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District Informatics The Land of countless springs of & showcases its marvellous use of ICT for the citizen services

Edited by SARBJEET SINGH he name Anantnag, according to Kalhana, has Implemented in district court and all Taluka been taken from the great spring of Cesha or Courts updating their data of cases, judgments and TAnanta Naga “land of countless springs”. The daily orders on the National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG) Since its inception in 1989, spring is mentioned in the Neelmat Purana as a sa- now. 31 of the identified 41 services have been initi- cred place for the Hindus and Koshur Encyclopedia ated. Backlog data of cases digitized. NIC Anantnag has played a testifies it. is in southern part of (http://jkfcsca.gov.in) . As per census 2011, the population e-PDS pivotal role in implementation of the district is 10.71 lacs. The district comprises of Under the computerization of Food & Supplies department, Lakh Ration Cards issued. Online Allo- of various ICT Projects in the 4 sub-divisions, 12 , 16 blocks and 387 villag- es. Anantnag has largest number of tourist places cation of Food Grains started on Pilot basis. State district. Many G2C and G2E in whole of Jammu & Kashmir. World famous tourist Portal and Online Grievance Redressal Mechanism place lies in district Anantnag. Kolie Gla- operational. services like Back-to-Village, cier and some famous Mughal Gardens like Acha- e-Municipalities (http://jkhudd.giv.in) bal, , , etc are also located Birth & Death Registration Urban, Processing & PSGA, SANJY, PGRS, ERMS/ in the district. Some important religious places like Amarnath Ji Cave, Ziarat Hazrat Zain-ud-Din Wali, ERONET, NSP, GeM, PMDISHA, Ziarat Baba Hyder Reshi, Baba Naseeb Din Gazi, PMKMY, Ayushman Bharat, Martand Temple, Nagdandi Temple, Bumzoo caves and Chapped of John Bishop are also located in the e-Tendering, e-PDS, PMKISAN, district. Vahan & Sarathi, e-Court, National & State Level MMPs in e-Prison, DM Dashboard has the District NIC Anantnag has been successfully carrying out made the lives of common all the major MMPs of national and state level, which include e-Treasuries, Online Budget (BEAMS), e-PDS, people easier and has helped VAHAN, SARATHI, e-Courts etc. A brief description is given below: the district administration to NIC District Centre, Anantnag has played E-tendering (https://jktenders.gov.in) carry out the monitoring and a pivotal role in implementation of vari- NIC has implemented this online solution to con- ous schemes and projects like Back-to- duct all stages of procurement process. development tasks in a smooth Village, PMKISAN, e-PDS, DM Dashboard, manner. BEAMS (Budget Estimation, Allocation & Monitoring ERMS/ERONET and many others. The System) (http://164.100.150.230) NIC has been rendering exemplary ser- BEAMS is being used to release the budget for vices during the conduct of Parliamenta- all the departments. Revised Estimates and Budget ry, Assembly, Panchayat and Local Body Estimates All DDOs trained. Elections. The District Administration is TreasuryNET (http://jakfinance.nic.in) thankful to the NIC for providing round A Mission Mode Project which has been rolled the clock internet facilities to students, out so far in treasuries and Directorate Offices. PAO job aspirants, NEET/NET applicants, pass- System introduced in 2017. Due to remote locations port seekers, IT/GST return filers, e-ten- of many treasuries, last mile connectivity provided derers etc. during the period the facilities from BSNL 2Mbps Leased line / VSATs. were otherwise not available. A record Jan Mubarik E-Transport (http://jaktrans.nic.in) number of students have been registered Ahmed Bhat Sr. Tech. Director & DIO Online SARATHI 4.0 and VAHAN 4.0 having ser- on NSP portal with the active IT support [email protected] vices related to license and vehicle registration of the NIC. I hope that NIC will continue namely Online application, slot booking for driving to provide ICT services to the government test, digital payment of fee & online learner license and the public of the district. test, e-payment of Road tax, Online application for fitness of Vehicle and Dealer Point Registration im- plemented. Bashir Ahmad Dar, KAS  Sachin Collector & District Magistrate STA & ADIO e-Courts (http://jkhighcourt.nic.in; http://ecourts. Anantnag District [email protected] gov.in/jk)

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issuance of Building Permissions, Double Entry Ac- counting System, Establishment System and Public Grievances Monitoring and Redressal System im- plemented in local bodies. ICT Initiatives in the District: MIS for Back to Village Programme: Back to Village (B2V) is a landmark and trans- formative programme of Government of Jammu & Kashmir conceived with an objective of bringing people to the centre stage of governance, ensuring their participation in the developmental process and putting in place an effective grievance redres- sal mechanism right from the identification of work till its completion. NIC Anantnag designed and de- Inauguration of “Back-to-Village” Portal by DDC, Anantnag veloped a MIS for smooth monitoring, analysis and implementation of the works and demands received • Report and permission letter generation. only helped the operators working at internet kiosk center to deliver internet services efficiently but also during the back to village programmes. At present Public Services Guarantee Act (PSGA) 5732 demands of public have been entered into the the citizens who visited internet kiosk centers. system. The MIS provides the following features:- Portal District Web Site • Data entry and assigning of unique codes to de- PSGA is an Act to provide/deliver Public Services mands. to the people within the specified time limit. The Anantnag district website has been rede- • Categorization of demands at data entry level. NIC Anantnag has designed and developed signed by implementing the Secure, Scalable and • Monitoring of works and demands at District/ ‘SUHULIYAT ’ a web portal for citizen to apply online Sugamya Website as a Service (S3WAAS) platform. Block Panchayat/ Village/ Departmental level for availing various services like SRO-43, Legal Heir, The platform ensures compliance with the guide- through a series of Dashboards. Dependency and Income Certificate. The salient fea- lines for Indian Government Websites (GIGW). By re- • Enable citizens to check the progress/status of tures of the system are: vamping the design of the portal using S3WAAS, citi- their demands. • Online submission of application forms by the zens can access the website through different digital citizens. devices with easy search content facility. Portal for Service Providers for conduct of • Processing and monitoring of the application Shri AmarNath Ji Yatra forms to ensure delivery of services in a time Other ICT Initiatives In order to help the district administration to bound manner. Establishment and Management of Inter- handle large number of applications and to facili- • Checking of status of applications by the citizens. tate the general public, NIC Anantnag has designed net Kiosks post abrogation of Article 370 and developed ‘SANJY’ portal with the following fea- e-Token for crowd Management period tures:- After the abrogation of article 370, all the inter- Due to internet blockade in J&K post 5th August • Online submission of application forms by intend- net related services were restricted in J&K including 2019, NIC, Anantnag rose to the occasion and estab- ing service providers. district Anantnag. NIC was asked by the Jammu and lished two internet kiosks comprising of 50 nodes. • Generation of acknowledgement slips after sub- Kashmir Government to provide Internet services to Up to ending February, 2020 more than 1.50 lac peo- mission of application form. government departments as well as general public. ple used the facilities established by NIC. The ser- • Processing by way of categorization of application Huge crowds visited NIC district Centre as well as the vices include submission of application forms for forms based on location and type of service. Internet Kiosks setup by NIC on daily basis for avail- various exams like NEET, GATE, SSC-JE, Railways, IG- • Validation of data. ing internet facilities. An intranet based token gener- NOU, CSIR NET, UGC NET, JNV schools, MCI Forms, Air • Management and selection of service providers ation system ‘e-Token’ was designed and developed Force Admit cards, Results of various exams, e-mail by way of online randomization of application by NIC Anantnag to manage the queue at internet access, Air Ticket, Passport applications, Scholarship forms. kiosk centers Anantnag. This e-Token system not forms, income tax returns, GST returns, PMKISAN ap-

Dashboard of ‘Back-to-Village” MIS portal Dashboard of Shri Amarnath Ji Yatra portal

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plication uploading and internet facilities to all gov- ernment departments. The facilities were open for 18-24 hours a day. Implementation of Pre and Post Matric Scholarship scheme through National Scholarship Portal: Due to restrictions on internet access in Jammu & Kashmir, NIC has provided 24x7 internet access to student community and against last year figure of 26,000 a record number of 1,13,459 students of Anantnag district have registered themselves on the NSP portal which is highest in of Jam- mu & Kashmir. IT support for conducting /As- sembly/Panchayat/BDC Elections. DIO, NIC, Anantnag Shri. Jan Mubarik Ahmad receiving award of appreciation during Republic Day function of 2020 NIC Anantnag provided extensive support at dif- ferent times for this challenging task. In addition to Electoral Rolls, which are available in , English • Under the programme a number of awareness e-Prison, e-Court, Jal Jeevan Mission, NADRS, e-Hos- & and are regularly updated and published programmes have been conducted in the district. pital, e-Municipality, Central Personnel Information on the official website(http://ceojammukashmir.nic. • NIC is the leading department in organizing of System (CPIS), Aadhaar based Skill Profiling of daily in), IT support has been provided for other vital ac- such programmes in the district. wagers/ casual labours etc., Grievance Monitoring tivities like making available candidate information, • Emphasis has been given to organize such pro- System, Video conferencing facilities through 4 VC affidavit hosting, randomization of polling paryies grammes in Rural Areas. Rooms, PMDISHA, Digital projects have been and EVMs, Communication Plan, Video conferencing • With this objective three villages namely Man- provided by NIC Anantnag. etc. Various web based IT applications like eSuvidha, zigam, and Sallar Batpora of the district c-Vigil, BLONET etc. have been implemented suc- has been chosen to make these villages cashless. Awards and Accolades cessfully. Besides NIC Anantnag has developed and • In the first instance in village Manzigam a series of DIO and Scientist “E”, NIC Anantnag Mr. Jan implemented a web based system for data entry and awareness programmes has been conducted. Mubarik Ahmed received award of appreciation randomization of staff for conduct of Block Develop- • One member from each family (211 families) during the Republic Day function of 2020 from Chief Guest (District Development Commissioner) in pres- ment Council Elections-2019. trained to make digital payments using different ence of DIG, South Kashmir, DIG CRPF, Brigadier 1-RR modes. Implementation of PM KISAN Samman and SSP Anantnag. The award has been conferred • 11 local merchants have also been trained. Nidhi Programme as a marks of recognition of IT/meritorious services • DIO being the Nodal Officers of the district to carry rendered by the NIC Anantnag especially the work Hon’ble Prime Ministers PMKISAN programme Aadhaar activities, with the help of Special Aad- has been successfully implemented in the district. done by NIC Anantnag for design and development haar campaign in the area 96% of the people have The farmers of the district have been paid three in- of MIS for monitoring of Back-to-Village Programme been provided Aadhaar cards. stallments of Rs. 2000 each under the programme. in the district and 24x7 services provided by NIC the • Out of total population of 1455 about 1440 people The programme has been implemented through the internet blockade since 5th of August 2019. have bank accounts. web portal https://pmkisan.nic.in portal. Sofar data Efforts are on to declare the village as 2nd Cash- of 87,836 farmers has been uploaded and validated • Summary less Village in J&K. and out of the data uploaded, financial assistance In order to realise the dream of ‘Digital India’, NIC to 72,625 farmers have been paid through the portal. Other Key Initiatives in the Dis- Anantnag is well prepared and continues to provide all technical support to the district administration. “Go Cashless Pay Digital Programme” in trict/ Innovations Applied A number of IT based projects have been launched District Anantnag: IT Services for smooth implementation of e-PDS, during the past few months, and in near future, it is envisaged to launch of an e-Market portal of district Anantnag. Famous products of Anantnag such as wil- low cricket bats, handicrafts, trout fish, apples etc. shall be marketed through the e-market portal. Vari- ous training and capacity building programmes have been held for all stake holders for smooth roll out of the product. The Back-to-Village Portal developed by NIC Anantnag is proposed to be implemented in oth- er of J&K in the near future. The dedication and zeal towards achieving excellence in the area of ICT have made NIC Anantnag a household name in the district.

For further information, please contact: District Informatics Officer NIC Anantnag District Centre, DC Office Complex, Anantnag Jammu & Kashmir – 192101 Roadshow at Village Manzigam regarding Digital India awareness week Email: [email protected], Phone: 01932-223539

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