and barcode reader if the visit could not be approved by The registration page of the integration for security purpose. the officer concerned, visitor can take site has the prescribed format the printout of the request generated in which the visit details through the eVisitor website and FROM MINISTRY / submitted are communicated can get it approved by an alternate DEPARTMENT PERSPECTIVE concerned officer. At the time of back to the visitor through visit, the visitor is required to carry eVisitor facilitates: SMS/email containing a proof of identity such as Aadhar 1. Visit Management Module for the information such as visitor card, election card, driving license, officer ration card or passport. For enhanced yyVisit registration (through phone / registration number, status of security, a photograph of the visitor is email / facsimile) approval and approved date taken at the reception counter, which is operated by the Ministry of Home yyDebarring of visitors and time for visit. Affairs at various Bhawans. yyVisit view / approval / rejection /
RAJIV PRAKASH SAXENA Deputy Director General [email protected]
SHASHI KANT SHARMA Technical Director [email protected]
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yyQueries and reports 3. Administration yyCreation and modification of the officers profile yyAllocation of the roles yyMaintenance of the master data yyApplication configuration eVisitor has a three tier web application system at the backend with modular & role based access control and is hosted at the cloud environment of NIC. Following are its key features: yyAccess to the citizens to book their visit to a government office in advance through the internet yyEnhanced security perception at the bhawans yyEnables control and eliminition of unauthorised visitors yyPre-booked and approved visits for better crowd management at the government offices and providing better services to the citizens yyApplication access to the officer to view/approve/reject/change the time/ redirect/forward to another officer yySMS and eMail based alerts about visit approval status (confirmation/ change in the visit date and time/ officer) yyReception centre of the ministry can register new visits, which are not booked through internet, capture photographs and record visitor movement yyAutomatic generation of the appointment list of the officers yyProvision to store the user log as a security measure for future forensics. redirection/forwarding/rescheduling yyVisitor registration (visitors yyQueries approaching reception); yy For further information: yyReports Approved visits processing (photo RAJIV PRAKASH SAXENA, DDG capture/generation of the pass) Prisons Division, NIC 2. Visitor Management Module for yyDebarring of the visitors DeitY the reception Email: [email protected] yyGate Management (entry/exit)
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KhoyaPaya: A Citizen Centric Portal for Missing and Vulnerable Children
Children are the most vulnerable section Edited by has also been developed for android- of our society and are observed as the MOHAN DAS VISWAM based phones. Development of apps easy and soft target of criminals and for other platforms is also underway. perverts. The worst among the atrocities hoyaPaya is an Reporting of missing and sighting of encountered by children are trafficking, online portal by kidnapping and sexual abuse. Despite children through Interactive Voice the Government of the law enforcement agencies does their Response System (IVRS) is also best to safeguard the children from such India for reporting proposed. inhuman acts; the sad reality is that a K and tracing missing large number of kids go missing every children. Envisaged as a people centric Standard operating procedures for year. Statistics reveal that one child and collaborative portal, KhoyaPaya the portal are under way and a team goes missing every eighth minute in our is an online interface for parents of of moderators will be deployed to country. The law enforcement bodies the missing children to lodge and find ensure that the uploaded content is as are bound by the law and are doing details. This is a platform to register per the portal usage policy. Additional the best to prevent such acts and are features such as natural language committed to take immediate action and provide information regarding a once identified. Unfortunately, delay missing or sighted children, without processing tools and facial recognition invariably creeps in due to completion waiting to complete the formal legal tools will be integrated with the portal of formalities by parents before the procedures. After quick moderation, in the near future. It is also proposed formal lodging of complaint, as per the the information would be made to link the system with other systems law, it is mandatory to immediately open for public view. The portal at a later stage through web services. file FIR in case of a missing child. Government focused on the need for facilitates to search the database an alternate solution in the form of of the children by matching the web-centric channel. This is the genesis attributes of the lost/sighted of KhoyaPaya- a citizen-centric portal for child. This is to drastically reduce missing and vulnerable children. time for the relevant information to reach the parents. Though KhoyaPaya is not a substitute for PADMAVATHI any existing system or statutory VISWANATHAN Deputy Director General bodies to track the missing [email protected] children, it would enable the parents in possibly locating their missing child in an alternate and effective way of public participation. C. J. ANTONY Senior Technical Director The platform is being developed [email protected] as National Portal for Lost and Sighted Children – an Early Harvest Program under “Digital India”. Developed using state of the art Open source technologies NALINI S. NAUTIYAL such as J2EE frameworks, Postgre Principal Systems Analyst For further information: [email protected] SQL, Linux et al, KhoyaPaya portal is C. J. ANTONY hosted on NIC cloud. Mobile app for Senior Technical Director uploading details of sighted children E-mail: [email protected]
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Unified Birth and Death Registration System in Andhra Pradesh
ITE&C Department, Govt. of Edited by were followed by the Birth and Death R. GAYATRI Registration Units of RLBs (Gram Andhra Pradesh has initiated Panchayats) and ULBs (Greater Civil Registration System- n India, the system of Municipal Corporations, Municipal civil registrations has Corporations, Municipalities) of Unified Births & Deaths been in operation for Andhra Pradesh. Major gaps among Registration, a Flagship over a century. Civil the models are standardization, I Registration System centralized access, restricted service project, for computerization popularly known as delivery points, vertical monitoring, of Civil Registrations for Birth and Death Registration System centralized application status view, RLBs (Rural Local Bodies) is the recording of vital events i.e. live etc. ITE&C department entrusted births, still births and deaths under the activity of Gap Analysis to and ULBs (Urban Local the statutory provisions on continuous NIC Andhra Pradesh to study the Bodies) in consultation with and permanent basis. The registration prevailing models. Accordingly, NIC records are useful primarily as legal proposed a Unified Model of Birth Commissioner & Director of documents and secondarily as a source and Death Registrations to bring Municipal Administration of statistics. For individuals, it is legal out the standardization, centralized proof of age, identity, nationality, repository, digital signing of events, (CDMA) and Commissioner, heritance and civil status. Registration online boarding of reporting units to Panchayati Raj and Rural of births and deaths is done under minimize the delay in reporting of the Registration of Birth and Death events and G2C services either through Employment (CPR&RE). Act, 1969 and the Rules issued by the Mee Seva or Registration Units. NIC Government of Andhra Pradesh. has designed and developed web based Unified Birth and Death (UBD) UNIFIED MODEL Registration application software K. RAMA SUBBA Different models and architectures which is hosted on Andhra Pradesh REDDY Senior Technical Director [email protected]
SHAIK HAFEESODDIN Senior Systems Analyst [email protected]
K.SWATHI VENKATA LAKSHMI Systems Analyst [email protected]
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State Data Centre (APSDC). It is • Hospital Interface for reporting of DEVELOPMENT being implemented successfully in events TECHNOLOGIES 1,317 registration units of ULBs and • Cancellation of registered birth • Java RLBs of Andhra Pradesh. Hospitals and death events • JSP can avail the Online Event Reporting • Aadhaar Seeding provision for • Struts facility based on the assessment of • AJAX eReadiness of the hospitals by the birth and death events and interface • HTML Registration Unit. Approval Authority to SRDH AP of the hospital forwards the events to • Two-level workflow • Web Services the concerned Registration Unit for • Comprehensive MIS Capsule DEPLOYMENT PLATFORM registration. • Unique Code for Registration Unit • Application Server: GlassFish FEATURES • Mee Seva Interface Open Source Edition • Birth, death and still-birth event • Database Server: Oracle reporting and registration CITIZEN SERVICES THROUGH Exalogic of AP State Data Centre MEE SEVA CENTRES • Provision for Legacy Data Entry CHALLENGES and Confirmation G2C services are classified into two categories, Category-A-issuance • Information in silos with diversified • Registration of Digital Token by the of Birth and Death Certificates for structures Approval Authority of Registration • Migration of Legacy Data into a Unit the digitally signed records and Category-B - workflow based requests. Unified Model • Digital signing of events - single/ • Data Cleansing bulk • Category A: Birth and Death • Digital Token Readiness • Issuance of Birth and Death Certificates • Digital Signing of Records Certificates • Category B: Request for Birth and • Capacity Building • Issuance of non-availability of Death Certificates for un-ported data, Birth and Death Certificates Name Inclusion, Birth and Death BENEFITS • Registered Event Corrections Event Corrections, Non-Availability • UBD-APSC acts as a centralized • Name Inclusion of Birth and Death Certificates. repository of about 11 million events. • Around 7 million events have been digitally signed. • About 3 million certificates have been issued through Mee Seva Centres. • Extensive Capacity Building Programmes have been carried out using SAPNET – Maana TV Programmes • Centralized MIS Capsule ( http:// ubd.ap.gov.in:8080/UBDMIS)
For further information: K. RAMA SUBBA REDDY Senior Technical Director [email protected]
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GOA Excise Management System (GEMS)
‘GEMS’ is Government to Edited by Goa or imported from outside based ANSHU ROHATGI on the product. Business (G2B) initiative The main function of the Excise of Department of Excise, xcise is a matter mostly Department is issuance of licenses for governed by the setting up liquor manufacturing units, Government of Goa, Central Government. wholesale shops, retail shops and bars. aimed at achieving good In such a case, only These license and liquor labels are to the manufacture be renewed every year. Apart from governance and paperless E and sale of alcoholic this, the department issues NOCs/ beverages comes under the purview permits for import/export of raw office using ICT tools. The of State Excise Departments. In Goa, material and liquor. project was entrusted with the Excise Department is headed by Commissioner and consists of Assistant Moving with the time, the Excise NIC in October 2013, to Commissioners, Superintendents and Department in Goa decided to Excise Inspectors (EI’s). There are embrace technology to provide efficient and faster service to the develop a complete web 60 EI’s stationed at various Talukas, stakeholders involved. Earlier, most Manufacturing Units and Check Posts. based workflow application of the work was done tirelessly by providing end-to-end In all there are 105 Manufacturing the staff, which was time consuming Units, 240 wholesalers, 2173 and prone to errors. In 2013, the solution to the business retailers and 8087 bars in Goa. The Goa Excise Department kicked off manufactures produce Indian Made its process of computerization by community, facilitating the Foreign Liquor (IMFL), wine, beer, issuing printed challans to tax payers dealers through anywhere, country liquor etc. These products are in place of handwritten challans. sold in Goa as well as exported outside Printed challans was actually the anytime and round the clock Goa and also from the country. The first step towards making the process services. raw materials are manufactured in computerized. Later, the department
K.P. PARISELVAN Technical Director [email protected]
ANJU T.S Scientific/Technical Assistant “B” [email protected]
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status of the application through SMS. In the manual system, this process used to take a minimum of 3 working days, as the entire file has to come to head office from various Excise Stations. After deploying GEMS, it takes only 1-2 hours to process the applications. For the departmental official - the dashboard display the pending applications and revenue collection. There is an option to transfer all the files pertaining to an officer to other employee in case of leave or transfer Launching of Portal by Hon’ble Chief Minister of Goa, Shri Laxmikant Parsekar on 20th February 2015 so that the services are provided uninterrupted. Android based mobile also started e-payment of excise duty GEMS APPLICATION apps are being developed to facilitate on the lines of e-payment of other GEMS is a combination of two web the department official to view the taxes like Income Tax and Value- based applications - the Internet based status and circulars, and scan the GS1 barcode to verify the documents Added-Tax (VAT) etc. interface is for the business community, during enforcement. The move of issuing printed challans while the Intranet interface is for the simplified matters for manufacturers departmental officials. BENEFITS and distributors of alcoholic beverages. The business community can yySystem generated application forms for the dealers are based on the input It also helped the Goa Excise apply online (for NOC’s, permits with GS1 barcode that eliminates Department in curbing corruption as & licenses) along with softcopies of they were able to check the details need to write applications manually. all the supporting documents. The GS1 barcode standards are used to of printed challans on the click of a EI will log into the portal, verify the identify the document type, validity, mouse. The department also adopted supporting documents, generate the issuing authority etc. a computerized system known e-challan accordingly and send it back yyDealers can scan and upload all the as Sales Removal for monitoring to the applicant electronically. The reference documents and department the movement of goods. Other applicant will either pay the e-challan officials can view these documents beneficiaries of the system are the online, or at the bank counter and digitally at any stage. This helps research organizations and agencies upload the e-receipt on the portal. The in quick decision making. It also which can access crucial information EI will forward the application with eliminates completely the need to about products manufactured and appropriate remarks to the concerned carry physical files to the department, thus saving manpower, transport, sold in the state. officer who in turn will forward it to energy and paper. the higher authorities with appropriate yy OBJECTIVES OF GEMS remarks. This process continues till Fee calculators for calculating excise duty and auto-generation of e-Challan yyWork flow based system to carry the final grant stage. The history of are available. out all major activities of Goa Excise each officer’s comment along with the Department documents uploaded can be viewed by yyLinking of permits and endorsement details avoids multiple truck entries officers to take appropriate decisions. yyIssue NOC’s, Permits and Licenses against one permit. There is no file/paper movement yyMonitor online revenue collection from one stage to other. After the yyIntegration with e-Challan Payment yyMinimize physical interaction grant, the system will generate the Gateway helps in easy transactions. between business community & NOC, permit etc. and the authorized yyLess paper means fewer trees are cut, departmental officials official will sign and issue the same. resulting in saving the environment. The dealers will visit the department yyIntegration of Digital Signatures to For further information: promote Green Office only once to collect the NOC/permit JJR ANAND etc. Integration with digital signatures State Informatics Officer yy Facilitate online payment is being done to eliminate the physical National Informatics Centre, Goa State Centre yyFacilitate “Anywhere, Anytime visits by the dealers. At every state H-Block, Paraiso-De-Goa Porvorim Goa Services” to the business community the dealer is kept informed about the
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Use of Hybrid Survey Methodology and Bhu- Sarvekshan Software for Resurvey in Bihar
The Bihar state - spread over Edited by approx. 94163 sq. Km area, has an PRASHANT BELWARIAR administrative setup comprising RE-SURVEY & CHALLENGES of 9 divisions, 38 districts, 101 A re-survey is a re-construction of subdivisions, 534 circles and 45,700 land boundaries and sub-divisions mauza(s) i.e. revenue villages. accomplished by re-running, re- The very first survey of land i.e. marking the lines represented in the Cadastral Survey (CS) of the state field-note records or on the plot of a was conducted almost a century previous official survey. MITHILESH MISHRA Director, Land Records & Survey ago. These hundred years old records PROPOSED SOLUTION have now become fragile. Their day The basic components related to Department of Revenue and Land Cadastral Resurvey process are Pre- to day handling is critical in terms of Reforms, Government of Bihar Survey Activities, Survey Activities, loss of information and destruction decided to start the re-survey in Post Survey Activities. Pre-Survey of paper based maps. Fragmentation the state using “Hybrid Survey Activities i.e. creation of ground control network has been completed methodology employing Aerial of land parcels and their subsequent in 34 district of Bihar. Survey maintenance regarding updation Photography and Ground Truthing activities, aerial photography for with TS/DGPS” (Total Station/ of records were not timely 10 districts have been completed. Differential Global Positioning Processing of aerial photographs accomplished. This has posed a System) as per the guidelines of and generation of ortho rectified great challenge to the government National Land Modernization images have been completed for in implementing development Programme (NLRMP). Hybrid 7 districts. Creation of cadastral parcel and field verification are Survey Methodology by aerial schemes, disposal of litigations and in progress. Cadastral Maps of photography and ETS (Electronic land acquisitions for infrastructure 2 revenue villages were finally Total Station) & GPS is suggested projects. published after completing 100% for survey/resurvey of plain areas, ground verification. where good quality Cadastral Maps are available. This technology is also appropriate for hilly areas where to minimize the time span terrain corrected aerial photographs without compromising on quality, can be generated. transparency and grievance redressal with lesser manpower. The re-survey SANJAY KUMAR RE-SURVEY ROADMAP was launched on 22nd May, 2013 by Principal Systems Analyst the then Hon’ble Chief Minister of [email protected] For the re-survey work, ‘Bihar Special Survey and Settlement Act, 2011’ and Bihar. ‘Bihar Special Survey and Settlement Niyamawali, 2012’ were enacted. The RE-SURVEY EXECUTION act has been designed to emphasize Re-Survey process using aerial all the stages of Cadastral Survey photography started with selection of MD. JAWED MANZAR Senior Systems Analyst and settlement operations in the state appropriate agency having expertise [email protected] using hybrid modern methodology in Hybrid Survey Methodology. The
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the time of raw data processing. The raw data is further sent for security vetting to the Ministry of Defense. After getting clearance, the raw data passes through different stages of processing like Aerial Triangulation, Digital Terrain Modeling, Ortho- rectification and Mosaicking. Aerial images have to be taken maintaining a Ground Sampling Distance (GSD) of 10 cms. Necessary pre-marking or post marking of GCPs are required for precise geo-referencing of images. It is required that each GCP is clearly identifiable in the aerial image after processing. The generated map is sent to field for its verification through ETS/ DGPS, if required. Sometimes part of image captured through aerial agency created Primary, Secondary, side overlap. The raw images are flying is not clearly visible because Tertiary and Auxiliary Ground stored on an onboard storage device. of heavy cloud, forest, orchard etc. Control Points (GCP) for the purpose. The camera fitted in the aircraft is Such uncovered area is surveyed through ETS/DGPS for modification Presently, 39 Primary and 481 GPS enabled and its IMU (Inertial in the map. After modification the Secondary Ground Control Points Measurement Unit)/GPS data is digital map, is geo-referenced using have been monumented in Bihar. captured separately for utilizing at Tertiary and Auxiliary GCPs have been monumented, which were governed by photogrammetric requirements and need based. The plot boundaries were surveyed using the offsets from the details appearing on the ortho-photo, in which case, tertiary control and auxiliary points were not needed. Flying permissions were obtained to fly over a desired area from the competent authorities like DGCA, Ministry of Home Affairs (IB) and Ministry of Defense (Military Survey). The aircraft captures photograph of plots with specially designed camera fitted at the bottom of the fuselage. The aircraft flies on a pre-defined flight path and captures photographs with 60% forward overlap and 30% Work Flow of Hybrid Survey methodology using Aerial Photography
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established control survey network (Primary, Secondary and Tertiary) around existing Survey of India Permanent Reference Points. The map is indexed and meta data related to it is preserved for future reference. Finally village map is generated in .shp file format (WGS 84 - UTM) along with all the supporting files like (.shx, .dbf, .prj, .xml, .sbn, .sbx). The scale of the map for agricultural land is 1:4000 (this may vary based on the need to match the village boundary of CS/RS maps, i.e. the original map scale of CS/RS required for further consideration), for Abadi land in village area is 1:1000 and for urban area is 1:500 within a permissible Equipments used and images captured through Aerial Photography error limit. Lakhisarai, 294 of Khagaria, 53 maps updated through the software which After all needful corrections of Nalanda and 4 maps of Sheikhpura in turn generates Prapatra -12 - the under ‘Kishtwar’ activity, the map have been generated through aerial draft publication of Khatiyan. During is provided to survey team for survey. The aerial data of Saharsa, the process the software assigns further survey work beginning with Supaul and Madhepura have been unique Khata number to each and ‘Khanapuri’ activity. ‘Amin’ of the submitted for security vetting, and every Raiyat for different categories survey team allocates new plot soon will be available for map of government plots. The Prapatra-12 number to each and every land parcel generation. is kept in the concerned circle office of the map and verify the land area of for public review for specified period. The RoR data collection in the land parcels with the actual one on If any discrepancy in data still persists survey process has also been started the ground. After needful corrections then it is corrected in the database. in Nalanda, Saharsa, Begusarai, as recommended by ‘Amins’ the final After a stipulated period, the software Khagaria and Lakhisarai. A web map is referred by the survey team on generates Praptra-20 which is the based software solution – “Bhu- the ground for starting the activity - final Khatiyan - the net outcome of Sarvekshan” for making of Khatiyan ‘Making of Khatiyan & RoR (Record the survey process. of Rights) Database’. & RoR database in the survey process has been introduced by NIC-Bihar. Saidpur mauza of Katrisarai circle of Nalanda district is the first village of PROGRESS AND It has eased the process of record which the final Khatiyan and map has MONITORING keeping, report generation and the been officially published and its RoR Different committees were formed management of activities. data is also available on department’s by Department of Revenue and Land The software collects survey data official website i.e. http://lrc.bih.nic. Reforms to monitor the massive work from Prapatra-6(Khesra Panji) - the in. of aerial survey for the whole state. first official document of survey, The survey work has been carried out which is provided to each and every by three agencies namely M/s IL & FS land holder of the mauza in the format Environment, M/s IIC Technologies of Prapatra-7 (Khanapuri Parcha) for For further information: and M/s GIS Consortium India Pvt. NIC, BIHAR STATE CENTRE its verification – generated by the 3rd Floor Technology Bhawan, Ltd in Bihar. software. The genuine corrections in Bailey Road, Patna. PIN - 800015 So far, 1182 maps of Begusarai, 475 of Prapatra-7(if any) raised by Raiyats are
April 2015 | informatics.nic.in | 23 Guest Column
Implementation of IVFRT MMP in Odisha
This is an exclusive interview NIC: Sir, IVFRT Project is a Mission Mode Project, what is the State with Shri Lalit Das, IPS & Government’s initiative/outlook Special Secretary, Home about the project? Department, Govt. of Odisha Spl. Secy: We perceive this project as a much needed and awaited on various paradigms along one. The use of ICT is inevitable with challenges faced in many functionaries of the State Administration. Home Department during implementation being the nodal one, has to oversee of Immigration Visa and law and order, police administration Foreigner’s Registration including security matters. It is imperative that this project is (IVFRT) Mission Mode Project implemented across the state of in Odisha. Odisha. NIC: Can you please elaborate LALIT DAS, PS & Special Secretary the importance of the project to Home Department, Govt. of Odisha the State Administration and its functionaries? etc. and as per the Rule 1992 of the Spl. Secy: As you are aware that Registration of Foreigners Act 1939, large number of foreigners visits the registration of foreigners arriving for state as tourists, students, scholars various purposes is mandatory along
INTERVIEWED BY: Nihar Ranjan Biswal Principal Systems Analyst Range level Workshop on IVFRT at Paradeep, Jagatsinghpur District
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hoteliers and institutes etc. were taken up simultaneously.
NIC: How the project is beneficial to the State Govt. and in particular to the Police Administration? Spl. Secy: I would say immensely, as you are aware foreigner’s data captured during visa issuance at the mission is seamless and shared across the FROs in districts which in turn is updated as the foreigners move across the country. The data further gets shared online with hoteliers/institutes. They see it as a very convenient way of registration and intimation to FROs which is mandatory for them. Inauguration of C-FRO at Puri by Special Secretary, Home in presence of FRO, Puri, and Dr. B. N. Shetty, DDG & NIC team The web enabled application with DSC/VPN based security is available 24*7 to users. Online Form-C module with their tracking and ensuring few more to be operational soon after keeps track of registered foreigners their identity. This is done at various the International Airport becomes while students details are recorded missions, ICPs and FROs (Foreigners functional. State Home Department in the Form-S module. C-FRO Registration Offices) using document closely monitors the project along with module while providing services to scanners & biometrics, updation of State Intelligence Department and all foreigners also keep track of Pakistani foreigner’s details at entry and exit SPs/FROs have been instructed to nationals besides performing risk points. Sharing of such information complete the project on priority basis. assessment which is impressive. with FROs and FRROs is extremely Apart from these, it maintains a NIC: Having recognised as an useful over the legacy manual system vigil eye on illegal immigrants and and helps in tackling security issues important project, what steps the Govt. of Odisha is aiming at for its is a source of information for faster along with providing seamless and implementation along with possible security arrangements in terms of key hassle free services to our foreign action plans? information accessibility. guests. Spl. Secy: The project was initiated NIC: You are involved in this project NIC: Who are the major stakeholders in Odisha in the year 2013 with since its inception, what initial of the project in Odisha? Bhubaneswar FRO chosen as challenges were faced and what are Spl. Secy: The project was initiated the pilot. Being the capital city - the future plans? under National e-Governance Plan Bhubaneswar receives nearly 2000 Spl. Secy: We have been targeting (NeGP) with technical assistance from cases and a well equipped office with to accomplish the implementation of National Informatics Centre, Ministry necessary ICT infrastructure with net this project across the state at all 33 of Home Affairs, Govt. of India and facility was ideal to select it on priority FROs by June 2015 in accordance BoI (Bureau of Immigration) as the for launching the project. After to date set by MHA, Govt. of India. key stakeholders. Other project running the project for a couple of Currently, we have completed the functionaries are the immigration months, it was planned to replicate it district level training and workshops check points and State SP Offices across the state with suitable capacity at more than 20 locations and all these which act as FROs. At present we building at SP offices. Measures like locations are operational. The internal have one immigration check point hand holding, district level trainings, stakeholders like Home Department, operating at Paradip and we hope workshops, awareness raising among State Intelligence, Immigration, SP
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Offices are working with absolute co- ordination although there are certain issues like frequent transfer of officials dealing with the technicality of IVFRT system and certainly we have to fight with issues like low count of computer literacy among police staffs. The state level workshop conducted last year at Bhubaneshwar was extremely beneficial and its importance has percolated to the lowest levels. With accelerated speed, we are now focusing on issues like issuance of VPN token to authorised officers, infrastructure, connectivity at far off locations, training & support etc.
NIC: How do you plan for the sustainability of the project along State Level Conference on IVFRT at NIC State Centre, Bhubaneswar with upcoming projects like National Database for Arms License(NDAL) and Immigration System at NIC: How do you attribute to the TD NIC for their essential support for International Airport? State Government and NIC team success of the project. Smt. Sasmeeta working for the project? Yourself Sabat, IVFRT State Co-ordinator Spl. Secy: State NIC has taken many being an engineer and a tech proactive steps in implementation savvy bureaucrat in Higher State incessantly with various departments of the project and I find a perfect Administration, what are your along with Shri Avinash Mishra for all balance in the process, technology observations on this project and out success of the project. I express and programme implementation message to the team? my thanks to Dr. Shefali Das, DDG, plan that are required for the Spl. Secy: As I have already said NIC New Delhi for assurance in implementation and sustainability that the scale of this project is extending all support to the state of of the project. We are also aiming enormous, starting from districts to Odisha during our meeting at the for early implementation of the the national level it goes to the Indian National Conference and my heartfelt NDAL (National Database on Arms Mission abroad. I congratulate NIC gratitude to Dr. B.N Shetty with whom License) whose target date has for implementing this project in a been set as Oct. 2015. The issuance professional way. The team work has we have inaugurated the Puri FRO of Unique Identification Number been excellent with equal support at and who is one of the founder of this (UIN) would be substantially helpful the state level, which is essential for the Mission Mode Project. I also extend in curbing illegal arms sale. State implementation of this project. There my gratitude to Dr. R.K Mishra for level workshop has already been is an increasing trend for maximum his exceptional support and my best conducted. We are also installing all use of ICT at FRO/SP offices under wishes to all team members and stake H/W, S/W and other infrastructure the project. I sincerely thank Principal holders working at various levels for requirements at the Biju Patnaik Secretary to Govt. Home Department the success of the project. Airport - already declared as an for providing all support as and when international airport. With plethora required along with DG Police, IG of projects in pipeline along with Intelligence, Director Intelligence, excellent co-ordination among Director Airport and SPs at various COORDINATED BY: teams, we are sure that the project districts. I also sincerely thank Shri Dr. A.K. Hota will be running smoothly in the state S.K Panda, SIO NIC, Shri Dilip Jena, Senior Technical Director of Odisha.
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Challenges in IT Survices Procurement in Government
Caviling is not other side, the challenges posed by the foreign to Indians. prospective bidders relate to: With this thought, 1) Eligibility conditions I am reminded of a M fable. Once a very 2) Failure to comply with the famous painter stipulated time frame kept his ravishing painting for public 3) Challenges posed to the decisions display and has invited people to list of the technical committee the shortcomings. He felt miserable to find that his painting was inundated 4) Quotations of unviable rates with thousands of unsupportive Some bidders who are unable to bag remarks, shattering his self-worth into the tender often question the integrity pieces. After a few days, he recovered of the government officer or send from his depressed state of mind and anonymous letters to the ministry decided to place the same painting leading to the process being viewed seeking solutions to improve the piece suspiciously. Avenues like RTI, CAG, and there were none. & CVC become their potent weapon for debilitating the system. My reason of citing this story is RAJESH BAHADUR to highlight two kinds of people; Rules are made to avoid anarchy Managing Director, NICSI doers and the backseat drivers. and not flexibility. The rules that are The story is emblematic of the designed to smoothen the process pseudonymous complaints by CAG challenges faced in procurement; in often hinder it. The GFR rules are & CVC inhibits the progress. Audit fact the word “challenge” also seems not conducive to innovation and should be a parallel exercise with minuscule when the complexities are therefore cradle stagnation. What is weighed in. Procurement involves required is re-working of these rules processes i.e proactive corrections and an understanding of objective, to create a stimulating environment not reactive penalization. Let us not stakeholders, and deliverables. It and a process like Strategic Alliance make Governance and Procurement includes fixing of resources, formation in NICSI can be part of the GFR contradictions to each other. of Request of Proposals (RFP), bidding considering specialized nature of ICT Visionary ideas such as Digital & evaluation process, choosing the niche products. India, which promises to transform vendor within required timeline. The At times, the rigidity of the committee India into a connected knowledge key stakeholders in this process include members ruins the entire process. economy, entails critical sourcing of Ministries, Government Departments, The rules are the guiding beacons ICT products. The mindset requires Procurement agencies, vendors but should never be the over-riding transformation from A (Avoid), B who can be the Original Equipment factor, compromising things like (Bypass), C (Confuse), D (Delay) to Manufacturer (OEM) themselves or efficiency, speed, skill and quality. R (Responsive), O (Ownership), A their authorized agents/distributors. The system should be the base for (Accountable), D (Decisive). After The entire process has to comply with overall working and the members all, progress is determined when General Financial Rules & the CVC should decide the superstructure second mindset overcomes the first. guidelines. The stakeholders, rules & which should be in tandem with Why make this struggle an unending procedures pose indefinite challenges innovation and achieving the primary exercise? results in undesired delay. object for which procurement is The procurement commences with made. It is thus imperative to weed For further information: formation of different committees. out the environment of fear and offer RAJESH BAHADUR Conflicting interests forms the primary space to the government officials. Managing Director, NICSI Email Id : [email protected] challenge in the entire process. On the Entertainment of anonymous/
April 2015 | informatics.nic.in | 27 Technology Update
Implementing Business Continuity Plans using Active-Active Hosting Strategy
Business Continuity Plan Edited by yyIn case of a disaster, it was observed MOHAN DAS VISWAM that sometimes the DR infrastructure is an essential part of was not found to be working to its full Business Continuity capability. organisation’s response Plan is made for critical yyReduced requirement of conducting applications that cater planning. It connotes how mock Disaster Recovery Drills the business will perform round the clock services A to the clients, vendors TYPES OF ACTIVE-ACTIVE its operation in case of a or general public. They endeavour to ensure that the prioritized critical HOSTING STRATEGY yy disaster and how it expects operation continues to be available Where both the sites are active: Transactions can occur on either of the to resume ‘business as usual’ even in the event of a disaster. nodes and remains pending until it get operations in the quickest committed on both the ends. Time lag IMPLEMENTING BUSINESS involved in this approach is about 5 possible time following the CONTINUITY PLANS ms round trip time for a distance less disaster. They can be implemented using than 60 kms. hosting strategies wherein both the yyWhen both sites are separately DC and the DR infrastructure are located at relatively far distances: always active. This approach has This offers benefits such as strategic some additional advantages: advantages and provides better sustainability, as the chances of a yy Costly investments in the DR disaster striking at the both the sites infrastructure are put to use. simultaneously are less. It can also
DIPANKAR SENGUPTA Senior Technical Director [email protected]
MAYANK PRATIK Scientist-B [email protected]
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help in providing faster access times (RAC) and Oracle Data Guard, SAP yySynchronous-commit Mode: It to the clients. HANA (not exactly an active-active works similar to two phase commit strategy) etc. Database Mirroring protocol and supports Automatic and In the second strategy, the architecture provides greater database availability manual failover both. is very easy to implement and forms by providing almost instantaneous a part of now highly popular High failover. It can be used to maintain a Client connectivity to the database of Availability and Disaster Recovery standby database or a mirror database a given availability group is provided to the primary (principal) server. Strategies. Applications on both the by creating an Availability Group sites have independent access and Log shipping also operates at the Listener. An Availability Group do not talk to each other. It is at the database level and use shipping of Listener is a Virtual Network Name logs to maintain one or more standby database level that there is sharing (VNN) to which clients can connect databases for a single primary database in order to access a database in a between both the sites. The Database (production server). Nodes can be hosted in a failover primary or secondary replica of an cluster and any disaster recovery DB ALWAYS-ON AVAILABILITY Always On availability group. An Availability Group Listener enables solution can be implemented on these GROUP a client to connect to an availability nodes. An Always On Availability Group replica without knowing the name of allows failover of a group of databases The implementation of such an the physical instance of SQL Server to architecture previously required rather than a single database which which the client is connecting. the use of Virtual LANs to form is marked improvement over log an application or database Geo shipping and database mirroring which Cluster (Cluster Across Geographical were configured at the single database TAKING CARE OF Locations). Advanced technologies level. Availability groups are designed REPORTING LOADS available nowadays have eliminated to support a primary database and a set Read-only Routing refers to the ability the creation of VLAN for implementing of corresponding secondary database. this architecture which might have An availability group fails at the level of SQL Server to route incoming entailed huge costs in creating a Layer of an availability replica. Failovers are connections to an availability group 2 Tunnel for this purpose. not caused by database issues such as listener to a secondary replica that a database becoming suspect due to is configured to allow Read-only The database nodes forming the part a loss of a data file or corruption of a Workloads. of the failover cluster uses a witness transaction log. server to determine the quorum. If If Read-only Routing is configured the quorum is satisfied, the clustering The primary replica makes the for one or more readable secondary service is up and running and is able primary databases available for to cater to requests from the clients. read-write connections from clients. replicas, read-intent client connections The database cluster forms a logical Also, in a process known as Data to the primary replica are redirected group and is assigned a virtual IP / Synchronization, which occurs at the to a readable secondary replica. Once name. The application connects to this database level, the primary replica these are configured, reports can be sends transaction log records of each name and the cluster decides which of deployed in Scale-out Deployment the nodes own the clusters as of now primary database to every secondary database. Every secondary replica Mode by which greater scalability and and is active. The active node caters the ability to balance Reporting Loads to the application providing a level caches the transaction log records can be achieved in a better way. of abstraction to the application. The (hardens the log) and then applies failover of databases can take place them to its corresponding secondary database. Implementing this strategy for but the application is not concerned websites will also help our website with these, it just has to make a call to Always On Availability Groups meet the needs of critical information the listener which routes the request to supports two availability modes: the appropriate node. Infrastructure protection in line with yyAsynchronous-commit Mode: the National Cyber Security Policy The underlying technology that This mode supports forced failover 2013. supports this kind of database (manual with possible data loss) hosting might involve Storage based wherein the availability replicas replication, SAN-SAN replication, Log are geographically separated. The For further information: shipping or strategies implemented in primary replica sends the transaction MAYANK PRATIK software viz. SQL Server Always on, confirmation immediately after Scientist –B E-mail: [email protected] ORACLE Real Application Clusters writing log records to the local log file.
April 2015 | informatics.nic.in | 29 District Informatics
Hazaribagh: Using ICT for Smart Governance
Hazaribagh - meaning city Edited by PRASHANT BELWARIAR of thousand gardens, part of Chotanagpur Plateau IC Hazaribagh - established in 1990 endowed with natural hills, has been pivotal beautiful scenery, excellent in implementing N various e-Governance climate, mountains & valleys, projects in the district. is situated at a height of Many ICT initiatives were taken up SUNIL KUMAR, IAS from time to time, leveraging the Deputy Commissioner, Hazaribagh 2019 ft above the sea level. cause of e-Governance, delivery About 45% of the district is of citizen centric services and ICT improves the interaction promoting transparency in the district between government and citizens, forest area and is enriched administration. and also increases the administrative with different types of ores effectiveness and efficiency in & minerals. Coal is a major MAJOR ICT INITIATIVES the government operations. It is yyDistrict Portal: The district portal the application of information mineral and coal mines are www.hazaribag.nic.in designed and technology for efficient and major source of livelihood. developed by NIC, Hazaribag is effective functioning of government single point access for important processes in order to establish The district comprises information about the district and Simple, Moral, Accountable, of 2 Subdivisions, 16 government programmes. It provides Responsive and Transparent information related to MGNREGA, (SMART) government. NIC Development Blocks and 257 Old Age Pension, Public Distribution Hazaribag is playing very crucial System etc. Gram Panchayats. role in designing and implementing yyDBT (Direct Benefit Transfer) ICT based applications in different Scheme: Hazaribagh is the government offices of the district. pilot district for roll out of DBT I appreciate the enthusiastic and scheme. Payment system has been sincere efforts of District Information implemented for pension, scholarship, Officer, Mr. S.K. Deo and Prime wages etc through Aadhaar enabled Minister’s Rural Development bank accounts. Hazaribagh has secured first position in the state and Fellows- Mohd. Karimuddin Malik is among the most progressive district and Mr. Vinod Chandrwal for in India under the scheme. Technical the successful implementation of support is provided to implement various e-Governance projects in payments through DBT in 16 sectors. the district. yySocial Security Pension: Under the National Social Assistance Program, at their doorstep by using Biometric all the pensioners are enrolled with hand held devices- Micro ATM. The SHAILENDRA important outcome of DBT rollout KUMAR DEO Aadhaar No. which is linked to their CBS bank A/c. Nearly 76% pensioners has led to the elimination of fake District Informatics Officer beneficiaries from the whole system. [email protected] are availing pensions through DBT
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During the exercise, approximately 10,000 traceless benificieries were eliminated from the pension schemes which ultimately created vaccancies for new elgible persons. yyBiometric Attendance System: Biometric attendance machine has been installed at 23 offices including District Collectorate, hospital, DRDA, and block offices. All employees have been registered under Biometric Attendance System for marking their daily attendance. NIC Hazaribag processes the summary of attendance and submits it to the treasury for disbursement of employees’ salaries. yyOnline Mutation System: Under System at the District hospital. The (GPs) have CSCs and each of them is NLRMP, an online mutation system software provides single point access equipped with necessary hardware was launched recently at three circles to patient information, monitoring of & software resources. The e-Nagrik viz – Tatijharia, Daru & Churchu of drugs, OPD information etc. Sewa software facilitates submission Hazaribagh district. The applicant yye-Mulaqat: Hazaribagh district of application forms by the citizens applies for mutation through online launched the e-Mulaqat service for for issuance of certificates like Caste, mode and simultaneously land prisoners relatives. Currently, 16 Birth, Death, Residential and Income. transaction details is sent through SMS e-Mulaqat Centres are operational in The citizen interface provides for the to both the seller as well as the buyer the district. The relatives can talk to submission, tracking and monitoring and after verification the Register – II the prisoners of Central Jail, through of applications along with the facility is updated. e-Mulaqat Center through video to download forms and guidelines yyHealth: District administration conferencing. issued by the government from time initiated the payment of Janani yye-Nagrik Seva: e-Nagrik Seva, to time. Authenticity of the issued Suraksha Yojna (JSY) incentive an application for providing G2C certificate can be checked from through DBT to eligible pregnant services is implemented through anywhere. Till date more than three women. NIC has developed and Common Service Centres (Pragya lakh certificates have been issued by installed the Hospital Management kendras). All the 257 Gram Panchayats CSCs in Hazaribagh. The software is providing hassle free services to the citizens. yye-PDS: NIC Hazaribag has issued more than three lakh digital ration cards and the process of data digitization has been almost completed. PDS software has been implemented by District Supply Office with help of NIC to monitor the location of trucks and tankers loaded with ration in the district.
For further information: SHAILENDRA KUMAR DEO District Informatics Officer District Level workshop for creating awareness for Aadhar & DBT E-mail: [email protected]
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Amravati: Pioneering in Aadhaar based DBT Schemes
Amravati literally means ‘the Edited by ANSHU ROHATGI abode of immortals’, is a land of great personalities such as he NIC District Sant Gadge Baba, Sant Gulabrao Centre at Amravati is providing ICT based Maharaj and Rashtrasant Tukdoji solutions to the district Maharaj. The district, with an T administration for extending e-governance area of 12,626 sq. kms is located services to the citizens. It is also on the Maharashtra’s northern supporting various government border. It is the fourteenth most departments in their endeavor to KIRAN GITTE, IAS simplify processes by intervention of Collector & DM, Amravati populated district of the state ICT and reach the masses through with a population of nearly development and implementation The NIC team at Amravati has of various web based software made outstanding contribution 28.88 lakhs and is divided applications. The district is connected in Government of India’s Direct into seven Sub-divisions and to NICNET backbone at Mumbai Benefit Transfer for LPG (DBTL) through high speed Optical Fiber Project for the year 2013-14, in fourteen Talukas. The district the district. The amount of work Channel at 34/100 Mbps and 1 is also famous for Chikhaldara and efforts is praiseworthy and Gbps. Apart from these, extensive the quality of contribution is hill station and Melghat Tiger deployment of web services & training exceptional. The NIC Unit has Reserve. has played a vital role in improving also played a vital role in smooth the skills of district officials in the and successful accomplishment fields of Information Technology. of Parliamentary and Assembly Elections 2014. AADHAAR BASED DBT SCHEMES implementation in the country Amravati is spearheading many A total of thirteen schemes were MOIZ HUSSAIN ALI Aadhaar based DBT (Direct Benefit selected in the district, beneficiary Deputy Director General Transfer) schemes. The UID data was collected from departments [email protected] enrollment percentage of the district & UIDAI, CPSMS and DBT - is 95.79% and this has given the Application Software was used for district administration an opportunity to harness the ICT tools to ensure the preparation of beneficiary list, transparency, terminate pilferage data was digitally signed and finally the processing of payments was done ARUN M. RANVIR and ensure that the benefits of the DIO & Principal Systems government schemes reach the correct using the Aadhaar Payment Bridge Analyst beneficiary with minimal leakages. of NPCI to credit the payment [email protected] The total population of Amravati directly in the bank accounts of the district is 28,87,826 out of which beneficiary. A total of Rs. 27.8 crores 27,66,282 citizens have already been were transferred through the system enrolled under UID and 24,80,495 in the district under the project. UID cards have been issued to the citizens. yyDBT for National Social Assistance MANISH K. FULZELE Programme (NSAP) ADIO & Scientist-B The district was selected in the [email protected] first phase of Aadhaar based DBT NSAP is a National Policy for Social
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Assistance for the Poor and aims at ensuring minimum national standards for social assistance. In Amravati, data of 74,243 NSAP beneficiaries was uploaded in the NSAP-MIS, the number of beneficiaries eligible for DBT was 56,890 and an amount of R1761.43 lakh was directly transferred in the bank account of beneficiaries. yyDBT for Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) JSY is being implemented by Health Department for the benefit of pregnant women. The total number NLRMP data cleaning work being done at NIC Centre of beneficiaries for JSY DBT is 6,655 and an amount of R56.26 lakhs has single point data entry facility of home etc. The system is available on been disbursed through the system. references, letters, DOs and LAQs http://mahasim.nic.in. received at the inward section and the yyDirect Benefit Transfer for LPG yyNational Land Record same can be forwarded as per official Modernization Programme The district was selected for pilot hierarchy to different officials. It also implementation of the DBTL scheme provides the facility to track and NLRMP for e-Chawadi, e-Mutations, in 2013 and since then out of 38,5765 maintain the status of the letters and e-Mojani and e-Records is being consumers, 31,9578 have been seeded more. implemented in district. The land with UID. records data was converted into yyRevenue Officers Management UNICODE, corrected, verified for all DISTRICT ICT INITIATIVES Information System fourteen Tahsils and is now available This system has been designed for at the State Data Centre. yyTapal Tracking and Monitoring assessment of target and achievements System (TTMS) of Revenue Officers and is used for WEB SERVICES TTMS is an office automation maintaining monthly information of system designed to keep track NIC, Amravati is also providing revenue recovery, food supply, land website development and hosting of communications received at acquisitions, re-settlement, accounts, Collector’s Office. It provides the services to the departments. Some of the websites are Amravati District (http://amravati.gov.in), Divisional Commissioner (http:// amravatidivision.gov.in), Melghat Tiger Reserve Project (http:// melghattiger.gov.in), CCF, Amravati (http://ccftamt.gov.in), VNSS Mission (http://vnss-mission.gov.in) and Inspector General of Police (http:// igpamravatirange.gov.in). The district unit is also implementing various central and state projects.
For further information: NIC, AMRAVATI Ph: 0721-2662893 Inauguration of DBT for NCLP Scheme by Shri Rahul Mahiwal, Collector [email protected]
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Kangra: An Emerging ICT enabled District
Kangra district lies between Edited by VIVEK VERMA 31˚ 21’ to 32˚ 59’ N latitude IC District Unit, and 75˚ 47’ 55’ to 77˚ 45’ E Kangra, established longitude. The entire area in 1988, has been facilitating District of the district is traversed N Administration with by the varying altitudes of ICT services and has implemented many ICT projects. the Shivaliks, Dhauladhar Due to his keenness to see District C. PAUL RASU, IAS and the Himalayas from Kangra at the top of good governance Deputy Commissioner, Kangra rankings, Shri Prabodh Saxena, IAS north-west to south- and the then Deputy Commissioner I wish to take this opportunity to Kangra, with the active support of thank the NIC Unit, Kangra for east. Dharamshala is the their support and cooperation in headquarter of the Kangra NIC has set up an E-Governance implementing the e-Governance Centre in 2002 within the premises initiatives in the district. Kangra District and winter capital of the Collectorate at Dharamshala. was the first district in Himachal to The centre was first of its kind in HP, setup e-Governance Centre and its of Himachal Pradesh. showcasing several e-governance success resulted in replicating the model in other districts. Kangra District is having 8 applications. I believe that NIC will keep up Sub-Divisions, 27 Tehsils/ IMPORTANT PROJECTS this good work and continue to provide us with technical expertise, yySarathi: The software is used to issue Sub-Tehsils, 4 Municipal innovative ideas and plan of action Learner’s License, Permanent, Driving for implementation of ICT tools for Committees, 5 NACs, 15 License, Additional Endorsement and the greater benefit of the citizens. Development Blocks and Conductor License to the applicant. Sarathi is running successfully in 8 3906 census villages. RLAs and 1 RTO of the district. Screen yyHimRis Test Aid for Learner’s License (STALL) Himachal Registration Information is also running in all the 8 RLAs. System (HimRIS) is operational in all yyVahan: Vahan is used for new the Tehsils/Sub-Tehsils of the district. registration of vehicles, issuance of All type of deeds are registered by the permits, collection of token tax and system and has been further integrated various other types of transactions on with land records. BHUPINDER PATHAK vehicles. The software is integrated DIO & Principal Systems with High Security Registration Plate yyLokpraman Patra Analyst [email protected] (HSRP) application by the vendor. Lokpraman Patra is a software for issuance of 14 types of certificates. It has yyHimbhoomi been implemented in all the authorities Himbhoomi software has been of district. The online verification of implemented in all the Tehsils. Citizens the certificates is available at http:// can avail RoRs at Tehsil Centres and admis.hp.nic.in/epraman/Treasury. through LMKs (Lok Mitra Kendras). AKSHAY MEHTA They can also access their land details yyHPOTIS: HPOTIS software has ADIO & Sr. Systems Analyst online at http://admis.hp.nic.in/lrc/ been implemented in the Treasury and [email protected] Revenue/nakalJam.aspx. all the 14 Sub-treasuries of the district.
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yyE-Stamp & E-Salary: These software are running at 15 locations of the Kangra district. yye-Pensions: The software is running successfully at Treasury, Dharamshala and is being used for generation of Superannuation and Family Pensions of all State Govt. employees. yye-Samadhan: e-Samdhan (http:// esamadhan.nic.in) is a web-based, role based system for redressal of public grievances/demands in online mode. This has been implemented for all the departments. yyShastr: Shastr is a web based, role based Arms License software for the issuance, renewal, endorsement, Citizens availing services at Sugam Centre deletion of Arms License at District Collectorate. through bank accounts and MOs. yyeMamta-Mother and Child Tracking yyNDAL: National Database of Arms yye-Pehchan: e-Pehchan is a web- System License has been created for District based application used for issuance of yyeProcurement-eTendering Kangra and the old data of Shastr has Disability and Senior Citizen Identity yyNational Animal Disease Reporting been ported into NDAL. Cards. System yyManav Sampda: Manav yyImmigration, Visa and Foreigners Sampada is a web-based application eROZGAR Registration and Tracking to manage the full details of employees This system implemented at all yy and to generate service books, transfer Employment Exchanges in the district, MNREGASoft (Aadhaar based) orders, Annual Performance Reports facilitates online registration process yyePRI Suite of Applications electronically. for the unemployed youth. yyJeevan Praman Patra: Jeevan DISTRICT WEBSITE Praman camps have been organized ELECTION SUPPORT The official website of District Kangra in three Defence Pension Disbursing DISE software was implemented (http://hpkangra.nic.in) has been Offices (DPDOs) to issue Digital Life for randomization of polling designed and developed by NIC Kangra District unit. The information Certificates to the Defense Pensioners. and counting personnel, result compilation and data transfer to ECI rich website caters to various yyRed Cross MIS: The software stakeholders. during Vidhan Sabha (2013) and has been implemented at Red Cross Society, Kangra. It assists in keeping Lok Sabha (2014) Elections. On the NICNET & VIDEO poll day in May 2014, live webcast the record of patients who are CONFERENCING visiting Physiotherapy Centre and of polling process was done from NIC District Unit is connected with De-Addiction Centre. Cloth Bank is 8 Polling Stations in the district. NIC State hqrs. through STM-1 with a bank with a difference as it does not The facility was also extended for 1 GB leased line to provide smooth deal in money, but in clothes, one of electoral roll management process connectivity to various departments. the basic human needs after food and during PRI/ULB Elections. shelter. The National level projects For further information: coordinated and implemented by DISTRICT INFORMATICS OFFICER SOCIAL JUSTICE & NIC Kangra are: NIC District Unit, Kangra EMPOWERMENT Dharamshala, H.P.-176215 yyAGMARKNET Ph: +91-1892-222358 yy e-Kalyan: e-Kalyan software is used E-mail: [email protected] for disbursement of welfare pensions yyeCourts
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Kota: Making Rapid Strides in ICT
Kota- Rajasthan, situated on The important ICT projects implemented by NIC Kota are as the banks of River Chambal follows: is the heart of Hadoti, the land of Hada kings. Blessed E-GOVERNANCE AND COMPUTERIZATION OF with lush green jungles, MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, sprawling golden rocks, KOTA (MCK) majestic Chambal river and (1) e-Governance Initiatives ravines, Kota is an amazing yyZonal helplines in city for ease of citizen JOGA RAM, IAS synchronization of nature, District Collector & yyPehchan Portal for online Magistrate Kota medieval history and modern registration of births and deaths day industrialization. The yyFile Tracking and Letter Monitoring NIC has played a pivotal growing educational and System role in steering e-governance coaching culture has put yyOnline System for removing applications in the government pendency departments at national, state Kota on the limelight. ICT and district level enabling the (2) Newly Developed System for has grown horizontally and improvement in government Pendency Removal services. vertically in the district and All applications are now received NIC leading from the front through helplines which are duly entered into the system. Thereafter, has made Kota shine on the applications are processed to the MCK for better service delivery. ICT horizon. corresponding officials. Time limit for yyDifferent Modules developed in each application is decided to curtail Nagar Nigam, Kota pendency. After each step, marking is entered into the system for easy (i) Attendance module for Nagar tracking. Nigam employees (ii) Billing Software/Module for Cash MUKESH JHA (3) Citizen-centric Initiatives and Health Departments DIO & Technical Director yyWebsite [email protected] The newly designed website of (iii) File Meeting Software/Module for Municipal Corporation is furnished monitoring and accessing all the files in with current news and updates. Nagar Nigam It enables, citizens to lodge their (iv) Electricity Complaint Module- complaints to their corresponding which helps citizen to register DEEPAK BHATIA ward or area. Also, they can check the complaints directly DIA & Principal Systems status of their RTI application, building Analyst (v) Automatic Messaging System [email protected] & construction permission etc.They can also book MCK’s community halls to distribute the complaint to the With inputs from Shri Chandan Sen, Informatics online. The website enables citizens respective office and contractor of the Correspondent, Rajasthan to provide their feedback directly to complainant’s area
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LAND RECORDS COMPUTERIZATION LRC data of all 5 Tehsils were converted according to the new version of online software and uploaded on the Jaipur based LRC server. Leased line connectivity has been provided to each Tehsil Office. Distribution of digitally signed ROR has started in the district from Tehsil Centres/CSCs/E-Mitra Centres. Work of mutation feeding & new chousala jamabandi preparation using online software is under progress.
PHOTO BEARING FIREWORKS LICENCES NIC Kota has developed software for LOK SABHA ELECTIONS Under this application, modules of District Collector Office for issuing licenses for fireworks vendors bearing 2014, ASSEMBLY BYE- filing, registration, allocation of cases photos during Deepawali festival. The ELECTIONS 2014 & NAGAR and file transfer from one court to NIGAM ELECTIONS 2014 software generates different reports another have been implemented for effective monitoring of licensing (1) M.I.S. and installed at complex based local process. Database has been prepared which server. Daily data updation from local contains the following: server to National Judicial Data Grid APP RETURNS MONITORING yyDetails of area, Sector Officers and (NJDG) from 8 court complexes is SYSTEM Zonal Magistrates along with Polling NIC Kota has developed software for done on daily basis through VPN or Officers attached with them App returns. Monthly information yyImportant phone nos. of the lease line. Also, 4 Mbps lease line has is fed into the system. The software Magistrate for Control Room been installed at the District Court generates monthly, fortnightly and Complex. yearly reports. (2) Live webcasting Micro Observer, Polling party and Counting party are formed by generating Random numbers. Polling Booth and EVMs alloction to Polling parties was also done by using Randomisation process.
E-COURTS & CONFONET Under District Court Computerization Project (e-Courts) in Kota, total 9 court complexes having 47 courts are covered. Optical fiber based and copper based networking has been done for 230 nodes. Ubuntu based using PHP & MYSQL and web based application-CIS National Core version 1.1have been implemented.
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preparation at the DDO level, bill passing and online transfer of payment to bank accounts through secured digital signature of Treasury Officer.
(5) e-Gram Monitoring System (6) Files & Letter Monitoring Software NIC Kota has implemented the web based Files & Letters Monitoring software at District Collectorate, Vardhman Mahaveer Open University Kota (VMOU Kota), PHED & NADRS etc.
NETWORKING NIC, Kota has established fiber Skoch Award 2014 optical (BACK BONE) and CAT 6 cable based 136 nodes network using NATIONAL DATA OF ARMS State Project for newly digitally managed switches (11-L2 Switches & LICENSES signed ration card computerization. 2-L3 Switches) at new Nagar Nigam NIC Kota is generating Unique Scanning and data entry processes Building. Switch based and OFC Identification Number for Arms licence have been completed. At present, based 50 Nodes Network are being holders using NDAL website. distribution of ration cards is going successfully managed at the Treasury, on. Kota. Optical fiber based and copper based networking has been JEEVAN PRAMAAN (2) Social Pension Monitoring NIC Kota is providing support for completed for 230 nodes in case of NIC Kota is aiding in Social Security generating Life Certificates for Defence District Court complexes. NIC Kota Pension Scheme monitoring in the Pensioners on the website https:// is supporting 95 nodes and 7 switch jeevanpramaan.gov.in/. district through websites- http://nsap. based network in Collectorate, Kota. nic.in (National Social Assistance Programme) & http://rajssp.raj.nic. AWARDS & APPRECIATION SUPPORT TO COMPUTER in (Rajasthan State Social Assistance Nagar Nigam, Kota has received SECTION OF OTHER Program). DEPARTMENTS Skoch Award-2014 and ELETS NIC Kota is providing support to the (3) Integrated Financial Award-2014 for e-Governance. computer sections of the following Management System (IFMS) District Election Officer, Kota departments: Pension Office, FCI, Project IFMS has been successfully appreciated the work done by District Collector Office, Divisional implemented in all the treasuries and NIC during Lok Sabha Elections, Commissioner Office, SP(City),Police, sub-treasuries in the district. Assembly Bye-Elections and Nagar SP(Rural),Police, District Supply Nigam Elections in 2014. Officer, Treasury, Subtreasury,(4) Pay Manager Software Ramganjmandi and Zila Parishad. Payroll s/w Paymanager http:// paymanager.raj.nic.in has been For further information: OTHER SUCCESSFUL successfully integrated with online MUKESH JHA PROJECTS budget module for checking the DIO & TD budget availability before passing. NIC Kota (1) Ration Cards Computerisation [email protected]; [email protected] NIC Kota has implemented NIC The software facilitates online bill
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Name of the Initiative/Product: SAMVIDA Name of the Initiative/Product: Force Deployment Software State: Bihar State: Bihar Award/s Received: National Award for e-Governance 2014-15, Gold Award in Special Sector Award/s Received: a) National Award for e-Governance 2014-15, Silver Award in “Innovative Category - “Skill Development and employability” use of Technology in e-Governance” b) CSI-Nihilent e-Governance Award 2013-14 Description: SAMVIDA, popularly known as online contractual recruitment/volunteer services Description: Force Deployment Software leverages spatial and textual data to manage portal, uses ICT and web-based resources for finding, training, assessing, interviewing and deployment of forces during Parliamentary and Assembly Elections and help to generate various hiring new candidates/personnel under various schemes of State and Central Government. MIS reports and facilitate District Administration and Police Administration in decision making SAMVIDA portal is being used by various departments for selection of candidates for surveys, process. contractual appointments, short term appointments etc.
Name of the Initiative/Product: Chanakya Software Name of the Initiative/Product: District Khagaria for best e-governance implementation in a State: Bihar District of Bihar State: Bihar Award/s Received: State E-Governance Excellence Award at eBihar Summit, “Excellence in Award/s Received: State E-Governance Excellence Award at eBihar Summit, “Award for best Govt. Process Re-Engineering” e-governance implementation in a District of Bihar” Description: Chanakya is a role based solution for automation of university business process Description: District Khagaria took the lead in implementing many ICT projects including- installation related to Registration and Examination Modules. Registration Module covers the registration of 32 Night vision IR CCTV cameras covering all Sections/Departments and open spaces of Collectorate, of students in the university and it includes Registration Form Data Entry or capturing of Khagaria & Sadar Hospital, Khagaria to ensure transparency and public safety, installation of RFID students details from OMR sheet of Registration Form through OMR/OCR device. Biometric Attendance System, installation of EPABX Machine covering all 32 Sections/Departments of Collectorate and conversion of Collectorate Campus into Wi-Fi Zone.
Name of the Initiative/Product: Block Jalalpur District Saran for best e-governance Name of the Initiative/Product: District Gaya for best e-governance implementation in a implementation in a Block of Bihar District of Bihar State: Bihar State: Bihar Award/s Received: State E-Governance Excellence Award at eBihar Summit, “Award for best Award/s Received: State E-Governance Excellence Award at eBihar Summit, “Award for best e-governance implementation in a Block of Bihar” e-governance implementation in a District of Bihar” Description: Block Jalalpur, District Saran is heralding the ICT revolution by implementing Description: Gaya district has been awarded for Best e-Governance district in e-Governance ICT initiatives such as digitization of the database of State and Central Pensioners, generation excellence award function for implementing initiatives in delivering various citizen services of Bar coded Passbook of all block pensioners, tracking of Pensions distribution at block and under RTPS, Grievance Redressal Mechanism and management of Pitripaksha Mela through Panchayat level, etc. ICT tools.*
* e-Plantation, Website of Rural Development Department, Bihar and Rollout of e-Panchayat MMP in Bihar are some of the other projects from NIC, Bihar that have been awarded with “State e-Governance excellence award 2015”. For more details on the Awarded Products of National Informatics Centre, Kindly visit at http://www.nic.in/awards.
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Name of the Initiative/Product: District Junagarh for sustenance towards Excellence in Name of the Initiative/Product: ReALCraft e-Governance State: Gujarat State: Kerala Award/s Received: CSI-Nihilent e-Governance Awards 2013-14, “Award for sustenance towards Excellence in e-Governance” Award/s Received: eINDIA Awards 2014 under the category of Best e-Governance Description: Junagarh, Gujarat has already taken lead in developing and implementing some key Projects projects and as of now all these projects are also running successfully. Some of the main projects implemented in the district include- Revenue Cases Management System, iOjN 4 Planning- Scheme Description: ReALCraft is a system for issuing Fishing Vessels Registration and Licensing Management System for decentralized district Planning Department, SWAGAT- CM’s Online Grievances certificate for doing fishing operations in the Indian territorial water. Redressal System, Vikaspath- Monitoring system for schemes under Panchayat Department, Arms Licensing, Long Term Visa, e-Dhara –Land Records etc.
Name of the Initiative/Product: e-Procurement Name of the Initiative/Product: ASHA Soft State: Kerala State: Rajasthan Award/s Received: eINDIA Awards 2014 Award/s Received: elets-eHealth Healthcare Leaders’ Award Description: Government eProcurement software (GePNIC) application developed by Description: ASHA Soft developed by NIC Rajasthan, is a system for performance National Informatics Centre, caters to the process of online tender publishing, bid submission, measurements and online payment of incentives to ASHAs (Accredited Social Health Activist) bid opening and award of contract, to help bring in transparency in the tendering process. across the state in their bank account. The system has been developed for Medical Health & The software is web enabled and built on industry standard software technologies and best Family Welfare department, Government of Rajasthan and has been operationalized from PHC practices. (Primary Health Centre) level.
Name of the Initiative/Product: Open Data Name of the Initiative/Product: eMutation State/ Hqrs.: NIC Headquarters State: Maharashtra Award/s Received: CSI Nihilent eGovernance 2013-14 (Award of Excellence) Awards Description: Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India - data.gov.in - is a platform for Award/s Received: SKOCH Order of Merit Award 2014 supporting Open Data initiative of Government of India. The portal is intended to be used Description: eMutation is regarding the updation of Land Records through various types of by Government of India Ministries/ Departments their organizations to publish datasets, Transactions on Land Parcels called as “Mutation”. These mutations are recorded as Registered documents, services, tools and applications collected by them for public use. It intends to Documents or Non-Registered Documents. The mutations for Registered Documents are first increase transparency in the functioning of Government and also open avenues for many more innovative uses of Government Data to give different perspective. done at Sub Registrar Office (SRO).
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International e-Gov Update
South Korea Unveils its New ICT Vision he Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning of South Korean Government has unveiled the road map and future strategies to accomplish its vision of a creative economy and a happier Korea through science, T technology and ICT intervention. The five strategic visions are- establishing Creative Economy Ecosystem through creative ideas, strengthening existing industries by utilizing S&T and ICT etc; national research development for scientists to pursue research works by strengthening the fundamentals of creative R & D; promotion of software and content as the core of the economy by building world’s best network for providing fertile soil for C-P-N-D ecosystem and more; International Cooperation and Globalization through secure leadership in the global community and lastly Happier Korea with m-VoIP and other services. A safe and convenient Internet wider use of ICT. environment will be created by expansion of information To promulgate ICT for a Happier Korea, the Ministry and communication infrastructure and with wider use of has strategized to use ICT as a tool in resolving various HTML5, Open and Global Web Environment. social issues such as Food Safety, Crime Prevention, Social Overall, South Korea has aimed to develop a “creative Exclusion, etc. Further, it has been planned to reduce society” through hyper-connections by the year 2025. household communication costs by promotion of MVNO Services and phase out of Mobile Subscription Fee. Wider FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: variety of customer choices will be provided by allowing http://english.msip.go.kr/english/main/main.do
Cyber Security Information Portal Launched in Hong Kong he Cyber Security Information Portal (www. have been contributed by the expert organizations. cybersecurity.hk) was launched by the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer CSIP comprises five types of information resources. (OGCIO), Hong Kong. This Cyber Security The Safety Centre assists users with guidelines and tool Information Portal (CSIP) is a unique resource information to conduct health checks on their computers, T that provides step-by-step guidelines and mobile devices and websites for keeping them safe from cyber security tool information for general users, SMEs common cyber attacks. Users can learn about the security and schools to conduct health check on computers, mobile risks the precautions they can take when performing devices and websites. The portal also provides personal tips activities such as online shopping and social networking at and techniques to the users on how to guard their websites the Learning Centre. Industry experts share their valuable against cyber attacks. CSIP also inform users with latest highlights of public events, expert advices and stories that experience and views on various information security topics at the Expert Corner while the Event Highlight section provides a list of cyber security-related events for the participation of interested parties. Finally, there is a dedicated Media Centre that provides a whole collection of multimedia materials. Videos are available for the users to learn about various security best practices. The portal comes with a clear layout and responsive web design for an enhanced user experience. The OGCIO will later arrange for the broadcasting of a new set of TV and radio Announcements in the Public Interest (APIs) on cyber security to protect the masses from the onslaught of cyber attacks. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: http://www.cybersecurity.hk/en/index.php
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Singapore divulges its “Government With You” Approach with eGov 2015 Master Plan Gov2015 Master plan of Singapore has been released to usher in a new era in ICT in the wake of advent of Web 2.0, increasingly multi-faceted & dynamic issues and emergence of Gen-Y and Digital Natives. The new master plan is aimed at realizing the vision of a collaborative e government through shift in approach from a “government-to-you” to “government-with-you”. eGov2015 is focused towards building an interactive environment, where with the assistance of infocomm technologies, Governments, citizens and private sector players could work together in a seamless manner. The three strategic thrusts laid down in the vision includes- Co-creating for Greater Value, Connecting for Active Participation and Catalyzing Whole-of-Government Transformation. With rapid intrusion of smart phone technology, the Government is planning to leverage its service delivery by of-government infrastructure to enhance cross-agency deploying more feature-rich and innovative mobile services collaboration. This will help in harnessing Singapore’s high- enabling customers to transact with the government while on speed Next Generation Nationwide Broadband Network the move. eGov 2015 emphasizes on creating new platforms besides leveraging cloud computing along with energy-efficient for citizen engagement including crowd sourcing tools for technologies. inviting views and innovative ideas from the masses. It is planned to further enhance REACH (or Reaching Everyone A central Singapore Government Enterprise Architecture for Active Citizenry @Home), the official channel for news and repository will also be established to provide a collective view updates on all government consultation exercises by adding of government applications, data and technologies. ICT smart new features, such as alerts on new e-consultation exercises for public sector workplaces will also be developed to enhance citizens via social media channels and mobile applications. productivity. The Singapore Government will give a boost to the digital FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: infrastructure by designing the next generation whole- http://www.egov.gov.sg/
Department of Science and Technology, Philippines launched Mobile Disaster Communications Service he Department of Science and Technology MDRU is self-reliant unit running on its own power source (DOST), Philippines in association with and/or is able to harness other power sources such as power international and local partners launched the generators or local active power lines and can be quickly Moveable and Deployable ICT Resource Unit deployed to restore communications in communities in the (MDRU) in the town of San Remigio, Cebu, a aftermath of a disaster. municipality ravaged by typhoon Yolanda. The T The MDRU donated by Japan comes in two configurations. The donations for the MDRU have come from the efforts of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) small version contains the necessary equipment and software and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of necessary to provide basic voice and data communications Japan (MIC) and the Central Visayas Information Sharing within a small area for up to 500 concurrent users. The attaché Network Foundation (CVISNet). case version of the MDRU can do the same for a much smaller area. The MDRU can also act as a data center, it is built in with an Evacuee Management System that allows relief workers, to use their smartphones or tablets to track and tabulate those who have been displaced by a disaster. According to Ioane Koroivuki Regional Director, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, International Telecommunication Union (ITU); “The ITU acknowledges that it is absolutely crucial that in times of emergencies that communications are restored in the shortest possible time, it also recognizes that having the right tools in place to enable this. The MDRU is one such tool that enables the establishment of an ICT network and emergency communications services in the fastest time possible”. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: http://icto.dost.gov.ph/
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Cyber Governance
National Safai Karamcharis Finance & Development Corporation National Safai Karamchris Finance & Development Corporation (NFKD) aims to empower the Safai Karamcharis, Scavengers and their dependents and help them in break away from their conventional occupation, depressed social conditions and poverty. The NFKD provides financial assistance in the form of various loan schemes training programmes through State Channelizing Agencies (SCAs) nominated by State Government, UTs and National Banks, RRBs across the country. The vibrant website of NFKD disseminates latest information pertaining to welfare activities, schemes and Skill training programmes meant for persons engaged in or http://nskfdc.nic.in/ employed for any sanitation work. The header region of the website provides information related to About Us, Schemes CONTENT: 5 & Programmes, Skill Development Training, CSR, SRMS NAVIGATION AND BROWSER COMPATIBILITY: 4 and Annual Report. The footer region contains Privacy DESIGN: Policy, Archive Feedback, Hyperlinking Policy, Disclaimer, INTERACTIVE ELEMENTS: Copyright Policy, Terms & Conditions and Help. the results of which are meant for comparison purposes Media Gallery module is also incorporated for presenting only. The website comes with the provision of increasing the media data i.e. images and videos on the website. Users or decreasing the text size. The site also offers bilingual can also do free text search in web pages as well as in content both in English and Hindi languages. linked documents. A well structured Site Map has also been provided to assist in smooth navigation. The website comes with a Feedback section for inviting valuable comments/feedback from users besides providing The website provides for a Loan Calculator Application links for Facebook, twitter, Google+ and YouTube.
NIOS Online For Providing Learner and place. The portal enables learners to take admission in Centric Services courses on anywhere, anytime basis. The bilingual portal is designed keeping the learners as the centre point for National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) aims to cater providing quality support. to the wide spectrum of courses of study up to the pre-degree level for all categories of learners through open school The indigenously designed website comes with content movement. NIOS Portal proves to be very convenient for divided into individual sections. These are- Information the learners to access information, independent of time Section, Services and Interactivity, Student Information Section, Study Centre Information System, Virtual Open Schooling, Open Educational Resource, Examination System and Support, etc. In-built Search facility and FAQs apart from the General Instructions and how to fill up the Online admission form, Examination/Results along with Photo Gallery and a Video Gallery have been provided on the Homepage. Information on Tenders, Notices, Library, Awards, Vacancy etc. has also been provided on the Homepage. The footer region of the website provides content related to FAQ, Feedback, Terms & Conditions, Privacy Policy, Help, Accessibility Statement and Sitemap. The website provides Screen Reader Access and is made http://www.nios.ac.in/ accessible to persons with disabilities. It meets the Guidelines CONTENT: 5 for Indian Government Websites and adheres to Level AA NAVIGATION AND BROWSER COMPATIBILITY: 4 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) DESIGN: 4 of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The website INTERACTIVE ELEMENTS: 3 seems to be compatible with all major browsers.
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Uttarakhand State Portal Formed on 9th November 2000 as the 27th State of India, Uttarakhand abounds in natural resources and scenic beauty. The State Portal of Uttarakhand Portal contains more than 100 websites of departments, boards, organizations and universities. The portal is customized to update contents as per GIGW guidelines. All websites linked to the portal are managed by different departments independently through single interface. The information rich and conscientiously designed website provides various information and services to the multiple stakeholders. The Slide Show on the Home Page showcases major events like budget, elections and online services. Uttarakhand at a Glance section displays some http://uk.gov.in/home/index1 important figures related to the state. For ease of navigation, CONTENT: 5 the important information is clubbed under prominent NAVIGATION AND BROWSER COMPATIBILITY: 4 categories on the Homepage including- Uttarakhand At a DESIGN: 4 Glance, Spotlight, State Government Websites, National INTERACTIVE ELEMENTS: 4 News, Government Releases and Other Links. Uttarakhand State Link to Sugam Sewa has also been provided on the Policy, Hyperlinking Policy, Copyright Policy, Terms & portal, which contains a catalogue of all online services Conditions, Disclaimer and FAQs. available in for the citizens. The portal comes with a well laid Sitemap for easy The footer region of the site hosts information related to navigation. The bilingual portal also comes with a Screen Trainings in NIC, Help, Downloads & Plug-ins, Accessibility Reader Access and text size adjustment features. The portal Statement, Accessibility Options, Contact Us, Privacy is compatible with all major browsers. mKisan information, proper sowing period and conditions or use of correct type and quantities of pesticides/insecticides mKisan is a unique and effective web based portal that by the experts. The project conceptualized, designed and extensively uses mobile/SMS for its outreach, both for developed in-house within the Department of Agriculture & officials as well as for farmers. It provides timely knowledge Cooperation has widened the outreach of scientists, experts inputs or advisories to the farming community so as to and Government officers posted down to the Block level increase their productivity and assist them in getting best to disseminate information, give advisories and to provide remunerations for their produce through SMS facility. advisories to farmers through their mobile telephones. These inputs are in the form of information related to availability of quality seeds, fertilizers, credit, weather Easily comprehensible dashboard with graphical view, mKisan provides complete information on the status of overall number of messages sent as well as number of farmers benefited. Services integrated to the portal include Kisan Call center, Buyer-Sellers Interface, choice of machine & dealer market prices, agro-met advisories, farm-mechanization, micro-irrigation, animal-husbandry, fertilizer testing, dealer licensing etc. Messages from mkisan can be sent to the farmers in the language of their choice at the time of registration for the service. The diligently designed website contains information related to USSD, Pull SMS, IVRS, Push SMS, Ksewa, KCC, Buyer Seller, Mobile Apps and Reach Us in the header region. The footer region of the website hosts information related to RTI, Help, Terms & Conditions, Copyright Policy, http://www.mkisan.gov.in/ Hyperlinking Policy, Sitemap and Accessibility Statement. CONTENT: 5 NAVIGATION AND BROWSER COMPATIBILITY: 4 The bilingual website also comes with Screen Reader Access and link for the twitter handle. DESIGN: 4 INTERACTIVE ELEMENTS: 4 CONTRIBUTED BY: LOKESH JOSHI Principal Systems Analyst E-mail: [email protected]
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Awareness Workshop Uttarakhand and on Standards for Chandigarh UT to discuss the adherence to e-Governance organized e-Governance standards at Chandigarh and interoperability eitY, under NeGP, of data across various is promoting the use e-Governance of e-Governance applications. Standards in the The workshop was eGov Applications, to attended by 100 officials D enable them share the from state governments information, in a seamless manner. of the six northern Participants attending the Workshop The government departments, at states mentioned. After The participants showed lot of interest central and state level, are being a brief introduction of e-Governance by asking queries and making the made aware about the eGov standards Standards, sessions were organised sessions interactive. In their feedback, notified by DeitY, with the help of on the following standards- Digital they wanted more of such workshops seminars, trainings and workshops. Preservation, Metadata and Data to be organised, region wise, and A one day awareness workshop was standards, Localization standards at regular intervals for maximum organised at Chandigarh on 19th and Best practices and Guidelines awareness. December, 2014 for the states of for Indian Government Websites Punjab, Haryana, Himachal, J&K, (GIGW). MEENAKSHI MAHAJAN
Comprehensive Online from submission of issues Projects Management System to the commissioning of projects. The milestones (e-PMS) launched by Chief include; submission of a Secretary of Haryana new project, editing or he Haryana Chief updating the projects, Secretary Shri D.S reviewing the projects, Dhesi launched a submission of details comprehensive Online relating to bottlenecks. Projects Management It also includes T System (e-PMS) for preparation of Agenda Haryana State on 9th February, 2015 and Minutes of the Participants attending the Workshop to fast track stalled projects, involving meetings that can be investment over Rs. 50 crores at generated online and circulated with In the first instance, 16 key Haryana Civil Secretariat, Chandigarh. auto mailer to the Nodal Officers, departments of Haryana including Dr. V P Joy, Joint Secretary, Cabinet Secretaries of the Ministries or Revenue & Disaster Management, Secretariat, Shri Devender Singh, Departments and invitees. The Power, Panchayats, Industries, Mines Principal Secretary IT Haryana, Shri decisions taken by the subgroup Vijayendra Kumar, Secretary IT can be entered online in the system. & Geology, PWD (B&R), Health, Town Haryana, Shri Ghan Shyam Bansal, System also provides various types & Country Planning, Agriculture, DDG & SIO Haryana, Dr. Shubhag of reports based on query in different etc. have been identified for Chand, HoD NIC Cabinet Secretariat format (Excel, Word and PDF). It also implementation of e-PMS Haryana, for Informatics Division, Shri Deepak facilitates various graphical reports for all the projects involving investments Bnasal, ASIO and Shri Ganesh Dutt, analysis purpose. TD & State Project Leader were present over Rs. 50 Crores, in respect of their on this occasion. In addition, the The data of Nodal officers is being sectors or areas of operations. Administrative Secretaries / HoDs of compiled from various departments 16 identified departments of Haryana or organizations, as per requirement A two days training will be provided Government were also present. of e-PMS Haryana. The State to the State Government Officers Coordination department is the State The customized link for the Haryana Nodal department for implementation or Officials on how to use portal. Portal for the e-PMS has been created of e-PMS in Haryana. The State IT Implementation of e-PMS in Haryana as http://cabsecpmg.gov.in/haryana, Department and local NIC-Haryana will start soon after the above the CONTRIBUTED BY: LOKESH JOSHI for projects value Rs. 50 crores and are providing all requisite ICT support Principal Systems Analyst above. training. E-mail: [email protected] services for the smooth implementation The e-PMS automates entire tracking of e-PMS Haryana. Dr. SHUBHAG CHAND, DELHI
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Workshop on Haryana users in which all the users were provided State Projects with to-do list. Management Portal Participants were asked organized at Chandigarh to try in accordance to on 18th and 19th February their respective roles. During the hands 2015 on adding projects, A Training workshop on comments made by the ePMS On-line Project recipients, searching Management System projects etc. were also Portal was organized tried by the users with e for Govt. of Haryana the help of Shri Vinod Shri Vijay Tiwari, SO (SB), NIC during hands on session at Knowledge Centre, Haryana Civil and Shri Vijay Tiwari. they were provided with the to-do list Secretariat, Chandigarh on 18th and 19th Individual queries and doubts were also of Admin users which lists all the major February 2015. taken up and resolved after the hands on operations as per Admin role. During session. Thereafter, the ministry users Training program started with the hands on the teams were able to perform were requested to provide their feedback introductory speech from Shri Ganesh all the operations including project followed by a vote of thanks. Dutt, Scientist E, Govt. of India. Shri monitoring and commissioning reports. Vinod Kumar. J, Scientist-B, NIC On second day, demo was given to various Master data for Haryana Portal was provided the technical insight of the Ministry/Department representatives updated by Haryana State admin team e-PMS portal of Haryana. Thereafter, again along with administrator activities during the Hands on session. Shri Vijay Tiwari SO (SB), NIC gave like accepting the project, preparing the complete demonstration about the agenda and monitoring projects etc. All Hand on session was also attended by working of the Haryana portal regarding the tasks were explained in detail, which Shri Vijayendra Kumar, IAS, Director the roles of Ministry/Department users. was followed by the Q&A session, during General cum Secretary Electronics & During the demo all the real examples this the state portal’s usernames and Information Technology, Haryana and were used to get connected with the users passwords were also handed over to the Shri Ghan Shyam Bansal, DDG and in a better way. The demo was followed state PMG. Scientist G, Haryana State Unit. The by a Q&A session. workshop ended with the concluding This is followed by hands on session comments by Shri Ganesh Dutt. During 2nd session, hands on was started with three groups of 2-3 members conducted for Ministries/Department each for admin. During this session Dr. SHUBHAG CHAND, DELHI
NIC Panipat, Haryana NIC District Centre rendered ICT Support during Panipat. For extensive launch of ‘Beti Bachao, Beti public awareness Padhao’ Programme of this programme, NIC Haryana sent uring the visit of more than 15 lakh Hon’ble Prime Minister SMS during 14th to Shri Narendra Modi at 22nd January, 2015 Panipat, Haryana on from the office of D 22nd January, 2015 for Public Relations/CM launch of ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ Haryana. programme, NIC Panipat Haryana Hon’ble PM Launching the programme rendered extensive ICT Services and A National workshop Media Centre, Secretariat Room Support. Control Room and Media on ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ Centre were established that were programme was organized by Women and Control Room were established equipped with latest hardware and and Child Development Department, networking infrastructure for PMO Govt. of India from 20/01/2015 to during this period. officers and SPGs. Apart from this, 22/01/2015 at Panipat. NIC Panipat, more than 4500 I-cards were generated Haryana rendered ICT Services & for General/VIP/VVIP persons at Support during this workshop also. NEERAJ, HARYANA
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Chhattisgarh eGazette number. The Website launched to facilitate Published Gazettes users can directly be uploaded by the n 5th January, 2015, Govt. Press through Shri Prem Prakash a separate login Pandey, Hon’ble based module Minister for Revenue, provided for the O Govt. of Chhattisgarh same purpose. has launched the “Chhattisgarh eGazette” website enabling users to Hon’ble minister easily access various published State congratulated Gazettes. Open to all, the website NIC for providing Question and Answer session in progress http://cg.nic.in/egazette lists latest this much needed five uploaded Gazettes each in the facility, reducing the undue delay faced K.R.Pisda, Secretary (Revenue), Shri “Ordinary” and “Extra-Ordinary” by departments and public in accessing M.K. Mishra, SIO, NIC Chhattisgarh categories on its home page. Besides the Published Gazettes. Any user who along with Shri Y.V. Shreenivas Rao, displaying the Gazettes, the website needs to access a particular Gazette or TD, Shri Amit Kumar Dewangan, offers users facility to take a print out any part of it can directly search and SA and other officials of Government Press and Revenue Department were of the same. Further, there is a facility print it from the website without going also present during the occasion. to search for the desired Gazette through time consuming procedures based on parameters such as period of of approaching Government Press Y.V.SHREENIVAS RAO, CHHATTISGARH publication, department and Gazette or the Revenue Department. Shri
Hon’ble PM launched Hon’ble Governor NIC Soil Health Card in of Rajasthan- Shri Kalyan Singh, Rajasthan Hon’ble Minister on’ble Prime Minister for Agriculture, of India, Shri Narendra GOI- Shri Radha Modi recently launched Mohan Singh, H the Soil Health Card Hon’ble CM Rajasthan Smt. Scheme (SHC) at Surathgarh (Sri Vasundhara Raje Ganga Nagar District) in Rajasthan ,CM’s of other on 19th February, 2015 (URL: http:// states, State Minister shc.agnet.nic.in). The SHC software Shri Prabhu Lal developed by NIC Rajasthan under Saini, Secretary Hon’ble PM Launching the scheme the AGRISNET Project is the Agriculture Shri backend software for the SHC. SIO & Ashish Bahuguna IAS, Shri Ashok The event was attended by thousands DDG NIC Rajasthan Smt. Indu Gupta Sampatram IAS, Shri Kuldeep Ranka of farmers from Hanumangarh, Sri informed that “The IT enabled SHC IAS with other dignitaries were also Ganga Nagar, Bikaner and adjoining software with an interface to the CSC present on the occasion. The PM areas. The project would generate at the gram panchayat with digital also released the Soil Health Card employment for the kiosk holders and signature facility will prove to be a logo titled “Swasthya Dhara, Khet the testing will be done both from the Hara“ on the occasion. The software boon for the farmers and immensely private and government soil testing has been developed in DOT NET help them in improving soil health labs. On the occasion Krishi Karman (C sharp) while the database is SQL in terms of fertility and productivity Awards were also given away by the Server 2008. The project has been Hon’ble Ministry of Agriculture, of the crops. Four farmers from the initially taken up on a pilot basis in GOI. Doordarshan has telecasted the region were given the printed SHC the zone and will be extended to other event live. by the dignitary. Webcast of the event parts of Rajasthan and all over the was also done by NIC”. country. CHANDAN SEN, RAJASTHAN
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Sixth Trainers’ Training issuance of visa Programme on IVFRT-MMP of all categories” was taken by Shri organized in Delhi G. Christopher, two days long Trainers’ TD and Shri Vikas Training Programme Nagi, SSA, NIC. (TTP) was organized Subsequently, on Immigration, Visa, sessions were Foreigners’ Registration A conducted on & Tracking-Mission Mode Project Immigration Presentation Session during the TTP (IVFRT-MMP) on 26th and 27th Control System February 2015 at the Central IVFRT (ICP) and APIS, LOC and ICP Office, Shastri Park, Delhi. This on UCF System was covered by Shri Networking by Shri Madhvendra Shambhu Kumar, SSA, NIC. Shri P. was the 6th TTP for the participants Singh, PSA and Shri Alok Roy involved in the implementation of K. Bhardwaj, JD(I) from IB, MHA Chaudhary, SSA, NIC with their teams addressed the participants and also IVFRT-MMP in various state and respectively. Biometric Enrolment districts. The TTP started with a clarified many emerging queries of and Verification System along with participants. formal inauguration by Dr. Shefali Deportee Management System was Sushil Dash, DDG, NIC, followed by covered by Ms. R. G. Charumati Further sessions on Indian Citizenship a brief Overview on IVFRT-MMP by along with live demonstration. (IC) and National Database on Arms her. The entire TTP was customized Sessions on “VPN technical aspects License (NDAL) were presented by in such a manner that every module and troubleshooting client issues and Shri Meghasyam Yedla, Scientific and session was exclusively targeted Antivirus” was taken by Ms. Arpita Officer and Shri Vikas Khatri, to the need of state level applications Burman, TD and team. Scientific Officer, NIC with their and its implementation. respective teams. The presentation on Technical Sessions on Day-two of “Overseas Citizenship of India” was Technical sessions for the first day TTP were dedicated to the important given by Shri Jitesh Sharma, SA, NIC. started with Shri N. S. Rawat, PSA, modules of C-FRO, UCF, Indian The presentation on “Arms Licence NIC along with his team who Citizenship, NDAL, ALIS, OCI, Issuance System” was delivered by conducted an important session on C-Form, S-Form and Q & A & Shri G. Christopher, TD, NIC and his “Visa Issuance Process (TVoA) in Feedback sessions. C-FRO module team. India & Indian Missions”. Session was covered by Shri A. Ravikumar, on “BL/PRC/referral process and TD, NIC and his team. The session N.K PRASAD, DELHI
Digital Archival of Records in various forms. for Phase-1 and Phase -2 of Digital technology has brought about Delhi Metro Rail Corporation a large number (DMRC) launched of changes in the nline repository for modernization and storing DMRC official automation of work records was formally processes in various launched by Delhi Metro organizations Rail Corporation MD by making the Mangu Singh on 16th processes more O efficient, transparent Participants at the launch event February, 2015 at Metro Bhawan, New Delhi. Shri RP Saxena, DDG, Shri SB and productive. Singh, DDG and Dr. Surinder Kumar, It offers various advantages like easy corresponding to different sections STD of the NIC and other members accessibility and retrieval, protection of and departments of DMRC, with of Digital Archiving and Management data authenticity, data security besides more than eight thousand records Group of NIC, were present during the the possibility to save and store in amounting to one terabyte of data have inauguration. The repository is created the multiple formats. Once digitized, been uploaded and are hosted at the processing is easier and faster compared using open source digital archiving National Data Centre at Shastri Park. software ‘DSpace’ with backend to the manual system. Furthermore, ‘PostgreSQL’ database in the Linux digitization enables access at multiple These records are accessible through environment. points at the same time. Intranet at DMRC offices at Metro Bhawan and Ashok Road. Digitization helps in organizing and DMRC online repository is presently preserving the information scattered having twenty one different collections NIVEDITA AGGARWAL, DELHI
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