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        National Informatics Centre (NIC) is a premier Information Technology Organization in India  committed to providing state-of-the-art solutions for the IT needs of the Government of India at all levels. NIC carries the distinction of being the largest IT Organization in the Country and has set up a satellite based nationwide computer communication network called NICNET having over 1400 nodes connecting the National Capital, the State Capitals and the District Headquarters to one another. The IT services of NIC range from Consultancy, Software Design & Development, Office Automation and Networking Services to Training, Video Conferencing, CAD, EDI, Multimedia and Internet Services including Web Site Development and Hosting. NIC has a nationwide presence with its offices spread all across the Country, from Leh to Andaman & Nicobar Islands.

         National Informatics Centre , Birbhum District Unit established on 1989 under the Planning Commission of Government of India. In the Year of 2000 the Organization moved to the  Ministry of Communication & Information Technology under the Government of India. Since its inception NIC, Birbhum has been  involved in promoting I. T. Culture among the District Administration and its lying Department by developing need based software and implementing them. Presently the centre hosts state-of-art I. T. Infrastructure including 2 Mbps Leased-Line Connectivity and Executive Video-Conference System (EVCS).

There are various sectors / departments in which NIC, Birbhum stepped in and got success by introducing the new instruments of changes.  The Following are the few example ......

Srl No Name of the Project Brief Description of the Projects Running Present Status*
1 Agricultural Marketing Board – Daily Market Data Transmission

     The project is designed to establish a nationwide information network for speedy collection and dissemination of market information data for its efficient and timely utilization; to ensure flow of regular and reliable data to the producers (farmers), traders and consumers to derive maximum advantage out of their sales and purchases; and to increase the efficiency in marketing by effecting improvement in the existing market information system. Market price data is reflected in the AGMARKNET portal everyday and it is useful for the producers, marketers, and marketing organizations throughout the country

Implemented  at Four Market Nodes in Birbhum.

2  Plan Plus Software for BRGF     PlanPlus is a software developed by NIC, under guidance and direction from Ministry of Panchayati Raj, in order to demystify and strengthen the decentralized planning process. The software is a web-based software and captures the entire planning workflow starting from identification of needs, the plan approval process till the final approval by the District Planning Committee. The software is highly generic and can be extended to capture the plans prepared by line departments at the state and central level to generate the National Plan. Implemented and Data Uploading from Block / GP in Progress.
3 District Court ( e-Court Project )

   The objectives of the project are : 
To help judicial administrations of the courts in streamlining their day-to-day activities  

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         To assist judicial administration in reducing the pendency of cases
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         To provide transparency of information to the litigants
·         To provide access to legal and judicial databases to the judges.  

LAN Sign-Off Completed, H/W Installation in progress at District Judges Court, Birbhum
4 Online Data Entry Patta Holders under Forest Right Act. Online Software Developed by Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Govt. of India. Implemented for Birbhum District.
5 Vahan & Sarathi Project VAHAN : An application developed by NIC Headquarter New Delhi for registration of vehicles and road tax clearance by the RTA. It helps the department to :-
•Register Vehicle.
•Collect tax.
•Issue various certificates and permits.
•Record the fitness of vehicles.
SARATHI : An application developed by NIC Headquarter Delhi used by the RLA for :-  • Learner License
•Permanent Driving License
•Conductor's License
•Driving School License.
Vahan Software Implemented and running since 2005. Integration with the State Vehicle Register Database done on 30/03/2010.

Sarathi software will be implemented soon.
6 Computerization of Registration of Documents (CORD) Project

   CORD, Computerization of Registration of Documents, is an application package developed to automate the Registration Offices of the State of West Bengal. It is capable of registering documents online with speed, reliability and transparency. CORD integrates scanning of deed after the completion of deed.  Following functions are  automated.
    Help Desk provides following services before the registration is done. Those are generation of Assessment Slip containing the Market value, Registration Fees & Stamp Duty payable is generated by the system.
    The total work flow for completion of  Registration Process has been automated. Capturing of Photo & Fingerprint, generation of endorsement sheet has greatly reduced the total time taken to complete Registration. In fact within 30 minutes a registration can be completed.
    Various Post Registration Services module like Searching of deed by name or property details, Inspection of Deed and Other Minor Registers have been incorporated.

Implemented at all the 10 nos. of DSR / ADSR / SR Offices in Birbhum District
7 Computerization of Salary Accounts (COSA) Projects

    COSA, developed in Client-Server based paradigm, ensures accuracy and timeliness in the generation of Pay Bills, Schedules and other Annexure required for producing Salary Bills of the establishments of Government Departments. The salient feature of COSA is that it neither needs any DBMS engine to be installed in the user machine nor any sort of Programming / Reporting Software tool and hence proved to be a cost-effective solution in conformation with the policy of NIC in implementing E-Governance in the Government Offices. A circular vide no. 9491-F dated 20/09/2002 has been issued by the Principal Secretary of Finance Department to all the Departments of the Government of West Bengal to prepare Paybill (Inner sheet & outer sheet) & Annexure using this Software for submission to Treasury / PAO

Implemented in about 135 DDO Offices in Birbhum District. ECS module implemented in two DDO (Spl. LAO, BAES ) Office from 01/04/2010, rest DDO Offices will be taken-up shortly.
8 Bhu-Adhigrahan (New Approch Land Acquisition Monitoring System) Bhu-Adhigrahan software has been  developed using VB.NET and Sql Server2000 keeping in view the new approach toward Land Acquisition .
   The main
features of this software are -
1. Integration of  ROR Data from BHUMI with BHU-ADHIGRAHAN
2. Bilingual interface with generation of reports in both English and Bengali
3. Creation and Assignment of User Levels with respective permissions .
Test- run of Software has already done. Full fledged implementation will start after procurement of Hardware by user.
9 Post Matric Scholarship Monitoring System A state-level software has been developed to Monitor and Disburse Post Matric Scholarship to student belonging to SC/ST/OBC category by the BCW, Deptt., Govt. of West Bengal through the P.O-Cum-DWO of the District. The software is capable to store and retrieve data concerning student receiving financial assistance from government towards education and also generate bills to be placed before Treasury and  disbursement of Scholarship through bank accounts of the beneficiaries. Implemented at O/o PO-Cum-DWO, BCW Section, Birbhum Collectorate.
10 Rastriya Swastha Bima Yojana (RSBY) RSBY has been launched by Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India to provide health insurance coverage for Below Poverty Line (BPL) families. The objective of RSBY is to provide protection to BPL households from financial liabilities arising out of health shocks that involve hospitalization. Beneficiaries under RSBY are entitled to hospitalization coverage up to Rs. 30,000/- for most of the diseases that require hospitalization. Government has even fixed the package rates for the hospitals for a large number of interventions. Pre-existing conditions are covered from day one and there is no age limit. Coverage extends to five members of the family which includes the head of household, spouse and up to three dependents. Beneficiaries need to pay only Rs. 30/- as registration fee while Central and State Government pays the premium to the insurer selected by the State Government on the basis of a competitive bidding. Smart Card would be issued to the BPL Family to avail treatment at the selected hospitals and nursing homes. Preparation of RSBY Template Database completed and submitted to State nodal agency in the month of February-2010.
11 Certificate Information System  A software has been developed by NIC-Birbhum District Centre to handle day-to-day issue of certificates (Residential / Income / Character) at Office of Sub-Divisional Officer of the District. The software is capable of issuing certificates after requisite data entry and verification by the staff of the Sub-Division Office. Implemented at O/o SDO-Sadar , Suri, Birbhum.
12 Arms License Information and Monitoring System The system is running at J.M Section, Birbhum Collectorate. The software is capable of handing day-to-day activities relating to Gun License like issue of Application for Gun License, Issue of Note sheet for internal processing, Sending letter to  Office of Superintendent of Police  and Issue of License after completion of the all necessary steps Implemented at J.M. Section and SDO Offices at Rampurhat and Bolpur.
13 CONFONET Project The department of Consumer Affairs under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Govt. of India, has assigned the responsibility of Implementing the project on "Computerization and Computer Networking of Consumer Fora in Country" to NIC, as a plan scheme of Department. NIC provides Information technologies (IT) support in terms of study and analysis of application requirements at NCDRC, SDRC and District Fora and give technical solution for development and implementation of computer network based system for the application areas with main focus on Case Monitoring. Case Monitoring system is an intranet based application to record the proceedings of cases registered by complainants or appellants in consumer courts and provide an easy retrieval of information. Thus the job of monitoring the status of multiple cases as well as maintaining their statistics is highly simplified Implemented at District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, Birbhum
14 Integrated Disease Surveillance Project ( IDSP ) Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP) was launched by Hon’ble Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare in November 2004. It is a decentralized, State based Surveillance Program in the country. It is intended to detect early warning signals of impending outbreaks and help initiate an effective response in a timely manner. Major components of the project are : (1) Integrating and decentralization of surveillance activities; (2) Strengthening of public health laboratories; (3) Human Resource Development – Training of State Surveillance Officers, District Surveillance Officers, Rapid Response Team, other medical and paramedical staff; and (4) Use of Information Technology for collection, collation, compilation, analysis and dissemination of data Running at the O/o CMOH, Birbhum
15 The Common Integrated Police Application (CIPA) The Common Integrated Police Application (CIPA) is a multilingual application to automate the processes (workflow) at primary sources of data itself e.g. Police Station and to build a crime & criminal Information system based on CrPC. It provides an efficient way of organizing crime records for generating queries/reports and crime analysis for decision support. The CIPA Software developed in JAVA and implemented under open source environment viz. Linux (OS), Postgres (RDBMS). Hardware and Software installed.  Training & Implementation in progress.
16 District Employment Exchange Project An online software for Data Entry  Retrieval and better management of Data related to Employment seeker at Employment Exchanges. Implementation started in three Employment Exchanges in Birbhum
17 On-line Web Based MPLADS Project The developmental works suggested by Hon’ble MPs under Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme are monitored through this software
MPLADS Works Entry - Module is for the district authorities,  they can enter the works related data and generate reports. It is password protected and each district can enter data related to their own district only.
MPLADS Reports - Module is for general Public. Anyone can access this and view the MPLADS reports generated here.
Implemented in Development & Planning Section, Birbhum Collectorate, Birbhum.
18 SC / ST Certificate Distribution & Authentication An Offline Software has been developed at the State level for capturing data related to SC/ST certificate issued by the Sub-Divisional Officers through PO-Cum-DWO of the district. After capturing the data, it  will be incorporated into the statewide online database of the SC/ST certificate issued. Backlog Data Entry in progress at SDO Offices of the District.
19 District Website of Birbhum District Website of Birbhum has been designed, developed and maintained by NIC-Birbhum District Unit in consultation with District Administration. The data of  various Department / Section of the Collectorate has been put off for dissemination of information to the citizen. Maintenance and Up gradation of  the Website is being done on daily basis to keep the content up-to-date. Implemented
20 Polling Personnel Deployment System A software developed at State level to manage deployment of polling Personnel during Election for Loksabha / Bidhansabha / Municipality / Gram Panchayat Election. Implemented
21 Public Grievance Monitoring System The software is running at PG Cell, Birbhum Collectorate for monitoring Public Grievance  related  matter. Implemented

*Status as on 12/08/2010                                                                                                                                                                                             Top

District Informatics Officer
Shri Tapan Kumar Sarkar
&
District Informatics Associate
Shri Samik Kr. Bhattacharya

Contact Details
District Informatics Officer
NIC-Birbhum District Unit,
1st Floor, New Administrative Building,
Suri, Birbhum, West Bengal.
E-Mail : wbbrb@nic.in
Tel : 03462-255032.

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