The NIC District Unit Kinnaur, established in 1989 at Reckong Peo-the district headquarters, was thoroughly revamped in 2001. Being a tribal district with 100% rural area, difficult geographical terrain, extreme weather conditions and natural calamities; the working environment of the district has been a major challenge. The NIC District Unit has met the challenge over the years by successfully introducing Information Technology in a number of departments, improving citizen services, bringing transparency and efficiency in governance process.
Major Projects • Land Records Computerisation: Kinnaur was the first district in Himachal Pradesh in implementing the Himbhoomi Software in all the Tehsils and making these online on November 2, 2005. The general public is getting ROR, jamabandi copies from the Tehsil centres and the mutation work has been automated. • Pehal-eGoverance Centre: The eGovernance Centre of Kalpa Sub-division was operationalized in April, 2005 for providing common citizen interface by implementing the following SW: • SARATHI: SARATHI software is a workflow based application for issuance of driving licenses. All types of the licenses related to learner, conductor and driver license are generated through the software. • VAHAN: For computerisation of all types of vehicle registration. • Inner-line Permit: For generating the Inner-line Permits for the tourists and labour permits for the Nepalese to enter the restricted areas of the District. • Local Area Network: All the branches of the DC Office are interlinked through a high speed LAN for running the software, file sharing, internet, Email and other works. The LAN has been extended to the offices of SP, DPRO, DFSC, Election and DRDA to enable them to use web-enabled applications. The internet access is provided to other offices through RAS. • Video Conferencing Centre at Reckong Peo and Pooh: The VC facility has been established at the district headquarter Reckong Peo and Pooh sub-division which is used by the officers for interacting with the other district officers, HODs/Secretaries, Ministers and the CM. • District Website: The official website of District Kinnaur (http://hpkinnaur.nic.in), designed and developed as a one point source of information, provides information about history, culture, temples, accessibility, administration and citizen services. Tourism section is of special interest to the outside world due to the different life style of the people of the district, their culture, heritage, customs and traditions. • E-Praman: All types of certificates, like SC/ ST, income, character, caste, are issued by the Revenue Officers (Tehsildars) and Sub-Divisional Magistrates to the public through this software. The software has been implemented in all the Tehsils and E-Governance Centre, Kalpa. • Welfare Pension MIS: The Welfare Department disburses pension to people under different categories of old age, widows, lepers and handicapped. The pension of all pensioners is generated every quarter and sent by money orders generated through the SW. • Online-Treasury Information System: The software has been implemented in the District Treasury office since April 2006. All the transactions are done in online mode in a work-flow manner, right from capturing the bill at token stage to its online passing. The accounts are sent to the AG office in printed and softcopy formats.
Other Projects • E-Pehchan (used for the issuing the disability and senior citizen certificates) • Pension Disbursement System for HP Government Pensioners • Payroll Processing software (All Departments) • Schemes Monitoring System • Co-operative Statistics MIS • e-HimApurti for the Food, Supplies & Consumer Affairs Department
Road Ahead • 2 Mbps leased line connectivity • Implementation of HIMRIS SW in all the Tehsils • Setting up of the e-Governance centre at remaining two blocks • Computerisation of Employment Exchanges • Implementation of Online Treasury Information System in sub-treasuries • Web-enabled e-Salary SW for all Government departments
For further information, please contact: Sh.Bhupinder Singh, District Informatics Associate NIC Kinnaur Dist. Unit E-mail: hpkin@nic.in