The Panchayati Raj functions as a system of governance in which Gram Panchayats are the basic unit of local administration. The system has three levels - Gram Panchayat (Village level), Block Samiti or Panchayat Samiti (Block level) and Zila Parishad (District level). ‘Mahari (My) Panchayat’comprises with macro level database of over 70000 elected representatives of PRIs in Haryana for enabling access to these representatives through Web Portal and Android based Mobile App, which is freely downloadable from Google play store.
As the country is advancing under the Digital India regime by transforming the society into digitally empowered society with knowledge economy, it has become essential that citizens are facilitated to contact their elected representatives in need. For empowering the citizens through easy access to the representatives of Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) of Haryana and to bridging the gap between the citizen and their elected representatives, NIC District Centre, Hisar (Haryana State Centre) developed Web Portal (http://priharyana.nic.in) & android based Mobile App. The Mobile App is freely downloadable from Google play store. Micro level database of over 70000 elected representatives of PRIs have been placed in public domain for easy access with specified credentials of elected representatives.
OBJECTIVE To ensure complete transparency about the details of elected representatives as per new legislation, this has fixed minimum qualification criterion under various categories of contestants for Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) in Haryana. Further, to ensure close and interactive coordination of citizen with their elected representatives. The government will be able to build a strong and very useful database of all elected representatives of PRIs which will provide a framework for bringing about the transparency and integrity in implementation of Governments in various welfare programmes and their social audit.
METHODOLOGY FOLLOWED In collaborative approach with NIC-Haryana State Centre and State Election Commission (SEC) Haryana it was decided that all the process of PRI election needs to be automated since capturing the data from nomination to declaring the elected representatives of all categories of PRI i.e. for Zila Parishad, Block Samities, Sarpanches and Panches. E-Dashboard for Nomination - Workflow & role based system and e-dashboard developed for capturing the data through online nominations portal during the election of the Panchayati Raj Institution. The Data structure was kept same as of Area Profiler of e-Panchayat so that after electing the final representatives of PRI the same data can be ported in the area profiler of e-Panchayat. The data on the nomination for e-Dashboard portal was populated directly from the respective BDPOs. E-Dashboard for Poll Process and winning Sarpanches - During the poll process another e-Dashboard launched for poll monitoring and for declaring the winning of Sarpanches on the same day of poll. The e-Dashboard was populating directly under the supervision of respective Returning Officers (Panchayat Samities) from the office of Block Development Panchayat Officers (BDPOs), and the sector officers / duty magistrates are the main source of carrier of communication directly from the booths and updating respective RO (Panchayat Samities). Composite E-Dashboard enabling “Mahari Panchayat” - Finally, the counting process of the Members Zila Parishad, Member Block Samities, Sarpanches and Panches were made available in the real time under public view with various statistical and graphical views for analysing the formation of PRI in Haryana under different variants and made available under the URL http://priharyana.nic.in. The link also has been made available on SEC Haryana portal.
FEATURES • Complete database and details of elected representatives containing the details like Name, Gender, Father’s Name, Photo, Caste, Address, Mobile number, Aadhar (UID), Age (DOB), Educational qualifications, Marital status and Occupation • Graphical and analytical view of all elected representatives showing age (Average age District and State wise), Gender, Cast and qualifica-tion wise representations • State level summary reports on various parameters • Search facility for getting details of any PRI representatives with all credentials and photographs • Android based mobile App for easy sharing
ADDITIONAL BENEFITS • Government can reach out to all representatives through a broad-cast SMS using the database of PRIs (Haryana) • Any mobile based campaign in the interest of general public which can be run using PRIs database • This database will provide a com-prehensive framework to the Gov-ernment for extending various welfare schemes and monitoring there of • Mobile App (android) “Mahari Panchayat” freely downloadable by anyone from Google play store • Mobile App a strong tool for ac-cessing the details of any PRI elected representative • Sharing the outcome of Mobile App to various social media plat-form like WhatsApp, Facebook, Gmail, Zapya and Google+ • Strong search facility in Mobile App to get the complete detail of all Sarpanches of all wards and Sarpanch in any of the Gram Panchayat in one search including the details of Gram Panchayat in-cluding Blocks and Districts
WAY FORWARD • Linking of this database to the vil-lage level GIS map of Haryana • Development of GIS application for PRIs with much wider scope • Development of grievances and expenditure monitoring system • Converting the whole system into Social Panchayat for sharing the exclusive, landmarks and innova-tive works done by any of the PRI representatives at Gram Panchayat (GP) level so that other may com-ment and adopt the same innova-tions.