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NIC Assam State Centre, in collaboration with Revenue & Disaster Management Department, e-Governance of Assam, bagged the Gold Award in National e-Governance Award 2012-13 under the category e-Governance Process Re-engineering (GPR) in the recently concluded 16th National Conference on e-Governance held at Jaipur on 11th & 12th February, 2013. This Award is in recognition to the state-wide rollout of the e-Panjeeyan (Registration) Project in 75 Sub-Registrar Offices (SROs), and the extensive e-Governance Process Re-engineering (GPR) carried out in the process. The Selection Committee especially appreciated the drastic reduction in time in providing the original copy of the deed to the concerned parties; earlier, in the pre-computerization period, it used to take 9-10 years in bigger places like Guwahati to get the original copy; now it has been reduced to a single day. Unlike in some other states, this project not only caters to property registration but all kinds of registrations including marriages. e-Panjeeyan has been successfully integrated with e-Stamping solution from Stock-holding Corporation of India Ltd (SHCIL) on one hand and Dharitree (Land records Computerization) on the other. The Revenue and Disaster Management Department (R&DM), e-Governance of Assam, has initiated the state-wide rollout of computerization of registration, which is being implemented under the Asian Development Bank-funded Assam e-Governance and Public Resource Management Project (AGPRMP). In Assam, there are 77 Sub-Registrar Offices out of which four Sub-Registrar Offices have already been computerized under the Pilot Project. The software solution (e-Panjeeyan) for the computerization of registration project has been provided by the NIC Assam State Centre, and is based on JEE and MySQL with an object-oriented approach. The software is designed as per the rules of the Registration Act, and built with the objective of providing operational and decision-making support to all activities of the Sub-Registrar Office. The application software provides solutions for the pre-registration, registration and post-registration activities of Sub-Registrar’s Office. It also supports web services for interopreatability with Land Record System, e-Stamping and exporting data to a central server for data storage.