Pithoragarh is a picturesque border district in the Kumaun region, East of Uttaranchal State. The District touches the border of China (Tibet) from northern side and Nepal on the east. The population of Pithoragarh is 4,62,149 (provisional fig. of census 2001) and is spread over an area of 7218 sq. kms. The famous Kailash Mansarovar Yatra conducted by Ministry of External Affairs also passes through Pithoragarh.
?| NIC - Pithoragarh NIC - Pithoragarh District Unit was established in 1989 at the Collectorate to serve the IT needs of district administration and to promote computer culture among the government departments and general public. Ever Since its inception, NIC Pithoragarh District Center has developed and implemented various Management Information and Decision Support System, to enable government to take informed decisions, formulate comprehensive plans, follow-up on delivery of public services, and create user friendly public infrastructures to enable masses to participate in the process of governance at all levels.
Key activities
?| Integrated Pay and Accounts Office (IPAO) Through convergence of services and delivery mechanism, NIC Pithoragarh has completely computerized the payroll system of all the employees of state government. Now pay is calculated centrally at district treasury making the system more efficient and cost effective than the manual decentralized system. Not only this, most of pay related information is disseminated through a comprehensive website making the system more transparent. The software has fully been integrated with already implemented application software Treasury Information System of NIC (TISNIC).
?| Block Verification System for DRDA With the objective of enhanced returns and value to people from development programmes, a comprehensive menu driven program (in Hindi) has been developed. This application is running successfully in the district for last three years with verification of works in progress in blocks under different schemes (state/ centrally sponsored) like Employment Assurance Scheme (EAS), Jawahar Rojgar Yojna (JRY), Indira Awas Yojna (IAY), Millions Well Scheme (MWS) etc.
?| Videoconferencing & Data Communication Services Since beginning, NIC Pithoragarh has been providing data communication services through NICNET to government departments. Recently with the introduction of Videoconferencing facility it became a member of NIC’s 212 node VC network. This facility, which is widely being used by the state government has become an effective tool to communicate between districts and state capital.
?| Basic Shiksha Parishad Payroll Computerisation NIC Pithoragarh was the first district in Uttar Pradesh (now in Uttaranchal) which had taken initiative to computerize the huge accounting task of teachers’ payroll preparation for Basic Shiksha Parishad in January, 1993. Later, two more modules – Pension Accounting System and GPF Accounting System were added in the software. Since then entire payroll of around four thousand teachers have been generated every month and yearly GPF Balance Sheet is generated and provided to all the teaching staff of BSA.
?| Web Development & Maintenance NIC Pithoragarh has developed a very comprehensive and dynamic website (http:// pithoragarh.nic.in). This website contains all major information for government and public covering tourism, cultural, socio-economic and statistical information which is updated regularly.
?| Training Success story of an activity is solely based upon the active participation of persons affiliated with it. Since it is the man behind the machine who gives shape to various projects, NIC Pithoragarh took various initiatives to train a number of employees of State Government to make them aware with tools of IT. Since beginning NIC Pithoragarh has been conducting regular and frequent introductory, on-the-job & refresher training programmes.
?| Land Records Computerization With the help of an in house software almost all the data of Record of Right, popularly known as ‘KHATAUNI” of almost all the villages of the district have been entered and corrected. Very soon this Land Record Management Information System will be able to deliver the copy of Land Records to the public from a single window in addition to other relevant information.
District Courts – District Court Computer Centre has been established with the help of NIC. Automation of filing, maintenance and many more activities are presently under implementation. Recently Cause List generation program was installed and started at the district court.
?| Management Information System (MIS) NIC Pithoragarh has also developed a number of MIS for various state government departments, which are helping in decision taking and planning a number of activities at various levels. Prominent MIS include District Plan, Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojana Allocation Report, 20 point Programme monitoring, Revenue Collection MIS, Forest Conservation MIS etc.