In the northern-most part of Karnataka lies Bidar-a tiny district steeped in history with forts, cannons, palaces in ruins, magnificent tombs and the massive monuments. The ancient centre for cultural synthesis on way to revive with futuristic e-Governance technology.

NIC Bidar District unit was setup in the year 1989 and ever since its inception, the unit has developed and implemented various MIS and decision support systems to enable District Administration to take informed decisions and serve the people in a more efficient way. NIC Bidar provides technical support to the major arms of the District Administration namely Revenue, Police & Zilla Panchayat (District Rural Development Agency). In all, more than 25 departments in the District utilize the technical expertise and the ICT infrastructure of NIC Bidar District unit. e-Governance projects of Central Sector and State Sector are being implemented by NIC Bidar at the District, Block and Panchayat levels. The NIC District Unit has also helped the District Administration in capacity building for the usage of ICT tools by way of organising necessary and useful training programmes for the employees of various departments. The Bidar NIC District unit is a leader in the District for the development and implementation of E-Governance Projects. Some of the major ICT projects carried out by the NIC Bidar District unit include:

Spandana Single Window Public Service Counter for 20 different Public Services offered from DC Office Bidar. A software package to monitor the day to day operations of DC Office, Spandana- Single Window Public Service Counter has been developed by NIC Bidar. The Software accepts applications for the services offered based on a check list and prints the receipt for the public indicating the date of delivery/disposal for the service request. It allows the Spandana data entry operators to update the action on the received request like calling of information from various sub offices. It keeps track of all the actions for various requests received at the Spandana counter. Every Saturday, the Deputy Commissioner Bidar reviews the status of various requests. The software helps in generating pendancy reports.

AGMARKNET (Krishi Marat Vahini): Daily Market Prices from the five APMCs (Agricultural Produce Marketing Committees) in the District are being fed to the Maratvahini-AGMARKNET web portal benefiting the farmers / traders.

Land Records Computerisation (Bhoomi): About 4 Lakh Computerised RTC's(right of tenancy and cultivation) in all Five Blocks of Bidar District are available in the five Bhoomi centres at Taluk Magistrate office. Mutations are done online with Biometric authentication system. The District Administration has collected more than Rs. 2 Crores as user charges through the Bhoomi kiosks. Connectivity to state data centre has been established and Integration with Cauvery Sub Registrar's office online land registration project is also completed and now JSLIPS are sent online to all the Tahsil offices from the respective sub registrar's offices.

National Rural Employment Guarantee ACT: Under this ACT all 175 Gram Panchayats (GP) and 5 Taluk Panchayats are being given Systems and NREGA s/w is being implemented. As on date NREGA S/w is installed in nearly 50 GP's and by July 2007 end all 175 GP's will have NREGA s/w implemented. Sub Committee III of Parliamentary Committee consisting of 7 MPs visited Bidar in the first week of January and visited Austoor GP of Bidar Taluk and saw the live data of NREGA and said this GP is a model in NREGA computerisation.

Neemadi (Rural Digital Services) Kiosks: 30 Neemadi Kiosks in 30 Hoblies of Bidar are operational in all taluks and as on date issue of RORs (Record of Rights) from Bhoomi using Internet connectivity is under progress and by July 2007, 30 different services being given through the Tahsil office will be made available through these Kiosks. The services include issuance of certificates like Birth Certificate, Caste Certificate and Income Certificate and issuance of pension orders.

District Passport Cell: District Passport cell has been established at SP Office Bidar for online passport registration. NICNET is being used for data transmission.

E-Granthalaya: E-granthalaya centre at District Central Library is established with Kannada Language interface front end software. Data entry is underway and will be online for library users soon.

Samanya Mahithi: This Village Amenities database is updated annually and hosted on the Rural Development & Panchayati Raj department Web Portal.

District Web Site: (http://bidar.nic.in) the official district web site developed by NIC Bidar is hosted at NIC-Delhi in the Districts of India portals web server. It is regularly updated and the District Administration is using it for hosting tender notifications and job advertisements.

Ashraya: Housing Schemes Beneficiary details for rural and urban areas is captured. Also monthly progress updation over the web by ZP and DC office Bidar is being done.

Paavathi: Voucher Level Accounting Software for ZP Bidar - The vouchers entered at all the treasuries of Bidar District are imported and various reports like FORM 15 & 13 for all the major heads is generated. This software has reduced the work of about 10 ZP accounts compilation persons to just taking prints and checking the treasury schedules.

Student Internet World: 2004, 2005, 2006 - For the Past three years NIC, Bidar has organized a four day Student Internet World event which is a Part of the IT.COM event of Government of Karnataka for the rural high school students. Under this programme more than 15000 rural high school students have been trained in the usage of Internet.

VAT SOFT for CTO Office Bidar: Online VAT Monitoring System for Commercial Tax Office Bidar was implemented in the year 2006 and is working successfully.

BPL Survey Database: Technical support was provided to the Zilla Panchayat for capturing the BPL survey information.

Sahakara Darpan: Updation of Cooperative Audit reports over the Web is being done regularly.

Elections Management: Support was provided to the District Administration for the conduct of various Election related activities for the General Elections & ZP/TP Elections.

Some of the projects planned for the year 2007 are Sachivalya Vahini Web based Letter and File Monitoring system for DC office Bidar. Career Guidance Portal for Rural High School Students of Bidar at bidar.nic.in. Sugar Portal attached to bidar.nic.in with supply and value chains of Bidar District Sugar cane farmers and sugar industry as Bidar District is off late a major sugar cane growing area.

For further Information, contact: Phone- 08482-226111 Email: lingaraj.t@nic.in NIC Bidar District Unit Lingraj Tirlapur District Informatics Officer