The East Godavari District is located in the North Coastal part of the state of Andhra Pradesh. The District spans an area of 10,807 Sq Kms with 5 Revenue divisions, 60 Revenue mandals and 1011 Grama panchayats with a population of 48,72,622 as per 2001 provisional census figures. The District is known as the rice bowl of Andhra Pradesh with lush paddy fields and coconut groves.
NIC -East Godavari District Centre was established in 1988, with an aim to provide informatics services to the District Administration in planning and development. Though it was a tough task initially to motivate the officials to adopt computer culture, with time, NICNET became an indispensable tool for the district administration.
?| Landmark Projects
? Land Records Computerization Land Records computerization was started in the District in 1996-97 and data entry was completed under Unix environment. Later the system was upgraded to Windows based platform and the data has been corrected to the current year. Land ownership certificate, ROR 1B extract can be generated for a single Social Security ID / pattadar. Also copies of Adangal / Pahani can be printed for the entire village or for a range of survey numbers.
? Janma Bhoomi Andhra Pradesh Government started the Janma Bhoomi programme in 1997and NIC Centre has been involved in developing and implementing the software for various rounds of Janma Bhoomi right from the beginning. The data relating to Non Financial Community Needs (NFCN), Individual Family Needs (IFN) have been gathered and analysed to generate useful reports.
? Collectorate 2000 NIC, East Godavari carried out a system study of Collectorate-2000, based on which the software was developed by NIC Andhra Pradesh State unit and implemented in all districts.
? District Web Site East Godavari was the first district in Andhra Pradesh State to have a web site (http://eastgodavari.nic.in) which has been designed, developed and maintained by NIC District Unit. The web site covers a wide range of information including district profile, history, administration, ICT activities, Infrastructure etc.
? NPCB Monitoring Software Under National Programme for Control of Blindness, the data relating to blind persons was computerized and various reports PHC wise, Mandal wise were generated for Medical and Health Department.
? Personal Register Monitoring This software enables user department to know the number of files pending for the last 30 days, 3 months, 6 months and 1 year and generates several reports. This software is running successfully for last 10 years.
? District Court Computerization NIC has installed hardware and has developed and implemented software to cater to the needs of various sections in the court. Various day-to-day reports and statistical reports are generated through the system.
? Election Management System NIC East Godavari has been providing support for all the elections including parliamentary, legislative and local bodies. Support is provided at various levels of election process like pre-polling activities, which include polling party formation, assignments to polling booths randomly etc.
? Public Grievances Monitoring This is one of the most effective applications of e-governance and has been developed and implemented for the District Collector. This software facilitates monitoring of public grievances of various types.
? MEDLARS : NIC, East Godavari conducted MEDLARS workshop in Feb 1996 in Rangaraya Medical College, Kakinada to impart knowledge to doctors and Medical researchers about this facility of NIC. Since then MEDLARS services are being regularly used by Doctors and Medical researchers
?| Other Activities NIC Centre conducts several training programmes for the officials in various government departments to help them improve their efficiency in their respective areas. Internet / Email facilities are being used by various Government Departments in the District.
Another NIC Centre was established in the District at Rajahmundry in 1997 with a view to provide effective services to the E-mail and Internet users and departments like District Court which are located in Rajahmundry.
The District Collector honoured the District Informatics Officer and District Informatics Associate in 1999, 2001 and 2002 for their meritorious services rendered to the District Administration.