The NIC District Unit of Hamirpur District was setup in 1989 and the unit has helped in making tremendous strides towards empowering district administration with ICT tools, spreading IT culture besides the development and implementation of numerous ICT applications. Popularly known as Veer Bhoomi, This is the most literate district of the State, well connected by roads from all sides.
Famous for the child saint shrine Shri Baba Balak Nath Temple Trust Deoth Sidh, the district Hamirpur lies in the South-West part of Himachal Pradesh and constitute the central micro region of the State. Tract is hilly, covered by Shivalik Range situated between 76º 18’ to 76 º 44’ East longitudes and 31º 25’ to 31º 52’ North latitude. The ele-vation varies from 400 meters to 1100 meters. The history of district Hamir-pur is intimately associated with the Katoch dynasty, which ruled the re-gion between Ravi and Satluj known as ‘Trigerta’. Hamirpur derived its name from Raja Hamir Chand, who ruled this area from 1700 AD to 1740 AD. The most literate district of the State and well connected by roads from all sides, Hamirpur shares its geographi-cal boundaries with Bilaspur, Mandi, Kangra and Una districts. Majority of the people serve in the defence ser-vices, thus popularly known as “Veer Bhoomi”. District NIC unit setup in 1989 has helped in making tremendous strides towards empowering district admin-istration with IT tools, spreading IT culture and development/implemen-tation of numerous IT applications.
RECENT ICT INITIATIVES • District Website The official website of District Hamirpur (http://hphamirpur.nic.in), designed & developed as a one-point-source to provide infor-mation about history, fact-file, cul-ture, temples, accessibility, tourist places and citizen services etc. • Jeevan Pramaan Life Certificates for Central and State Government Pensioners, application has been implemented at DPDO and all the treasury offic-es in the district. Awareness camps were organised and Life Certifi-cates issued to the pensioners • AEBAS - Aadhaar Enabled Biom-etric Attendance System has been implemented at various central & state government offices • Digital Locker To preserve the documents in dig-ital form and to provide a secure access to the government issued documents, awareness camps were organised and Digital Locker ac-counts of the general public were created • NDAL National Database of Arms Licens-es. Implemented for generation of Unique Identification Number for the Arms Licenses and old data of Shastr SW has been ported to NDAL • Sarathi Ver. 4.0 Web based system for issuance of Learner Licenses, Permanent Driv-ing Licenses has been implement-ed at all the Registration & Licens-ing Authorities in the district • IVFRT Immigration, Visa and Foreign-er’s Registration & Tracking sys-tem has been implemented at the FRO-cum-SP Office. Trainings to institutes and hoteliers have been provided for registration of for-eign nationals under c-Form and s-Form modules
MAJOR PROJECTS IMPLEMENTED IN THE DISTRICT • HimBhoomi: Implemented at all tehsils, this system is used to computerize Land Records and generation of various registers and related MIS reports. General pub-lic can also take the copy of their Record of Rights from Lok Mitra Kendras (CSCs) • HimRIS: This software is used for registration of land deeds in inte-gration with the HimBhoomi SW 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: e-Salary for preparation of the Salary Bills of all the state government employ-ees in the district. e-Pension is an on-line pension processing and disbursement system. e-Challan is an online system for HP Govern-ment receipts. HPNPS - an online Pension MIS under New Pension Scheme. eKosh: Online system implemented at all the treasuries for bill submission, bill process-ing, budget allocation till ECS based payment to the beneficiary account. e-Stamp: Online system for receipt and issuance of Stamp Papers • Transport Computerisation:Va-han- a system for all the services related to registration of vehicles, issuance of permits, collection of token tax as well as various oth-er vehicle transactions. Sarathi- a system for issuance of Conductor Licenses, Driving Licenses (Learn-er and Permanent). System is also integrated with STALL, a Screen Test Aid for Learner Licenses. Dai-ly data is ported to the National and State Registers • Election: Implemented DISE (District Information System for Elections) system for entry and random deployment of polling staff, counting staff and EVMs. ICT support is extended for result compilation & dissemination to ECI for elections. Facility provid-ed for electoral roll management using ERMS for conduct of PRI/ ULB Elections
• Courts: Case Information System - a NeGP MMP for computeriza-tion of District and Taluka Courts for management of cause lists, case status, court orders / judgements etc. • eKalyan: Software for entry of ap-plications till the disbursement of Social Justice and Welfare pensions through Bank Accounts, MOs and Post Office Accounts • Manav Sampada: A web based human resource management sys-tem for management of service books, transfers, APRs and promo-tions • eSamadhan: Workflow based, role based online generic system implemented for all the depart-ments for redressal of public griev-ances/demands • Shastr: Online system for issu-ance, renewal, endorsement of Arms Licenses at district and sub division level
OTHER PROJECTS • eRojgar - Employment Exchange Management System including Job Portal • ePahchan - Online System for issuance of Disability and Senior Citizen Identity Cards • MGNREGA - Online SW is im-plemented in DRDA, Blocks and all the Gram Panchayats for job cards, master roll generation and online transfer of aadhaar enabled payments • DEAS - for maintenance of ac-counts on Double Entry Account-ing System at blocks • SchemesMIS - System for sanc-tioning of funds, monitoring of physical/ financial progress of var-ious developmental schemes • IDSP - Integrated Disease Sur-veillance Programme, a web based system to help in collecting impor-tant statistical data to check the spread of diseases by early warn-ing signals • ePRI - Panchayat Enterprise Suite implemented down to the Gram Panchayat level, it is a complete suite for the management of three tier structure of the PRI activities • eProcurement - Online system for computerisation of the tender-ing and bidding process including evaluation till the award of con-tract
NICNET & VIDEO CONFERENCING NIC district centre is connected with NIC HP State Centre over 1Gbps leased line with 34 Mbps backup link. The NKN connectivity is further ex-tended to the HP Technical Universi-ty and NIT Hamirpur. Video Confer-ence services are being provided to all the government offices.
DISTRICT HIGHLIGHTS Hot Dak Tracking System for track-ing of high priority ‘dak’, a locally developed system by district NIC Centre has been implemented at Raj Bhawan Himachal Pradesh and other Deputy Commissioner offices in the state. Consultancy and ICT support has been provided to the district ad-ministration for website designing and computerisation of Shri Baba Balak Nath Temple Trust Deoth Sidh. Dis-trict Hamirpur has received Skoch-Order-of-Merit Award-2015 for Hot Dak Tracking System. District admin-istration has appreciated the support and work done by the NIC District Centre during Lok Sabha Elections and recently concluded ULB & PRI Elections.