Nalgonda District in Andhra Pradesh is also known as NEELAGIRI (BLUE HILL) owing to a large range of hills which run through the district. Spread in an area of about 14000 sq kms the district is divided into 4 Revenue Divisions. €| NIC Nalgonda National Informatics Centre was established, in Nalgonda, in the year 1989-1990 with an objective to promote computer culture in the district & extend the Informatics Services & its advantages in day-to-day district administration. Since then, NIC has been involved in various computerization activities in the district and has been conducting training programmes to create IT awareness amongst the government staff and the citizens. NIC officers in Nalgonda have contributed effectively in promoting the IT culture in the district especially in Mandal Offices, Gram Panchayats & Agriculture Market Committees. The various e-Governance projects like ePanchayat, eCollectorate, Spandan etc., have brought transparency & efficiency in the government system. €| ePanchayat : The ePanchayat project facilitates single window services of about 30 sectoral functions of the panchayats like Issue of Birth & Death Certificates, Demand Notices, Trade Licenses, Record of Rights, Dissemination of prices of Agriculture Market produces, latest information on scientific methods in Agriculture Management, Rural Technologies and many more. Nalgonda is the first district in Andhra Pradesh to launch the ICT enabled services through ePanchayat. Four ePanchayat Centres are already operational, while another five centres will be functional by August 2006. €| Land Records Management Information System (LRMIS) : NIC Nalgonda has been actively involved in the LRMIS project in the state, right from the design phase to the training phase. The project facilitates issuance of various revenue certificates such as ROR, PAHANI, land ownership certificate, online mutations etc €| eCollectorate: is an eGovernance application that enables the District Collector to Monitor the monthly Physical and Financial Progress of Developmental Schemes of all the departments in the District. Two Modules, Arms Licenses and Freedom Fighter Information of the Collectorate 2000 project have also been implemented in the district €| Lok Sabha & State Assembly Elections : NIC Nalgonda is providing all technical support for the Lok Sabha & State Assembly elections in the District. The responsibilities include appointment & training of polling personnel, timely data transmission of data to all agencies for declaration and analysis of election results etc. The District Centre is also involved in preparation of Electoral Rolls for the Zilla Panchayat, Taluk Panchayat & Gram Panchayat Elections. €|Spandan : It is a web-based online File Monitoring, Grievance Monitoring and Press Clippings Management System for collectorate and all the departments of the district. Many other projects have been developed and implemented in the district for the benefit of the administration and people. The Zilla Parishad GPF System has data of about 17,000 teachers, the BC Welfare Scholarship System helps in preparing the final list of eligible students for the Scholarships. Announcement of 7th class results & Teachers Recruitment and Transfer Counseling is done every year, issuance of household ration cards, monitoring the progress of different developmental activities taken up for “Indiramma Model Village” are some of the other citizen centric applications implemented in the district. The district centre is also involved in various state and central government projects such as District Court Computerisation, AGMARKNET, DISNIC PLAN, PARC (Passport Application Receiving Counters at SP Office), NREGS (National Rural Employment Generation Scheme), EPIC (Electronic Photo Identity Cards project) etc €| Web Services at the District : District Centre, Nalgonda, is providing all technical support to the departments in the district interested in hosting their websites. The official website of district Nalgonda http://nalgonda.ap.nic.in and a website for the benefit of pilgrims visiting the Krishna Pushkaralau have already been designed and hosted by the District Centre. €| Awards & Achievements:

  • Dataquest eGov Champion Award 2006 & Best District Officer Award to Shri Mohammed Arif Ali, DIO, NIC, Nalgonda
  • Implementation of ePanchayat got appreciation at the 9th National eGovernance Awards 2006 at KOCHI
  • Shared the Editor’s Choice Award 2006 for ePanchayat at Skoch Summit Challengers 2006 at New Delhi
  • ePanchayat initiatives of the district appreciated by Hon’ble Union Minister for Panchayati Raj Shri Mani Shankar Aiyer & Hon’ble Union State Minister for IT Dr. Shakeel Ahmed

€| Projects under development : House Building Advance Information System for Zilla Parishad, Design & Development of Right to Information Act Web site, Bio-Metric based Attendance Monitoring System at Collectorate. NIC Nalgonda District Centre District Informatics Officer Mohd. Arif Ali For further details please mail to nlgap@ap.nic.in