Midnapore is one of the largest districts in India and has a glorious past of having played an important role in India’s freedom movement. The District is home to a huge population of 96,38,473 (provisional fig. of Census- 2001), spread over an area of 14,081 Sq Km. Some of the important Institutions/Industries situated at Midnapore include IIT (Kharagpur),RBI’s currency printing press at Salboni, National Thermal Power Project at Kolaghat, Vidyasagar University , Petro-Chemical / Indian Oil Corporation and Port Trust at Haldia.
NIC Midnapore, the first in the State
Set up in May, 1988, NIC, Midnapore District Unit is the first NIC Distt Centre in West Bengal. Ever since its inception, the centre has been rendering useful services in different sectors to serve the citizens directly, besides playing a key role in the monitoring and supervision of various sections of the District Administration for E-Governance. Starting with the bare minimum, the centre is presently equipped with modern infrastructure to meet the needs of District Administration
Feathers in the Cap !!
NIC Midnapore has successfully carried out numerous projects for facilitating E-Governance. Noted ones amongst them include the Projects on Online Motor Vehicle Computerization and District Court Information System.
Online Motor Vehicles Computerisation : There are around 1 lakh vehicles including Two Wheelers, Wheelers (Private & Transport), Bus,Trucks etc. in Midnapore. The Motor Vehicles Section ( Regional TransportOffice) is one of the important section of the District Administration which is mostly involved in providing the services to the public and is also responsible for collecting revenue for the Government. The host based computer system UNIX SVR 4.2 O.S. and Oracle 6.0 RDBMS were installed here in 1996 by NIC Midnapore. Since then, online transaction has been made operational to facilitate the people. Registration of Vehicles (Transport & Private), Tax Collections, CF updations,National Permit, Issue of Blue Book, Miscellaneous Receipt etc. of the Regional Transport office are done through online operation.
District Court Information System (DCIS) : Having the largest population in the Country, the number of litigants in Midnapore is also large as a large number of cases are filed in the Court. There are 19 filing courts including Civil and Criminal cases. The District Judge’s court computer center set-up by NIC was remotely inaugurated by the then Hon’ble Chief Justice of the Supreme Court,Justice A.M.Ahmadi on 4thMarch, 1997 by sending a E-mail to the respective District Judge. The District and Session Judge’s Court has since been provided with one Host based computer system with District Court Information System Application software. The case filing for the civil and criminal cases, Cause List generation, Case allocation, Court Apart from the above, NIC Midnapore has been actively associated with many other Projects /Services including the following :
Land Acquistion Compensation : Land Acquisition is one of the important activities in the district as land is to be acquired for the purpose of some important projects like Digha Tamluk Railway,Expansion of NH-6, Setting up of Industries at Haldia etc. The computer set up has been installed by NIC at the Land Acquisition Officer’s office at Midnapore and Haldia for computerization The Application software has been developed in Visual Foxpro 6.0. The issue of notices,Calculation of compensation, Preparation Estimates, Awards Acquittance etc. are all done using computers. A database has been developed and maintained for the Arms license of this sensitive district. The application is processed through computer and license is issued and renewed in the statutory Form-III.
District Industry Centre has been provided with an application software developed by NIC using which Small Scale Industries gets registered provisionally first and then the regular registrations are done for those SSI’s which meet the criteria. There are around 50,000 provisional SSI and 10,000 regular SSI’s in the district. Election Result Compilation and transmission to Doordarshan of the 37 Assembly Constituencies of this district during the Election to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly,2001 and Bye Election to the 32-Midnapore Parliamentary Constituency is another important activity carried out successfully by NIC Midnapore. Publication of Draft and final Electoral Roll of Midnapore District with 7225 Polling Stations was done centrally at District Headquarters. NIC played a vital role in the entire exercise. After the publication of final electoral roll , a CD was prepared and handed over to all political parties along with the hard copy of the roll. Another major achievement towards the Citizen oriented service of NIC-Midnapore is to supervise the data entry and validation of land records informations Dag & Khatian for the 54 blocks over 10000 Mouzas.
Various other sectors are being explored where it is feasible to use Information Technology for a better Citizen Government interface in future. Moreover, DRDA,Midnapore is one of the 15 pilot DRDAs for the implementation of RURAL SOFT - 2000 selected by the Ministry of Rural Development, Govt. of India.
On the Web !!
The WEBSITE of Midnapore District is being developed with rich content comprising important information and pictures of this district . Important application forms and forms for lodging complaints, grievance are also being included in the website which will soon be launched on the Internet.
In the words of Sh A K Bala , IAS, Additional District Magistrate,Midnapore
“ NIC Midnapore District Centre has been rendering useful services to the District Administration for the promotion of IT culture and towards the achievement of E-Governance.”