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Inauguration of Online Missal Bandobast Record System, Raipur
Hon'ble C M Dr. Raman Singh handing the caste certificate to a
student after inauguration
Recently the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh Dr. Raman Singh has inaugurated the ‘ONLINE MISSAL BANDOBAST RECORD SYSTEM’ of Raipur District and distributed Caste certificates to students on. The link to these records (Raipur Record Room Online) is available at http://raipur.gov.in . Around 20 lakh bandobast record pages pertaining to 2119 villages of 15 tehsils have been scanned in one year before making them online. With this the people of the district can now besides accessing their age old land record documents print them for various purposes. This facility is a leap forward in the State’s e-Governance initiatives. Online availability of records to a great extent eased preparation of Caste and Domicile certificates of students which hitherto used to be a lengthy, cumbersome and time consuming process. The system facilitates availability of documents viz. Missal bandobast records of 1928-29, Chakbandi missal records of 1936, Record of Rights of 1954-55 in a very user friendly manner.
These records are used as reference in many cases including matters related to land disputes etc. In order to ensure security the scanned records are kept in NIC State server as well as in Treasury.
The Chief Minister in his message said that obtaining copies of land records and preparation of caste and domicile certificates have been considered by all to be very difficult tasks but a simple solution has been provided to this problem with the use of Information Technology which is a commendable effort. He congratulated the collector Dr. Rohit Yadav and NIC for this achievement.
Y.V.Shreenivas Rao , CHHATTISGARH
Award for NIC PALI
NIC Pali Receiving the Award
It was yet another feather in the cap of NIC Rajasthan as NIC District Centre Pali, was selected for this year’s prestigious CSINihilent e-Governance Awards 2010-11, Award of Appreciation under the District Category. The award was presented at a glittering function held on the 2nd Dec 2011 as part of the Computer Society of India’s 46th Annual Convention in Ahmedabad. The award was presented by Sh. Surendra Kapoor, Convener, Sh. M.D. Agrawal, President, CSI, Sh. L. C. Singh, President & CEO, Nihilent Technology presented this award of appreciation in District Category. The award was received by the District Collector, Pali Sh. Niraj K. Pawan, IAS and Sh. Anil Purohit, DIO & PSA, Pali. The Sugam project of NIC Jodhpur has also been previously awarded by CSI –Nihilent at Pune.
Chandan Sen, RAJASTHAN
DDOs workshop on e- Payment at Chandigarh UT
In a step forward towards e-governance, the Finance Department, Chandigarh Administration organized a workshop of all the Drawing & Disbursing Officers of the Chandigarh Administration on 22nd November 2011 at PEC Auditorium. The workshop aimed at imparting practical training for the smooth implementation of e-payment system to the DDOs. With the introduction of e-payment system, all payments to be made to the beneficiaries shall be made by electronic fund transfer to the respective accounts of the employees/beneficiaries at the level of Central Treasury, Chandigarh.All periodic and non-periodic payments payable to various officers/officials/private contractors/agencies shall be made on-line on the presentation of relevant bill in the Central Treasury Chandigarh.
Sh. Ajay Rampal, SIO NIC Chandigarh demonstrating
the software.
About 350 officers/officials of the Chandigarh Administration participated in the said workshop. Sh. Ajay Rampal, SIO, NIC gave presentation about the Govt. Financial Accounting System to the participants and Smt. Gurpreet Kaur Sapra, Joint Secretary Finance-cum-Director Treasury also highlighted the advantages of the e-payment. Previously, it took two to three days for the transfer of money to the beneficiaries’ accounts but with this new system it will take only two hours for the transfer of funds. It will also be helpful for easy reconciliations and less paper fund management system. In the month of November, salaries for three departments will be taken up on pilot basis. From December 2011, salaries of all the employees of the Chandigarh Administration will be covered under this system. The new system facilitate On line access to salary details to each employee, Mobile based information and query system, Online bank transfer of payments to individual/ vendors
Vivek Verma, CHANDIGARH
Online status of blood availability in the Blood banks, Faridabad
Dr. Rakesh Gupta, DC Faridabad, Sh.Vipin Mittal, DIO Faridabad, Smt.Seema Gupta, Chairperson, Red Cross society examining the website
On World Handicapped Day (3rd December), Deputy Commissioner, Faridabad Dr. Rakesh Gupta, IAS inaugurated the website for providing the Online status of blood availability in the nine blood banks. In this website, blood availability can be checked through two ways i.e. blood bank wise and blood group wise. Also a blood group wise list of volunteer blood donors with their contact information has been made available. All blood banks send the availability of blood through e-mail to DC office on daily basis. This information has been entered into the software which generates blood bank wise & blood group wise reports in pdf format. Then these pdf files are uploaded to the website. This website has been linked with the website of District Faridabad http://faridabad.nic.in.
Poonam, HARYANA
Co-operative Core Banking Solution for Meghalaya Co-operative Apex Bank
View of the inaugural function
The Hon’ble Chief Minister of Meghalaya, Dr Mukul Sangma inaugurated the Co-operative Core Banking Solution (CCBS) for the Meghalaya Co-operative Apex Bank Ltd (MCAB) on October 20, 2011. The application has been designed and developed by National Informatics Centre (NIC).
The Chief Minister said that core banking not only increases employee productivity but also improves monitoring of agricultural and non-agricultural credits. He hoped that with the co-operation of the people the bank would further improve its services. By increasing its presence in remote areas the bank has benefitted rural people immensely, Dr Sangma said.
The inaugural function was attended by Sh. Saleng Sangma, Minister of Co-operation, Government of Meghalaya, Smt. R Warjri, Chairperson of MCAB, Smt. JRD Kailey, Deputy Director General, NIC, Sh. A K Singh, Senior Technical Director, NIC, Sh. Timothy Dkhar, Senior Technical Director and State
Informatics Officer, NIC Meghalaya, Sh. I P S Sethi, , Senior Technical Director, NIC among others. After the inauguration, the Chairperson of the Bank handed over the first CCBS passbook to the Chief Minister who is also a customer of the bank.
Sabyasachi Choudhury, MEGHALAYA
PRERANA – Delighted Hon’ble Cabinet Minister, Tribal Affairs,GOI
Hon' ble Minister with Secretary other Dignitaries
H on’ble Cabinet Minister, Tribal A ffairs, Govt. Of India, Sh.V. Kishore Chandra Deo, recently reviewed PRER A NA (Post-Matric Scholarship REg istration Release And Network Automation) a unique initiative of Govt. of Odisha for development of Tribal and Backward Classes of the S tate.
Initiatin g the discussion, S ecre tar y, S h. Santo sh K u m ar S arangi, IA S, descr ib ed PR ER ANA as of much importa nce in recei ving ap p l i cati on s, processing & san ctioning the s cholar ships to the deser ving student s. He info rmed that within 2 0 wo rk ing days o f la unch i ng of t he applica t ion more th an 80, 0 00 applications have been processed b y th e system.
Sh.A. K. Hota, T D, NIC , Oris sa ass i sted by S h. S. P. Dash, Scien t ist-C, p resented the detailed wor k f l ow, roles & re sponsib ility of m ajor stake holders , deliverablesof the application, programmema nagement approach followed etc.
The Hon’ble Minister expressed his satisfaction over the commitment of the Govt. of Odisha and the effort of NIC in extending ICT based support and services to the Tribal and Backward Classes. Appreciating the effort of NIC & GOO, Sh.
Ravindra Garimella,IAS, Private Secretary to the Minister,wished to initiate the action plan for national roll-out of “PRERANA”.
Amongthe others,the senior officials of the SSD & BCW Dept. were present in the meeting. The meeting ended with vote of thanks by Sh. Bisar Kumar Nayak, IAS,Jt. Secretary to Govt.
A. K. Hota, Orissa
Inauguration of Video Conferencing, KIOSK and Website of the Gauhati High Court, Imphal Bench
Hon'ble Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court during
inaugural function
Hon’ble Chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court, Sh. Madan B. Lokur recently graced the function of inauguration of Video Conferencing, KIOSK and the website (http://hcmimphal.nic.in ). The web site was designed, developed and hosted by NIC, Manipur and the contents were provided by the Gauhati High Court, Imphal Bench. It allows uploading of Judgment, searching of judgment by case number, judge name, date wise, petitioner wise, respondent wise and party wise etc. It also provides links to the web site of Supreme Court, High Court and other Benches. Hon’ble Chief Justice congratulated to the NIC officials for developing this web site and also mentioned that the newly launched Video Conference and the Information Kiosk will not only give benefits to the lawyers and Court officials but also to the respondents and petitioners of the State where communication technology is still lagging behind.
Hon’ble Justice Sh. Tayenjam Nandakumar Singh, Portfolio Judge of Gauhati High Court, Imphal Bench mentioned the importance of the facility that will enhance discussions and meetings with other Judges throughout the Country in a big way at the desired time thereby improving Court functionaries more efficiently. Sh. Kotishwar Singh, the learned Advocate General of Manipur, said that the facility of Video Conferencing if launched in the District Courts and Central jail will reduce the inconvenience of carrying prisoners a long way on which the Government spends large amount of State fund.
M.Budhimala Devi, MANIPUR
Jharkhand Vidhan Sabha goes online
Dr. Sayed Ahmad, Hon'ble Governor, Jharkhand lightening
the lamp on the occasion
To mark the eleventh foundation day of the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly, Dr. Sayed Ahmad, Hon’ble Governor, Jharkhand inaugurated its website – http://jharkhandvidhansabha.nic.in on 22nd November’2011 at a glittering function organized in the sprawling premises of the legislative assembly in the presence of an august gathering comprising – Hon’ble CM Sh. Arjun Munda, Sh. Chandreshwar Prasad Singh, Speaker and all the Hon’ble ministers, Members of the assembly. The Principal Secretaries, Secretaries and large number of senior officials of various departments of the government led by Sh. Shushil Kumar Choudhury, Chief Secretary, attended the function making the occasion a confluence of the executive and the bureaucracy.