NIC's Emergence During Elections Examination Results Key Activities
Karur is one of the six newly formed Districts of Tamil Nadu which came into being after a trifurcation of Tiruchy District. Karur has an area of 2958 sq km and Districts Namakkal, Tiruchy, Dindidul and Erode form the boundaries in North, East , South and West respectively. Karur is fairly well developed in terms of industrialization with textile industry being the largest. Some of the famous tourist attractions in the District include two temples in Karur town and Thanthoni Block.
NIC's Emergence
NIC Karur Unit was established in July,1997 with a modest infrastructure. Things got better with time and the Unit adopted Multipoint System connecting the Data Terminal Equipment system during January 1999. Recently, as a major leap ahead, Karur became the first of the newly formed Districts to have the NICNET connectivity which was inaugurated in February this year by Sh S Ayyar, IAS, District Collector, Karur.
Inauguration of NICNET connectivity at Karur by Sh. S. Ayyar, Distt collector
During Elections
During the Lok Sabha Elections , NIC Karur played a major role in deploying Poll duty staff at various polling stations throughout six assembly segments. In total, more than 6000 persons were deployed for polling duty. The details of all the polling duty staff members such as sex, cadre, nativity, place of posting etc. were duly entered in the computer. Evaluating these details through NIC's software using "Random number generation technique" (simple random sampling without replacement), they were posted under probability criteria for unbiased posting. The source program modules developed by NIC were inspected and appreciated by the Election Observers and the District Collector. NIC Karur was also associated with the conducting of Doordarshan DRS Exit Poll for "26 Karur Parliamentary Constituency" which was selected among 120 constituencies. The results were then successfully transmitted through MES, NIC Tiruchy Unit.
Examination Results
NIC Karur Unit played an active role in the exercise of disseminating the marks and the final result of the SSLC and HSC Examinations in the State of Tamil Nadu for the Academic year 1997-98. The information was collected from NIC Chennai and disseminated to the students through specially set-up information booths. The process took around 4-5 days and around 6000 students of HSC and 10,000 students of SSLC were benefited.
Key Activities
During the time span of past one and a half year, NIC Karur has been extending its computer support to various sectors of the District Administration and the following major activities have been carried out:
Health Reports : Databases have been created by the NIC Karur Unit for storing information about the schemes undertaken by the Health Department for CSSM (Child survival and safe motherhood) as well as Malaria Eradication Programmes. Reports are being generated every month and the same are regularly sent to Secretariat, Chennai.
Land Records : Six villages of the District namely Inam Karur, Balambalpuram, L.N. Samudram, Sanapiratti, Thantoni, Thirumanilayur have been covered under the Urban Land Tax. The details of the tax along with the addresses of the land owners, demand for each year, collection for each year and the outstanding amount have been computerised and stored on NIC's computer.
Economic and Statistical Data : A software to process economic and statistical data has been implemented by NIC Karur which calculates and processes daily and weekly farm prices of various agricultural commodities. Reports are generated on a weekly basis and sent to Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Chennai.
Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare : Under the Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare Schemes, the State Govt provides scholarship to students. The details of around 2000 such students have been computerized by NIC Karur. Sensitivity parameters (student's reg.no., date, year of entry etc.) have been checked through validation programs and reports have been generated for four categories viz. scholarship under a) SC List (central) b) ST List (central) c) State special and d)Under free education.
Besides, NIC Karur has conducted half a dozen specialized training programmes on "computer awareness" for the staff members of various departments of the State Government.
This is just a beginning. NIC Karur District Unit is spreading its wings further in different directions to achieve its objective of inculcating the 'informatics' culture in the way District Administration operates. The Unit, with its multifarious achievements, has set an example before all the new District Centres of NIC to follow suit and grow further.