Bankura, a part of Burdwan Division of West Bengal state, situated on the banks of Dwarakeshwar, derives its name from Bankunda – meaning five tanks. The district serves as a connecting link between the plains of Bengal on the east and the Chota Nagpur Plateau on the west. Agriculture accounts for about 70% of the district’s income whereas 80% of the farmers are small & marginal. The district comprises three subdivisions namely Bankura Sadar, Khatra and Bishnupur. The NIC district centre of Bankura has been actively involved in promoting e-governance in the district administration thus bringing transparency and providing e-services to the citizens. The information system for Post Matric Scholarship and provident fund scheme for landless agricultural laborers are the major effort towards this end. OFFICIAL WEBSITE The official website (http://bankura.gov.in) is designed showing history, geography, statistics, people, their livelihood, places of natural splendor for tourists on one hand while information related to tenders, recruitment, forms, results, notices etc. on the other makes the website useful and informative. E-GOV PROJECTS: 1) POST MATRIC SCHOLARSHIP MONITORING SYSTEM (PMSMS): The system designed & developed by the district centre has been replicated across the state of West Bengal. The objective is to provide assistance to the students belonging to the SC/ST/OBC categories who are enrolled in classes XI and above and are eligible for scholarships. The software is tailored to meet specific need and has made monitoring easier, transparent and user-friendly. The PMSMS (ver.1.0) is developed with Visual Basic 6.0 as front end and works under Windows-XP/ Windows-2000 server with Microsoft SqlServer run time version/SqlServer2000/ SqlServer 2005 as the backend database. The Run-time version of Crystal Report 7.0 is used for reporting. FEATURES:- l Entitlement Card no. wise detail of a student. l Bank-wise, Caste-wise, School-wise list of students. l All types of bills, submitted to treasury and bank, can be generated as per Government proforma. l Form-49 inner sheet, Form-49 outer sheet, Mail Transfer, Branch wise statement, Advice preparation, Award List and Bill extract generation. l Balance of fund reflected at the time of generation of bill. l Reports for Govt. Of India & West Bengal aregenerated. 2) PROFLAL INFORMATION SYSTEM : The computerization of Provident Fund Scheme for Landless Agricultural Labourers (PROFLAL) named - COPIS of the Govt. of West Bengal is for those who are living below poverty line covered in the BPL list. Under the scheme each subscriber contributes Rs.20/- per month and at the same amount is contributed by the government. Government provides yearly cumulative interest on the total amount. The software generates yearly subscription slip with interest. FEATURES:- l Details of all subscribers are entered with provision for updation in PROFLAL & Aam Admi Bima Yojana (AABY). l Preparation of bills and necessary payments are made with interests. l Yearly subscription slip for individual subscriber is generated. l Form-VIII can be generated for the purpose of audit. l Provision to stop payment in case of death of the beneficiary. l Facility to Back-up the database. ADVANTAGES:- l Interest payable is calculated with cumulative - brought forward. l Bills are generated in prescribed format for submission to the Treasury. l Date of maturity is flashed. l Problems of duplicity removed. l Payment of insurance by LIC in the event of death of labourer under Aam Admi Bima Yojana.. l The database is available to the LIC for identification of AABY beneficiaries. The S/w runs on Client Server Environment with Data base as SQL server Run Time Engine 2000. GP office receives request from labourer for enrolment under PROFLAL scheme. The context diagram of this scheme is shown below: 3) BHU ADHIGRAHAN Bhu-Adhigrahan system has served the purpose for land acquisition by the Government. The basic features of the software are: l Speedy disposal of cases, importing LR data from BHUCHITRA software, updating the plot and owner details if necessary. l Integration of ROR Data from BHUCHITRA with BHU-ADHIGRAHAN. l Award for the land losers after the estimates are calculated. l Notification for newspaper like Form 3, 3A along with the ‘declaration’ like Form 5, 5A. l Generation of schedules, calculation sheet, award notice and cheque payment notices and finally distribution of ‘Possession Certificates’. MD. GHULAM ALI ANSARI, IAS email : dm-bank@nic.in I would like to place on record my deep and abiding appreciation for the continued support and service rendered by the district unit of NIC in application of ICT tools in simplifying govt. procedures, to extend and enable access to critical and useful information and delivery of public services in a manner which is a lot more transparent and user-friendly. Schemes like COPIS and Post Matric Scholarship for Tribal students— designed and developed by the district unit of NIC have been trend-setters and being replicated in many districts across the country. On-line reflection of updated details of schemes like MPLADS, enabling receipt of salary and dues and facilitating important and urgent Election works with use of ICT tools are only a few of the remarkable milestones in promoting and projecting a pro-active and people-friendly district administration. I hope and believe that NIC will keep up its good work and continue to provide us with technical expertise and innovative ideas and plan of action for implementation of ICT tools for the greater good of citizens of Bankura and outside. 4)E-COURT (CASE INFORMATION SYSTEM) ICT in Indian Judiciary is to help the administration of the Court in streamlining their daily activities, reducing the pending cases, provide transparency of information and to provide access to legal and judicial databases to the Judges. The E-courts Project was taken up at the district court of Bankura and subsequently the taluka courts of Khatra and Bishnupur. 5)NADRS (NATIONAL ANIMAL DISEASE REPORTING SYSTEM) The Ministry of Agriculture has set in motion the NADRS for the department of Animal Husbandry. It is an ICT enabled Web-based system designed for monitoring and surveillance of 143 animal diseases and their control in the country – through networking of all offices of Animal Husbandry Department in the country. The system has been operational in the district. FOR MORE DETAILS CONTACT: Satyajit Chattopadhyay DIO, NIC Administrative Building (1st Floor) Bankura, West Bengal E-mail: wbbnk@nic.in Phone: 03242-253974