Sirmour: One of the most important activity of the Social Welfare Department of the Himachal Pradesh State Government is the disbursement of welfare pensions in various categories of people such as old age, handicaps, widows and lepers. This is done with the help of District Welfare Officers posted in all the districts of the State. There are more than one lakh such beneficiaries in the State. The requests from the eligible beneficiaries are received by the District Welfare Officers through the Tehsil Welfare Officers. As a fixed number of welfare pensions are available, therefore the waiting list is maintained in each category and a new beneficiary is included from the list when the existing beneficiary is not traceable or expires or gets married (in case of widows) or has an income more than two thousand. The welfare pension is disbursed on a quarterly basis and sent to the beneficiaries through money orders only. The manual process involved is very tedious and time consuming. The NIC District Centre Sirmour, Himachal Pradesh has developed a computerized Welfare Pensions Disbursement System for the District Welfare Office with an objective to overcome all the problems faced in the manual system. The System maintains a database of all the beneficiaries both present and waiting, along with their addresses and other details. Every quarter the money orders to be sent are printed by computer. Subsequently, data pertaining to money order receipt, their acknowledgements, money orders returned etc is entered into the system. This helps the District Welfare Officer in monitoring the cases of returned, not received money orders etc. The waiting list is also automatically updated by the system. The accounting of money involved in the whole process has become very easy as well as error free. The System has made the whole process very easy. Now the computerized system is being implemented in all the Districts of Himachal Pradesh in a phased manner. -