The NIC Uttar Pradesh State Unit has developed and implemented a monitoring system for the 20-Point Programme, at the district and commissionary level. This 20-Point Programme Monitoring System is supported by NICNET.
Manual monitoring of the 20-Point Programme proved ineffective largely because of communication gaps between different agencies involved. The process was also found to be very time-consuming. In the manual system, data was entered at the district centre and forwarded to the commissionary level through the Directorate of Economics and Statistics. After being scrutinized and modified at the commissionary level, the data was again manually communicated to respective district centres for generation of reports.
In the computerized monitoring system, with the introduction of NICNET, all the inherent bottlenecks have been effectively overcome. It is now possible to generate reports at the district, commissioner and state levels without any delay, as the data is now transferred from the district to state unit and Commissioner's Office respectively, without any delay.