Hooghly District is situated in the southern part of West Bengal. The name ‘Hooghly’ is probably derived from ‘Hogla’, a tall reed, which grows in abundance on the riverbanks and marshy areas of the district. Hooghly was carved out as a separate district from the erstwhile unified Burdwan district in 1795 and it became a separate collectorate in the year 1822.
NIC District Centre was established in Hooghly in 1987 and since its inception, it has been providing pivotal support to the district administration in implementing ICT projects to enable good e-governance.
Some of the landmark projects of NIC Hooghly are as follows:
€| Transport Information System (TIS) Transport Information System has been developed for the Motor Vehicles Department. Implementation of the system has helped in providing the following services: • On-line Registration • On-line Tax Collection and other fees collection • Laminated Driving License Preparation Monitoring System • Total Computerization of Permit Section • Demand Notice for Tax Defaulters Another package has been developed for the Motor Vehicles Department to provide relevant information of any vehicle in a CD, which is based on user-defined queries.
€| Election Vehicle Management System This package has been developed for managing election vehicles information, allocating vehicles to different sections and generating all kind of reports and receipts. Online payment of the bills generated can also be done through this system.
€| Document Control Management System This software has been implemented to have control over the DAK receipts of various sections of the Collectorate. The essence of this project is to provide effective and efficient control over the system and have instant access to information.
€| Land Acquisition The Land Acquisition automation package has been implemented to provide fast and accurate service to the public in respect of estimate preparation for acquiring land, owner-wise calculation of compensation, issuing of notices for acquiring land, etc.
€| Arms License Monitoring System This project was initiated to create a database of the arms license issued, monitor issue of new arms licenses and renewal of licenses. The software was developed and implemented in the district in 2001.
€| Certificate Case Monitoring System The package has been designed and developed for checking court fees and process fees according to the category of cases. There is provision to generate different registers from the data as well as for storing hearing information of each case. If someone fails to be present on the hearing date, a show cause letter is automatically generated.
€| Pool Car Monitoring System This software package has been developed to keep a track on the movement of all vehicles that are under the control of the District Magistrate. Fuel slip generation and logbook printing have been included in the system.
€| Website development and maintenance • The district website (http://www.hooghly.nic.in) was developed and hosted in the year 2001 by the NIC Hooghly District Centre. Maintenance of the website is also handled by the district centre. All the important information regarding the district administration and its developmental activities is regularly updated on the website. • The website of the Institut de Chandernagor (http://institutedechandernagor.gov.in), Higher Education Department, has been designed and hosted by NIC District Centre.
€| Public Grievance Monitoring System Using this system, citizens can lodge any kind of grievance related to administration, governance, corrupt officials, etc. The software can also generate different kinds of reports related to public grievance redressal.
€| Pension Monitoring System (PMS) PMS has been developed for the district treasury, which calculates bank wise monthly pension and generate scrolls accordingly.
€| Kiosk Information System The database that have been created for different applications running in the district, are being re-used to provide basic information to the common public, which includes the Motor Vehicles Database, Passport Database, VR Database and Electors Information Database.
€| Training of Officers NIC Hooghly organizes regular training programmes for the officers and staff of the district administration to keep their knowledge about ICT solutions up-to-date.
The NIC District Centre has also implemented a number of centrally developed packages like: • CORD-MVDP software to facilitate the digitisation of market value of Land Registration. • Computerization of Salary Accounts (COSA) implemented in 2004 to simplify the process of generating pay bills. It has been customised according to the local requirements.