The name Lakhimpur is believed to have originated from the word “Lakshmi”, the goddess of prosperity. The district is mainly dependent upon agriculture and mainly cultivation of paddy. Paddy is regarded locally as “Lakshmi”. The word “pur” means “full”. Lakhimpur therefore means full of paddy or the place where paddy is grown abundantly. The NIC centre at Lakhimpur district in Assam was established in 1990 and since then it has been involved in various key ICT activities. CIC Contribution This project started in the year 2002 in all nine blocks in the district which has taken immense contribution in the rural knowledge revolution through ICT tools along with establishing rural ICT backbone. Around 3000 rural youths have become computer literate; several of them have become self employed. All CICs have developed their respective block sites. Courses offered are 3 months certificate, 6 months Diploma, 1 year PG Diploma, Digital photography, web designing, DTP (Assamese, Hindi & English). Several students have developed websites and carried out projects as per course curriculum. The ASHA portal for small farmers has been successfully implemented in all CICs and has a sizeable number of enrollment of farmers. This community portal has large number of documents, live market data, various schemes, important contacts etc. Series of awareness program in various rural blocks have been imparted to develop the capacity of small farmers and marginal farmers on ICT. District Technology & Training Centre (DT & TC) Project was submitted to the Planning Commission, Govt of India to set up one District Technology & Training Centre and the requisite amount was sanctioned. Three District technology & Training Centres viz. Server Component at NIC DU, DT & TC for govt employees/ officers at DC’s office and DT&TC for public at District Library were setup.A large number of sophisticated equipments viz. servers, projectors, laptops, printers etc. were procured. Clients have been provided to all branches of the DC’s office with LAN and servers. Several e-governace applications have been installed in the servers. Land Records Computerization project Started in Jan 2004 and master data entry for all 1152 revenue villages have been completed by Dec 2005. The data entry for the project has been done in Assamese script trough GIST terminals.This is currently being updated. The data will soon be made available through the Internet for wider access to the database. DISNIC Plan This district has been selected as the pilot district for DISNIC Plan project. The dataset format has been downloaded and sent to various departments/ NGOs/ resource persons for necessary feedback. Video conferencing session has been done with DISNIC group NIC HQ with State Govt and District Administration on the proposed DISNIC PLAN project. A number of workshops have been arranged on DISNIC Plan project. ICT SHGs have already been involved in the data collection exercise in selected villages who have successfully compiled their Village Level Databases. E-Governance Workshop held A Two days National seminar on ‘ E- Governance for Grass root level Development’ was held in May 2006 in collaboration with District Administration, Lakhimpur; IT Department Govt of Assam and NIC. The inauguration was done by DG, NIC through video conferencing. A large number of NIC officers presented papers on important ICT related issues during the workshop. Many government officials, educationists, NGOs, SHGs, Panchayat Raj Institutions were present in the two day session. Feedback were taken from the participants for preparation of action plan. Disaster Management A comprehensive online inventory and manpower database of the district has been set up at the http://www.idrn.gov.in web server. Also village wise disaster Management plan has been developed and village wise data entry has been made and report has been compiled. These are small steps which shall reap in big rewards for the future of Lakhimpur District. NIC Lakhimpur District Centre Dibyajit Dutta District Informatics Officer Mithun Mukherjee District Informatics Associate For further details,please mail to a-lakhim@nic.in