Hon’ble CM, Tripura launched NIC developed online portal for ‘Welfare of Returned Workers’ in the State. The portal will create a database of workers returned to the State amid COVID-19. The details captured will include qualifications, skills-set, work experience etc, of the workers and help them in providing employment & skill development opportunities.

https://workers.tripura.gov.in/

The Commissioner, Transport Department Uttarakhand launched the online web portal for Registration of Crew members of commercial passenger vehicles in Uttarakhand. The registered applications will be online scrutinized and verified by respective RTO/ARTO. The databank so created will help Transport Department in disbursing financial assistance to eligible Crew members who are affected due to non-plying of commercial passenger vehicles during lockdown period.

The portal is integrated with VAHAN and SARTHI portal through respective web-services for fetching relevant data of crew members and vehicles at entry point and ensure correctness & checking of details entered. The portal will capture essential details of an estimated 1.50 lakh crew members of Uttarakhand.

http://greencard.uk.gov.in/databank/

The software will facilitate selecting the right officer for the right assignment based on available profile and is a vital source of information on the officers manning various posts for the general public. The list also contains the information of IAS as per batch, cadre state, present posting, pay and allowances, education and superannuation.

https://easy.nic.in/civilListIAS/YrCurr/StartCL.htm

Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttarakhand launched NIC’s library Management Portal, ‘e-Granthalaya’, for 109 Academic Institutes under Department of Higher Education, Government of Uttarakhand, in the presence of Hon’ble Minister of Higher Education of the State and other dignitaries. The portal includes 104 libraries in various government degree & PG colleges and 5 Universities.

The Vice Chancellors of Universities, Principals and Librarians of Institutes attended event from respective NIC District Centres and interacted with dignitaries, through NIC Video Conferencing Service. Activities and efforts of NIC were appreciated.

https://eg4.nic.in/ukhed/opac/

The website was launched to make the information about the commission, easily available to the public. The grievances from far flung hilly areas of Manipur could not reach the Commission because of the proper information and guidance to residents in those areas. The website aims to narrow the gap.

The Chairperson appreciated the NIC Manipur for developing the website within a very short time with rich content.

http://manipurwomencommission.gov.in/

The website provides information on role & functioning of Lokayukta in the remotest parts of State & easy access to the citizens of Odisha

https://lokayukta.odisha.gov.in

Hon’ble Chief Minister, Haryana launched the integration of three Social Security Pension Schemes of Social Justice and Empowerment Department with the Parivar Pehchan Patra (PPP) portal. This is second scheme after MMPSY (Mukhya Mantri Parivar Samridhi Yojna) launched with PPP (Family ID) as base for service delivery. This is in line with the vision to create a family database of state for various strategic and policy decisions and to integrate with all citizen services.

During the launch event, senior State Government officers along with Deputy Director General & State Informatics Officer of NIC-Haryana were also present.

http://meraparivar.haryana.gov.in

NIC Rajasthan developed ‘Integrated ShalaDarpan’ Portal provided end-to-end solution for selection of staff and online Interview process for Rajasthan School Education Department and to reduce the travel burden & maintain proper social distancing during COVID-19.

About 4500 staffs applied through ShalaDarpan portal for various vacant post and subjects of Govt. Model Schools. Panel wise details about VC Link, Date/Time were shared with applicants through NIC’s email, SMS and Web (ShalaDarpan User Login). Online Interview conducted for more than 3500 scrutinized staff.

This innovative online interview Process has been applauded by senior officials of the department and the participants.

SATYABHAMA (Science and Technology Yojana for Aatmanirbhar Bharat in Mining Advancement) Portal for Science and Technology Programme Scheme of Ministry of Mines was launched on 15th June, 2020 by Hon’ble Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Coal and Mines.

The portal has been designed, developed and implemented by National Informatics Centre (NIC). The Portal allows online submission of research based project proposals, allows monitoring the performance/progress of projects along with its utilization of funds / grants. The Portal is integrated with NGO Darpan Portal of NITI Aayog.

It was well appreciated by Secretary, Ministry of Mines and other senior officials of the Ministry presents at the time of launching.

PAPER LESS EXPORT under TURANT CUSTOMS is an effective step towards Social Distancing in tough time of COVID-19 pandemic.

Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttarakhand inaugurated eOffice Portal, by rolling out the application in Dehradun District. Secretary (IT) & District Magistrate were also present during the inauguration. The eOffice product suite will improve work efficiency at all levels of administration.

https://eoffice-dehradun.uk.gov.in/

Hon’ble Agriculture Minister, Bihar, inaugurated the Website of Weights & Measures Division, Agriculture Department.

The portal provides information on Licensing, Renewals, Dealers, Importers & Traders of Weight & Measures, Consumer Awareness/Rights, Manufacturer Registration etc., and a Grievance Reporting system for consumers.

http://maaptaul.bih.nic.in

NIC Rajasthan developed eWatch system implemented in Yojana Bhawan, Jaipur and NIC Rajasthan State Centre.

The system captures various parameters like temperature, name, address, contact details etc. of all officials and visitors during the COVID period. It is useful in tracing the visiting persons quickly as and when required. The system can be implemented in any department.

‘Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan’ is launched to boost employment & livelihood opportunities for migrant workers returning to villages, in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak.

Hon’ble PM also interacted with the villagers of Telihar in the Khagaria District of Bihar. Various Union Ministers, Chief Ministers & State Representatives also attended the event through Video Conferencing.

DG NIC delivered the Keynote Address on ‘Digital Transformation in Times of Pandemic’ and highlighted NIC’s significant role in providing the extensive ICT support through services and applications like Aarogya Setu App, DBT, Cloud Technology, in the National Governance Virtual Summit 2020′, by ET Government

National Generic Document Registration System (NGDRS) is a generic, flexible and cloud based computerized system of document registration, developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) with support from the Department of Land Resources, Ministry of Rural Development, GoI.

It is a web-enabled software application which has been deployed and hosted centrally in Jammu at the SDC as a J&K specific instance. The application is designed to be used by Sub Registrars, citizens, deed writers and senior level users from the Registration Department. The software product provides a complete workflow for Document Registration process.

NIC’s eOffice is being extensively used for seamless working of State Government in Punjab, during the Covid-19 lockdown.

NIC is providing comprehensive support for eOffice usage, to various State Govt Departments. Around 20 new Departments have on-boarded with 10 days training sessions for over 4000 employees.

To help the Government of West Bengal combat COVID-19, NIC developed and launched an online portal for ‘West Bengal State Emergency Relief Fund’. Online Payments can be made on this portal via UPI, Net Banking, Credit/Debit Card, NEFT, RTGS, Cheque & DD.

NIC organised an online session on ‘Introduction of Enterprise Architecture’ for Govt.of Sikkim. DDG NIC, Shri D C Mishra made a presentation to Hon’ble MP, Hon’ble MLA, Secretary & Director IT, Additional Secretary & Other Officers via NIC’s Video Conferencing Service.

NIC’s Video Conferencing Service supported the interaction of Hon’ble Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan with all Members of Self Help Groups of Madhya Pradesh who are connected through all 104 district Video Conferencing studios, cloud based vc systems and all rest Members of Self Help Groups connected through webcast facilities .

NIC’s eOffice Platform was launched on 15th June 2020 for Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC).

It is one of the large implementation of eOffice, covering 50,000 users in CBIC field offices across the country. The eOffice was launched by CBIC Chairman over NIC Video Conferencing in the virtual presence of DG NIC, Senior Officers from NIC and Officers from CBIC across the 580 field offices.

Hon’ble MoS DoNER, advised to set up eOffice in all 8 North Eastern States in a stipulated timeframe. He also announced a Joint Steering Committee to be chaired by Secretary DoNER to take the eOffice project forward. Representatives from ARPG, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, NIC, NEC and all the 8 North Eastern States will be the part of the Committee to suggest measures and implement the eOffice project.

CMs of Nagaland, Sikkim, Meghalaya & Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram IT Minister & Director General NIC attended the Webinar.

NIC UP has developed online RTE portal for admission under Right To Education Act, under which guardian of Children belonging to destitute classes can apply online through the portal for seeking admission in leading private schools in nearby locations across the state. Total 88256 online applications were received on the portal from 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh. Out of the 71,203 verified applications, 47156 children were allotted schools through the online Lottery system using the portal.

Hon’ble MoS (I/C) for Primary Education (UP) declared the result for admission and appreciated the efforts of NIC UP in implementing RTE Project in the state.

http://rte25.upsdc.gov.in

NIC’s Video Conferencing Service supported the interaction of Hon’ble Chief Minister, Madhya Pradesh with Sarpanches of all Gram Panchayats of the State regarding Infrastructure development, Sanitation and Employment related schemes at Panchayat level, during COVID-19 pandemic.

NIC Video Conferencing Service supported the interactive meeting of Hon’ble Minister, Public Health Engineering Department (PHED), Rajasthan, with the Districts Officials of PHED, regarding the review of various Departmental activities.

All migrant labourers as well as employers have been registered on the Rozgar Setu portal.

While on the one hand all the labourers are registered on the portal, on the other hand, different employers are registered. Employers can select labourers as per their requirements. The labourers can also get their appointment letter through the portal.

Hon’ble CM also interacted with the beneficiaries of Rojgar Setu scheme via NIC Video Conferencing Service.

http://www.rojgarsetu.mp.gov.in

National Informatics Centre’s Video Conferencing Service supported the review meeting of Hon’ble Union Finance Minister with Secretary Department of Financial Service, Managing Directors & Chief Executive Officers of all Public Sector Banks.

“Digidhan Dashboard” is a platform for reporting, monitoring and analysis of all digital payments transactions occurring in the country for 16 digital payment modes of over 110 banks. It also monitors POS, Aadhaar Seeding infrastructure along with providing bank wise transaction analysis to promote Digital Economy. The dashboard facilitates tracking the growth of digital payment transactions in the country and provides inputs for effective planning of digital payment promotional activities.

https://digipay.gov.in/dashboard/default.aspx

National Informatics Centre’s Video Conferencing Service supported the inauguration of 3 new coal mines in Maharashtra & Madhya Pradesh, by Hon’ble Chief Ministers of Madhya Pradesh & Maharashtra, and Hon’ble Union Ministers of Road Transport & Highways and Coal & Mines.

The Haryana Udhyam Memorandum (HUM) portal will provide a unique identification number to all enterprises — shops, MSMEs, large and mega industries — to enable permissions and services from the government to be provided in an integrated manner.

The HUM portal will also enable registration of labour engaged by the enterprises, creating a database of all employees engaged in industrial enterprises in Haryana. This would would help the state government in formulating welfare policies.

http://harudhyam.edisha.gov.in

In order to keep systematic record of all passengers arriving at Jammu railway station and to inform them about their COVID-19 test results, IT enabled solutions and mobile applications have been launched in Jammu. These applications are downloaded on handheld gadgets and mobile phones enabling officials to do their job at ease and with precision.

To streamline the response mechanism, SMS are sent to individuals on their mobile phones informing them about their COVID-19 test results. More than 75000 SMS have been pushed to individuals as on date through a customized software application as on date.

Hon’ble Deputy Chief Minister, Haryana Launched new Service for MSMEs to Raise Financing Related Grievances on Antyodaya Saral Portal. Director MSME and Additional State Informatics Officer, NIC were also present on this occasion.
NIC Haryana has developed an online service on Service Delivery portal Antodaya Saral of Haryana (https://saralharyana.gov.in) for MSMEs to Raise Financing Related Grievances for Department of the Industries and Commerce (MSMEs), Haryana to facilitate various industries and MSMEs to capture their grievances regarding credit related challenges.

In an effort to bring the district administration a step closer to the common people and to enable the citizens to easily take an appointment to meet the Deputy Commissioner, ‘Swagatam’, an application software was launched by Dibrugarh Deputy Commissioner in the presence of District Development Commissioner, Additional Deputy Commissioner and the District Informatics Officer, NIC and his team.

The application facilitates online registration, followed by selection of the appointment slot. The visitor will get an SMS alert on his mobile phone once the appointment is fixed.

National Informatics Centre’s IVFRT team helped in smooth Immigration Service for Indian Citizens, who had arrived at Immigration Check Post of Tuticorin Port, in Tamil Nadu, from Sri Lanka under the Operation Samudra Setu of the Indian Navy.

CHAMPIONS which stands for Creation and Harmonious Application of Modern Processes for Increasing the Output and National Strength. The system utilising modern ICT tools is aimed at assisting Indian MSMEs march into big league as National and Global CHAMPIONS.

It is a technology packed control room-cum-management information system. In addition to ICT tools including telephone, internet and video conference, the system is enabled by Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics and Machine Learning. It is also fully integrated on real time basis with GOI’s main grievances portal CPGRAMS and MSME Ministry’s own other web based mechanisms. The entire ICT architecture is created in house with the help of NIC in no cost.

NIC Video Conferencing Service supported the interactive meeting of Hon’ble Union Home Minister with Hon’ble Chief Ministers of Gujarat & Maharashtra, to review the preparedness for dealing with the expected Cyclone.

This portal shall work as a one-stop digital platform for AI-related developments in India, sharing of resources such as articles, startups, investment funds in AI, resources, companies and educational institutions related to AI in India.

Due to the covid-19 crisis, a new scheme “Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PM-GKAY)” has been introduced for three months, effective April 2020, for free distribution of @5 Kg grains i.e. wheat/Rice per person and @1 Kg pulses per ration card per month to all NFSA card holders through 5.3 Lakh Fair Price Shops (FPS), during the lockdown period.

NIC is tirelessly supporting ‘Dept. of Food & Public Distribution’ with its S/w application & coordination with States, to ensure smooth delivery of food grains to beneficiaries in their States, amid COVID-19 induced countrywide lockdown.

Department of Food and Public Distribution has launched IM-PDS scheme with the main components as National Portability, De-Duplication, creation of Central Repository and Data Analytics.

To achieve the above objectives, a central repository has been created by getting the Ration Card data of all the States and duplicate members based on aadhaar number have been identified. Web services have been developed for sharing of monthly data by States. The ration cards with duplicate member IDs are made ineligible for National portability.

NIC has developed a S/w to implement “One Nation – One Ration Card”, under IMPDS Scheme of Dept. of Food & Public Distribution to ensure that resident of a State can take ration from any other State in India.

NIC Kurukshetra developed ‘e-Market Kurukshetra’ Mobile App provides a common platform for service provider & citizens to meet their needs for home delivery of essential items & services, in the region amid COVID-19 lockdown.

National Informatics Centre (NIC) MP developed an online system to help the Govt. of Madhya Pradesh to verify and register migrants for providing employment to them in the State, amid COVID-19 lockdown

NIC developed a Mobile App to capture details of Bihar migrants stranded in other States during the lockdown, to facilitate Bihar Government in providing financial assistance to them through DBT in their bank accounts.

NIC is providing various technology enabled e-learning solutions across several States such as Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu etc. These solutions are not only supporting the sustenance of School Academic Curriculum during COVID-19 induced lockdown but also making online classes more engrossing for kids.

NIC Meghalaya developed ‘Chief Minister’s Relief Fund’ Portal, enables individuals & companies to financially support COVID-19 affected persons through online donations.

Payments can be made on this portal via NetBanking, Credit cards, UPI, etc.

http://megcmrf.gov.in/index.htm

NIC developed Management Information System (MIS) for National Urban Livelihoods Mission (NULM) is integrated with ‘PAiSA Portal’ which is an online payment gateway for transferring funds to Urban Poor during COVID19

NIC West Bengal developed ‘COVID-19 Quarantine Monitoring & Tracking System’ Web & Mobile application is implemented in the State. It helps in real time monitoring & tracing of the COVID19 quarantined / suspected/ positive cases with their admission/discharge details.

DG, NIC reviewed the important activities undertaken by NIC State and District centres during COVID19 lockdown duration. State Informatics Officers made presentations for their respective States via NIC VC Services.

Hon’ble Chief Minister Yogi Aditya Nath has launched the online portal to provide single window system for applying, disposal and real time monitoring of 4 major schemes of MSME Sector i.e. Vishwakarma Shram Samman Yojana (VSSY), ODOP (Margin money), ODOP(toolkit & training) and Mukhyamanstri Yuva Swarojgoar Yojana (MYSY) on the MSME eServices portal in Uttar Pradesh.

The online platform, developed by NIC UP State Centre, is expected to be a significant step in the direction of Digital India from the perspective of the MSME sector in the state.

State Cabinet Minister MSME & Export Promotion, Government of UP has appreciated the efforts taken by NIC UP to bring revolution and digital transformation in Industry Sector by introducing a single platform and make it a reality of the Government policy of Services.

https://diupmsme.upsdc.gov.in/

VANI (Virtual Assistance by NIC) helps answer citizens’ queries like for RTO’s licenses, Consumer Forum Case status, Bi-lingual i-Khedut bot for KISAN in Gujarati & English, voice based IVR for PM Kisan in Hindi & English & upcoming Virtual OPD for teleconsultancy services to patients with access to Doctors in Hospitals from home.

NIC’s eOffice Product Suite was inaugurated by Hon’ble Revenue Minister, Puducherry, in the Offices of Department of Revenue & Disaster Management (DRDM), Puducherry. eOffice training was provided to sixty-seven officials of DRDM.

NIC Video Conferencing Service supported the interaction of Hon’ble Union Minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, with CMs of Karnataka, Maharashtra, Goa & Forest Ministers of Kerala, TN & Gujarat, to discuss the Ecological Sensitive Areas in Western Ghat.

Hon’ble MoS (I/C), MoHUA announced the results of Garbage Free Cities (GFC) Star Rating Protocol. The MIS Application developed by NIC for Swachh Bharat Mission Urban facilitates this GFC Protocol – a mechanism to achieve higher order of cleanliness in the cities.

Hon’ble Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh interacted with State Home Minister, Chief Secretary, DGP, ACS, PS of various Departments, Chief Medical Officers and Baba Ramdev, via NIC Video Conferencing Service, to review the COVID19 situation in the State.

TAANI (Text Analytics Assistance by NIC) facilitates Cognitive Search of similar cases from text PDFs in the Motor accidents claim petitions, matching Indian names across the regional datasets, matching form field content in the uploaded documents etc

Online portal for recruitment process of 69,000 Assistant Teachers of primary schools under Basic Education Board, Uttar Pradesh was launched on 18th May, 2020.

Total 1,46,060 candidates qualified for Teachers recruitment examination 2019 (ATR-19). NIC UP State unit developed the portal for choice filling of districts by eligible candidates and allocation of district on the basis of weightage of marks of educational qualification and marks obtained in ATR-19.

http://upbasiceduboard.gov.in/

NIC Video Conferencing Service supported the 3rd Anniversary of RERA by providing a platform for conducting a webinar attended by Principal Secretaries, Secretaries, RERA, Tribunal Chairpersons, Members, NAREDCO, CREDAI, ASSOCHAM, FICCI, CII & thousands of stakeholders across the country.

The Department of Technical Education, Training and Skill Development, GoWB has taken the initiative during lockdown period due to COVID-19 pandemic towards development of a comprehensive portal for all Government Polytechnic Colleges of West Bengal with customizable and personalized interface for every college which is a one stop place for citizens, students, faculty and administration to find relevant information about all State Government Polytechnic Colleges of West Bengal.

The portal has been inaugurated by the Hon’ble MIC of the Department in the presence of DDG &SIO (NIC,WBSC), ASIO State, NIC and other senior Govt of WB officers.

The Hon’ble MIC had praised the efforts of Department and NIC for development of this eGovernance portal during this lockdown period.

(http://polytechnic.wbtetsd.gov.in/)

IVAANI (Image and Video Analytics Assistance by NIC) facilitates Intelligence Augmentation in online management of Government schemes like Beneficiary Detection in Swachh Bharat Mission Constructed Toilet Photos, Students’ Group Attendance in Utkarsh Bangla, Radiological services etc.

PRERNA software has been developed and implemented by NIC to provide better services to the registrant in the form of computerization of Sub Registrar Offices of Stamps & Registration Department, Government of Uttar Pradesh.

It is one stop citizen-centric electronic solution for all kinds of property registration with e-services like – market value assistance, auto valuation of Stamp Duty & Registration Fee, on demand generation of encumbrance certificate, on-spot registration, electronic storage of deeds, endorsement & printing of photographs, thumb impression, generation of index registers, Marriage Registration etc.

In view of COVID-19, following features have been added in PRERNA software :

• Online e-payment system to pay the Registration fee online has been developed and implemented successfully and made compulsory. This new system will not only restrict third party/manual handling of cash, but also automate and speed up the treasury payment.

• To visit the Sub Registrar offices for property registration, a prior appointment has been made compulsory. The software has been modified to get the online appointment after submitting the property registration form.

• PRERNA software has been redeployed with all precautionary instructions related to COVID 19 on front page of the website.

NIC developed the ‘COVID19 Management Portal’ for management of Quarantined persons at Quarantine Centres by the Delhi Govt. This Portal provides features like Database of Quarantined Person, Unique Case ID, Search based on Case ID etc.

https://coviddelhi.nic.in

NIC Video Conferencing Service supported the press conference of Hon’ble Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, on Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan and One Nation-One Ration Card.

The dignitaries also discussed the role of Technology, endeavors of Gates Foundation & importance of global coordination on scientific innovations and R&D to combat the pandemic

Hon’ble Minister for Commerce and Industry, participated in G20 Trade Ministers meeting, via NIC Video Conferencing service.

The Commerce and Industry Minister asked the G20 members to focus on immediate and concrete actions that can ease the distress being faced by people all over the world due to Corona pandemic

NIC Video Conferencing supported the E-Commissioning of Indian Coast Guard Ship ‘Sachet’ & two interceptor boats in Goa, by Hon’ble Minister for Defence. The ICGS Sachet, the first in the series of five offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) has been designed & built indigenously by Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) and is fitted with state-of-the-art navigation and communication equipment.

The application helps the citizens to file complaint for correction in online Jamabandi data, freely available for citizen on http://biharbhumi.bihar.gov.in. Portal offers six different types of services to the citizens for modification in Jamabandi content. The individual has to select a service and upload required document in pdf format. The list of required documents, for different services, is available on the site for convenience of people. All the services have a fixed processing timelines as defined by the department.

The Minister of State for Development of North Eastern Region (I/C), Prime Minister’s Office, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, interacted with the staff and officials up to the level of Section Officers of all the three departments of DoPT, DARPG and DoPPW through NIC Video Conferencing Service.

The discussions included Officers’ suggestions on Work From Home

Joint Secretary, Land Resources (LR) and DDG & HOG, National Informatics Centre (NIC), interacted with NIC SIOs & LR Coordinators, via NIC Video Conferencing Service, to discuss the implementation of ‘Unique Land Parcel Identification Numbers’ in States LR applications.

National Informatics Centre (NIC) Video Conferencing Service supported the interactive meeting of Hon’ble CM, Tamil Nadu with all District Collectors of the State, to review the status of COVID-19 situation.

Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India has created a live dashboard on Covid-19 with datasets sourced from Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

Infographics, data-visualization, analytics, Health Infrastructure open data, etc. are also available in the dashboard page.

Access the dashboard at:
https://data.gov.in/major-indicator/covid-19-india-data-source-mohfw

NIC developed ePass System for Telangana State Police Department, for issue of ePasses for movement of Individuals/Stranded Labour/Vehicles/employees of Hyderabad Commissionerate and other organisations etc., in view of restricted moment of citizens during lock down to fight with COVID-19

The system is integrated with NIC SMS Gateway & verification is via QR Code.

https://policeportal.tspolice.gov.in

NIC Nagpur has developed ‘Medical Oxygen Monitoring System’, to monitor inventory of Liquid Oxygen manufactured & stored at State/District level in the country. This system ensures seamless supply of oxygen to Government & other hospitals identified for treatment of COVID-19.

NIC’s ‘ePass System’ developed using ServicePlus framework is launched in Nagaland. It will facilitate online passes for movement of Vehicle/Public during lockdown amid COVID-19.

ePass generated are sent via eMail & can also be downloaded from the portal https://iamstranded.nagaland.gov.in

NIC Video Conferencing Services supported the meeting of Hon’ble Minister for Law & Justice, with Attorney General, Solicitor General & all the Law Officers of GoI.

He emphasized to take lockdown as an opportunity to make digital systems in justice delivery more robust.

Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), Government of India conducted successful Interviews of Judicial and Technical Members for filling up of multiple posts of Judicial Members and Technical Members in the National Company Law Tribunal (NCL T) using NIC Video Conferencing Service.

The Committee was chaired by Supreme Court Judge with Members from Supreme Court, Secretary MCA and Secretary Law & Justice.

NIC developed ‘Vehicle Transit Pass System’ using ServicePlus framework is implemented in Meghalaya. It facilitates online passes for movement of citizens of Meghalaya stranded in other states & returning home using their own transportation.

http://meghalayaonline.gov.in/covid

NIC Video Conferencing supported the interactive meeting of Hon’ble Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare with Health Minister of Tamil Nadu and other Senior officials of the State on current COVID-19 situation.

NIC Video Conferencing supported the interaction of Hon’ble Minister of State for Health & Family Welfare with the Ministers of States (MoS) for Jal Shakti, Ayush, PMO and Women & Child Development, to discuss the COVID-19 situation.

NIC Anantnag developed & implemented ‘COVID-19 Test Sample Mgmt. System’, to monitor the samples sent to labs in UT of J&K. This Portal also enables Medical Authorities & Dist. Admn. to monitor collection & testing reports in real time.

http://combatcovidang.in/login_test.php

National Informatics Centre (NIC) UP developed portal for registration of stranded people in Uttar Pradesh and other States. The link for the portal has been made available on CM’s Grievance Redressal portal.

The portal will facilitate the movement of registered people from UP to other States & vice-a-versa, amid COVID19.

http://jansunwai.up.nic.in

DG, NIC in a webinar said that NIC is continuously working towards meaningful use of Emerging Technologies in Governance across all levels of Govt. Its Leveraging Tech solutions are providing grassroot level support in nation’s fight against COVID-19

NIC Delhi developed & implemented ‘Corona Sample Collection Monitoring System’, an online application to monitor Corona samples & reports collected from Covid Care Centres, Covid Testing/Health Centres, Govt/Pvt. Hospitals & Containment Zone etc.

https://cfwcst.delhi.gov.in

NIC’s Video Conferencing Service supported the interaction of Hon’ble Chief Minister of Maharashtra & Hon’ble Health Minister of the State, with all District Collectors & Commissioners, to review the status of COVID-19 Pandemic in the State.

NIC developed ‘GIS Based Covid-19 Care’ module of OneMap Greater Noida Portal is incorporated with Total Covid Hotspots & Hotspot Sectors Buttons, providing varied information (1Km BufferZone) to demarcate the locations for containment. –

https://umd.nic.in/gnida/Map.aspx

NIC developed & maintained Ministry of Health and Family Welfare portal, is serving as primary & official source of information on VOVID-19 pandemic, updated statistics & insightful content on public health. Accessed all over the world, this portal recorded 600 million+ hits in last week of April 20′.

National Informatics Centre (NIC) Video Conferencing Service supported the interactive meeting of Cabinet Secretary, GOI with Chief Secretaries of all the States, DGPs, and Principal Secretaries (Home), to discuss COVID-19 issues in the country.

NIC Video Conferencing Service supported the interaction of Hon’ble Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh with Hon’ble Dy. CM, Hon’ble Minsters & MLAs, Chief Secy., DGP, all DCs, SPs & DMOs, to review the status of various measures that have been implemented for containing COVID19.

Director General, NIC interacted with Heads of Groups at National Informatics Centre (NIC) across the country, using Video Conferencing Services. She reviewed the status of important activities undertaken by NIC, ensuring smooth functioning of the Government during the lockdown period amid COVID19.

NIC Tamil Nadu developed eReceipt System has enabled Citizens/Companies/Trusts/Groups to contribute towards Chief Minister’s Public Relief Fund in Tamil Nadu. Contributions can be made using Internet Banking, Credit/Debit Card, Wallets & UPI.

Visit:  https://ereceipt.tn.gov.in

Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttarakhand launched NIC Telemedicine Services in the State of Uttarakhand and E-Hospital at Doon Hospital – Medical College, Dehradun using a solution developed by NIC Tripura and rollout managed by E-Hospital and ORS division NIC Hqs, New Delhi, in the august presence of his Cabinet colleagues

NIC Port Group plays a vital role to keep up port operations at Kolkata, Haldia, Ennore & Chennai for shipping foodstuff & medicinal items during lockdown.

Hundreds of vessels with more than 7 tons of Cargo, 70 K containers & 60 K wagons were managed by NIC software.

Indian Custom EDI System (ICES) designed by National Informatics Centre (NIC) as Technology Partner of Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), is being widely used for custom operations amid COVID19 lockdown. The system is now operational at 248 major customs locations handling nearly 98% of India’s International trade in terms of import and export consignments.

NIC developed software is used to conduct Online Examination with objective type Questions for Students of classes 6-10th, in Tamil & English language, at Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, amid COVID19 lockdown.

The coordination & support provided by NIC is appreciated by District Admin.

National Informatics Centre’s Video Conferencing Service supported the interaction of Hon’ble Chief Minister of Manipur with all Deputy Commissioners, regarding the steps taken for setting up of quarantine centers for migrant workers, students & other people coming back from other states.

National Informatics Centre (NIC) Uttarakhand has developed an online portal, on which citizens can register voluntarily as Individuals/Societies/NGOs/ to contribute in the fight against COVID19.

People who need any assistance/help can also register themselves on the Portal.

National Informatics Centre (NIC) Video Conferencing Service supported the interactive meeting of Hon’ble CM, Tamil Nadu with all District Collectors, SPs, Commissioner of Police, Corporation Commissioners, Joint Directors and Deputy Directors of Health Services, on COVID19 situation in the State

The app has features like Counselling Service & Geo-tagging for Quarantined persons & COVID-19 affected patients, Contacts for Food & Grocery supply & Community Kitchen etc.

The ‘Transit Vehicle Monitoring Module of Covid Care Kerala Mobile App’ facilitates monitoring of the entry/exit of vehicles via Kerala-Karnataka border. It has features like vehicle transit history, monitoring dashboard, SMS alerts etc.

National Informatics Centre (NIC) Jammu developed ‘Call Records Management System’ for real time response to the calls received for queries/grievances related to travel permits, medical emergencies & other essential services in the state. The system maintain database of all calls & forward the grievance/query to the District heads of concerned dept. for suitable response.

Hon’ble CM Uttarakhand launched NIC developed online portal for ‘Chief Minister’s Relief Fund’, enabling citizens to financially support #COVID19 affected persons through donations. Payments can be made on portal via NetBanking, DD, UPI& Paytm.

Hon’ble Chief Minister of Haryana thanked NIC officials for donating Rs. 1.61 lakh for Haryana Corona Relief Fund.

He also appreciated their role during COVID-19 crisis and said that NIC is playing an important part during this time of crisis by enabling effective utilisation of technology to serve the people.

National Informatics Centre’s (NIC) Video Conferencing Service supported the interaction of Hon’ble Union Minister of State (I/C) for DoNER, MoS PMO, MoS Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, with Retired Bureaucrats, on the issues related to COVID19.

National Informatics Centre’s (NIC) Video Conferencing Service supported the interaction of Hon’ble Minister of Information & Broadcasting with Heads of various Media organizations, to discuss the media coverage amid COVID19 pandemic.

Live demo of NIC developed Covid Warriors portal (https://covidwarriors.gov.in/), was given to Group of Ministers, in Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi.

The portal is developed for the Empowered Group 4 on COVID-19, headed by Secretary, MSME.

An android based mobile App, developed by NIC and inaugurated by DC Hisar facilitates the people by coordinating with the essential commodities suppliers (groceries, milk etc) and utility service providers (carpenters, Plumbers etc).

Existing Vendors may update and new vendors may registers to serve the citizen. App has been enabled to facilitate whole of the state Haryana.

For more features, please search on play store- connectplusharyana
Or click the link https://tinyurl.com/y7fdtycg

National Informatics Centre’s (NIC) Video Conferencing Service supported the interactive meeting of Hon’ble Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying with various State Officials across the country, on Covid-19 situation in their respective States.

NIC developed ‘Online Classroom’ for School Education Department, Government of West Bengal, to facilitate ‘Teaching-Learning’ for Students of Classes V-XII by providing assignments in 5 languages (English, Bengali, Hindi, Urdu & Santhali), during lockdown amid COVIDー19.

National Informatics Centre (NIC) Video Conferencing Service supported the interaction of Hon’ble Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court with all District Judges of the State, to discuss COVID19 pandemic.

E-Gram Swaraj Portal was launched by PM Narendra Modi on the occasion of Panchayati Raj Day 2020
The portal is one single interface on which the details will be listed panchayat wise. The platform will provide records of work from planning to the implementation in every village panchayat under Gram Panchayati Development Plan (GPDP).

The Gram Swaraj Portal and mobile application will boost e-governance in the Panchayati raj institutions across the nation.

National Informatics Centre (NIC) Video Conferencing Service supported the interactive meeting of Hon’ble Minister of State for HRD, Communications, Electronics & IT, Govt. of India, with Chief Postmaster Generals of various States, on COVID-19 situation in the country.

Hon’ble Minister of Agri. & Farmers’ Empowerment, Odisha launched ‘Horticulture Produce Marketing’ portal developed by NIC Odisha, to help traders purchase the surplus Horticulture Produce available with the farmers in the lockdown amid Covid-19.

The online portal for Lakshadweep Administrator’s Disaster Relief Fund collection was inaugurated on 22nd April 2020 at Kavaratti Lakshadweep. Honorable Administrator of Lakshadweep inaugurated the website from his office.

The service was facilitated by NIC Lakshadweep through the ServicePlus Platform of NIC, in a very short duration of 3 days, by configuring the service and making it available with online payment facility.

NIC Video Conferencing Service supported the interactive meeting of Hon’ble Minister of Coal and Senior Officers of Coal Ministry with Chief Managing Directors of Coal Companies, regarding Coal production plan and the impact of Covid-19.

Hon’ble CM, Jharkhand launched ‘Jharkhand Bazar Mobile App’ developed by NIC Ranchi. It offers M-PASS with 2 hours slot to Buyers & Merchants for purchases & delivery in lockdown, ensuring market does not get crowded & also helps consumers locate nearby shops.

NIC Dhamtari has developed ‘ Quaiso Tracker’ Mobile App for surveillance of persons in quarantine /isolation (Foreigners/Other State migrants) in Chhattisgarh.

This App uses Local Government directory for rural/urban mapping, with real time locations tracking.

National Informatics Centre (NIC) J&K developed Geo-Fencing App ‘Corona Surveillance’ tracks the location of the Quarantined persons & alerts the Rapid Response Teams to take necessary action if the quarantined persons move away from their designated location/home.

National Informatics Center (NIC) J&K has developed an ‘e-Pass application’ using NIC’s ServicePlus Framework for the UT of Ladakh. It offers passes for Inter/Intra District and Inter State movement of vehicles involved in essential services during lockdown amid COVID19.

National Informatics Centre (NIC) Video Conferencing Service supported the interactive meeting of Hon’ble Speaker of Lok Sabha with the Speakers of various States, to discuss the COVID19 situation.

NIC Arunachal Pradesh has developed an ‘e-Pass application’ using NIC’s ServicePlus Framework, to issue passes for Inter/Intra District and Inter State movement of vehicles involved in essential services during lockdown amid COVID-19.

Public Financial Management System (PFMS) of Controller General of Accounts (CGA) with NIC as Technology Partner transferred over Rs 36,659 crore in the bank accounts of 16.01 crore beneficiaries via DBT, during lockdown amid COVID-19

NIC Video Conferencing Service supported the interactive meeting of Hon’ble Governor of Manipur with Deputy Commissioners of all the Districts of the State, on COVID-19 situation.

NIC Delhi developed ‘SaarthiCOV’ Online application for Transport Dept. of GNCT Delhi provides one-time financial assistance of Rs 5000, to drivers of Para Transit Vehicles registered in NCT Delhi, via DBT.

Application uses NIC SARATHI database for desired information.

NIC Video Conferencing Service supported the interactive meeting of Chief Secretary, Manipur with all District Commissioners, Superintendents of Police & the District Surveillance Officers of all the districts of the state, to review COVID19 situation in Manipur.

Hon’ble Chief Minister, Assam launched ‘Corona Virus Alert Assam (COVAAS) Mobile App developed by National Informatics Centre (NIC) Assam.

This app is highly scalable & a one stop solution providing services & information on the COVID19 pandemic for residents of the State.

NIC Meghalaya, in collaboration with Artificial Intelligence Resource Division, NIC, has developed ‘VANI-COVID19’, a multilingual Chatbot to address COVID19 related queries for the people of Meghalaya, in English, Khasi & Garo languages.

NIC Bhubaneswar developed ‘Transit e-Pass for COVID19’ using NIC’s Service Plus Framework is implemented in Ganjam District of Odisha. The e-pass generated is sent by email to the citizens. Ganjam is the first District in the State to implement this system.

Hon’ble LG, J&K inaugurated ‘COVID Call Centre’ in Srinagar.

This Emergency Response Center, technically supported by NIC Srinagar, provides integrated helpline for attending calls received for Healthcare, Essential supplies, Emergency & other Grievances.

National Informatics Centre (NIC) Video Conferencing Service supported the interactive meeting of Secretary, Department of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India with Health Departments of States, on Arogya Setu App. Secretary, MeitY and DG NIC were also present in the meeting.

Hon’ble Minister for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare launched National Informatics Centre developed KisanRath Mobile App to facilitate farmers, FPOs & Cooperatives in the Country to find a suitable transport facility to transfer agriculture produce from farm gate to markets.

‘KisanRath’ App is an important milestone in agri-produce transportation. It ensures smooth and seamless supply linkages between farmers, warehouses, FPOs, APMC mandis & intra-State & inter-State buyers and helps in reduction of food wastage by providing timely services. This app is available in 8 languages and can be downloaded from Google Play Store at https://lnkd.in/g85X4az

Hon’ble CM, Jharkhand, inaugurated NIC developed ‘Jharkhand Sahayata App’ to capture details of Jharkhand migrants stranded in other states during the lockdown, to provide them financial assistance in their bank accounts through DBT.

National Informatics Centre (NIC) Video Conferencing Service (VIDYO VC) supported the interview of Hon’ble Minister for Information & Broadcasting, with the journalists on the measures taken to tackle COVID19 situation in the Country.

Hon’ble Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh addressed all the officials of district over NIC Video conferencing including Collector, SP, CMO and other officials. He reviewed the status with respect to COVID-19 and preparedness for Agriculture, Industries, Food etc.

At state level Chief Secretary was joined by ACS Home and Secretaries of Health, Agriculture, Industry, Food, and few other departments.

National Informatics Centre (NIC) developed ‘ePass’ online system using NIC’s Service Plus Framework was launched in Kangra District, Himachal Pradesh.

This application is integrated with email, SMS and DigiLocker. Deputy Commissioner, Kangra appreciated the efforts of NIC via Video Conferencing, for making available the scalable, robust application at a very short period of time.

Hon’ble Chief Minister of Sikkim, Minster for Tourism and Industries, Chief Secretary, Principal Secretaries of Health, Agriculture and Other officials had a three hrs meeting with all District Collectors of the state via NIC Video Conferencing Service.

National Informatics Centre’s (NIC) Chhattisgarh developed portal for ‘Online Donation to CMs Relief Fund’ in the state, is enabling citizens to financially support COVID19 affected persons through donations. The portal is developed using NIC’s Service Plus Framework and offers multiple options for payments like NetBanking/UPI/Credit/Debit Card.

NIC Video Conferencing Service supported the interactive meeting of Hon’ble CM, Tamil Nadu with the Commissioner of Police,District Collectors, SPs, Corporation Commissioners, JDs and DDs of Health Services, on COVID19 situation.

National Informatics Centre J&K developed website supports the initiative of J&K State Legal Services Authority in collaboration with Directorate of School Education of Jammu, Kashmir & Ladakh, to keep children (03-15 yrs) engaged during lockdown, with productive activities and fun learning opportunities under the theme ‘ACTIVITY KARO NA’

NIC developed ‘Online Self reporting system’ for COVID-19 was inaugurated in Sikkim.

The application has a Self Reporting Module where in people who returned to the state can register themselves, or this can also be done by Officials of the state government or volunteers.  Secondly, these people will be observed for a period of 14 days and daily checks are done on them by the Volunteers w.r.t fever, cough, etc.

An online ‘ePass’ system developed by NIC using Service Plus framework launched in Jammu District, to facilitate movement of public residing in containment zones amid Covid19 lockdown.

NIC Delhi developed Web Application, ‘Corona Foot Warriors, Delhi’ for Corona Foot Warriors Containment & Surveillance Team, of the Revenue Department, Delhi Government helps grass root level intervention. It facilitates effective monitoring at various levels, user management and filing of daily reports after visits to field areas by the team.

NIC UP developed ‘Social Pension Scheme Portal & e-Payment Platform’ was used by Hon’ble CM UP to release advance pension to 86.71 Lakh Pensioners, under various Pension Schemes. Hon’ble CM facilitated e-Payment of Rs. 871.48 Crores via DBT on a single click, amid

National Informatics Centre’s (NIC) Video Conferencing Service supported the interaction of Hon’ble CM, Bihar with Chief Secretary, Director General of Police, Divisional Commissioner, IG, DIG & Principal Secretaries of the State, to review & tackle the lockdown issues amidst COVID19.

The 24×7 UP CM Helpline – 1076, running as a Centralized Control Room, is integrated with National Informatics Centre (NIC) UP developed Jansunwai Samadhan portal (http://jansunwai.up.nic.in).

A separate COVID Dashboard is created for COVID-19, where all complaints on ‘Covid Lockdown & Covid Health’ issues are logged and sent to Districts for quick resolution on real time basis.

National Informatics Centre’s Video Conferencing Service supported the interactive meeting of Hon’ble Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution with the Food Ministers of States and UTs to review the food-grains distribution during the lockdown amidst COVID19.

National Informatics Centre’s Video Conferencing Service supported the meeting of Hon’ble Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Ministry of Shipping and Chemical & Fertilizers, with Senior Officers at all the major ports of India, to review the COVID-19 situation

National Informatics Centre Uttarakhand developed ‘Covid 19 Tracking & Monitoring System’ for Uttarakhand State Disaster Management Authority using NIC’s Multilayer Geographic Information System(GIS) Platform Services – Bharatmaps.

It provides statistics on COVID 19 situation in state & basic details, including location, of people in quarantine.

NIC designed & developed indigenous Computer Aided Designing (CAD) software ‘CollabCAD’ & ‘e-CollabCAD Viewer’-the 3D Web Viewer services released for Atal Tinkering Labs (ATL) under the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) by NITI Aayog, GOI forthe benefit of students, during ‘Stay At Home’ amid COVID19.

This software provides a great platform to students of Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs) across country to create and modify 3d designs with free flow of creativity and imagination. This software would also enable students to create data across the network and concurrently access the same design data for storage and visualization.

National Informatics Centre’s Video Conferencing Service supported the meeting of Vice President of India with Vice Chancellors of Central University Hyderabad, Delhi University, Makhan Lal Chaturvedi University, Pondicherry University and Panjab University, on their preparation for online teaching amid COVID-19.

He asked Universities and other educational institutions to harness fully the power of technology to ensure continuity of academic calendar during the lock-down period.

National Informatics Centre Ranchi developed ‘COVID Complaint Management System via 1950 Helpline’ captures grievances related to COVID suspects, test centres, Shelter homes, law & order, PDS shop & LPG delivery etc.

The District COVID Helpline is helping citizens by providing information through 1950 Help line and the COVID Complaint Management System capturing grievances through the web based portal. The daily status of grievance disposal is reflected on the dashboard.

NIC developed GIS Dashboard for Covid-19 issues, helps in planning, presents statistics on the pandemic in the State, Districts, Tehsils & Villages.

Dashboard presents statistics in different representations like Bar Chart, Table, Top 10 and Bottom 10 Districts/Tehsils/Villages for eight Key Performance Indicators.

The Dashboard uses NIC’s Multilayered GIS BharatMap Services & is integrated with ‘Jansunwai Samadhan’ Portal.

‘COVID-19 Suspects Management System’ maintains patient’s contact details and can be used for monitoring at the District level, hospital level and the various administrative levels by the authorities.

NIC developed website for the Ranchi District Administration, offers COVID Chatbot support to the citizens, for providing round the clock help via online chat, to tackle the corona pandemic.

The Chatbot is developed by NIC District team using the open source technologies.

National Informatics Centre’s (NIC) Utility Mapping Division has developed the ‘Geographic Information System (GIS) Based COVID-19 Care Integration in OneMap Greater Noida Portal’ for Greater Noida Authority.

This provides the Sector/Village/Zone-wise Coordinators, Hotspots & Food Centers Mapping and Citizen Feedback with reference to Sanitation, Food & Supplies and enable the Authority to deal with COVID-19 situation, using GIS Technology.

National Informatics Centre (NIC) Rajasthan developed COVID-19 Quarantine Tracker mobile App implemented in Udaipur to track the persons who have been quarantined & advised isolation.

This app provides a monitoring mechanism to ensure that the person doesn’t move to places during quarantine period.

NIC developed e-Mantrimandal portal was used by Hon’ble CM, Uttarakhand, to conduct paperless Cabinet meeting in the State.

NIC’s Video Conferencing Service and Web VC (via desktop/laptop/mobile phone) supported various Ministers to attend this meeting virtually from their home/offices amid COVID-19.

Amidst the nationwide lockdown, NIC developed efiling facility has been started in Rajasthan High court at principal seat Jodhpur and Jaipur. The facility allows filing of petition and legal papers on urgent matters.

System facilitates regular updates about case status and orders passed, through SMS alerts and emails to Advocates and Litigants.  Using eFiling, cases (civil, writ or criminal) can be filed before Hon’ble Court.

eFiling system  is also integrated with Case Information System (CIS) software of Rajasthan High Court.

NIC Video Conferencing Service supported interaction of Hon’ble MoS (IC) PMO, MoS DoNER with the Officials of Dept. of Pension & Pensioners Welfare and Pensioners Associations, on COVID-19 situation.

Director, AIIMS also attended the session and answered queries on Corona Pandemic.

NIC Video Conferencing Service supported the launch of ‘COVID19 Self registration and Early Response System’ by Hon’ble Union Minister, Law & Justice, Communication and Electronics & IT along with Hon’ble CM, Tamil Nadu.

This Interactive Voice Response System provides COVID-19 related information.

National Informatics Centre’s (NIC) Video Conferencing Service supported the interaction of Hon’ble CM & Dy. CM Haryana with political leaders of the State.

The intent was to reach a consensus on the measures to be taken by the Govt. on economic front including revenue generation, procurement and providing support to the resident of the state, in view of COVID-19.

National Informatics Centre MP developed ‘Integrated Social Security Portal & e-Payment Platform’ is used by Government of Madhya Pradesh to offer Social Security Pensions & Financial Assistance to 46.86 lakh beneficiaries.

Hon’ble CM facilitated e-Payment of Rs.562 Crores via Direct Benefit Transfer on a single click. The relief will help the beneficiaries in sustaining the lock down period and fight the corona menace, amid COVID-19.

National Informatics Centre (NIC) eWay Bill successfully completed its two years journey in April 2020. It has evolved as a robust platform facilitating tax payers & transporters for movement of consignments across the Country. More than 118 Crore eWay Bills were generated in FY2018-19 and FY2019-20.

eWay Bill is now integrated with NIC’s VAHAN application. The system facilitates the taxpayers & assists the officers in multiple ways. It also helps in monitoring the movement of essential commodities in lockdown period.

Hon’ble CM of Assam, launched ‘COVID Suraksha’, a Suite of Android Mobile & Web-based application, developed by National Informatics Centre (NIC), in Hojai.

It helps to monitor visits of ASHA workers to Home Quarantined persons & also ensure their regular medical check-ups, via QR code scan. The concerned Officials of the District Administration can view the visit status of ASHA workers in a web dashboard. The application will be replicated in all the districts.

National Informatics Centre’s (NIC) Video Conferencing (VC) Service supported Hon’ble CM, Odisha in the inauguration of SUM Hospital (set up for COVID19 with 500 beds within seven days), in Bhubaneswar.

The Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Union Minister of Coal also participated in the event through NIC VC.

NIC developed & hosted a dedicated web portal on COVID-19 for Govt. of Haryana, providing one stop information & links on COVID-19 related advisories, instructions, notifications, Govt. Orders & Awareness material issued by the Centre/State Govt.

https://haraadesh.nic.in Portal offers services like Helpline nos. for Health, Ration & Financial Assistance, Curfew pass, Registration/Search of unorganized sector migrants, people in relief camps and Registration of Volunteers to support State & District Admin to tackle COVID-19.

Supreme Court of India has passed guidelines for the functioning of Courts via Video Conference, to follow the social distancing guidelines while maintaining Constitutional role.

NIC Video Conferencing Services shall support these sessions

‘Covid-19 Jagratha’, is a comprehensive Information & Management portal for surveillance, care & support for the people affected/quarantined by COVID-19 in Kerala.

This portal is developed by NIC and is implemented in all 14 Districts of the State.

The portal is a one stop platform to avail information on COVID19 with daily monitoring & recording of data and generating surveillance reports also. People can apply for medical-aids, ambulance, vehicle permits, volunteers pass & clinical categorization etc.

National Informatics Centre Video Conferencing Service was used to conduct the interaction of Hon’ble Health Minister of Chhattisgarh with all Districts to review COVID-19 status in the state.

The meeting was also attended by Health Secretary, Director, MD, NHM and other officials in the State.

NIC developed ‘Shram Seva Portal’ for ‘Madhya Pradesh Building & Other Construction Workers Welfare Board’ was used by Hon’ble Chief Minister, MP to release DBT/e-Payment of relief amount of Rs. 88.50 Crores to 8.85 lakh workers.

Chief Minister Sh. Shivraj Singh Chouchan affected the e-Payment by Single click from his Mantralaya office. Timely financial assistance will help the workers to sustain the COVID-19 ‘Stay at Home’ period.

NIC Maharashtra developed an ‘ePass System’ for generating epasses for movement of vehicles during the COVID-19 ‘Stay at Home’ duration. The system developed using NIC’s ServicePlus framework has been made operational in all 50 RTOs across Maharashtra. This was achieved within a short duration of 36 hrs.

The ePass system is a generic system and can be deployed in any State within few hrs.

NIC Kerala developed ‘NICeScan’ mobile app is a generic QR code scanner for Govt. agencies for contact less verification of passes/permits issued.

This app is developed using open source components & can be used in any state for e-governance applications.

The QR code scanner has been introduced in kerala for scanning QR code driven passes and permits issued in Kerala.

Union Minister of Human Resource Development Interacted with Central Universities Vice Chancellor on Online Education to Students in respect of COVID 19 on 4th April, 2020.

The interactive meeting was conducted using NIC Video Conferencing service.

Hon’ble Chief Mimister of Madhya Pradesh used NIC developed Online MDM Portal and e-Payment Platform application to transfer Rs 117 crores in a single click through DBT, in the bank accounts of 66.27 lakh students upto 8th grade to ensure that the children continue to receive nutritious food.

This application is designed for Mid-Day-Meal Council, Rural Development Department.

Mr. Justice Rajnesh Oswal was sworn in as a permanent judge of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh on 2nd of April 2020. He was administered the oath of office by the Chief Justice Gita Mittal.

The oath ceremony was Webcast live – with the help of NIC – on the Internet for the legal fraternity and general public- again a first in the history of Indian Judiciary.

Using NIC Video Conferencing service, other Judges of the High Court joined the oath ceremony from their residences along with the Advocate General, the Asstt. Solicitor General, President Bar Association and the Administrative Secretary Law & Justice – a first in the history of the Indian Judiciary.

The Government of India today launched a mobile app developed in public-private partnership to bring the people of India together in a resolute fight against COVID-19.

Once installed in a smart phone through an easy and user-friendly process, the app detects other devices with AarogyaSetu installed that come in the proximity of that phone. The App will help the Government take necessary timely steps for assessing risk of spread of COVID-19 infection, and ensuring isolation where required.

The App’s design ensures privacy-first. The personal data collected by the App is encrypted using stateof-the-art technology and stays secure on the phone till it is needed for facilitating medical intervention. It is available in 11 languages.

GOI launched the app, developed in public-private partnership to bring the citizens together to combat COVID-19. The App, called ‘AarogyaSetu’ joins Digital India for the health and well-being of every Indian. It will enable people to assess themselves the risk for their catching the Corona Virus infection. It will calculate this based on their interaction with others, using cutting edge Bluetooth technology, algorithms and artificial intelligence.

National Informatics Centre developed ‘ePass’ system facilitates online passes for movement of vehicles used for essential services during lockdown in UT Puducherry. The system is developed as a centralized application and implemented across UT.

The main features are: applying for the vehicle pass from anywhere, approval by the designated authority, authorization by the SDM, generation of the ePass and making it available to the applicant for downloading.

The application is available at https://epass.py.gov.in

National Informatics Centre (NIC) developed ‘eMulakat’, a module under ePrisons application suite, is enabling meeting of prisoners with their visitors via NIC’s Video Conferencing Service. This has reduced movement of visitors to prisons and minimized the risk of getting infected in the view of COVID-19.

The Video Conferencing sessions with inmates can be booked online through the portal (https://eprisons.nic.in).

National Informatics Centre (NIC) -Video Conferencing Service was used to conduct first VC based Cabinet Meeting by Hon’ble CM Haryana with all the Cabinet Ministers, in view of COVID-19. Six Cabinet Ministers and PS to CM participated from remote locations. Chief Secretary, Haryana also attended the meeting

The Public Financial Management System (PFMS) team provided round the clock assistance for facilitating smooth functioning of the financial machinery of the Government of India during the 21 days stay at home duration because of COVID-19.

PFMS achieved a major milestone recording the highest number of transactions in a single day on 30th March, 2020 of 2.19 crore transactions, breaching the earlier mark of 98.19 lakh set on 28th March 2018, by a very big margin.

PFMS also breached the figure of 100 Crore transactions in a financial year on 30th Mar, 2020, a quantum leap of more than 55% over last fiscal 2018-2019 transactions of 69.69 Crore.

A website for Lifeline Udan flights has been developed by National Informatics Centre (NIC) and MoCA in a record span of three days to enable seamless coordination between various agencies for operating cargo flights for transportation of COVID-19 related medical equipments.

The website allows state governments and airlines to upload their consignment and flight details respectively, in advance. The aviation ministry control room then assigns the cargo consignments to different flights and coordinates with multiple stakeholders till the consignment reaches its destination.

Unique features of the website are:

1. Online registration and login
2. Upload/Edit/Delete flight and consignment details
3. Auto fill form from previous records
4. Sorting and searching of tabular data.
5. Responsive website: works on mobile devices

A COVID19 War Room is established in UT Secretariat, Chandigarh from where Hon’ble Governor, Punjab and Senior Officers of Chandigarh Administration monitor and review COVID-19 preparedness and activities in the city. NIC VC Service is used extensively for this purpose.

Meghalaya’s CoVID-19 Transmission chain Prevention system (http://meghalayaonline.gov.in/covid) enables the residents of Meghalaya with a travel history outside state, to register themselves.

This facilitates Health Department and District Surveillance Team members to reach out to registered individuals through the automated IVRS calls to capture their health status, especially COVID-19 symptoms, for updation in the portal and also give them proper advisories.

The Portal also provides information related to COVID-19 Notifications issued by the Health & Family Welfare Department, Transport Department, Deputy Commissioners, Tourism etc., and information related to Quarantine Centres in the State, Key contacts, FAQs etc.

NIC used ServicePlus framework for developing an online workflow based system for generating curfew ePasses for the movement of vehicles for essential services like Government duty, hospitalization etc during lockdown period.

The main features of the system are – Online application for vehicle pass, Approval by the designated authority, Generating SMS/email alerts to the applicant, Downloading of the digitally signed epass by the applicant, Signing, etc. The ePass also contains QR Code which can be used to verify the authenticity of the ePass.

This system is being used across Meghalaya, Assam, Karnataka, Haryana, Kerala and Chandigarh.

The Hon’ble Minister of State(I/C) for Power and New and Renewable Energy and Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Shri R K Singh launched the new website of MNRE & Akshay Urja Portal, on 13th March 2020. The Akshay Urja Portal is enabled with NIC’s Bharat Maps – Multilayer GIS platform, which is being used for navigation purpose.

The portal is a single source of information for state-wise monthly capacity, generation and potential w.r.t., solar, wind, small hydro, bio energy & waste-to-energy, and off-grid components like Street Lighting System, Home Lighting System, Solar Lanterns, Solar Pumps.

Visit: https://mnre.gov.in / https://akshayurja.gov.in

NIC developed ‘Ente Jilla’ mobile app was launched by Shri. S Suhas IAS, District Collector, Ernakulam on 29^th February 2020, at District Collectorate, Ernakulam. NIC Ernakulam District Officials demonstrated and briefed about the key features of the mobile app at the event.

‘EnteJilla’ is an initiative of NIC Kerala to make information about each district in Kerala available through a mobile app, where users can select any district of the State to proceed further. The App also provides facility to change the District while in use, and also, rate and review an office based on the services received from it. The reviews and consolidated ratings is visible in the App and can be monitored by the respective District Collector.

Home Department, Govt. of Bihar organised the workshop on NIC developed Interoperable Criminal Justice System (ICJS) and ePrisons, on 24-25 February 2020 at Bihar Institute of Correctional Administration, Hajipur. Officers from Police, Court, Prisons, Prosecution, FSL, Forensics, Probations and all pillars stakeholder participated in the workshop.

Shri Rajesh Kumar Singh, DDG & SIO, Bihar, Shri Shashi Kant Sharma, HOD, ICJS & ePrisons Division, NIC HQ, Shri Ranjan Kumar, Scientist-C, ICJS Team, Shri Kartik Krishna Vijayasharadhi, Scientist-C, ePrisons Division and Shri Dinesh Salvatore, HOD, Court Group, Bihar were present on the occasion.

NIC team led by Shri Rajesh Kumar Singh, SIO Bihar with Shri Shashi Kant Sharma, HOD, ICJS Division, NIC (HQ) and Shri Rajiv Ranjan, ICJS State Coordinator, Bihar met Shri Amir Subhani, Addl. Chief Secretary, Home Department, Govt. of Bihar. Shri Subhani appreciated the efforts of NIC for providing technical guidance and support in implementing ICJS in Bihar.

Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Shri Trivendra Singh Rawat launched e-Challan system for Police Department, Uttarakhand on 29.02.2020.

The e-Challan system is developed by National informatics Centre. It have been installed & configured on around 1200 hand-held devices procured by Police Department in collaboration with SBI. The SIM based integrated devices provide facilities for doing on-the-spot challan, printing of challan receipts and online payments through Debit/credit cards. The system is integrated with ‘VAHAN 4 portal’, which is already implemented in entire Uttarakhand.

Shri Anil Raturi, Director General of Police, Uttarakhand and Shri Kewal Khurana, IPS & Director Traffic Police briefed about key features of the e-Challan system and appreciated role of NIC Uttarakhand in implementing the system in entire State in one go.

Hon’ble Transport Minister of Bihar, Shri Santosh Kumar Nirala, inaugurated ‘e-Challan’  through Hand-Held Device and ‘Online Test for Learner License’, in the State. Through the eChallan, instant Challan will be issued to the traffic rule violators across all districts of Bihar. The online test will help in increasing the knowledge about traffic rules and bring transparency in the process of issuing driving licenses in the State.

Shri Sanjay Kumar Agrawal, IAS, Secretary, Smt. Seema Tripathi, IAS, Commissioner, Transport Department, Govt. of Bihar, Shri Rajesh Kumar Singh, SIO, NIC Bihar, Dr Kanhaiya Pandey, Senior Technical Director, NIC, Shri Rana Pratap, Technical Director, NIC and other dignitaries were present on the occasion.

Hon’ble Union Minister of Rural Development, Agriculture and Farmers Welfare & Panchayati Raj, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar launched ‘GeoRurban’ Mobile App, on 24th February, 2020 at International Ambedkar Centre, Janpath, New Delhi. The mobile app is designed and developed by National Informatics Centre, for monitoring physical progress of the works under Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission. This portal enables geo-tagging of the images captured for getting a real time physical status of a work.

The event was attended by all the officials and PRI members directly linked to the 300 clusters of the country under SPMRM. The Secretary, Rural Development Sh. Rajesh Bhushan, Spl. Secretary Sh. Prashant Kumar, Jt. Secretary(SPMRM) Sh. Biswajeet Banerjee and other officials from the Ministry graced the occasion.

From NIC, DDG & Head of Group Shri Deepak Chandra Misra, MD NICSI, Sh. Prashant Mittal, Sr. Tech Director& Head of the project Smt. Kabita Roy Das, were present on the occasion.

Dr Neeta Verma, Director General, NIC visited Tamil Nadu on 24- 25 February 2020 along with a team of senior officials of NIC, Dr Savita Dawar, DDG, Shri Pawan Joshi, DDG & Shri Mohandas V S, STD.

DG NIC reviewed major projects under development at NIC Tamil Nadu. A demo of e-Auction portal was made and she advised that e-Auction should be developed as a separate product and given to all the State Governments for implementation.

On 25 February 2020, DG & team met Shri S.K Prabakar, IAS, Home Secretary & Additional Chief Secretary to Government of Tamil Nadu to discuss the new initiatives to be undertaken in the State. She also requested Home Secretary to send a team of officers to study the automated capturing of Signal violations and issuing eChallan.

The website of ‘Odisha State Legal Services Authority (OSLSA)’, designed, developed and hosted by NIC was inaugurated by Hon’ble Kumari Justice Sanju Panda, Acting Chief Justice of Orissa High Court and Executive Chairperson of Odisha State legal Services Authority, on February 17, 2020 at OSLSA, Cuttack, Odisha.

The website provides information about free legal services provided by OSLSA to the weaker sections of the community ensuring that opportunities for securing justice are not denied to any citizen by reason of economic or other disabilities. The website also provides information on Panel Lawyers, Para Legal Volunteers, Nyaya Sanjog etc. Role based authentication of District Legal Service Authority within the CMS will enable the officials to manage the content by themselves.

During the event, Smt. Pratibha Singh, DDG and SIO, NIC, Odisha gave a detailed presentation of the website and its features. Efforts made by NIC were appreciated by Hon’ble Acting Chief Justice. The Member Secretary of OSLSA, officers of OSLSA, NIC and NICSI were present on the occasion.

NIC Uttarakhand designed & developed ‘Jageshwar Mandir Prabandhan Samiti (Trust) portal’ was inaugurated by Shri Trivendra Singh Rawat, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, on 19th February 2020 at Bageshwar, Uttarakhand. The portal facilitates online services to pilgrims visiting Jageshwar such as online donation, Puja, Path, Bhog, Bhandara etc.

The inauguration ceremony was attended from NIC Dehradun over video conferencing services, by Smt. Alka Mishra (DDG & State Coordinator), Sh. K. Narayanan (DDG & SIO), Sh. Rajesh Goyal (STD & ASIO), Sh. S K Sharma (STD & ASIO), Sh. Arun Sharma (Scientist-D & Project Coordinator) and Smt. Rachna Shah (Scientist-B).

The DIOs of Almorah and Bageshwar Districts, Sh. Amit Lamba and Sh Bhawesh made arrangements for launch of Web portal at Bageshwar & briefed Hon’ble CM on portal features. The CM interacted with NIC Dehradun team over VC and appreciated its efforts.

Visit here: https://jageshwar-jyotirlinga.uk.gov.in/

Hon’ble CM, Uttarakhand, Shri Trivendra Singh Rawat launched MyGov Uttarakhand portal in Dehradun on February 19, 2020. With this, Uttarakhand has become the 12th State under MyGov SaaS Offering. Ms. Alka Mishra, DDG & HoG MyGov as well as State Coordinator, Uttarakhand participated at the launch.

Speaking on the occasion Shri Trivendra Singh Rawat said MyGov Uttarakhand portal will go a long way in strengthening public participation in the governance process. This unique platform aims to enhance citizen partnership with the state Government and vice versa. MyGov Uttarakhand will help people of the State to post their views, suggestions, feedback to the government directly.

Direct URL: https://uttarakhand.mygov.in

A six member delegation from Republic of Kazakhstan visited NIC/NICSI on 21.2.2020 to explore IT partnerships with NIC & NICSI and IT Companies empanelled with NICSI in the area of digitalization of Oil & Gas Sector in Kazakhstan. The discussions may lead to Partnerships between Kazakhstan Oil Companies & Indian IT Companies coordinated by NIC/NICSI.

The Kazakhstan delegation was headed by Mr. Jakiyev Assylbek, Secretary National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Republic of Kazakhstan. NIC/NICSI were represented by Sh. D C Misra, DDG & HoG IC, Sh Prashant Mittal, MD NICSI, Smt. Anjali Dhingra, GM, NICSI, Dr. R K Mishra, HoD MEA IS Division, NIC Smt. Neelam, NIC Unit in MoPNG, Sh. Anand Srivastava, Scientist-E IC, NIC & Sh U K Jena, DGM NICSI. Major IT Companies empanelled with NICSI participated in the meeting.

Hon’ble Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ inaugurated the ‘Programme Management Information System (PMIS)’ of National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), in the presence of Shri Lahkmen Rymbui, Hon’ble Minster of Education, Government of Meghalaya, on 14 February 2020, at North Eastern Hill University, Shillong.

PMIS is a software application developed by NIC Meghalaya using open source technologies. It provides Management information Support to the Regional Training Institutes under the NCERT.

NCERT conducts programmes for teachers, teacher-educators, researchers, students and also other stakeholders in school education. These programmes include training, development, research, seminar/conferences and several extension programmes. The PMIS will keep record of these programmes, and it also allows interactions between the participants and programme coordinators.

Hon’ble Revenue Minister, Tripura, Shri N.C. Debbarma launched ‘Online Land Valuation and Integration with Property Registration’, for Revenue Department, Govt. of Tripura on 15 February 2020.

To automate the processes of Land Records & Registration in Tripura, Revenue Department in association with NIC, Agartala has developed ‘Land valuation software’ and integrated it with ‘Land Registration’. It facilitates citizens to online calculate document registration fees and e-Stamp etc. Also the applicant can pay the fees using eGRAS, Net Banking, Credit Card and Debit Card.

This will bring transparency in the Sub Registrar Office and will reduce the time & dependency for calculation of Registration and other fees for document registration.

The software is developed by National Informatics Centre (NIC) Agartala, and hosted at cloud infrastructure of State Data Centre, DIT, Agartala.

Sh. Barun Kumar Sahu, IAS, Principal Secretary , Revenue Department, Govt. of Tripura, Sh. Surjit Singh, Scientist-F , NIC Agartala, Sh. LT Durlong, Director Land Records & Settlement , Agartala and Sh. Sujit Debnath, Scientist-B, NIC Agartala were present at the occasion.

Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Shri Trivendra Singh Rawat inaugurated online portal ‘Shri Badrinath & Shri Kedarnath Temple Committee (BKTC)’ on 14 February 2020, in the presence of Chairman and CEO of BKTC, BKTC staff, media and other distinguished guests.

The portal is designed and developed by National Informatics Centre and facilitates bookings of pujas, accommodation, and payment of donation online, for Badrinath-Kedarnath dhams. It will later be extended to ‘Char Dham Devsthanam Board’.

Dr. Neeta Verma, DG NIC addressed the women panel focused on “Indian Women: Breaking Stereotypes at the workplace”, at SRCC Business Conclave 2020. In her address, she highlighted the importance of ‘consistent, continual and conscious efforts that will bring more and more women to board rooms, to research labs, and to cricket pitches & football grounds’.

Hon’ble Chief Minister, Himachal Pradesh, Shri Jai Ram Thakur launched ‘Crime Free Himachal’ mobile App on 11 February 2020. It enables citizens to report any kind of crime to HP Police without disclosing their identity. The citizens have an option to disclose their name and mobile number, in which case, they will be informed of the action taken by the HP Police.

Shri Anil Khachi, Chief Secretary, Shri S.R. Mardi, Director General of Police, Shri Jagdish Chander, Principal Secretary (IT, PWD, Transport), Shri S.B. Negi, ADGP, Shri Atul Verma, DG (Home Guards), Shri Asif Jalal, Inspector General (SR), Shri Ajay Singh Chahal, SIO NIC HP, and Shri Prithviraj Negi, NIC HP were present at the occasion.

The Mobile App has been developed by Centre of Competence for Mobile App Development, Shimla. It can be downloaded from NIC’s eGovernance Mobile App Store at https://egovmobileapps.nic.in/, State Portal of HP Government at https://himachal.nic.in , Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

DG, NIC awarded with ‘Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Recognition for Re-Engineering India 2020’ in Technology/Government/Individual Category for establishing the firm foundation of a futuristic data driven developmental good governance by setting the data.gov.in and for having taken up the doctrine of open Government Data to its fascinating frontiers which involves the creation of the institution of Chief Data Officers vis-a-vis the Chief Information Officers, which is a paradigm shift in precept and pro-activeness.

National Informatics Centre (NIC) signed MoU with Government of Maharashtra on e-Governance project ‘eHRMS’. NIC will customise the eHRMS software as per the requirements of Government of Maharashtra. The Software shall be implemented in 30 State Government Departments in all 36 Districts and up to Block level covering approximately 6 lakh Government employees.

The Memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed among GAD, NIC, NICSI and MahaIT on 10^th January 2020.

Duration of the Project is five years; initial two years are for Study, Customization, Development, Training and Implementation. Subsequent 3 years is for software maintenance. NIC Maharashtra expresses its gratitude to DG NIC, Maharashtra State Co-ordinator, Legal Division and eHRMS Division for continuous support.

Additional Chief Secretary, GAD (Services), Government of Maharashtra, SIO Maharashtra, officials from NIC, NICSI, GAD and MahaIT were present during the event.

Hon’ble Minister for Coal, Mines and Parliamentary Affairs, Shri Pralhad Joshi, launched NIC developed online portal ‘Star Rating of Coal Mines’, on 10th February, 2020 at Parliament House Annexe.

The portal will work as a tool to promote green, safe & sustainable coal mining practices in the country. All coal companies will upload the information and all processing and evaluation of information will be online. The portal will provide a login to each coal mine for self-evaluation along with necessary documents for testimonials. The field offices of CCO will be provided a separate login to the web portal through which they can access the submissions of self-evaluation. A validation committee constituted through CCO will put the final remarks based on the laid down policy and finally the star rating will be recorded on the portal.

Shri Pramod Agrawal, Chairman CIL, Shri Anil Kumar Jain, Secretary (Coal), Shri Vinod Kumar Tiwari, Additional Secretary (Coal), Shri Anindya Sinha, Advisor(Projects), Shri Deep Bansal, Senior Technical Director, NIC were present on the occasion.

NIC developed e-office has been inaugurated for Jagatsinghpur Collectorate at Sadbhavana Gruha, Odisha, on January 31, 2020. The inauguration was done by Shri Sangram Keshari Mohapatra, OAS (SAG), Collector and District Magistrate, Jagatsinghpur in the presence of Shri Bibhu Prasad Mishra, STD & Group Head, NIC, Odisha State Centre, Bhubaneswar and other district level Officials.

The e-Office will facilitate movement of all files and communications to and fro, from the Collectorate online. Appreciating the support of NIC, Shri Mohapatra praised the efforts of Shri. Jyoti Prakash Behera, DIO, NIC, Shri Sujit Kumar BIswal, ADIO, NIC and Shri Aurobinda Acharya, DeGM for their team’s determinations.

Shri Bibhu Prasad Mishra, Sr. Technical Director, NIC explained various features of e-Office. Shri Jyoti Prakash Behera, District Informatics Officer, NIC presented the Journey of e-Office at Jagatsinghpur. All concerned staffs are trained to work in e-Office environment.

On the occasion, Shri Sachidananda Sahoo, ADM, Jagatsinghpur appreciated the guidance and support extended by NIC under the leadership of Smt. Pratibha Singh, DDG & SIO, Odisha in implementing e-office within stipulated time.

NIC developed ‘Pehchan’ portal of Rajasthan has been integrated with Digilocker wallet. The online portal is used for registration of Birth, Death and Marriage certificates across the State. It enables the citizens to fetch and store their digital certificates in their DigiLocker wallet.

Principal Secretary, Planning and IT&C, Shri Abhay Kumar launched the services on 05 Feb 2020 at Yojana Bhawan, Jaipur.

Commissioner, IT&C, Shri Virendra Singh, SIO NIC, Shri Tarun Toshniwal and Director, Economics and Statistics, Dr. Om Prakash Bairwa were present on the occasion.

Hon’ble Transport Minister of Assam, Shri Chandra Mohan Patowary reviewed the ‘Performance & Infrastructure of District Transport Officers’, on 4 Feb 2020 at Assam Administrative Staff College in Guwahati.

Hon’ble Minister appreciated NIC’s pivotal role in digitally transforming the District Transport Offices through comprehensive ICT applications such as Vahan, Sarathi, eChallan, mParivahan, Speed Limiting Device integration, etc.

Commissioner & Secretary, Transport, Shri KK Dwivedi, Commissioner Transport, Shri Adil Khan, Transport Project Coordinator, NIC, Shri Rubaiyat-ul Ali and all the District Transport Officers of Assam were present on the occasion.

NIC developed web portal ‘Back-to-Village programme’ launched in Anantnag, J&K, by Deputy Commissioner Anantnag, Sh. Khalid Jahangir, KAS on 3 Feb 2020.

The online portal monitors demands/works under ‘Back-to-Village programme’ at District/Block/Panchayat/Village/Department level in the Union Territory. Anantnag has become the first district in JK to launch such an e-governance initiative.

All Sectoral heads and District Officers were present during the launch function. NIC’s efforts were appreciated by District Administration, Anantnag.

Portal Link: https://anantnagb2v.in

The ‘Online Bus Reservation Monitoring System (OBRMS)’, ‘CTU Musafir App’ and ‘CTU Conductor App’ of Chandigarh Transport Undertaking (CTU), Chandigarh Administration were launched by Dr Ajay Kumar Singla, IAS, Secretary Transport, UT Chandigarh on 27^th January 2020.

The OBRMS application and the Android based Apps, “CTU Musafir” and “CTU Conductor” have been developed by National Informatics Centre, Uttarakhand State Unit and customised for Chandigarh Transport Undertaking as per the requirements given. The efforts were applauded by Secretary Transport and acknowledged by presenting NIC Uttarakhand team with a memento.

Now, the bus tickets can be booked at web portal http://ctuonline.chd.gov.in and through “CTU Musafir Mobile App”, 10 days in advance and one hour before schedule date and time of departure. Travellers will also be able to track the bus, give their feedback and register grievance. The application is integrated with eMail and SMS Gateway for the convenience of users.

Mr Uma Shankar Gupta, PCS, Director Transport, Mr Vivek Verma, SIO NIC, Mr Amit Gupta, GM CTU, Mr Yashjit Gupta, GM CCBSS, Mr Rajesh Gupta, Regional Manager SBI and officers from CTU, NIC and SBI were present on the occasion.

Mr K Narayanan, SIO Uttarakhand played an instrumental role in providing support and guidance during customisation and testing of the project. For timely completion of the project, efforts of Mr Arun Sharma, Scientist-D, NIC Uttarakhand and his team were appreciated. Mr Nitin, Scientist-E and Mr Vijay Bahadur Gupt, Scientist-B were involved from NIC Chandigarh along with officials from CTU in rigorous testing of the application and the two Apps, and also in providing valuable inputs in improving the system.

NIC Officers in J&K UT & Uttarakhand were felicitated on occasion of 10th National Voters Day (on January 25, 2020) celebrations in respective States, for significant contributions in the election process. NIC State/UT Centre and district centers play a major role on regular basis in the election process. NIC provides technical support and handholding to the District Administration in the electoral process at various levels viz. Panchayat, Block, Parliamentary elections etc.

For Best Electoral Practices and for taking special IT initiatives in the State during Lok Sabha Elections 2019, Sh A K Dadhichi, Sr Technical Director, Sh A K Arya, Sr Technical Director and Sh Manish Jugran, Technical Director, Officers of NIC Uttarakhand, were felicitated with State Award by Hon’ble Governor of Uttarakhand at Rajbhawan, Dehradun. During Lok Sabha Elections 2019 as a new IT initiative, for first time in Uttarakhand, movement of Poll Personnel could be tracked by a Mobile GPS based Vehicles Locations Tracking System developed by NIC Uttarakhand.

Shri Sanjeev Kapoor, District Informatics Officer (DIO), Samba was conferred with an award and certificate for his contribution towards exemplary work (IT enabled services) in District Administration Samba by Shri Rohit Khajuria, Deputy Commissioner, Samba, J&K UT. Shri Sourabh Bhandari, DIO, NIC Kathua was honored with a memento for exemplary services rendered during Municipal Elections, Panchayat Elections, Parliamentary election in Kathua, by Shri O.P.Bhagat, Deputy Commissioner, Kathua, J&K UT.

Hon’ble Minister of Agriculture & Farmer’s Empowerment, Fisheries & ARD and Higher Education, Dr. Arun Kumar Sahoo, launched the website of Directorate of Fisheries, Odisha, at Bhubaneswar on 24.01.2020.

Sri R. Raghu Prasad, IFS, Comm.-cum-Secy. Fisheries & ARD Deptt., Dr. M. Muthukumar, IAS, Director, Agriculture & F.P., Odisha, Sri Ratnakar Rout, IAS, Director A.H. V.S. and Dr. N. Tirumala Naik, IAS, Director Fisheries, Odisha were present during the inauguration.

The website is designed and developed on NIC’s SWaaS framework by NIC, Bhubaneswar team, under the guidance of Sri Prakash Kumar Mishra, Scientist-E, NIC, BBSR.

Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Shri Trivendra Singh Rawat, inaugurated ‘e-Mantrimandal’ portal in the state. It will help in paper saving and environmental protection. The portal is designed and developed by National Informatics Center (NIC)

Hon’ble Minister also appreciated NIC’s efforts for implementing e-Mantrimandal (eCabinet) project. For implementation, rounds of trainings were organized for all stake holders including Hon’ble Chief Minister, Ministers and Secretaries.

The e-Mantrimandal project is done by project team of NIC, Uttarakhand headed by Mr Arun Sharma, Scientist-D with support of Mr Rohit Chandra, Scientist-C, Ms Pritie, Scientist-B and Smt Rachna Shah, Scientist-B under guidance of SIO, NIC, Uttarakhand.

Shri Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre, Union Minister of State for HRD, Communications, Electronics and Information Technology, visited National Data Centre (NDC), Bhubaneswar and National Informatics Centre, Odisha State Centre, Bhubaneswar, on 16th January, 2020.

Dr SC Pradhan, DDG NDC presented functionality & activities of NDC and Mrs Pratibha Singh, DDG & SIO presented the ICT development and support activities of NIC, Odisha to the minister.

A demonstration of NIC developed CM Dashboard for Gujarat State was given to Hon’ble Union Home Minister, Shri Amit Shah on 11th January 2020 at CM’s residence, in the presence of Hon’ble Chief Minister of Gujarat Shri Vijay Rupani, Hon’ble Deputy CM, Shri Nitinbhai Patel, Hon’ble State Home Minister, Shri Pradipsinh Jadeja, Advisor to CM, Shri K Kailashnathan IAS, and Chief Secretary Shri Anil Mukim.

Hon’ble Union Home minister has been given live demonstration of “Jan Samvad” application that enables government to get feedback from citizen for availed service.

CM Dashboard is fully designed and developed by NIC Gujarat, for the monitoring of the grass root level state activities by the Chief Minister, assisted by the PMU set up for the purpose. Different aspects cover online monitoring of Government schemes, citizen centric services,administrative parameters, etc. on real time basis. Key performance indicators (KPIs) from State to Village, daily to monthly covered under CM dashboard for continuous monitoring and analysis.

The second edition of the NIC TechConclave is scheduled to be held on 21-22 January 2020 at Pravasi Bhartiya Kendra, Chanakya Puri, New Delhi.
The Theme of the Conclave is “Technologies for NextGen Governance” and will cover the latest trends in technologies applicable for development of eGovernance products and platforms.

“Entry is by invitation only”

Hon’ble Minister of State for Labour & Employment, Haryana, Shri Anoop Dhanak launched Web Portal of the Employment Department, under the Government to Citizen (G2C) services in the State on 07th January 2020.
The portal is designed and developed by National Informatics Centre (NIC), Haryana. It facilitates online registration for both job aspirants and employers.

The online portal offers various services like:
– Registration / Renewal of the Job-Seekers/Employers
– Submission for Vacancies
– Vocational Guidance
– Online Job-Fairs
– Self Employment Schemes and
– Unemployment Allowance

For more information: https://hrex.gov.in

Hon’ble Chief Minister, Karnataka, B. S. Yediyurappa launched NIC developed ‘e-Gazette’ portal in the State on January 1, 2020. This online portal facilitates general public to access and download the Gazette notifications of Government of Karnataka.Gazette of Karnataka Notifications are published by Department of Printing, Stationery and Publications and is an authorized legal document of Govt. of Karnataka. All parts, Section and Sub-section of Gazette of Karnataka are uploaded in the e-Gazette and can be accessed free of cost by the general public being available in the public domain.

Portal link- http://erajyapatra.karnataka.gov.in

NIC developed website of Hojai District and DM (District Magistrate) Dashboard – ASSAM DARPAN launched in the State on December 27, 2019.

Efforts of the National Informatics Centre were appreciated for this e-initiative. “The long felt the need for an online interface between people and district has been fulfilled today” said the Deputy Commissioner, Hojai, Assam.

Shri Suman Boro, DIA, NIC, Hojai, demonstrated the features and contents of the newly launched District website and the DM Dashboard (ASSAM DARPAN).

Visit Website: https://hojai.assam.gov.in
Dashboard: https://as.dmdashboard.nic.in/login.aspx

Hon’ble Chief Minister of Tripura, Shri Biplab Kumar Deb, launched the e-Services of all Urban Local bodies in the State through Common Service Centre (CSC).

The application is designed and developed by NIC, Tripura State Centre. The e-Services are integrated with the CSC services under Digital Seva portal. This will facilitate the citizen to avail the eGov services offered by the Urban Development Department in Tripura.

Shri Manoj Kumar, Chief Secretary Tripura, Shri Kiran Gitte, Pr. Secretary Urban Development Department, Shri C.K. Dhar, State Informatics Officer, NIC Tripura and other officers were present on the occasion.

Hon’ble Minister for Housing & Urban Affairs, Civil Aviation and MoS Commerce & Industry, Shri Hardeep Singh Puri, launched the Biometric enabled Centralised Access Control System (CACS) and ‘e-BCAS Project Training Module’on 30 December 2019, in New Delhi.

These two projects are designed and developed by National Informatics Centre (NIC), and are important milestones to enhance security and ease of doing business at airports.

Senior officials of the Ministry of Civil aviation (MoCA), Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) and officials from National Informatics Centre (NIC) were present on the occasion.

NIC developed CACS project is aimed to digitize the employee movement process at the airports. This multi-layered security system encompasses the uniqueness of the Airport Entry Permit (AEP)users, biometric authentication in addition to PIN-based identity verification through contactless smart card technology, which manages access of personnel along with RFID based automated vehicle access control system according to the region, terminal, zone, and gate access privileges. CACS project is bound to assist around 2 Lakhs employees of various stakeholders who move in & out of the airport on a daily basis.

The ‘e-BCAS Project: Training Module’aimed at helping more than 1.5 lac employees of various stakeholders by migrating from manual process of training to digital platform.The objective of the e-BCAS project is to make all the activities in the BCAS transparent, user-friendly, and efficient and above all, the project intends to provide an ease of doing business with the stakeholders.

On the occasion of Good Governance Day, Hon’ble Chief Minister Haryana launched NIC developed 5 e-initiatives, at PGCIL MP Hall Gurugram on 25th December 2019, in the presence of Principal Secretary (DITECH) along with various dignitaries like Ministers, Member of Parliament, Members of Legislative Assemblies, Mayors, Deputy Commissioners connected through NIC’s video conferencing service.

Hon’ble CM launched the following e-initiatives developed by National Informatics Centre (NIC):

1. 22 District Websites – District websites of 22 districts launched which were revamped using Secure, Scalable and Sugamya (S3WAAS) platform of NIC. All district websites of Haryana on S3WAAS are now Guidelines for Indian Government Websites (GIGW) and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) compliant and bi-lingual, providing contents in English as well as in Hindi. All websites have an inbuilt content management system which enables nodal officers to easily manage and update the contents on respective website.

2. Web-HALRIS is a web-enabled integrated solution for deed registration and land records management. This portal is integrated with 91 Tehsils of Haryana and provides facilities related to Deed Registration, Mutation, Jamabandi, Khasra Gridawari, issuing the copies of Record of Rights and integration with internal and external entities like e-GRAS, Town and country planning and HSIIDC etc.

3. Digital Map of Sirsi Village – Pilot Project under HaLRMP State Government is implementing the Cadastral mapping project jointly with Survey of India. The Survey of India has started the Large Scale GIS mapping of entire Rural, Urban and Abadi Deh areas. The pilot project at Sirsi village of Karnal has been completed and launched.

4. Lokayukta Portal – The Lokayukta porrtal helps to generate a feeling of assurance among the public at large providing a mechanism to fall back upon when faced with corrupt public servants. The Lokayukta Portal has following features: • Acceptance and marking of Complaint/ Grievances • Enquiry and Disposal of complaints • Finalization of complaints • Daily Cause lists and Monitoring of Reports etc.

5. SARAL Portal – SARAL is a unified platform to apply, track and deliver Government-to-Citizen (G2C) Services/ Schemes across the state. The portal has transformed service delivery in Haryana in a systemic manner. In the last one year 30 new services have been rolled out and 12 more services were launched on this event, taking the total number of services on the portal to 526 services/ schemes. These schemes and services pertaining to the 38 departments, boards and corporations are being provided to the citizens through more than 6000 Atal Seva Kendras and 115 Antyodaya Kendras throughout 22 districts of the State.

The live telecast of the program was broadcasted through worldwide on www.webcast.gov.in/haryana through NIC webcast.

Hon’ble Transport Minister, Arunachal Pradesh launched NIC developed ‘e-Ticketing’ web portal in the State. It facilitates online ticket booking for various state transport services, and also provides helpdesk service to the users.

Hon’ble Minister emphasized to strengthen the Network Connectivity and ICT Infrastructure in all district Headquarters of the State to reap the actual benefits of going online for e-Ticketing. He also booked the first ticket for the route Itanagar to Shillong through this web-portal.

Hon’ble Minister congratulated the entire team of NIC-Uttarakhand who has developed the e-Ticketing web portal in collaboration with NIC- Arunachal Pradesh. The Web-Portal has been developed by the team led by Shri Arun Sharma, PSA from NIC-Uttarakhand.

General Manager, Arunachal Pradesh State Transport Services (APSTS), State Informatics Officer Shri Dibakar Ray, National Informatics Centre (NIC) and other senior officials of APSTS and NIC were present on the occasion.

E-Ticketing web-portal: https://apsts.arunachal.gov.in

‘Mizoram Safety’ App is an android based mobile application for the people and tourist in Mizoram to use in times of emergency. It has various features such as Map of Mizoram with real-time location of the user in Blue pointer and Police station in Red pointer, also name and address of the officer-in-charge of the police stations in Mizoram.

The app has a dedicated button to contact the nearest police station. The app also has a special feature – a dedicated “SOS” button to instantly call the State Emergency Response Centre. Users have to register themselves with Name, Address and a valid phone number with OTP authentication.
The mobile app is developed by NIC Mizoram with the help of State Police and is freely available in Google Play Store.

Download link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.nic.mizoram.mizoramsafety&hl=en

Government of Tamil Nadu has rolled out ‘e-Sanad’ from 16th December 2019. The manual submission of applications is not entertained for attestations by the Public Department from 16th December onwards.

e-Sanad is an online portal, which aims at contact less, cashless and paperless attestation services, including (i) the Portal for online application, payment and document upload and (ii) Integration with digital repositories of Document Issuing Authorities, State General Administration Departments, Digital lockers or any other repositories of Ministries/Departments, for the purpose of verification by Ministry of External Affairs.

Website link: https://esanad.nic.in/

Hon’ble Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Government of Telangana, Sri. Eatala Rajender launched NIC developed Mobile App ‘Jeevandan’ on 10th December 2019 at Ravindra Bharathi Auditorium, in Hyderabad.

‘Jeevandan’ app is an effective and secure platform for management of Cadaver Organ, Harvesting, allocation & Transplantation in a transparent way. The application software is designed and developed by NIC-Telangana State team.

Smt. A. Santhi Kumari, Special Cheif Secretary, Medical & Heath Dept., Sri K. Rajasekhar, DDG & SIO, NIC, Telangana State, Dr. K. Ramesh Reddy, Director of Medical Education, Dr. K. Manohar, Director, NIMS, Dr. G. Swarnalatha, Senior Medical Profecssional & Incharge of Jeevandan, Sri. N. Suresh Kumar, Technical Director, NIC, NCHR Chakrvarthi, Technical Director and Smt. M. Sailaja, Sr. Systems Analyst were present on the occasion.

Shri. Rajasekar, SIO & DDG, NIC-TS highlighted the significance of Jeevandan Web portal and Mobile Application.

Hon’ble Governor, Uttar Pradesh Smt. Anandiben Patel launched NIC developed portal ‘U.P. Sainik Punarwas Nidhi’, on 7th December 2019 commemorating the Army Flag Day. The portal provides information on various schemes run by the Sainik Punarwas Nidhi for Ex-Servicemen and their families, and enables them to apply for these schemes online.

The complete backend process has been automated and SMS services have been integrated at each action point to keep the applicant status of his/ her application. Application trail along with action taken by different authorities is also displayed at all levels to infuse transparency in the system. The families of Ex-servicemen will now find it much easier to avail the benefits of the schemes being run by the Sainik Punarwas Nidhi, Lucknow.

Website URL: https://upspnlko.up.gov.in/

NIC developed portal for Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS) Scheme, an initiative of Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE), awarded with IDC Insights Awards 2019, in Delhi. The scheme provides skill development training & linkages with livelihood opportunities for the underprivileged youths of marginalized sections of the society. The training is provided in non-formal sector to rural and urban slums with academic and technical support to its target group. The vocational courses help youths to earn livelihood either by getting employed or by starting their own enterprise.

Hon’ble Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Hon’ble President of Maldives Ibrahim Mohamed Solih jointly inaugurated several key development projects in Maldives through NIC Video Conference services.

Some of the launches during the event were:

• Gifting of Made in India Coast Guard Ship Kaamiyaab to Maldives
• Launch of RuPay card
• Lighting up of Male using LED lights
• High Impact Community Development Projects
• Launch of fish processing plants

The President of India launched NIC developed Web-Portal of “National Youth Parliament Scheme” in the august presence of the Vice President, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu, the Speaker Lok Sabha, Shri Om Birla, the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi and the Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Shri Pralhad Joshi during the special session of Parliament to commemorate 70th Constitution Day, in New Delhi on November 26, 2019.

The web-portal of National Youth Parliament Scheme is available at www.nyps.mpa.gov.in. The main objective of the portal is to increase the outreach of the youth parliament programme of the Ministry to hitherto untouched sections and corners of the country.

The salient features of the portal:-
• All recognised educational institutions of the country are eligible to participate in this programme.
• E-training modules, videos, photographs and scripts are available on the portal for online self-learning of the participants.
• Each student taking part in the sitting will get a Digital ‘Certificate of Participation’ and each Teacher-in-charge and Head of Institution will get a ‘Certificate of Appreciation’ through the web portal.

Shri Bhupesh Baghel, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh inaugurated ‘CG AWAAS’, a Single Window System developed by NIC for approval of residential colonies. The inaugural event was held in Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly on 25th November 2019. Hon’ble Housing Minister Md. Akbar, Shri Gaurav Dwivedi, Principal Secretary, IT, Ms. Sangeetha P, Secretary, Housing and Environment, Mr. Dilip, Kumar Debnath, SIO, Mr. P. Rama Rao, Senior Technical Director and Mr. Rishi K. Rai, Scientist-B, NIC Chhattisgarh and officials of other departments were present at the event.

The work flow of Online Single Window Colonizer Approval of Residential Colonies is hosted on the generic Service Plus platform under the guidance of Shri D.C. Misra, DDG, Ms. Manie Khaneja, STD and Shri Adesh Gupta, TD and Service Plus team. This single window system will enable issue of Land Diversion Certificates, Approved Documents and Permission for Colony Development within limited time-frame.

It will make the entire process of getting approval for residential colonies simple, easily accessible and transparent. All the documents can be submitted online through the single window, after which development permission will be issued within 100-140 days. The concerned departments will also issue No Objection Certificates from this single window system. Applicants will be able to track the status of their application online and get alerts through SMS.

Hon’ble Minister of Health & Family Welfare, Manipur, Shri L. Jayantakumar Singh launched NIC developed ‘eOffice’ suite for the State Health Society (NHM, Manipur) on 25th November 2019. The event was held at the Conference Hall of Minister’s Chamber, in the presence of Principal Secretary Health & Family welfare, Manipur, Shri V. Vumlunmang IAS and Scientist F & SIO Manipur, Shri Kh. Rajen Singh.

The eOffice Suite is a digital workspace solution for government offices that paves the way for making both inter & intra government processes paperless.

Health & Family welfare department, Manipur is the first Department in the state to implement eOffice. Hon’ble Minister encouraged the officials & staff to use eOffice to deliver good public services. This digital initiative will curb various issues related to manual file processing.

Hon’ble Deputy CM, Minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Govt. of Bihar, Shri Sushil Kumar Modi launched an integrated Mobile App named VanApp on 23rd November 2019.
This integrated mobile application is developed by National Informatics Centre for Department of Environment, Forest & Climate Change in the State.

A number of Mobile Apps implemented for monitoring and management of departmental activities viz. ePlantations, eNursery, eForestry, eMandi, eWildLife, eForestOffence, Human Resource Management System etc. for Plantations, Nurseries, Distribution of plants and open platforms for buying & selling of produce, Wildlife, Forest Offence and Human Resource Management System respectively.

‘VanApp’ is developed to eliminate the difficulties of managing & monitoring these activities through different apps. It provides an integrated platform for monitoring departmental activities and provides MIS & spatial data/reports using integrated Web & GIS technologies.

Hon’ble Chief Minister of Assam inaugurated NIC developed e-commerce portal ‘GoalMart’ which aims to promote local products of Goalpara district in the global online market, attract investments and create job opportunities to boost economic development in Assam.

The e-commerce portal with multidimensional features will boost the expansion of Goalpara’s rural business by providing an opportunity for rural brands to flourish through the virtual store. It will provide access to the global market and thereby create job opportunities for small-time
craftsmen, women, etc.

MLAs, Deputy Commissioner and other dignitaries of Goalpara district were also present at the event. The Portal is developed using open-source technologies by NIC, Goalpara District Team with constant guidance from the SIO & ASIO, NIC Assam.

Visit: http://goalmart.co.in/

Sri Muttamsetti Srinivasa Rao, Hon’ble Minister for Youth Advancement, Tourism and Culture, Government of Andhra Pradesh inaugurated the official website of Department of Youth Services on November 13, 2019.

The website is designed, developed and hosted by National Informatics Centre, Andhra Pradesh State Centre, Vijayawada. The website is built using Responsive Design and adheres to GIGW guidelines. Some of the salient features of the website include, complete list of programs, schemes, eligibility criteria for various schemes, upcoming events, photographs of various youth welfare programs conducted, contact details of state and district level officers, important announcements, trainings and so on.

Sri. K. Praveen Kumar, I.A.S., Principal Secretary to Government, Youth Advancement, Tourism & Cultural (Sports and YS), Smt. C. Nagarani, I.A.S., Director, Youth Services, Dr. E. Iniya Nehru, State Informatics Officer, Dr. V.V.V. Ramana, Sr. Technical Director & ASIO, NIC, Sri. M.G. Chandra Sekhar, Technical Director, NIC and other officers of department of Youth Services also participated.

Visit: http://www.youthservices.ap.gov.in/

Dr. Neeta Verma, Director General, National Informatics Centre, was the Guest of Honour at ‘Data Centre India 2019 – International Conference’. She highlighted the importance of setting-up Data Centres in India and how their growth will continue in the times to come.

The 6th edition of ‘Data Centre India 2019 – International Conference’ was held on 20th November 2019 at Hotel Shangri-La, New Delhi.

It offered a 360 degree view of upcoming trends in data centre infrastructure and highlighted the importance of various aspects of Next Generation data centres & Virtual Cloud based Data Centres. It was a dynamic forum for senior executives of leading enterprises to understand and formulate strategies to enhance their data centre infrastructure in line with business needs.

National Informatics Centre is the technology partner to Ministry of Home Affairs, for design, development and implementation of online registration portal (https://prakashpurb550.mha.gov.in/), network setup at Integrated Check Post (ICP) and Immigration clearance system for the Kartarpur Sahib Corridor project.

The NIC-IVFRT team developed online registration portal for the pilgrims was launched on October 24 2019, wherein pilgrims can register themselves online and exercise the choice to travel on any day. After successful registration, pilgrims will be informed by SMS and email for the confirmation of registration.

Hon’ble Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Integrated Check Post on November 9, 2019 and flagged off first batch of pilgrims at Kartarpur Sahib Corridor in Gurdaspur, Punjab. He took a guided tour of the Passenger Terminal setup prior to the inauguration of Kartarpur Corridor.

The project has been implemented by NIC in a record time and within the deadline of inauguration by Hon’ble Prime Minister. The entire network infrastructure and immigration control system at Dera Baba Nanak ICP has been setup with operationalisation of 56 Immigration counters. A total of 562 pilgrims were part of the first ‘jatha’ who visited Gurdwara Darbar Sahib on the first day of the pilgrimage. Commissioner, Bureau of Immigration appreciated the team for successful delivery of the project.

Dr. Neeta Verma, DG, NIC inaugurated NIC developed eOffice suite at National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru, on November 8, 2019. She also inaugurated the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure at Geriatric OPD and the OPD Kiosk.

Dr. Neeta Verma, DG, NIC in her keynote address at 3rd Digital Transformation Summit 2019 highlighted the use of emerging technologies in Centre, States, Panchayats and Village bodies. NIC is proud to be associated with all levels of governance in their digital initiatives. She also talked about cloud, digital platforms and the way data & analytics have helped in building national data repositories. She also emphasized on the need to aggregate existing platforms to build sector specific platforms in agriculture, education, health, transport etc.

The Ration Card Management System, developed by NIC Kerala was awarded the Government of Kerala ‘Award of Recognition’ by Shri. Thilothaman P, Hon’ble Minister for Food and Civil Supplies, Government of Kerala, on 02^nd November 2019 at Ernakulam, Kerala.

The Ration Card Management System is one of the five major components of end-to-end computerization of the Public Distribution System. The digitization of beneficiary data in the State was completed in 2016 and presently, there are approximately 86 lakh ration cards. The ration cards were categorized into four types using the Ranking software, which was developed and implemented by NIC Kerala.

Features of RCMS

• Facilitates upload of mandatory certificates that are required for each service
• Facilitates the upload of scanned signed application for processing at TSO, thus avoiding frequent visits by the card holder to the TSO/CRO.
• Card holders are able to electronically transfer the ration card or members from one TSO to another TSO
• Citizens can apply for ration card services from anywhere at any time. Ration card history data available
• Totally eliminates the need for data entry at TSOs/CROs
• SMS alerts to card holders on submission of application and also when processing of application is completed
• Status of application available online on the public portal)
• Ration cards reports integrated with Digi Locker.
• Dash boards for various level of offices and officers
• MIS reports for monitoring the progress and performance of data entry operators at TSOs/CROs
• 254578 applications were submitted by citizens online, 1736387 applications through Akshaya Centers and 1710387 applications at TSOs/CROs. (Total – 3701802)
• De-duplication of ration cards.

The 1^st Lieutenant Governor of newly formed Union Territory of Ladakh, Shri Radha Krishna Mathur, launched the official website (http://ladakh.nic.in) of the Union Territory of Ladakh, on 31^st October 2019. The website is designed, developed and hosted by National Informatics Centre on S3waaS framework.

Hon’ble CEC, LAHDC, Leh, Shri Gyal P. Wangyal, Hon’ble CEC, LAHDC, Kargil, Shri Feroz Ahmad Khan, Hon’ble Dy. Chairman LAHDC, Leh and Senior officers from Administration, Judiciary, Army and Para-military forces were present at the occasion.

The website was launched under the guidance of Smt. Padmavathi Viswanathan, DDG & State Coordinator for NIC J&K, Shri. Abhay Kumar, SIO, NIC J&K, with technical support from officers of NIC Leh and Kargil and S3waaS team headed by Smt. Alka Mishra, DDG, NIC HQ, Delhi.

Shri Iqbal Hasan, SIO Delhi State Unit was conferred an award, at International Conference on Educational Reforms and Good Governance in Delhi, for NIC’s contribution in e-Governance initiatives . The conference was organized by International Organization for Education Development (IOED) on 18^th October 2019 at India International Centre New Delhi.

IOED is a specialized, internationally accredited Permanent Diplomatic Mission which is duly recognized and approved by the Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India. It has a special extraterritorial status like the United Nations and its agencies. The IOED has been working on the Diplomatic Relations with Sovereign Nations, Educational Development (Research and Training), Cultural Relationships and Economic Cooperation.

Shri Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Minister for Panchayati Raj, Rural Development & Agriculture launched ‘Gram Manchitra’ at National Panchayat Awards 2019 in New Delhi. Gram Manchitra is a Spatial Planning Application developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC). The application based on NIC’s Multilayer GIS platform Bharatmaps, is a Geo Spatial based decision support system for the panchayats. The panchayats can utilize this application to plan, develop and monitor developmental activities on real time basis.

For more details: https://grammanchitra.gov.in/

A 2-days National Scholarship Portal workshop for NIC State Coordinators was organized at NIC Hqrs. on 21st-22nd October 2019. The workshop had participation of NIC officials from 26 States & 6 UTs. Dr. Neeta Verma, DG, NIC, addressed the officials by acknowledging their contributions for the scholarship portal  and conveying the future roadmap for scholarship ecosystem throughout the country.

Shri S.B. Singh, HoG & DDG, NIC also emphasized that this is a good opportunity for NIC and its officials to serve the bottom of the pyramid and  shape the future of the country. The easy availability of scholarships would also lead to increase in literacy rate of the country. The workshop included Sessions by NIC officials – Smt. Suman Gera on Aadhaar related services, Shri Saba Akhtar on UDISE+ and Smt. Sandhya Rani on AISHE.

There was a special session on containerization and micro services based architecture by an Industry expert.

The online leave module of Manav Sampada-the Human Resource Management Solution (HRMS), a product of NIC was launched by Deputy Commissioner, Keerthi Jalli in Hailakandi District of Assam on 16.10.2019.

Additional Deputy Commissioner Sri. Omar Sherif will look after leave related matters of the Circle Officers and their respective offices. The employee will need to apply for leaves online using Manav Sampada Mobile app or website which will directed to the reporting officer for approval. Each employee has been allotted a log in ID and password. Training cum demonstration has been given to the employees for online submission of leave application.

Additional Deputy Commissioner EL Faehriem, SDO, J Daimari, Executive Officer, Hailakandi Municipal Board, Prodip Timung, Circle Officer, Algapur, Arpita Dutta, Scientist(B), NIC, Mansoor Akhtar Barbhuiya were present at the occasion.

Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University (AKTU), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh is set to implement the eOffice (Lite) in all its associated offices. A 3 days’ workshop cum training programme (from 23rd-25th September 2019) was organized at AKTU campus for capacity building of its officers/staff by NIC eOffice Team. More than 150 officers and employees participated in the training program. A hands-on training on eOffice modules was also organized for the trainees.

NIC UP team has created the e-Office instance for 120 users. The project is being implemented in the university by Mr. A. P. Singh, Scientist-F and ASIO, Mr. Iftekhar Ahmed, Scientist-E, Mr. Parwaiz Islam Scientist-E and team.

Professor Vinay Kumar Pathak, Vice Chancellor of the University has directed his staff to discontinue physical files and start sending only e-Files from 1st October 2019. Instructions were also given to convert all the physical files to electronic files by November 2019.

Web Interface: https://eoffice.aktu.ac.in

Shri Bhupesh Baghel, Hon’ble Chief Minister, Chhattisgarh inaugurated the e-Marketing Network of Chhattisgarh (eManeC) portal (http://ceps.cg.gov.in) on 1st October 2019. Shri Kawasi Lakhma, Minister of Commerce and Industries department, Shri Gaurav Dwivedi, Principal Secretary to CM, Principal Secretary, Department of Commerce and Industries, Shri Manoj Kumar Pingua, MD CSIDC, Shri P. Arun Prasad and other senior officials were present at the occasion.
The portal has designed, developed and hosted by NIC Chhattisgarh. Also, the portal and its functionalities were demonstrated by Shri Dilip Kumar Debnath, STD & SIO along with Shri Ashok Maurya , TD and Shri Pratik Chandrakar, SSA from NIC Chhattisgarh State Centre.
Major highlights of the portal are:
• Uniformity in purchase rate of goods
• Transparent on-line purchasing process
• Promoting local manufacturers and entrepreneurs
• Single Window System for Purchase Order and Supply Order
• Quality Assurance of Goods
• SMS alert to concerned stakeholders
• Integration with NICs Single Sign On (SSO Platform)- Parichay

The website of ‘Environment Protection in Government Colonies’ and ‘mHariyali Mobile App’ inaugurated by Hon’ble Minister of State (I/C), Housing & Urban Affairs on 11th October 2019 at Nirman Bhawan. Secretary, MoHUA Sh. Durga Shankar Mishra, Joint Secretary Nandita Gupta, officers of Directorate of Estates and NIC officers were also present at the occasion.
For more information: http://epgc.gov.in/

5th e-Government Procurement Conference of the Asia Pacific Public Electronic Procurement Network held at ADB Headquarters, Manila, Philippines on 1-2 October 2019 . The focus of the conference was on Emerging Electronic Government Procurement (e-GP) Technologies and Innovation, and Regional Trends and Country Systems Experiences.

Asian Development Bank (ADB) invited NIC to share their experience on the widespread implementation of Government eProcurement and deliver a lecture on ‘Integrating Installations in a National System: The GePNIC Experience’.

As NIC eGP system has wide spread implementation across the country, the participants were very keen to discuss and learn from NIC’s success as well as the challenges faced in this area, specifically those countries that are trying to similarly integrate eGP sub-systems.

Smt. Usha Saxena, Scientist-F, NIC attended and shared the experience.

Shri Pige Ligu, Deputy Commissioner, Papum Pare District launched the e-Services portal (http://eservice.arunachal.gov.in/) of Government of Arunachal Pradesh, in the presence of all the administrative officers of the District headquarter on 1st October 2019.

The Deputy Commissioner in his address mentioned that the portal would make it convenient for an applicant to apply for government services anytime and anywhere, and maintain the authenticity of the issued document(s). He praised NIC Yupia for providing support to District Administration for implementing e-Services portal, which has been developed using the ServicePlus framework of NIC, in the district.

Henceforth, all the services such as Schedule Tribe, Permanent Residential Certificate, Character Certificate, Income Certificate, Dependent Certificate etc. which are available in the portal shall be issued online only.

Hon’ble MoS, Home Affairs Shri. G. Kishan Reddy launched the Unified Portal for Licensing of Eating / Lodging Establishments in Delhi on 01/10/2019 in the august presence of the Chief Secretary Delhi State, Commissioner of Police, Delhi and Additional Secretary (UT), MHA and DG(NIC).

The Unified Portal is a single window system for applying license for eating or lodging establishments in Delhi. The application so submitted can be processed by all agencies (Delhi Police, MCDs/NDMC, Fire, Delhi Pollution Control Board etc.,) individually and simultaneously. This application has the provision for inter-dialogue box for faster processing. The licenses/NOC issued by all agencies can be downloaded from the portal.

Addressing the gathering, Minister of States (Home) Shri Reddy said, “This single window clearance system has been developed under Digital India programme to facilitate people to obtain licenses to open their eatery/lodging businesses in Delhi. This would be an integrated, transparent and seamless system for providing licenses on a time bound manner. Such a people-friendly system would prevent corruption and increase compliance with rules and regulations by all stakeholders”.

The Unified Portal aims at simplifying and rationalizing the regulatory processes (registration & inspection), infusion of transparency and avoids procedural delays in getting statutory clearances from various authorities and real time receipt of application by all agencies simultaneously.

To commemorate the 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, an event was organized at NIC Hqrs. on 1st October 2019 in the Convention Hall. NIC officers from across the country participated in the event through Video Conferencing and spoke on the ‘Relevance of Mahatma Gandhi’s thoughts & teachings in Modern Era’. The event was also available on https://webcast.nic.in/ . A short film on Mahatma Gandhi was also screened at the event.

Agriculture Informatics Division of NIC has developed a multi-lingual Mobile App for Custom Hiring Centres for hiring of farm machineries by the farmers – CHC Farm Machinery App for Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. This app connects the farmers with Custom Hiring Service Centres in their area to provide Agricultural Machinery on rental basis to the Farmers, especially small & marginal farmers who cannot afford to buy the high value machinery & equipments.

The App was launched by Shri Narendra Singh Tomar, Hon’ble Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare on 24 September 2019 at New Delhi. “Farmers will now have easy access to high value and technical agricultural equipment’s at their doorstep” said the Minister while launching the ‘CHC Farm Machinery’ Mobile App.

The App is already available to custom service providers for registration and uploading with georeference photographs of agricultural machinery custom service centers and photographs of machinery and for registration of farmers. As data is captured through geotagging, the farmer can locate the nearest custom hiring center located in his vicinity between 5-50 km. The app can be downloaded on any android phone from Google Play Store.

Dr. Ranjna Nagpal (DDG), Mrs. Mala Mittal (STD and HoD), Mr. Sarbjeet Singh (STD) and Mr. Gyan Prakash Singh (TD) were present from NIC on the occasion.

Hon’ble Home Minister of India, Shri. Amit Shah, Launched the Private Security Agency Licensing Portal on 24th September 2019 where all security agencies can apply for new /renew Private Security Agency license to run their businesses, required under the Private Security Agencies Regulation Act 2005. The occasion was also graced by Minister of State for Home Affairs, Shri G. Kishan Reddy, Home Secretary , Shri Ajay Kumar Bhalla, Director General, NIC, Dr. Neeta Verma and Additional Secretary Home, Police Modernisation, Sh. Vivek Bharadwaj.

This portal makes license application and renewal process completely paperless. There is no need by the security agency directors and owners to visit the offices of the Controlling Authorities for submissions/ follow ups of their application for grant/renewal of their PSARA license. Security Company can apply online for a license in any State of India from any part of India. The agencies will be able to deposit license related fees online through the payment gateway.

Hon’ble Minister for Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development & Fisheries (AHDDF), Shri. Talasani Srinivas Yadav launched NIC developed Mobile App on Drug Management System (DMS) for Veterinary & Animal Husbandry Department, Telangana on 23rd September 2019 at MCRHRD, Hyderabad.

Shri. Sandeep Kumar Sultania, I.A.S., Secretary to Govt., AHDDF, Shri. V. Laxma Reddy, Director, Veterinary & Animal Husbandry Department, Smt. Manjuvani, CEO, Live Stock Development Agency, Shri. G. Srinivas Rao, Managing Director, TS Dairy, Shri. Srihari Raju, DDG, Shri N. Suresh Kumar, Technical Director & HOD, Agriculture Informatics Division, Shri. N. Ch. R. Chakravarthi, Technical Director from NIC (TS) participated in the event.

DMS is a work flow based application software, which facilitates allotment of budget to various Veterinary Institutions, submission of Indent by Veterinary Institutions across the state, verification by District officers, sanctions and approvals, drug utilization and various analytical reports and dashboards at various levels.

A lecture on ‘Social Harmony’ was delivered by Shri Dipankar Shri Gyan, Director, Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, Ministry of Culture, Government of India, on 26.09.2019 at NIC Hqrs., New Delhi. It was organized in continuation of events for the Commemoration of 150th Birth Anniversary, launched by DG NIC in July this year. The event was broadcast over NIC Video Conferencing services and was attended by officers up to District level. It was also available through NIC webcast services.

In his lecture, Shri Dipankar Shri Gyan talked about communal harmony and said that it does not mean harmony between two religions. He spoke briefly on Gandhi Ji’s thoughts on communal harmony. He explained, Gandhi Ji believed that all countrymen are children of one mother, however they can be diversified on different factors such as religion, economic conditions, political commitments, cast or color etc., These separate thought process gives birth to three negativities, i.e., Fear, Suspicion and Hatred, and these things work against the communal harmony.

Gandhi Ji started his first experiment on communal harmony in South Africa, where he worked on uniting religions of Indian community and bringing them together to fight against racial discrimination, which was a common practice there. Shri Gyan further talked about Gandhi Ji’s deep understanding of all religions, where he identified that the basis of all religions is only one thing, which is ‘Truth’. Shri Gyan further highlighted different incidents of Gandhi Ji’s life and his different ways of bring communal harmony in the Indian society through various movements including Champaran, first movement where he brought together women as well.

The event was concluded with vote of thanks by DDG NIC Shri Inder Pal Singh Sethi.

Hon’ble Chief Minister of Manipur Shri N Biren Singh launched NGDRS (National Generic Document Registration System) on 16-09-2019 for Sub Registrar Office, Porompat, Imphal East. The function was held at Panchayat Bhawan, DC Office, Porompat, making it the second SRO of Manipur to implement NGDRS application for property registration.

The NGDRS application of NIC provides citizen interfaces for filing of online applications, appointments, calculation of land valuation, stamp duty and registration fee etc., at https://ngdrsmanipur.nic.in

Shri. Nilesh Cabaral Minister of Power, Environment, Non-Conventional Sources of Energy and Law & Judiciary, Govt. of Goa, inaugurated the ‘Goa Bio-Diversity Portal- BIOMIS System’, which consist of e-ABS (Access Benefit Sharing) and e-PBR (People Biodiversity Registers) functionalities, developed by NIC Kerala and implemented by NIC Goa. The function was presided by Dr. Pradeep Sarmokadam, Member Secretary, Goa Bio Diversity Board and attended by all Scientists and Experts from Bio-Diversity Board.

e-ABS is a work flow based system for obtaining approval for access to bio resources for commercial utilization by Indian citizens. e-PBR is a unique repository of information on Goa’s biodiversity. The BIOMIS Portal aims to facilitate and enable widespread participation by all citizens in contributing and accessing information on biodiversity, that benefits science and society, contributes to sustainable future and guide the development and use of this Portal. It is web enabled work flow based system which facilitates citizen to collect (decentralized), disseminate biodiversity data and generate PBR electronically.

Sri Naba Kisore Das, Hon’ble Minister, Health & Family Welfare, Odisha launched the Online Clinical Establishment Management System, developed by National Informatics Centre, Bhubaneswar on 7th September 2019, in presence of Dr. P.K. Meherda, IAS, Commissioner-cum-Secretary, Health & Family Welfare Department.

Interacting with Media, Honorable Minister appreciated the effort taken by NIC team. The application developed by National Informatics Centre, Bhubaneswar under the guidance of Dr. Umakanta Satpathy, Joint Director, DMET led by technical members of NIC, Ms. Nirupama Mohapatra, STD and Sri Bivas Roy, STD is hosted in National Data Centre, Bhubaneswar. The application has been developed using Open Source Technology stack such as PHP (CakePHP Framework) and MySQL as database.

The main objective of this application is to bring transparency and resolve issues related to delay in issuance of necessary clearances for obtaining registration in the Clinical Establishment System. Nearly 1800 private hospitals and clinics will be benefited through this new system as they can able to apply and obtain No Objection Certificates (NOC) and other renewals without much hassle.

The dignitaries present on the occasion include Dr. Dillip Kumar Sarangi, Director, Health Services, Prof. Sonamali Bag, Director, Medical Education & Training, Dr. Sushil Kumar Kar, Director, Nursing and other senior officers of the Department along with NIC officers Dr. A. K. Hota, STD & ASIO, Ms. Nirupama Mohapatra, STD and Sri Bivas Roy, STD, NIC.

Portal: http://cemso.nic.in

A workshop was organized by Department of IT, Govt. of Chhattisgarh at Raipur, on 16^th September, 2019. The objective of the workshop was to deliberate on key challenges in delivery of Government services to citizens which includes:

• Reactive citizen service delivery and high cost of service delivery
• Inefficiency in delivery of welfare benefits (DBT schemes)
• Lack of data-based design of new programs/schemes
• Poor grievance redressal

The keynote address was delivered by Sh. Gaurav Dwivedi, Principal Secretary to Hon’ble CM, Chhattisgarh and Principal Secretary, Electronics and Information Technology, Govt. of Chhattisgarh.

Sh. D. C. Misra, DDG NIC gave a presentation on NIC developed ServicePlus-a metadata-based single unified eService delivery framework, at the workshop on ‘Integrated Pro-active eGovernance (IPeG) System’, in Raipur. Ms. Rama Hariharan, Sr. TD, NIC and Ms. Seema Khanna, Sr. TD, NIC Hqrs also gave presentations on Analytics and Parichay – Single sign on respectively.

Presentations were also made by Secretaries In charge from the departments of Labour, Technical Education, Food, Tribal welfare, School Education and Social welfare on the challenges faced by them in implementing the DBT/PFMS. Ideas were explored for a plan of creating a social registry and data exchange platform.

A unique system for Geo-Tagging of houses, constructed under the Prime Minister Awas Yojana- Gramin (PMAY-G), was launched in Lakhimpur, Assam. The system has been implemented for the first time for the PMAY-G programme in India.

Minister of Panchayat and Rural Development, Assam; Shri Naba Kumar Doley inaugurated the PMAY-G OBD (Out Bound Dialer) system in a ceremonial program organized at Lakhimpur District Library Auditorium under the aegis of Lakhimpur District Rural Development Agency (DRDA), on September 12, 2019.

The concept of the system was coined by Deputy Commissioner of Lakhimpur Dr. Jeevan B, who graced the event along with Shri Pradip Doley, Chief Executive Officer, Lakhimpur Zila Parishad and Shri Narendra Kumar Paw, Project Director, DRDA, Lakhimpur.

DG, NIC delivered a lecture on the role of emerging technologies in current set of citizen-centric services & the importance of Cyber Security, at ‘Gems of Digital India – 2019’ Awards. She also launched the Gems of Digital India app at the event.

Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi visited Ranchi, Jharkhand on 12th September 2019. NIC Jharkhand provided full support for the setup & functioning of the IT Cell for PMO Camp Office at Prabhat Tara Maidan, Ranchi, and other IT activities including webcast of the event and social media coverage.

Some of the important launches & inaugurations held at the function were:

• Inauguration of India’s 2nd Riverine Multimodal Terminal at Sahebganj District of Jharkhand. This terminal has been built by Inland Waterways Division of India on River Ganga.
• Inauguration of newly built state of art Vidhan Sabha building of Jharkhand.
• Laid foundation stone of the new state-of-the-art Secretariat of Jharkhand.
• Launch of nationwide Pradhamantri Kisan Maan Dhan Yojna, a scheme for pensions to farmers. Every farmer will get pension of Rs. 3000/- after the age of 60.
• Launch of Pradhanmantri Laghu Vyaparik Maan Dhan Yojna and ‘Swarojgar’ pension scheme for small traders.
• Inauguration of Eklavya Model Residential School being setup all over India.

Smt. Draupadi Murmu, Hon’ble Governor of Jharkhand, Shri Arjun Munda, Minister of Tribal Affairs, Government of India, Shri Raghubar Das, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Jharkhand, Shri Santosh Gangwar, Minister of State of Labour and Employment, GOI, Shri Mansukh L Mandviya , Minister of State for Shipping, Chemicals and Fertilizers, Government of India, Shri Purushottam Rupala, Minister of State for Agriculture, Co-operative & Farmer Welfare, Government of India, Shri Kailash Choudhary, Minister of State for Agriculture, Co-operative and Farmer Welfare and many other dignitaries were present at the event.

DG (NIC) in her keynote address delivered at the Govt. IT Innovation Summit 2019, highlighted the importance of Cloud Technology in the modern world and the way emerging technologies are helping us re-imagine the way citizen services are delivered.

Hon’ble Prime Minister Sh. Narender Modi inaugurated Ayush Health and Wellness Centers (10 nos) in Haryana under Ayushman Bharat Yojna from Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on 30/08/2019, using NIC Video Conferencing Services. A State level function was organized at Hotel Red Bishop, Panchkula (Haryana).

Hon’ble Chief Minister Haryana Sh. Manohar Lal thanked the Prime Minister for the inauguration of the Ayush Health & Wellness Centers. He said that people of Haryana will benefit from this initiative and awareness of Ayurvedic medicines & techniques among common man will increase manifold.

Hon’ble Prime Minister also recalled “Fit India Campaign” which was recently launched. He stressed on importance of fitness & role of Ayurveda in achieving the same by the common man. Sh. Ratan Lal Kataria, MP Ambala, Sh. G.C Gupta, MLA, Panchkula, Smt. Latika Sharma, MLA Panchkula were present during the inaugural programme. Smt. Keshni Anand, IAS, Chief Secretary Haryana, Sh. Rajesh Khullar, IAS, PS to CM, Sh. V. Umashankar, IAS, APS to CM, Sh Rajeev Arora, IAS, ACS Health, Sh. Deepak Bansal, SIO, NIC Haryana, Sh. Satpal Sharma, Scientist-E, Sh. Gurpreet Lehal, Scientist-D and Sh. Ashish, Scientist-C were also present on this occasion.

NIC Haryana team provided ICT support during the event. Haryana site was connected to Vigyan Bhawan and subsequently all 22 districts were connected through VC.

Pu K.Lalrinliana, Minister of State, Food Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs (FCS&CA) launched the Electronic Point of Sales (ePoS) device at the Government’s Fair Price Shop (FPS), Zonuam, Aizawl. The same facility is expected to be installed in all the 149 FPS throughout Aizawl in this month. In addition, 1270 FPS in other parts of Mizoram are expected to be provided with ePoS as soon as possible. With this implementation, Mizoram has joined other states in the drive for ‘End to End Computerisation of Targeted PDS Operation’, a joint initiative of Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution and National Informatics Centre (NIC).

In his inaugural address, the Minister gave his assurance to the beneficiaries that this machine is a simple device that can be easily operated by users. Highlighting the importance of digitization of FPS, he said, “Rather than complicating the process of Public Distribution System (PDS) in FPS, this scheme is meant to ensure the real beneficiary get his exact quota of ration every time, to ensure transparency in the PDS, to reduce wastage and to contain unfair disposal of the surpluses which frequently cost the government, heavily”.

In addition, he reminded all the beneficiaries on the necessity of linking their Aadhaar and their Ration card in order to benefit through the PDS scheme, post the implementation of ePoS at FPS. The reports on administrative and technical functioning areas was given by Pu Robert C. Lalhmangaiha, Deputy Director, FCS&CA and PU Lallawmkima, Scientist -B, NIC-Mizoram, respectively. Live demonstration of FPS Automation/Operation of ePoS Machines was given in the august presence of Pu Zothantluanga, MLA,15-Aizawl West-I Constituency, Pu HL Rochungnunga, Commission & Secretary, FCS&CA, along with the  staff officers from directorate and the districts who were also attending the function

Hon’ble Governor Shri Satya Pal Malik (Chairman of the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board) on Wednesday, 28th August 2019, appreciated the coordinated efforts made by the NIC J&K team for the smooth conduct of this year’s Shri Amarnath Ji Yatra.

On this occasion, Hon’ble Governor felicitated NIC officers, Shri Abhay Kumar, SIO, J&K, Baiju Ubbott, Scientist ‘D’ and Sideshwar Bhagat, Scientist ‘B’ for developing an online application for registration of Yatris, scanning and tracking of permits using QR Code, during Shri Amarnathji Yatra 2019.

Besides registration, Yatris were provided online facility for making payment after going through a series of authentication processes, thereby enabling them to download their Yatra Permit with QR code. This permit is being scanned at various gates  from Jammu to the Holy cave by J&K Police and CRPF personnel. This has enabled the Shrine Board administration to track the movement of Yatris along the Yatra route using web interface.

Sivasagar attained the status of being the first District in Assam to launch “e-office”.
E-office is a Mission Mode Project, developed and designed by National Informatics Centre (NIC).

The Upper Assam Divisional Commissioner Smt Julie Sonowal formally launched the e-office (e-file management system) at the office of the Deputy Commissioner, Sivasagar on August 31, 2019.  She congratulated the district administration for the initiative in taking this giant step forward towards  paperless system. “With the office of the Deputy Commissioner transitioning towards a complete electronic file management system, four more offices of the district, namely, office of the Superintendent of Police, office of the District Transport Officer, Agriculture office and Zila Parishad will also come under the e-office system”, she informed.

The Deputy Commissioner Dr S Lakshmanan said, “With the benefit of having zero maintenance cost, the system will not only provide full confidentiality of office files, but will also save us from the worries of space management”.

The occasion was also attended by Superintendent of Police Shri Amitava Sinha along with the officials and staff of the district administration, and has been reported in leading local newspapers such as the Assam Tribune and The Sentinel.

Hon’ble Union Minister (CA, F&PD) launched ‘One Nation One Ration Card’ scheme portal

NIC’s ‘Coffee Table Book on e-Governance Projects in Meghalaya’ released by Secretary MeitY in Shillong

NIC developed Sarathi 4.0 launched at RTO, Kohima

Launch of new web portal of UP Vidhan Sabha

Web portal of e-Pest Surveillance & Pest Management Automation System inaugurated in Odisha

Hon’ble Minister for Skill Dev. & Ent. launched a portal for the nomination of National Entrepreneurship Awards 2019

NIC Assam officials handing over cheque for flood relief to Hon’ble Chief Minister of Assam

DG, NIC welcomes Mrs. Seshagiri and her daughter on Dr. N. Seshagiri Memorial Day, New Delhi

Lecture by Sh. Narayana Murthy, Founder Infosys Ltd. – DSML 2019

Hon’ble MoS for HRD, Comm. & EIT address – DSML 2019

Address by Secretary, MeitY – DSML 2019

Vote of Thanks by DG, NIC – DSML 2019

Sarathi 4.0 launched and implemented in Lower Dibang Valley District of Arunchal Pradesh

‘Fisheries Information Management System’, was inaugurated by Hon’ble Minister, Fisheries, Harbour Engineering & Cashew Industry, Kerala

NIC HP developed ‘Him Pragati’ portal was used by Hon’ble CM HP to monitor online the progress of major projects, investments and concerns of investors

NIC UP organized ‘GeoVision’- a seminar for the State Govt. on the use of GIS and NIC initiatives for implementation of GIS enabled IT projects

DG, NIC launched ‘Series of Events for Commemoration of 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’ at NIC Hqrs

Six online services developed using the ServicePlus Framework of NIC were launched in Lohit District of Arunachal Pradesh

Delhi Traffic Police implemented e-challan system developed by NIC. The new system is likely to result in improved prosecution and better road safety standards in Delhi

NIC developed ODF Plus App, Dashboard & Swachh Gram Darpan App, launched by Hon’ble Minister of State for Jal Shakti

The DM Dashboard was launched by Chief Secretary, Nagaland. The s/w will help DC in monitoring and analyzing the performance of various activities, projects and services

Hon’ble Chief Minister, Haryana launched Paudhagiri website and Moble app on 16th July 2019 for collecting and providing the information about plantation in the State

The State Bank of Sikkim ePayment Gateway was integrated with NIC’s Vahan 4.0 application

NIC developed ‘Fair Price Automation System (FPS)’ was launched by Hon’ble CM of Manipur on July 10, 2019

Hon’ble CM, Puducherry launched NIC developed ‘Ease of Doing Business application’, for Department of Industries & Commerce

‘NIC Chat Intelligence (NICCI) Chatbot Service’, developed by NIC Rajasthan was launched in Jaipur

Hon’ble Electricity Minister, Puducherry launched Electricity Department website developed by NIC

Hon’ble CM, Himachal Pradesh launched ‘Drug Free Himachal’- a mobile app developed by NIC Competency Centre for Mobile Application Development, Shimla

Hon’ble Revenue Minister, Kerala inaugurated Digital Payments (ePOS/UPI) service integrated with Revenue ePayment System developed by NIC Palakkad District

Hon’ble Revenue Minister & Hon’ble State Revenue Minister launched NIC Rajasthan developed online service for ROR distribution through Apnakhata Portal

A Bangladesh Delegation visited Haryana to study the Integrated Financial & Human Resource Management System, implemented by the State in coordination with NIC Haryana

Hon’ble CM Jharkhand, launched portal for online registration of citizens, for participating in ‘International Day of Yoga’ on 21st June 2019 at Ranchi

Inauguration of SWaaS based website of newly formed District ‘Narayanpet’ of Telangana

Hon’ble Education Minister of the State launched the Integrated ShalaDarpan Portal developed by NIC Rajasthan

NIC developed JharSewa Portal enabled Jharkhand to become first State to issue ‘Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) Certificate online.

NIC Uttarakhand developed an online portal for Booking of Helicopter Tickets to Kedarnath Dham

NIC supported the development of On-line registration of intending pilgrims for Amarnath Yatra

Chief Secretary of Nagaland launched integrated SWaaS based district websites and also released a booklet on activities of NIC Nagaland

NIC developed ‘e-Panjiyan’ System, integrated with Land Records, for paperless registration, is appreciated by Finance department of Rajasthan

The new GIGW compliant website of HP High Court made operational

DIOs & DIAs of NIC Haryana, as nodal technical officers, provided support for General Elections 2019 in state, to respective district administrations

NIC developed Poll Day Monitoring System (Raj-SMS) was used on the Polling days in the state during the General Elections 2019

NIC Telangana efforts were appreciated by State Election Officials for implementing common S/W for 1st, 2nd & 3rd Polling Personnel Randomization

GIS based analysis tool, developed by NIC Tamil Nadu, launched by District Collector, Tirunelveli, to monitor polling

process for TN Elections

National Informatics Centre (NIC) has launched Digital India Internship Scheme for 2019 Batch

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has launched the second edition of the Digital India Internship Scheme (2019 Batch)

Vahan 4.0 software to help Motor Vehicles Department offices in Ernakulam to go paperless

e-Challan mobile app adopted by Puducherry to issue challan to the traffic rule violators

Online System used by Rajasthan School Shiksha Parishad for Centralized Lottery for RTE Seats in Private schools

The PFMS dashboard launched on the 43rd Civil Accounts Day on 1st March, 2019 by the CGA

Secretary (SE&L) HRD Ministry launched GIS for KVS Project Monitoring and appreciated efforts of #NICMeitY GIS and KVS team

Punjab becomes 1st state in country to sign MoU with NICSI for providing NIC SMS gateway services

Launch of e-Office suite at Itanagar Municipal Council (IMC), Arunachal Pradesh

Workshops on Enterprise Architecture in Assam and Meghalaya

Hon’ble Governor of UP inaugurated e-Office at Governor House Secretariat in UP

Hon’ble CM of Haryana launched Litigation Management System (LMS) for departments, corporations, boards and other state bodies to monitor status of their cases

Managing Director State Bank of Sikkim felicitated DG(NIC) & thanked NIC team for successful implementation of NIC’s Core Banking Solution in its 47 branches

Hon’ble Minister for Animal Husbandry, Kerala, launched software applications ASHA, FMS &  MART

The Chief Secretary of Assam released NIC Assam brochure (And I see NIC…) on New Year’s Day 2019

Hon’ble Chief Minister, Haryana, launches 485 services of 37 departments in SARAL portal under ‘Digital Haryana’ initiative

Hon’ble Chief Minister, Himachal Pradesh, launched the website of the HP State Disaster Management Authority (http://www.hpsdma.nic.in/) at Dharamshala, for the benefit of citizens

eSamikSha, an online Monitoring and Compliance Mechanism has been developed by Cabinet Secretariat Informatics Division, to fast track the compliance of pending action points, proposal, targets, etc. of Various Ministry/Department/Organization/Agency of Govt. of India and Government of States and UTs.

Sh. Jai Ram Thakur, Hon’ble Chief Minister, Himachal Pradesh launched the HimPragati portal at Shimla on 17th October 2018.

Hon’ble Chief Minister of Haryana, Shri Manohar Lal, inaugurated the web portal of Haryana Real Estate Regulatory Authorities(Panchkula & Gurugram) today on 4th  October 2018 at Chandigarh.

Hon’ble Prime Minister interacted with the ITBP jawans from Pangong, Leh-Ladakh via Video Conference, a first of its kind event in the world in the sense that it was held at such a high altitude.

ServicePlus is fully geared for Single-Window services under Ease of Doing Business. It is achieved by anyone who knows their business and understands the processes that drive it irrespective of any coding knowledge. ServicePlus empowers officials with simple drag-and-drop interface that makes even complicated processes easy. One can take control of every detail without any support.

Sh. Ravi Shankar Prasad, Hon’ble Union Minister of Electronics & IT, Law and Justice visited Shimla on 2nd July 2018.
He praised the role of State Government and NIC Himachal Pradesh for migrating all the District Websites to SWaaS.

Harischandra Sahayata Yojana is a financial assistance provided to the beneficiary for funeral purpose in case of a death. This assistance is given to the relations of the deceased person for performing the last rite rituals. In case of Rural area the assistance amount of Rs.2000/= is being given.