The district of Palamu stands on the bank of river Koyal in the historical state of Bihar. Palamu occupies a special place among the industrial township of Bihar. It boasts of its rich mineral resources and distinct culture. The district spreads over an area of 8363 square kilometre and has 19 blocks and 2100 villages.
The NIC Palamu District Unit came into existence soon after the setting up of the NIC Bihar State Unit in the year 1988.
In the early stages of its inception, the NIC Palamu District Centre successfully completed a number of tasks such as Election Counting Data Transmission through NICNET; Census of State Government Staff; Village Camp Computerization and Officers Directory Preparation.
Gradually, with the passage of time, NIC Palamu moved ahead, with important projects in hand.
NIC Palamu has undertaken many important projects and each and every work has rightly emerged as a milestone for future growth and has helped the centre to establish a firm footing.
Treasury Computerization is one of the major projects in which NIC Palamu has contributed significantly. The project involves maintaining an up-to-date computerized record of the District Treasury. The salient feature of the system is that it is based on an on-line system of data processing whereby all the bills are computerized before they are sent to the banks for payment. The system has made the whole process fast and accurate.
In view of the increasing crime rate in the State, NIC Palamu has extended help to the State Government by developing a Computerized Arms Information System (CAIS), that automatically validates the genuineness, renewal etc of arms licensing.
Palamu being a drought prone area, the drought relief work has been a priority with NIC, Palamu. Consequently a computerized Drought Relief Monitoring System has been developed. The system monitors the management of relief work and provides vital information to the authorities which is immensely helpful to the administration for taking corrective measures at the spur of moment.
Besides the aforementioned projects, NIC palamu has contributed significantly by providing information support in areas such as Correspondence Monitoring, General Provident Fund Records, Public Distribution System, Surface Transport, Education etc.
With the aim of spreading the informatics culture and information processing facility at all levels of decision making, NIC Palamu conducts training programmes for the district, block and village officers so that their thinking process is integrated with the efficiency of IT tools.
In coming years NIC Palamu holds explicit plans to go for computerization in important areas such as Land Records, Natural Resources Information System, Death and birth Monitoring and so on.
The NIC Palamu Unit, since inception has moved meritoriously with its objectives, towards the accomplishment of the mission. Inspite of suffering from unmitigated natural crisis such as droughts, NIC Palamu District Centre has tried to build faith and in turn has proved to be a trustworthy organization in the administrative circle. The Unit has, in a very short span of time emerged as an integral part of the District administration.
Email: dio.palamu@x400.nicgw.nic.in