District Mandi located in the heart of the Himachal Pradesh is known as “land of unexplored tourist destinations”. Ever since its inception in Mandi in 1988, the NIC District Centre has made its presence felt by making tremendous strides towards empowering the District Administration with IT tools, not only by strengthening the district administration’s own internal process but also by increasing the efficiency and productivity of it’s staff. The improvement in the citizen interface of the administration through the implementation of the programs such as the Grievances Monitoring System and the E-Governance Project has further strengthened the role of NIC in the district. The impact that it made in the beginning from a small room of about 200 sq.ft., encouraged the district administration to allot it a space of 1300 sq.ft. so as to further strengthen the role of IT in the district. The District LAN: District Collectorate has been equipped with a LAN having number of servers & clients which are being used for various software prepared like Plan Schemes Monitoring, Grievances Monitoring, Cash Counter, Reference Monitoring System etc. The Video Conferencing facility has been established in the district through DAMA VSAT, which is also being used to provide Internet connectivity to all the clients of the Collectorate. Apart from that, dial-up connectivity is also being provided to about 15 remote offices. ICT projects E-Governance Centres: A major milestone was achieved by setting up of E-Governance Centre in the Collectorate premises. The centre offers numerous services under one roof like • Issuance of Driving Licenses (SARATHI) • Registration of Vehicles (VAHAN) In near future, the centre will start Registration of Land Deeds (HIMRIS), Issue of Arms License (SHASTR) & Passport Forms Collection Counter (WEBPASS). After gaining confidence at District Mandi, these centres have been established in all sub-divisions of the District. In addition, setting up of E-Kiosk for providing important information to the general public is also in pipeline. Land Records Computerization (HIMBHOOMI): Presently the data entry for the Tehsils of district Mandi is going on in full swing. Shortly some Tehsils would be made online where the citizens would be provided with Nakals/copies of Land Records related documents besides the facility to enter the mutations online. Welfare Pension MIS: Aims at speedy disbursal of the quarterly pension for about 37000 needy pensioners achieved through printing of all money orders, other related reports and an effective monitoring process. Disability Certificate Issuance System used for issuing Identity Cards to the physically disabled persons. Disability Survey MIS and ICDS Monthly Reporting are the other software implemented for this department. HPOTIS: The HP Online Treasury Information System is used for the compilation of the entire treasury account through offline entry of sub-treasury account and online entry of the account of District Treasury in terms of the receipts of all bills at the token counter, their processing in the bill section and the final approval by the District Treasury Officer. Rural Development Department: All the ten blocks of the district have been given dial-up connectivity by NIC to feed the data related to various rural schemes in the web-based software ‘Rural Soft’ right at the block level, the monitoring of which can be done at the district, state and national level. Education Department: Implemented in Education Office, the Education Statistics MIS captures the school-level statistics in terms of the details of infrastructure, teachers, enrollment, etc. and generation of need based, statutory and analytical reports. DISNIC Taxation: To check the evasion of sale tax on the goods being sold by the dealers and actual returns being filed, a software is prepared which captures details from the Returns filed by the Registered Dealers on Quarterly basis and generates an yearly abstract showing the calculated tax liabilities and the actual tax paid by them, along with a list of Sales Tax Declaration forms (ST-XVIA) submitted by them at the Checkpost while transporting goods, which is used by the Authorities at the time of Assessment. NIC District Centre is also looking after Cooperative Statistics MIS, District Courts Computerisation, feeding & transmission of various rates related to Food & Civil Supplies Department. Besides, the payroll generation for 6000-7000 employees in the district is being done. The district centre has also provided active support in both Assembly and Parliamentary Elections. District Web-Site: A comprehensive web-site for the District, http://hpmandi.nic.in/ has been developed & hosted by NIC which provides comprehensive details on a host of subjects related to the district and serves as a reliable reference source of tourist information about the district. NIC Mandi District Unit District Informatics Officer Akhilesh Bharti District Informatics Associate Ashwani Kumar