Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Hon’ble Union Minister of Electronics & IT, Law and Justice visited Shimla on 2nd July 2018 to lay the foundation stone of the new building of the Software Technology Parks of India. During the inaugural function, he highlighted various ICT activities which can be adopted by the State of Himachal Pradesh to become a role model for the Digital India programme.
Shri Jai Ram Thakur, Hon’ble Chief Minister, Himachal Pradesh, in his speech, mentioned the achievement of the State in migrating all District Administration websites to the SWaaS platform in a record time of just one month, with the help of NIC State and District officers. Himachal became the first State in India to migrate all the District Websites to SWaaS in May 2018. Hon’ble Chief Minister, Himachal Pradesh conveyed this fact to the Hon’ble Union Minister in a DO letter.
Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad praised the role of State Government and NIC Himachal Pradesh for achieving this feat of SWaaS migration. A movie prepared by NIC HP on SWaaS migration of all District websites was played in the STPI inauguration programme. Dr. Ram Lal Markanda, Hon’ble Minister of IT, Shri Kishan Kapoor, Hon’ble Minister of Food & Civil Supplies, Shri Suresh Bhardwaj, Hon’ble Minister for Education, Shri Onkar Rai, Director General(STPI), Shri Rajiv Kumar, Joint Secretary(MeitY), Dr. Shrikant Baldi, ACS to CM, and Shri J.C. Sharma, Principal Secretary(IT), HP Government were present on the occasion.
SWaaS helps to create accessible websites of districts with minimal efforts. It provides a tool to design latest industry standard website. NIC Himachal Pradesh is also assisting Districts of other States to migrate their websites on SWaaS.
Shri Vinod Kumar (DIO, Hamirpur) and Shri Vijay Kumar (DIO, Sirmaur) were presented with appreciation certificates for their key role in migration of websites to SWaaS. The NIC SWaaS team provided complete technical support to NIC HP team in this endeavour. All DIOs and ADIOs took this activity as a challenge and completed the task. Shri Sanjay Sharma, TD coordinated the activity at State level.