Haryana is one of the tiny states of Indian Union with only 1.37% area (44212 Sq Km) and 2% population (225 lakh) of India. The state government intends to make this tiny State as the most prosperous State in the country with IT driven economy, e-Governance and extensive percolation of IT literacy and massive IT related employment opportunities besides promotion of investment. The Government of Haryana has given a special emphasis on implementing Mission Mode Projects (MMPs), identified under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP). The State ICT department is facilitating the departments and NIC-HRSC & HARTRON are assisting on technical aspects. A well-defined, transparent & efficient system for the systematic approval of the departmental IT action plans has been put-up in place through various High Powered committees. The work has started on most of the mission mode projects of NeGP and a significant progress has already been achieved.

State Sector MMPs : Treasuries: On-Line Treasuries Information System (OTIS) is implemented in all treasuries & Sub treasuries totaling 103 sites. Property Registration: Haryana Registration Information System (HARIS) is implemented at all 67 Tehsils and 45 Sub-Tehsils. Land Records: Haryana Land Records Information System (HALRIS) is a complete Integrated Workflow Automation system of Land Record components. HALRIS is implemented in all 20 districts and ROR data of most of Tehsils/ sub-tehsils is available on Internet website http://jamabandi.nic.in. Panchayats: The Panchayats level works MIS has been implemented under e-Panchayats initiatives as a Web enabled Village information system. The Software EWA (Engineering works Analyzer) has been developed and implemented for Panchayats development works related to engineering wing. Commercial Taxes: Value Added Tax Management, Assessment, Collection System (VATMaCS) is being implemented at all 21 DETCs offices. Municipalities: The House Tax Assessment & Collection Information System (HACIS) has been implemented for all municipalities, which has record of more than 10 lakh properties resulting in significant increase in tax collection. Transport Regulatory Functions: The Issuance of computerized Driving License and Registration Certificate of Vehicles is being implemented at a number of SDM offices. For this SARATHI & VAHAN have been adopted as a standard across the state and is implemented on a self sustainable Model through DITS/Red Cross Society. Agriculture. AgMarkNet: All 108 Mandies and 25 Sub Centers of Agriculture Marketing Board have been provided with computing & Internet facilities and training to publish prices of agriculture commodities on daily basis. AgRIS: (Agriculture Resource Information System) has been initiated as a pilot at Rohtak. Police: Police G2G Suite: A suite of 10 software packages has been developed & implemented for facilitating police functioning, including a dynamic Web Portal with citizen interface. CIPA: The Common Integrated Police Application has been implemented at 22 police stations. Employment Exchanges: Employment Exchange Registration Information System (EERIS) Software has been exclusively developed for Registration, Vacancy Booking & Submission and is initiated in five districts. E-District: It constitutes a comprehensive network (LAN), a modern IT training lab and District level e-DISHA Centers in each district wherein all major functions of District Administration have been planned.

State Sector Additional MMPs : Health: (a) e-Health. Net: Suite of software packages to monitor the Prevention of Food Adulteration, Software for Medical Certification of Cause of Death (MCCD), Software for Processing Bed Occupancy & Mortality Rate, DOTS (Directly Observed Treatment Short-term for eradication of TB disease), Medicine Inventory Monitoring System (MIMS), Doctors Leave Accounting System and Family Welfare MIS, Malaria Monitoring Software, Software for National School Health and G2G e-Office packages has been implemented at Civil Surgeons offices. (b) IDSP: The GOI sponsored IDSP (Integrated Disease Surveillance Project) has been initiated at all districts. Education: (a) Technical Education: Haryana is pioneer state in successfully implementing the On-Line Off-Campus Counseling project for all Engineering Admissions during 2006. (b) Haryana School Education Board: All major functions of School Education Board, Bhiwani have been automated for which administrative reforms were carried out. Details like Results admit cards; provisional certificates etc. are published on web. Results Through Binocular (RTB) – Internet based, on-line analysis of results of more than 10 lakh students of Middle, Matric and Plus two exams. (c) Secondary & Higher Education: Web enabled Transfer Request Processing – Haryana is the first state to issue all the transfer orders of teachers and staff through Internet. Social Welfare: (a) Pensions: Haryana Pensions Processing & Information System (HaPPIS) is helping in timely disbursement of pension to around 12 lakh pensioners every month. It has been linked with Birth & Death, Ration cards & Photo ID cards. System helps in detecting fraudulent cases. The information is also published on dynamic web portal at socialjusticehry.nic.in Food & Civil Supplies: (a) e-Food.Net: Web Enabled Food Procurement & Storage Monitoring System for monitoring the procurement & storage of food grains. (b) CONFONET: Consumer Courts Network & Cases MIS at 19 districts & SHQ initiated. PWD (B&R, Public Health, Irrigation Branch): (a) PWD (B&R): Integrated Monitoring of PWD ACTivities (IMPACT) is a Web based Monitoring system implemented across the state for more than 4500 works of PWD (B&R) amounting to more than Rs. 3000 Crores.

Integrated Services Projects : e-DISHA Ekal Sewa Kendra: One District level e-DISHA Center (DleDC) has been established in 18 districts and is providing hassle free citizen services through a single window in a transparent way. A total of 39 services are being offered at DleDCs centers. State Portal: The state’s official web portal http://haryana.gov.in provides access to 15 Public services. State portal is now being redesigned to give a new look & feel and being enhanced with Content Management System and other interfaces. EG Gateway Services: The State web servers, e-mail servers and Internet gateways, based on VSATs, RF links and MLLs and having heterogeneous platforms are operating at NIC-Haryana Civil Secretariat Centre. Independent websites for a number of departments / organizations and 19 districts has been developed, launched and being maintained. e-Courts: Sub Ordinate Courts: SOCJIS: Workflow based Justice Delivery & Judicial Information System have been implemented at Ambala and Panchkula district judicial court complexes. High Court of Punjab, Haryana & UT Chandigarh: A Network of more than 900 nodes and NMC set-up. Daily cause list, orders & judgments are published on the High court website. e-Office: A suite of 7 G2G Packages has been standardized across the state. This includes PIS, Payroll, Dak, Meetings, Court-cases, Government Accounting, Office Inventory, Centralized File Movement & Tracking Information System (CeFMaTIS). e-Procurement: The NIC System at back-end, by hosting at NIC’s national IDC and out-sourcing of front-end facilities & help desk management planned. The implementation road map is being prepared and finalized. India Portal: Haryana specific inputs (G2C services & information, schemes, forms, procedures etc.) are uploaded on India portal.

Core Infrastructure Projects: State Wide Area Network: LANs functioning in all major buildings at State and District headquarters and are being connected through BSNL MLLNs, Wireless RF links and VSATs. All PCs on LANs provided dedicated e-mail/Internet access facility. The Video Conferencing facility provided at 8 locations. The SWAN project (ADHAAR) is being implemented as per guidelines of DIT GOI. Site preparation works for SNMC, DNMCs and BNMCs have started. State Data Center: The NIC State Data Centre based on SAN technology has been established at Civil Secretariat with 2 Terra Bytes storage capacities on 24X7 management basis. The interactive contents of major state websites and official e-mail accounts are hosted on this data Centre with requisite security as per security policy of NIC-Hq. The existing state WAN is connected to this data centre. In addition to NIC-Haryana data centre, establishment of a State data centre has also been planned through GOI funding under NeGP. Common Service Centers: The 1159 rural and 104 urban CSCs under the state brand name e-DISHA Ekal Sewa Kendra will be established across the state. These CSCs will deliver G2C, G2G, B2C, G2E, C2B, G2B services to the citizens at their door step. GIS Spatial Data Infrastructure: The state’s maps with village points/boundaries and important layers have been digitized on a 1: 50,000 scales. Web enabled Access to GIS infrastructure has been installed and initiated at state data centre.

Central Government level MMPs : Passport: NIC-Haryana is jointly managing Network operations and Passport systems at Regional Passport Office Chandigarh. Decentralized Passport Applications Acceptance System (WebPass) is implemented at all districts. Pensions: An interactive and comprehensive dynamic employees Portal for Office of Accountant General Haryana for GPF information & pensions is operational, which is integrated with OTIS. It has more than 125 Lakh live data records for more than 2.83 Lakh employees. Customs & Excise: Operations of LAN and Export/ Import system at Customs Office Ballabh Garh (Faridabad). E-Posts: CLIP (Computerized Postal Life Insurance), RPLI (Rural Postal Life Insurance), PACT (Postal Accounting System), GPF MIS, PATRAM Software are being implemented at Haryana Postal Circle, Ambala. National ID/UID: Initial training has been completed. Hardware & Software has been installed at NIC-HRSC SAN data center. The electoral data being finalized for UID project.

Other Components of NeGP: Core Policies: IT Policy, Web Policy, Email Policy, ROW Policy, guidelines for IT plans prepared. More than 75 IT Plans/Projects approved by IT-PRISM till date; the NIC-HRSC has been involved in preparation of more than 50 projects and technical evaluation of 100% projects. Capacity Building: The SIT has established 4 IT training lab at State HQ and one IT lab at each district, managed by NIC State training coordinator and DIOs. State has also got e-Governance & Capacity Building Road Maps. Technical Consultancy: The ICT support services are provided to most of the departments/ Boards/Corporations and district administration on technical matters on day-to-day basis. e-Governance Standards: Workshop on Localization of Applications & language technology standards has been organized. Technical inputs provided on Meta data Standards.

Other Important e-Gov Projects : Finance Department: e-Finance. Net, a Workflow based State Annual Budget Preparation, Budget Revision, and Release Monitoring & Expenditure Control System over LAN. It also includes Loans Processing, CeFMaTIS, Ways & Means Monitoring. Elections: Total ICT support is provided for General and Bye-elections. During the Haryana Assembly Elections 2005, the Duty Assignment and Randomization of Polling booths was implemented for all 90-assembly constituencies in Haryana. Extensive ICT support is being provided to Panchayats and Municipalities elections. Chief Minister’s Office: The Public Demands Tracking, Announcements Implementation, Transfer Requests Processing, Dak Monitoring System, Centralized File Movement & Tracking Information System, Public Grievances Tracking & Monitoring System developed & implemented. Chief Secretary Office: Web enabled Project monitoring system developed and implemented, IAS/HCS Officers web enabled civil list maintenance. Raj Bhawan e-Gov Project: E-Office suite, e-Mail/Internet usage in a LAN implemented. Secretariat for IT: A consortium of State DIT, Society for IT initiative fund for e-Governance and NIC-HRSC with support from HARTRON, state owned PSU. A Centre for e-Governance is operational at SIT and an exclusive website http://haryanait.gov.in is also operational. E-readiness annual survey, technical assistance to evaluate proposals for grant of licenses for setting IT/Cyber parks, state’s participation in national/international ICT events and technical evaluation of ICT proposals/Plans received in SIT is the major activity undertaken. Significant contribution has also been made in deploying ICT tools in the offices of Haryana Lokayukta (http://hrylokayukta.gov.in), State Chief Information Commissioner (http://cicharyana.gov.in), Vidhan Sabha, Labour Commissioner, Advocate General, Haryana Bhawan New Delhi, Planning and Legal Remembrance (LR).

Message from Financial Commission and Principal secretary, Govt of Haryana Sh.P.K Chaudhery, IAS Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary Govt. of Haryana Industries and I.T Departments, Chandigarh

It gives immense pleasure to know that Informatics has chosen Haryana as State In Focus for its April 2007 edition. NIC Haryana State Centre has made significant contribution in development and implementation of various Mission Mode Projects of NeGP. We consider NIC HRSC as integral part of Secretariat for IT Haryana for all ICT initiatives. NIC has been a helping hand in propagation of e-Governance in Haryana of Haryana. I convey my best wishes for this April issue of Informatics in particular and NIC team in Haryana in general.

Performance ranking of e-Governance Projects & IT Policy initiatives of the state

  1. The E-Readiness Assessment Report – 2005 of India, released by DIT, Govt. of India has ranked Haryana as aspiring leader.
  2. The State e-Governance projects have already received 11 prestigious national awards.
  3. The state has also received 2nd runners up award at International conference organized by India Tech foundation, at Mumbai on 13/11/2003 for the most progressive states of India for application of IT in Administration (e-Governance).
  4. The e-Governance Initiatives in Haryana has achieved the award “Winner of Best e-Governed State (Young Category) Government of Haryana” for the year 2003-04 of CSI-Nihilent e-Governance Excellence awards on 14th June 2004 at Pune.
  5. The Software & IT/ITES/BPO services exports from the State have increased from Rs. 400 Crores in the year 1998-99 to Rs. 10,700 Crores in the year 2005-06. There has been an increase of about 33% during the year 2005-06 over the year 2004-05.

Achievements – • OTIS received Microsoft e-Governance excellence award 2006. • HALRIS received “Silver Icon national Award” & the HARIS, HALRIS dynamic integrated project received “Bronze Icon national Award” at 8th & 9h national e-Governance conferences, respectively. • VATMaCS received e-Governance National Gold Icon Award at 8th National e-Governance Conference. • E-Health.Net received National Silver Icon Award along with Health Care Foundation at 8th National e-Governance conference. • Haryana School Education Board MIS Project received National Gold Icon Award at 8th National e-Governance conference. • Results Through Binocular received “Bronze Icon National Award” at National e-Governance Conference. • HaPPIS received National Silver Icon Award at 6th National e-Governance conference. • E-Food.Net Project received “Merit Citation” National Award at 7th National e-Governance conference • The IMPACT project published as a case study in 10th National e-Governance Conference and in Indian Road Congress conference. • The first Ekal Sewa Kendra at Kaithal received CSI-Nihilent “2nd Runners-up award” at Pune. • State Portal Project received “Merit Citation” National Award at 7th National e-Governance conference.

For any query, please contact : Sh.G.S Bansal State Informatics Officer 49, 9th Floor, Haryana Civil Secretariat Chandigarh – 160001 sio@hry.nic.in Ph: 0172 - 2711642, 2741950