In view of the spread of COVID-19 in the country and emergent situation arising out of this contagion, NIC Haryana is fully supporting the state Government in coping with this emergent situation. This situation has necessitated work from home, timely assistance to the citizen and migrant labourers under distress, facilitating and carrying out all government activities with minimum possible manpower, facilitating contribution to the state COVID-19 fund etc. Besides this, it is also most important to disseminate relevant information to the stakeholders as quickly as possible. In order to achieve this NIC Haryana developed 23 new IT applications.
To provide reliable communication, Video conferencing services were provided to Hon’ble Governor, Hon’ble Chief Minister, Vidhan Sabha speaker, Deputy Chief Minister All Administrative Secretaries, HODs and Nodal office. A total of 1621 VCs have been conducted with 2476 VC hours during this period. NIC Messaging services gateway services were used in delivering urgent messages to the citizen, Employees, pensioners. The recently upgraded NIC state data centre services were used to host more than 15 new applications.
In order to provide one-stop non-stop information about every aspect of Information Collection Module for State COVID control room and Haraadesh Portal (http://haraadesh.nic.in) was launched. Due to lockdown, all the economic activities were stopped and the state government required immediate financial resources to cater to the growing demand for medical equipment and foods. The CM Covid relief Fund and Online consent for contribution to Haryana Corona Relief Fund came as an immediate recipe for the state Government.
Support to Poor Person A house to house survey of more than 35 lakh families was conducted through Covid 19 District Level Management committees (http://covidunit.edisha.gov.in) to ensure the well being of people. For capturing the requests for Food, TrackPDS integrated with State Helplines was launched. This portal is also seamlessly integrated with Public Distribution System for checking whether the beneficiary already has access to free food grains through PDS System or not and Distress Ration Token Portal for issuance of Distress Ration Token to the beneficiaries which needs Food grains. More than 66793 Requests were handled. Online application for Distress Ration Token (DRT) tokens was given to 5.94 lakh families for free food for three months who are not covered under any benefit scheme. For providing Financial support of Rs. 5000/- to more than 1,92,000 unorganized workers was provided through poor person registration portal (http://poorpreg.haryana.gov.in).
Connecting through Mobile Apps For the establishing connectivity between the various services providers/ vendors Connect Plus Haryana & e-Market Kurukshetra – Mobile App were launched to provide daily needs to the citizens
Ensuring Smooth Lockdown Opening SARAL Haryana portal came as torch bearer through which Total 7.11 Lakh passed were issued through e-Pass system to Citizens facing emergent medical/non-medical situations, Govt Employees on Covid-19 duty, for essential/non-essential service supplier and to Resume Operations of Industrial/Commercial Establishment during Lockdown/Curfew of Industries department 55,774 permission were given with the approval of more than 37 Lakh workforce were provided in a short span.
Relief camp management system (https:// haryanareliefcamps.edisha.gov.in) was launched to monitor the more than 16000 people staying in relief camps and to ensure that the stranded persons safely to their home a workflow-based registration portal was launched of which more than 14 Lakh person got registered and arrange for their travel through buses, trains and own vehicle were made.
Chief Minister Haryana and Chief Secretary Haryana appreciated the efforts by NIC Haryana and called them corona warriors.