Mandi, one of the twelve districts of Himachal Pradesh, is the second largest district in terms of administrative strength. Mandi is also known as ‘Chhoti Kashi’, thanks to so many temples in the town. Due to its varied altitude, there are some places in the district where the climate is quite pleasant and welcoming.

The District NIC Unit was set up in the year 1989 and since then the unit has assisted various Government Departments to use the ICT effectively.

DISTRICT WEBSITE The official website of District Mandi (http://hpmandi.nic.in), has been designed & developed as a one-point-source to provide information about history, fact-file, culture, temples, accessibility, tourist places, rates of local vegetables and essential items and miscellaneous citizen services of the district.

“Information Technology plays a vital role in providing good governance. District Administration, Mandi with the help of NIC has implemented many e-Governance projects. I will mention one such locally developed software- Schemes Monitoring Information Software (SMIS) which enables us in real-time monitoring of the schemes’ status and take right decisions. I congratulate the entire team of NIC Mandi for its contributions and proactive technical support.” DEVESH KUMAR, IAS, Deputy Commissioner, Mandi

DISTRICT COLLECTORATE

  • Election Support: Technical support has been provided for entry and random deployment of polling staff, result compilation & dissemination to ECI for General Elections 2014. On the polling day, live webcasting of 11 polling booths was arranged.
  • Panchayati Raj Institutions Electoral Rolls: An initiative was taken by State Election Commission to have an online database of the Electoral Rolls for PRI and ULB elections. In the process, all the electoral rolls available in the ECI database were ported and draft electoral rolls have been prepared.
  • Schemes MIS: The district administration receives many funds in different scheme-heads for the developmental works. Schemes MIS is an online application which has been developed in the district to store details of the schemes and monitor them from the time of sanctioning till the time they are completed. The software has been replicated in all the districts of HP.

SUGAM KENDRAS To provide efficient, transparent and citizen friendly IT enabled services, e-Governance Centres or Sugam Kendras have been set up in all the sub-divisions, RTOs and Tehsils by district administration with active support of NIC. Some of the prominent G2C services offered through these kendras are:

  • Vahan and Sarathi: These software are used for registration of vehicles and issuance of driving licenses.
  • e-Samadhan: e-Samadhan is an online public grievance redressal system.
  • Lok Mitra Kendras: The project is being extended to the village level where VLEs are working as front-end delivery centres for different government schemes. The copy of record of rights, different certificates, water and electricity bill etc. are the prominent services being provided from these kendras.
  • Shastr: This is an online arms licensing system.
  • Him Bhoomi LMK: Him Bhoomi LMK is a web interface for issuance of RoRs to the land owners of the state.

FINANCE & TREASURY COMPUTERIZATION

  • eKosh: eKosh software has been implemented in all the treasuries of the district. Computerized tokens are assigned to bills/challans for subsequent processing till payment/ receipt.
  • ePension: ePension is a web based system for management of pension scrolls, arrear calculation etc. for the state government pensioners.
  • e-Salary: e-Salary initiative has been implemented in all the treasuries of the district for generating salary scrolls of the employees of various departments.

REVENUE DEPARTMENT COMPUTERIZATION The main software implemented in the Revenue Department are:

  • Location Directory (standard coding directory of all revenue villages of the district)
  • HimRIS (registration of land deeds in integration with the HimBhoomi s/w where mutation data is transferred automatically along with other deeds),
  • HimBhoomi (land records computerization) and
  • LokPraman Patra (issuance of all types of certificates).

SOCIAL JUSTICE & EMPOWERMENT

  • e-Kalyan: e-Kalyan software is used for disbursement of welfare pensions through bank accounts, MOs and post office accounts.
  • e-Pehchan: e-Pehchan software is used for issuance of the Disability and Senior Citizen Identity Cards.

RURAL DEVELOPMENT & PANCHYATI RAJ DEPARTMENTS The MNREGA, IAY, Double Entry Accounting System software have been implemented in the Rural Development Department while the ePRI suite, a complete suite for the management of PRI activities, has been implemented at the Gram Panchayat level of the district.

OTHER MAJOR PROJECTS

  • DBT: Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme is a GoI flagship programme for transfer of benefits directly into the beneficiary’s bank account under numerous Central/Centrally Sponsored and State Schemes has been implemented in the district.
  • e-Courts: e-courts is an NeGP MMP for computerization of subordinate courts that has been implemented at district and taluka courts.
  • iCJS: A pilot project was initiated by NIC HP, named Inter Operable Criminal Justice System. The system integrates courts, prisons, police stations and forensic labs. District Mandi was chosen as the Pilot District to implement the system.
  • Manav Sampada: Manav Sampada is an on-line application to manage the full details of employees and to generate service books electronically.
  • Kanoon Vyavastha: Kanoon Vyavastha application has been used to automate the process at various police stations in the district. It is integrated with State Police Portal for auto transmission of data and generation of MIS reports.
  • e-Rozgar: This system has been implemented at all employment exchanges of the district for computerization of the registration process.
  • NADRS: National Animal Disease Reporting System is being implemented in the district for entry of data related to animal diseases.

NICNET & VIDEO CONFERENCING Mandi is connected with State HQs. over 34 Mbps link to provide smooth connectivity to different departments. NKN connectivity has been extended to IIT Mandi. The district unit provides point-to-point/multi-point Video Conferencing services to different departments through State Wide Area Network for district level and below.

For further information: DISTRICT INFORMATICS OFFICER, NIC District Centre Mandi, HP.175001. Phone: +91-1905-221410 E-Mail: hpman@nic.in