The Department of Information Technology (DIT) has been funding Research and Development projects in the areas of electronics and information technology at various institutions. To disseminate information on technologies and products developed among the users and the industry, DIT organizes ELITEXs which have generated a lot of interest and given commercial boost to the Industry. The industry, on its part has very enthusiastically responded and participates in the event every year with the same zeal.
ELITEX-2003 was held during April 28-29, 2003 at India Habitat Centre, Lodi Road, New Delhi. The theme of ELITEX-2003 was “Moving up the Value Chain: India – A Global Destination for R&D”. The Hon’ble Minister for Communications & Information Technology, Sh. Arun Shourie inaugurated the exposition on April 28, 2003 and Dr. R. Chidambaram, Principal Scientific Adviser to the GOI delivered the keynote address. NIC participated in the session “Technologies Developed and Services Available Under NIC/ STPI/ ERNET/ Strategic Sector” under the chairmanship of Sh. Lakshminarayanan, Additional Secretary, DIT.
NIC – An Active Partner….
Connectivity : NIC installed Backbone Fibre Optics Network - ELITEX LAN for connecting approximately 75 nodes covering all stalls of exhibition and provided high speed 6 Mbps leased line connectivity to ELITEX-LAN with RF link as backup support. A Control Centre was set up from where leased line, RF and fibre optic cables were terminated.
Live Webcast : A centre was set up for live web casting of the event on Internet at 4 Mbps by installing high end servers and clients. The live programmes at Main Auditorium, Gulmohar Hall and exhibition stalls were broadcast on the Net and the proceedings could also be viewed through Archives as ‘Video-on Demand” on the website www.elitexlive.nic.in
Video Conferencing : VC Systems were installed to cover live video conferencing of the event. Live sessions were held on ‘Redressal of Public Grievances - An On-going Event of Chhattisgarh Government on Public Grievances’ from Raipur and ; “Technology Facilitates Justice - A Live VC from District Civil Court (Bhagalpur) and Central Jail (Bhagalpur)”.
NIC Stall : The NIC Stall in the Elitex exhibition was set up at Convention Centre-Foyer depicting services / supports provided by NIC in driving the nation towards e-governance. The IT products were demonstrated at the stall through colourful LCD flat screens. The live webcast was also made available at the NIC stall through plasma screen for the visitors at exhibition to know the proceedings of the sessions in main auditorium and other halls. Posters of various NIC activities were displayed and information brochures on NIC applications / products were distributed.
Sh. Arun Shourie Hon’ble Minister of Communications and IT, Sh. Rajeev Ratna Shah, former Secretary (DIT), Dr. R. Chidambaram, Principal Scientific Adviser, Dr. N. Vijayaditya Director General (NIC) and other senior officers from DIT visited the NIC stall. Dr R.P.Saxena DDG (NIC) demonstrated and explained about various e-governance projects and services being provided by NIC. NIC Software Products namely ‘Natraj – National Register of Art Objects’ & CollabCAD were released by the Hon’ble Minister. There was an overwhelming response of visitors from various organizations at the NIC stall.
Major Applications/Products Demonstrated
NATRAJ : A tool for digitization and documentation of art objects preserved in Museums.
CollabCAD : NIC has used the CollabCAD version 1.5.7 for integrating Engineering solutions developed by the Members of the Consortium comprising of BARC, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Aeronautical Development Agency, National Aerospace Laboratories, Tata Technology Ltd and SERC.
India Image : A National level programme aimed at facilitating ‘Cyber-Governance’ in the country through setting up of portal/ Websites, Online Citizen services, webcast of important events, enhancing G2C interaction etc. Important projects demonstrated included India Image Portal, GOI directory, Districts portal and Examination results on the Net.
Land Records Computerization Project : Bhuiya (Chhattisgarh), Apna Khata (Rajasthan), Bhulekh (Haryana), Bhoomi (Karnataka), Tamil Nilam (Tamil Nadu), Land Acquisition (Delhi/West Bengal)
Courts Computerisation Project
E-Governance Applications : Treasury-OTIS (Haryana)/ OTCS (Rajasthan)/ KTOL(Kerala), Schemes- PRIYASOFT (TN) / E-Yojana(Delhi), IT-Knowledge-OFFERINGS (NIC-Hq), Tax-STAMINA(Bihar)/ TACKIS (Bihar)/ MUDRA(Bihar), Property Registration -HARIS(Haryana) / PEARL(Kerala), SSI-Registration (TN), PASSPORT(NIC HQ), Haldia Dock (W.Bengal)
CIC - Community Information Centres
CITIZEN Interface : Lok Mitra (Himachal Pr.), DialCITI/SUWIDHA (Punjab), Sarkar Apke Dwar (Haryana), Nai Disha (Haryana) On-line Hotel Reservation (Himachal Pr.), Cooperative Banking-COIN (Bihar), News On Line-MAP-ON (J&K), House Tax-HACIS (Har) , Property Registration- PRISM (Punjab), E-Dastavej (Del)
IT Enabled Services : PAO 2000 and Payroll Package , Collectorate 2000 , Central Civil Pension Accounting System
GIS based applications : National Spatial Database, E-gram suvidha (Madhya Pradesh), NICNET : Reaching the Un-reached
Network applications : POWERNET, COALNET, E-Sahkarita, ARISNET, DACNET, AGMARKNET
E-Commerce applications : RACE (Revenue Admn. Computerization Energy Billing, Bihar), E-ASHA(Uttar Pradesh), Rural BAZAR (NIC HQ), ICEDI (Indian Customs EDI, NIC HQ)
Note : The details on the above projects have been covered in various issues of Informatics from time to time. For further information on any of these, kindly contact the Informatics Correspondent of the concerned State/UT.
1 Hon’ble Minister Sh. Arun Shourie being welcomed at the NIC Stall.
- Hon’ble Minister releasing the CollabCAD software of NIC. Also in the pic ; Dr.R.Chidambaram, Principal Scientific Adviser , Sh. Rajeev Ratna Shah,former Secy (DIT) and Dr. N. Vijayaditya, DG (NIC)
- Sh. Rajeev Ratna Shah, former Secretary (DIT) in conversation with Dr. R.P Saxena DDG (NIC) at the NIC Stall
- Dr.N.Vijayaditya, DG (NIC) at the NIC stall in the Exhibition
5 Sh. Lakshminarayanan, Additional Secretary (DIT) presenting a memento to Sh. M. Moni, DDG (NIC) for presenting a policy paper on ‘Digital Opportunities and Sustainable Development : A South-South Cooperation Imperatives’ during Elitex Conference.
- Visitors at the NIC Stall during the exhibition
- The NIC Control Room set-up for the Live Webcast of the event
- Live webcast of the proceedings of the event being shown at the NIC Stall
9 The members of the ELITEX co-ordination team from NIC, led by Dr. R.P Saxena, DDG, NIC
- Proud NICians at the NIC stall during the exhibition