Bhiwani city, named after a Rajput King’s wife Bhani, is also mentioned in Ain-e-Akbari. Bhiwani has been a prominent center of commerce since the time of the Mughals. District Bhiwani came into existence on 22nd December 1972. The district is spread over an area of 5099 Sq. Kms. and comprises of 5 Sub Divisions, 7 Tehsils, 2 Sub Tehsils and 442 villages. The Bhiwani city has been a conventional school of boxing and produced Olympic level champions making it earn the name ’’Mini Cuba”.

NIC Bhiwani– the cyber gateway to the district, was established in 1989, to play a catalytic role in promoting informatics culture and providing ICT services to government departments/ organization, besides architecting & implementing various e-Governance initiatives with the best possible technology support for achieving targeted goal of delivering efficient citizen services to the common public in the district. Over the years, NIC Bhiwani has proved its ability in assisting district administration as well as being technology advisor to the Board of School Education, Haryana. At present, NIC Bhiwani is running 10 E-Disha Centres along with an e-Learning Centre on road safety with dedicated centre for Learner License Test and Drive Test Range.

INNOVATIVE E-GOVERNANCE INITIATIVES

  • EEMIS - Election Expenditure Monitoring System for General Loksabha Election 2014

NIC Bhiwani has developed online EEMS software for monitoring of expenditure done by candidates during Loksabha Election 2014. The software enormously helps district administration to maintain expenditure detail of all candidates and to generate Shadow Register on daily basis. Also, it generates the reports to be sent to Election Commission automatically.

E-GOVERNANCE PROJECTS

  • E-Disha Kendra

10 E-Disha Kendras have been established at District, Tehsil and Sub Tehsil level to provide various citizen centric services. These kendras provide various services like issuance of certificates, land records, Driving License, registration of Vehicles etc. E-Disha Kendra initiative of the district is aimed at bringing greater transparency and accountability in the government departments. It facilitates people by providing single window access to various government schemes and services.

  • Transport

Vahan software developed by NIC-HQ has been successfully implemented in all the 5 Sub Divisions and RTO Office of District Bhiwani. This software is primarily designed for registration of new vehicles, Road Tax collection, transfer of ownership & permits etc. So far, 72,5367 vehicles have been registered under Vahan and 24,2719 driving licenses have been issued through Sarathi. Also in 2013, a modern E-learning Centre on Road Safety with dedicated centre for Learner License Test has been established and Drive Test Range has been constructed for conducting driving test.

  • Computerization of Land Records (HALRIS & HARIS)

A complete integrated workflow automation system of land record components has been implemented in all the 9 Tehsils & Sub Tehsils of District Bhiwani. It provides a single window interface for Deed Writing, Registration, Mutation, Jamabandi and copy of Records-of-Right, which is also available on website http://jamabandi.nic.in. System has been made secured by defining the role and biometric access of each user.

NETWORK SERVICES

  • District Website

The district website (http://www.bhiwani.gov.in) has proved to be useful source for important information related to the district. In view of its popularity, the site is being given a complete facelift and information is being collected from different departments. Information of interest to general public includes tenders, elections, recruitments etc.

  • Connectivity

NIC District Centre, Bhiwani is connected with 34 Mbps OFC (Optical Fibre Cable) for Internet in order to provide Email, Video Conference and web services. A Local Area Network (LAN) has been established in DC Office covering all the branches of the complex. The network consists of more than 400 nodes connected to each other and is maintained by the District NIC Centre.

  • Capacity Building

Regular training sessions are conducted to impart knowledge on basic computers and IT concepts, use of database and other ICT related tools to the employees of various government offices in the district. This has proved quite beneficial in promotion of e-Governance culture in the district besides timely execution of many ICT projects.

“National Informatics Centre, District Division Bhiwani has been working as an integral part of District Administration in capacity building, promoting and implementing various information & communication technology (ICT) enabled projects in the district. ICT inclusion has played a major role in bringing significant transparency and accountability in the government processes and public delivery system. The whole system has been made more strong and accessible by inclusion of web and mobile technologies. I appreciate the remarkable contributions by Shri Pankaj Bajaj, DIO and Shri Amit Lamba, ADIO in making e-Governance a true success in the district.” ASHOK KUMAR MEENA, IAS, Deputy Commissioner, Bhiwani

ICT SUPPORT IN OTHER AREAS

  • General Elections (Parliamentary & Assembly Elections)

NIC Bhiwani has provided best ICT support during Parliamentary and State Assembly elections. Technical support has been provided for polling party formation, randomized booth allocation, counting party formation, generation of different counting performas, transmission of data to ECI, State Election Commission and Doordarshan.

  • Technical Advisor to HBSE

In the year 2003, Board of School Education (BOSE), Haryana with the help of NIC has started transforming its service delivery method and took many ICT initiatives like online issuance of Admit Card, single point web based delivery of services etc. NIC and BOSE have won many National e-Governance Awards. At present, NIC Bhiwani has taken over the role of technical advisor to HBSE board.

  • National Animal Disease Reporting System (NADRS)

NADRS is an ICT enabled web-based system designed for monitoring and surveillance of animal diseases and their control in the country. The system aims at networking of all the offices of Animal Husbandry Departments. The system has been operational in all the 10 blocks of the district.

AWARDS The efforts of NIC Bhiwani have been recognised at many levels and also by Dr. Abdul Kalam Azad, Ex-President of India. The team has been felicitated by numerous appreciations and awards received by, Present and Ex- Chief Ministers of Haryana, Ex-Deputy Chief Minister and various Ministers during Republic Day and Independence Day functions.

For further information: GHAN SHYAM BANSAL State Informatics Officer, NIC-Haryana State Centre G03, Haryana New Secretariat, Sector-17, Chandigarh Ph: +91172-2711642 E-Mail: sio-hry@nic.in