The COVID-19 pandemic in Uttar Pradesh was first confirmed in March 2020 and since then NIC has joined hands with the state government to fight the epidemic on all fronts - be it state, district or sub-district level. ICT which emerged as a major tool to extend the government’s helping hand to the citizens was also used efficiently & effectively as a management asset by government maintaining social distancing and lockdown protocols. Video Conferencing, Online Systems and Mobile Apps were developed and launched to assist the government wherever and whenever necessary.
Jan Sunwai Many applications were developed to help the citizens during the pandemic covering a vast spectrum of services including ePass, Grievance Redressal, Migrant Movement, Health initiated by the CM Office under Jansunwai Portal - • Applications received on ePass Mgmt System 15,48,972 • Migrant Registration for movement from Uttar Pradesh to other State 6,89,530 • Migrant Registration for Movement from other State to Uttar Pradesh 21,83,505 • Complaints received on CM Helpline under 21 Categories 7,65,229 • Complaints through Gram Pradhan / Sabhasad from all 75 district 2,88,105 • Complaints lodged by Covid-19 Suspects, Patients or their relatives/ neighbours 47,455
Food Security Uttar Pradesh is the only state to complete nearly 98% distribution of the food grain allocation during this period with bio-metric authentication of beneficiaries maintaining, safe, hygienic and social distancing protocols in the 80,150 Fair Price Shops across the state. A total of 7 lakh MT (MetricTonne) food grain was distributed to 3.5 cr ration cardholder i.e 14 cr beneficiaries, each month from April to June 2020 under PMGKAY. 7.5 lakh MT of food grain was distributed to Antoday cardholders and labourers registered under MNREGA and Employment Department, and daily wagers of local bodies free of cost. 2,534 MT ration was distributed to 4.6 lakh migrants Under Atma-Nirbhar Anna Yojana. Also, around 33 lakh MT wheat was procured from 5.5 lakh farmers within the state from April to June 2020.
Social Pension NIC, UP developed the Social Pension Scheme portal for direct benefit transfer of funds under old age, widows, divyang and leprosy pension fully integrated with PFMS. Yogi Adityanath, Hon’ble Chief Minister, UP disbursed two months advance pension of Rs. 871.48 crore to over 86 lakh pensioners through the portal in April 2020.
Video Conferencing UP Conducted more than 1300 studio-based Video Conferencing sessions from Feb - June 2020 taking it to No. 1 position in the country using of NIC, VC System during Covid-19. In addition, numerous desktop-based VCs were also conducted all across the state
New Launches • 4 major schemes of MSME- Vishwakarma Shram Samman Yojana, Mukhyamantri Yuva Swarojgoar Yojna, one district one product, by Hon’ble CM • Sewa Mitra mobile app & portal for providing employment to Migrant workers returned from other states to UP. 32.85 lakh workers already registered • GIS Dashboard for district wise monitoring of Covid-19 related complaints. • Portal for posting of 69000 Assistant Teachers to districts under Basic Education Department, GoUP. • eLottery conducted for admission of children of destitute families in private schools under RTE • eLottery for Excise Department for allocation of liquor and bhang shops (Phase II & III) • 26 new services added to Nivesh Mitra • Clean City App by district Rampur • Mobile App ‘Galikidukan’ for the supply of essential commodities to local residents-district Unnao
Apart from these, all 75 districts provided 24x7 support for different applications (Covid 19 CC & Portal, Aarogya Setu & 1921, Ayush Kavach etc.) Networking, Video Conferencing and training to district authorities.