Sirmaur, situated in southeast of Himachal Pradesh, was founded in 1616 as an independent kingdom in India. It is largely mountainous and rural, with 90 percent of its population living in villages. This includes the town of Nahan (District Headquarter) as well as the Shivalik Fossil Park at Suketi, where fossils dating back to over 85 million years have been found. Agriculture is the backbone of the region’s economy.

The NIC District Centre Sirmaur has been actively providing support to the District Administration since 1988 in all its endeavors for the implementation of various national and state level e-governance projects and the Digital India programmes. In this long journey of NIC District Unit Sirmaur, it has made all the administrative units as IT savvy and rendered citizen centric services in a more transparent and effective manner.

NATIONAL ICT INITIATIVES Jeevan Pramaan Life Certificates for Central and State Government Pensioners, application has been implemented at Treasury office in the district and Life Certificates issued to the pensioners during awareness camps.

Digital Locker - To preserve the documents in digital form and to provide a secure access to the government issued documents, awareness camps were organised and Digital Locker accounts of the general public, officials and school students were created.

AEBAS - Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance System has been implemented in various Central and State government offices.

Sarathi - Ver. 4.0 is a web based system for issuance of Learner Licenses, Permanent Driving Licenses and is implemented at all the Registration & Licensing Authorities in the district. The SW is integrated with STALL, a Screen Test Aid for Learner Licenses and enables citizens to apply online for driving licenses.

Vahan - offers all the services related to registration of vehicles, issuance of permits, collection of token tax as well as various other vehicle transactions. Soon Vahan4.0 web based solution will be implemented in the State, which will link with the dealers and payment gateway of the Cyber Treasury.

Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) - Under this programme, the Municipalities of the District are well supported by providing the technical trainings for the usage of online software for achieving the goals of Swachh Bharat Mission.

IVFRT - Immigration, Visa and Foreigner’s Registration & Tracking system has been implemented at the FRO-cum-SP Office. Trainings to institutes and hoteliers have been provided for registration of foreign nationals under relevant forms.

STATE ICT INITIATIVES MyDiarY App - The updation of the VIP directory and vacancy positions is done for the district level offices.

HimBhoomi - Implemented at all Tehsils, this system is used to computerize Land Records and generation of various registers and related MIS reports. General public can take the copy of their Record of Rights from Lok Mitra Kendras (CSCs) or through Internet.

HimRIS - This software is used for registration of land deeds and is integrated with the HimBhoomi software where mutation data is transferred automatically.

Circle Rates - Online system for compilation and publishing of the land rates by District Collector to facilitate the general public for payment of the stamp duty for land deeds.

LokPraman Patra - Web based software being used for issuance of numerous types of certificates to be issued by all the Executive Magistrates.

Himkosh - Integrated Financial Management System has been implemented at district treasury and all the sub treasuries. The key modules include eSalary (online salary preparation by all DDOs and electronic transfer of payment into beneficiary accounts), ePension (on-line pension processing and disbursement system), eChallan (online system for HP Government receipts), HPNPS (online Pension MIS under New Pension Scheme), eKosh (online system implemented at all the treasuries for bill submission, bill processing, budget allocation till ECS based payment to the beneficiary account) and eStamp (online system for receipt and issuance of Stamp Papers).

District Web Site - The official website of district http://hpsirmaur.gov.in has been designed & maintained by the NIC District centre in coordination with the District Administration.

NICNET & Video Conferencing - NIC District centre is connected with NIC HP State Centre over 1Gbps leased line with 34 Mbps backup link. NICNET based Leased line links to Pollution Control Board Paonta Sahib, District Courts Nahan are being managed by NIC District Centre. Additionally, a LAN has been established in DC Office covering all the branches of the Complex. Video Conference services are being provided to all the Government offices.

OTHER IMPORTANT PROJECTS • District Information System for Elections (DISE) for Parliament/Assembly elections • Electoral Roll Management System (ERMS) for PRI/ULB elections. • Welfare Pensions MIS (eKalyan) • Shastr - Online system for issuance, renewal, endorsement of Arms Licenses • Manav Sampada – electronic Human Resource Management System • eSamadhan - Workflow based grievance redressal system • eRojgar - Employment Exchange Management System including Job Portal. • ePehchan- Online System for issuance of Disability and Senior Citizen Identity Cards. • Double Entry Accounting System (DEAS) in Blocks • SchemesMIS – Online sanctions and monitoring of developmental schemes • REFNIC - Software for the diary & dispatch sections

RECENT INITIATIVES The NIC District Sirmaur is fully committed to make the Digital India programme a success and to materialize the dream of our Hon’ble Prime Minister to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. Winning the 1st Prize in State during the Digital India Week Celebration events in July 2015 underlines NIC Sirmaur’s commitment. Under this programme various types of initiatives were taken up viz., organizing webcast of Digital India Week inaugural function for all departments, opening of Digital Locker Accounts, Issuance of Digital Life Certificates to pensioners, Installation & demonstration of NIC developed Mobile Apps, organizing IT Quiz Contests and Presentation on Digital India Programmes at DC Office, District Treasury, Municipality, Schools, Panchayats to sensitize the public about various Government Citizen Online Services. Services like certificates, digital lockers have been offered during the awareness camps organised in Schools for the benefit of students.