GUJARAT CHHATTISGARH GUJARAT- Scaling heights in difficult times From Rajnish Mahajan & Manoj. P. A., NIC Gujarat NIC Gujarat State Unit has consistently and efficiently supported the government by providing infrastructure design and development for IT in the field of Network set up. It has also executed turnkey projects in the application of electronic means for the interaction between government and the citizen as also in internal government operations. BHULEKH Soft Gujarat With the objective to maintain and update the land records data of each district at its Taluka Offices and generate various village forms for administration as well as for public demand, in tandem with other States, Government of Gujarat started the Land Records Computerisation project in 1998-99 and is funded by Government of India. NIC Gujarat has developed Bhulekh in Gujarati. The software supports the recording of all type of transactions pertaining to land and various village forms can be generated. The crop information for each season as well as number of trees, irrigation details and tenant details if any are recorded. Different taxes to be collected on these lands from the owners can also be generated. Apart from landowners, departments like Revenue, Agriculture and Irrigation are also beneficiaries of the land records database.Data has been entered for around 14000 villages out of the total 17000 villages spread over 227 Talukas of the 25 revenue districts in the State. 13 Talukas have been made online with issuing copies of ROR (record of right) to the farmers and landowners. Approximately 1400 Mutations are done using the software so far. Both the public and the administration have benfitted tremendously from the Project. The public can get the accurate land records in minimum time and the reports generated by the software prove useful for the Administration in district planning and policy making. Registration of Documents (ReD) The ReD Software is for the Inspector General of Registration and Superintendent of Stamps, Government of Gujarat. The Software integrates the Registration process and Market Value Evaluation and is an efficient administrative tool for the department. The Software will increase the transparency and revenue earnings for the department. The bilingual system is operational at the Memnagar and Paldi offices at Ahmedabad. The software has distinct modules for Registration and Scanning which comprise various features. PCIS-Gujarat (Property Card Information System) Every sq. inch of land in Gujarat is surveyed and land records are prepared scientifically and stored within a well defined system. But over a period of time, Land Records have turned to be highly dynamic. An approach for computerisation of Urban Land Records i.e. Cities / Towns, which includes the Property ownership & other attribute information, spatial scope of the property, maintenance of the spatial & tabular database, is underway. NIC has developed a complete software solution for Urban Land Records System for the use of 66 City Survey Offices located at 25 districts of Gujarat State. Software is being implemented in pilot offices at Ahmedabad and Sabarkantha districts. The software supports local language and generates the PROPERTY CARD for the landowner. GIS support is expected to be provided in future. KAMI-JASTI PATRAK (KJP) KJP software is implemented in many districts for the District Inspector of Land Records (DILR), providing solutions regarding the mutations of the land. “The NIC and the Revenue Department have worked shoulder to shoulder as partners in the introduction of e-governance in various aspects of revenue administration. The ability of NIC to appreciate the needs of the client -Department and to promptly translate these needs into workable, software-based applications has resulted in a dynamic partnership, striving to find IT solutions aimed at making the Revenue administration both friendly and transparent. That the Revenue Department is considered to be the most advanced in the Gujarat Government in the application of IT is due in no small measure to the forging of this partnership.” Shri. C.K.Koshy, I.A.S., Principal Secretary, Revenue Department GSTAX2000 (Turnkey project for Gujarat Sales Tax) This Information System is a total solution for the Sales Tax Department and provides dealer friendly administration and employee facilitation for better governance. All the sales tax offices in the State are set up with a computer centre with dealer windows. The progress made so far is leading to electronic filing of returns under the new VAT regime. Dealers filing Sales Tax Returns at the computerised counter at Ahmedabad Online Registration of Dealers, Return & Challan Monitoring System, Forms Control System, New Industries Incentives Monitoring, Assessment System, Check Post Monitoring System, Recovery Module, Enforcement Module, Electronic Verification of Treasury sheet, Dealer Ledger, Professional Tax Module and administrative modules like Payroll, Accounting, Personnel Information, Court Case Monitoring etc. cover every routine of the sales tax administration. 140 offices spread throughout the State is currently using the package. Employees are trained on the modules and the computer culture is cultivated even in the remote offices of the department. The dealer master for the State of Gujarat is built and is being updated online. The database of around 7 lakh Professional Tax payers is being developed now. The re-registration process of the dealers is over and the benefit of the computerisation will be more visible in the coming year. Extensive training by NIC to our staff on the modules developed and the support at State and District level is leading us towards better governance”,
- Shri. K. George Joseph, I.A.S, Commissioner of Sales Tax
EEMS (Employment Exchange Management System) A fool proof system developed by NIC has been implemented in all the 42 employment exchanges including five special Employment Exchanges for Physically Handicapped. Database of more than 11 lakh jobseekers (unemployed) is operational since October 2001. This transparent, effective and unbiased interface provides a convenient service to the unemployed youth. Unemployed youth registering at the employment exchange at Navsari The employers can submit their job requirements and select the candidates for the job from the registered youth. Since the functions of the employment directorate in other States are similar in nature, a few other State Governments are in the process of customization. “The Software System and Database Management System by NIC are so advanced, it took us less than six months further to integrate the same with Web Based Online Employment portal of our Directorate” ,
- Shri. Raj Kumar, I.A.S., Director, Employment and Training
TRAMS (TRAinees Management System for ITI) Gujarat is a highly industrialised State and it has requirement of hundreds of trained skilled workers. For meeting these requirements, Government of Gujarat is running more than 200 Industrial Training Institutes, which offer more than 100 courses (known as trades) related to Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Electronics and IT. TRAMS is a comprehensive system covering Admission, Attendance, Internal and Final exams. These activities are from admission of the trainees to mark sheet / certificate printing. Module-I i.e. Admission has already been implemented in June 2002. Module-II i.e. Attendance was implemented in October 2002. Module-III i.e. Internal and Final Examination is near completion. CM Online – An innovative application of NIC for Public Grievance Redressal Gujarat Government has commissioned “Chief Minister’s Call Center” or “CM Online” (“Tele Fariad”) for addressing public grievances through Gujarat State Wide Area Network (GSWAN). People can register their grievances by dialing 1505 (at a local call charge) from any where in the district and the same reaches CM’s office immediately. Complaint deposited in original voice format is compressed and forwarded to the designated mailboxes at CM’s office, Gandhinagar. Voice messages are transcripted by the operators on a web based application developed by NIC and forwarded to related departmental head and others for necessary action under intimation to CM’s office. Major Network Projects Setting up of an elaborate network brings about a seamless transition between the various computing devices currently in use in the public domain or those, which may be put to use in future. To ensure the proliferation of IT, the State Government has decided to create an “Information Corridor” with the support of NIC State Centre. The core of this corridor would be connecting the State capital right up to Taluka headquarters by first connecting the capital to the district headquarters. On peripheries of this “Information corridor” would be supporting databases of various Government departments as well as computerised public counters, kiosks/information centers that will help providing electronic interface for the citizens with the Government. The entire project of creating “Information Corridor” has been divided in three parts. • Connecting all Government Departments at capital city Gandhinagar through Fiber backbone for Voice, Video and Data communication. • Connecting all district offices through 2 MBPS lines to Gandhinagar at Sachivalaya, and all Taluka to Districts through 64KBPS links (Which is referred as GSWAN). • LAN facility to be provided at District Panchayat and Collectorates in all 25 districts. NIC/NICSI has undertaken the task to design, install and integrate Networks at the following locations : • Sachivalaya Data LAN – 2200 node network connecting various departments and directorate located at New Sachivalaya and Old Sachivalaya complexes. Network is in operation since May 2001. Various useful Intranet applications are being run by NIC on the secretariat LAN. • District LAN - 50-node network at each District Collectorates and District Panchayat office. These LAN are integrated with GSWAN. • Gujarat High Court Network- 700-node network where Fiber backbone is used to connect all blocks of High Court. Jail Information System This system is successfully tested and implemented in the Jails (Central, District and Sub Jail) of Gujarat and every jail has a set up of computer system with web camera and multimedia. Besides maintaining important information about the prison inmates, this system has the facility of multilingual support with GIST SDK , photo feature with web camera and the provision to merge data of different jails to the IG (Prisons) Office. Geo-Mine Minerals play vital role in the development of any country, as they are the backbone of the industry. The statistical data pertaining to area of mining, production and dispatch details, royalty, payment etc. form important information in determining the growth of the mining industry. GEO-MINE software has been developed by NIC to handle the mineral statistics right at the district level and compiled at the head office to support decision making. NIC at High Court of Gujarat NIC is lending its services to the High Court of Gujarat since 1993. With active help and constant support from the High Court of Gujarat, public centric applications like availability of case status at the query counter and on the internet, advocate wise cause list, simple copy of the order/judgment instantly, certified copies of the judgment / orders etc. are operational. A Database of around 5. 5 lakh court cases has been developed.The cause list and Case status has been made available on Internet at www.gujarathighcourt.nic.in and the judgements of the High Court are also expected to be put up on the net soon. Besides, NIC has also developed the District Court Information System (DCIS) which is running at 17 district courts, metropolitan court and city civil court wherein a whole range of services have been computerised. Girnar Mountain Climb up-down Competition Akhil Gujarat Girnar Arohan Avrohan Competition is held by the Junagadh District Administration every year. Recording of arrival and departure time of more than 1000 participants and preparation of the result immediately was made easy by using NIC developed software. Computer installed on road at the starting point of the competition was an attraction for the public. Collector Smt. Sunaina Tomar, IAS, with NIC Officers at Girnar Competition venue at Junagadh Model District Gujarat Government made a program to make Vadodara a model district in every aspect of governance by introducing citizen charter in all departments. The goals set were quality, transparency and timeliness. An information gallery is set up to implement the Citizen’s Charter in its true spirit. NIC has developed the software for various socio-economic applications in the district which can be replicated for all the 25 districts in the State. “It is a unique project where all the aspects of E-governance have been addressed. E-governance is not only using Information Technology but a change process where I. T. becomes a means to the overall objective of transparent, cost effective, efficient and qualitatively superior administration”, Shri. Anil Mukim, I.A.S, Addl. Pri. Secretary to Chief Minister Besides the above, various important Central Government projects such as computerisation of Customs and Central Excise at Ahmedabad,Vadodara, Rajkot and Surat, Regional Passport Office at Ahmedabad, Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), Registrar of Companies (ROC) and Postal Life Insurance (PLI) have been undertaken by NIC Gujarat State Unit. Websites Developed Important websites for various State Government entities have been developed and/or hosted. The prominent ones include Gujarat Vidhan Sabha (http://www.gujaratassembly.gov.in), Gujarat Sales Tax (http://www.gujaratsalestax.gov.in), Water Resources Development Corporation (http://www.gwrdc.nic.in), Customs Gujarat (http://customsgujarat.nic.in), High Court of Gujarat (http://gujarathighcourt.nic.in) and Gujarat State Highway Project – (http://gshp.gujarat.gov.in). Hon’ble Governor of Gujarat Sh S.S Bhandari inaugurating the Vidhan Sabha website. Also seen in the picture are Hon’ble Chief Minister Sh Narendra Modi NIC Infrastructure in the State State Centre at Sachivalaya Complex, Gandhinagar, 25 District Informatic Offices NIC High Court Cell, NIC Sales Tax Unit and NIC Cell at Chief Secretary’s Office • Email Server, Web Server and Database Server at State Centre • Video Conferencing (room based) at State Centre • SCPC & IPA VSAT at State Centre • IPA VSAT with DPC at NIC District Centres with dialup facility for internet and email • Database Server at each NIC District Centre For further information, please contact State Informatics Officer, NIC, Gujarat State Unit , Block – 13, II Floor, New Sachivalaya, Gandhinagar – 382 010 Tel – (079) 3223035, 3223890 Email : sio@guj.nic.in