Chief Minister’s Dashboard (https://nl.cmdashboard.nic.in) was launched on 13th August, 2018 at the Secretariat Conference Hall of Nagaland by the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Nagaland, Shri Neiphiu Rio. The programme was chaired by Shri Temjen Toy, IAS, Chief Secretary, Govt. of Nagaland.

Commissioner & Secretary to the Chief Minister, Shri Abhishek Singh, IAS, delivered welcome address and deliberated upon some of the projects and schemes onboard the CM Dashboard. The launch ceremony was graced by the presence of Director General, NIC, Smt. Neeta Verma, Shri D.C. Misra, DDG(NIC), Shri I.P.S. Sethi, DDG(NIC), and Shri Ajay Gopal Bhartariya, Sr. Technical Director, PMU-DARPAN, NIC Lucknow (State Unit), Uttar Pradesh, via Video Conference.

On launching the CM Dashboard, Hon’ble Chief Minister urged all to work and contribute towards this initiative in a constructive manner. He congratulated the DG(NIC) and Nagaland State Centre officials for their valuable support to his government. The DG(NIC) briefed about various Digital Governance services of NIC along with the service of the CM Dashboard. She mentioned, “The CM Dashboard provides a finished record of all the important programs and schemes of the government. The advantage of the service is that it enables one to use the program with their own indicators, benchmark and customization.” She urged the Government of Nagaland to consider in approving the district-wise dashboard down the line for a single window, where they could get an access to all the programs and performance at the district level also.

The SIO(NIC), Shri Hemanta Kr. Saikia gave a slide presentation and pointed out the challenges involved in putting analytical data comprehensively together in a single window. He also said since the manual collection of data was prone to errors, there was a need to have a comprehensive single window.

eNPS System of the Finance Department of Govt. of Nagaland was also launched during the program.