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Deputy Director General, NIC

Editorial Committee

Dr. Shefali S. Dash –Editor-in-Chief

A. Venkatesan

B.V. Sarma

Neeta Verma

D.C. Mishra

Shalini Mathrani

I.P.S. Sethi

M.K. Mishra

Vinay Thakur

Chayan Kanti Dhar

Mala Mittal

Mohan Das

Design & Layout

A.K. Aggarwal

Print & Circulation

Anita Arora

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Preface

NIC has spearheaded majority of e-Governance programmes in the country and commendable work has been done in Land Records, Education, Health, Rural Development and Transport sectors. Time has come now to bring in digital inclusion by extending these services to rural population. This will be possible by improving connectivity, content (local content based on local language), building Human Capacities and Sustainability..

Another major role envisaged for NIC relates to managing of e-Governance infrastructure set up under various government initiatives across the country. NIC is engaged in supporting the states to manage the state level e-Governance Infrastructure such as State Data Centers, State Wide Area Networks & State Portals. Setting up of a broadband backbone to facilitate delivery of e-services to the common man located in the remotest part of the country in a seamless and integrated manner is another priority area.

This compendium presents the details of Nationwide Common ICT Infrastructure to support e-Governance services to the citizen, Products and Solutions designed to address e-Governance Initiatives, Major e-Governance Projects, State/UT Informatics Support and district level services rendered at the grassroots level. It endeavors to create a comprehensive picture of the contribution of NIC in the area of e-Governance initiatives for citizen empowerment. It is hoped that this knowledge base will be used as a tool to ensure that the benefits of ICT are percolated to every citizen. One of the objectives of the compendium is that government organizations within the country as well as governments of other countries may use the lessons learnt to create similar success stories without the necessity of reinvention.

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Acknowledgements

The Editorial Committee is grateful to Dr. B.K. Gairola, Director General, National Informatics Centre for his valuable direction and guidance during the preparation of this compendium. The committee sincerely acknowledges the visionary inputs provided by Dr. Y.K. Sharma, Deputy Director General, NIC, for developing the framework of the document. We are indebted to the entire NIC community for their support and contribution towards the content of this compendium. We are also thankful to the Project Coordinators, State Informatics Officers and District Informatics Officers for providing details of projects and applications. Last but not the least, we thank Ms. Neena Jhol and other support staff for their

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1 INTRODUCTION 1

2 ICT INFRASTRUCTURE & SERVICES 5

2.1 National Level 6

2.2 State Level 18

2.3 District Level 19

3 PRODUCTS & SOLUTIONS 21

3.1 Agricultural Marketing Information Systems Network (AGMARKNET) 22

3.2 Bhu-naksha 22

3.3 Cooperative Core Banking Solution (CCBS) 23

3.4 CollabCAD 24

3.5 CollabLand 25

3.6 Digital Archiving and Management 26

3.7 e-Granthalaya - Digital Agenda for Automation and Networking of Libraries 27

3.8 Election Automation System (ELECON) 27

3.9 e-Lekha 27

3.10 e-Hospital 28

3.11 e-Payroll (CompDDO) 29

3.12 e-Office 30

3.13 Government e-Procurement System of NIC (GePNIC) 30

3.14 Instant Money Order (iMO) 31

3.15 National Portal of India 32

3.16 NREGASoft 32

3.17 Online Admission Counseling System 33

3.18 Online Scholarship Management System (OSMS) 33

3.19 PlanPlus 34

3.20 Panchayati Raj Institution Accounting Software (PRIASoft) 34

3.21 National Panchayat Portal (NPP) 35

3.22 Area Profiler for Panchayat 35

3.23 Sarathi / Vahan 36

3.24 TreasuryNET 36

3.25 Virtual Post Office (ePost Office) 37

3.26 Value Added Tax (VAT) Soft 37

4 NATIONAL e-GOVERNANCE PROJECTS 41

4.1 Advertisement Automation System for DAVP 42 4.2 Agricultural Informatics and Communication Network (AGRISNET) 43 4.3 Agricultural Schemes Monitoring Management Information Systems 43

4.4 AWAASSoft for Indira Awaas Yojana 43

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4.6 Centralised Public Grievance Redress And Monitoring System (CPGRAMS) 44 4.7 Centralised Web Based Port Community System (PCS) 45 4.8 Common Integrated Police Application (CIPA) 45 4.9 Communication Plan For Election Tracking (ComET) 46 4.10 Community Information Centres (CICs) Project 47 4.11 Computerisation of Central Government Health Scheme Dispensaries 48 4.12 Computerisation of Central Herd Registration Scheme (CHRS) 48 4.13 Computerisation of Agriculture Census and Input Survey 48 4.14 Computerisation of 18th Livestock Census 2007 49 4.15 Computerised Registration of Pesticides 49 4.16 Computerisation and Networking of Consumer Forums (CONFONET) 49 4.17 Crop Production Statistics (CPS) Information System 50

4.18 DACNET 50

4.19 Data Analysis Systems for Evaluation of Flagship Programmes 50

4.20 DISNIC-PLAN Project 51

4.21 e-Courts Project 51

4.22 Electronic Post (ePost) 51

4.23 e-Panchayat Mission Mode Project 52

4.24 Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) Project 52

4.25 Exam Results through Internet 54

4.26 Forest Rights Monitoring System 54

4.27 ICT for Indian Judiciary 54

4.28 ICT System for National Bamboo Mission 55 4.29 Immigration, Visa, Foreigners Registration & Tracking (IVFRT) System 55

4.30 India Image 56

4.31 Integrated Management Information System (IMIS) for Rural Water Sector 57 4.32 Integrated Disease Surveillance Project 57 4.33 Integrated Information System for Food Grains Management 58 4.34 Integrated Voice Response System (IVRS) 58

4.35 Indian Customs EDI System (ICES) 59

4.36 Land Use Statistics (LUS) Information System 59 4.37 Limited Liability Partnership Act Project 60 4.38 MIS for Preparedness, Control and Containment of Avian Influenza 60 4.39 MIS on Integrated Action Plan for Selected Tribal & Backward Districts 60 4.40 Monitoring of Projects submitted to EFC (MIS-EFC) 60 4.41 National Animal Disease Reporting System (NADRS) Project 61

4.42 National Employment Service Project 61

4.43 National Horticulture Mission 62

4.44 National Land Records Modernisation Programme (NLRMP) 62 4.45 National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) MIS 63

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4.46 NIKSHAY - Prevention & Monitoring of Tuberculosis in India 64

4.47 Nirmal Gram Puraskar Online System 64

4.48 Official Language Portal 65

4.49 Online System for Allotment of All-India Quota of Medical/Dental Seats 65

4.50 Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) 66

4.51 Online Monitoring System for the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) 66 4.52 Pension Authorisation, Retrieval and Accounting System (PARAS) 67

4.53 Passport Issuance System 67

4.54 Pensioner's Portal for Government Servants 68 4.55 Pest Disease Monitoring Information System (PDMIS) 69 4.56 Plant Quarantine Information System (PQIS) 69 4.57 Postal Accounts Current System (PACS) 69 4.58 Postal Life Insurance Soft (PLISoft) 70

4.59 Project Arrow 71

4.60 Public Distribution System (PDS) Computerization 71 4.61 Registration And Licensing of Fishing Crafts (ReALCraft) 72

4.62 Retail Prices Monitoring System 72

4.63 Rural Consumer Price Index (CPI-Rural) 72

4.64 Sea Port Project 73

4.65 Seednet India Portal 73

4.66 Smart Card Based Public Distribution System 74 4.67 Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY)-MIS 74 4.68 Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Portal 75 4.69 Waqf Management System of India (WAMSI) 76

5 RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 81

5.1 Biometrics & Biocode for Land Records 82 5.2. Secure Service Delivery through Digital Signature 82

5.3 SCOSTA Standards for Smart Card 82

5.4 Mobile Technologies for e-Governance Applications 83

6 e-GOVERNANCE IN STATES 85

6.1 Andaman & Nicobar Islands 86

6.2 Andhra Pradesh 87 6.3 Arunachal Pradesh 90 6.4 Assam 91 6.5 Bihar 93 6.6 Chandigarh 96 6.7 Chhattisgarh 98

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6.9 Delhi 103

6.10 Dadra & Nagar Haveli 105

6.11 Goa 106

6.12 Gujarat 108

6.13 Haryana 113

6.14 Himachal Pradesh 116

6.15 Jammu & Kashmir 119

6.16 Jharkhand 120 6.17 Karnataka 122 6.18 Kerala 126 6.19 Lakshadweep 129 6.20 Madhya Pradesh 131 6.21 Maharashtra 135 6.22 Manipur 138 6.23 Meghalaya 139 6.24 Mizoram 143 6.25 Nagaland 144 6.26 Odisha 146 6.27 Puducherry 149 6.28 Punjab 151 6.29 Rajasthan 154 6.30 Sikkim 156 6.31 Tamilnadu 157 6.32 Tripura 160 6.33 Uttar Pradesh 163 6.34 Uttarakhand 167 6.35 West Bengal 169

7 DISTRICT LEVEL SERVICES 173

7.1 Core Services 174

7.2 Service Delivery 176

8 NATIONAL INFORMATICS CENTRE SERVICES INC. 183

8.1 NICSI Advantage 184

8.2 Service Offerings for Business Advancement 184

8.3 Key Projects and Customers 185

9 AWARDS 187

9.1 National Projects 188

9.2 State Projects 189

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INTRODUCTION

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National Informatics Centre (NIC) was established in 1976, and has since emerged as a "prime builder" of e-Government/ e-Governance applications up to grassroots level as well as a promoter of digital opportunities for sustainable development. NIC, through its ICT Network, "NICNET", has institutional linkages with all the Ministries /Departments of the Central Government, 35 State Governments/ Union Territories, and about 625 District administrations of India. NIC has been instrumental in steering e-Government/ e-Governance applications in government ministries/ departments at the Centre, States, Districts and Blocks, facilitating improvement in government services, wider transparency, promoting decentralized planning and management, resulting in better efficiency and accountability to the people of India.

"Informatics-led-development" programme of the government has been spearheaded by NIC to derive competitive advantage by implementing ICT applications in social & public administration which is discernable from the following major activities:

• Setting up of ICT Infrastructure

• Implementation of National and State Level e-Governance Projects

• Products and Services

• Consultancy to the government departments

• Research and Development

• Capacity Building

During the last three decades, NIC has implemented many "network centric" application software for Programme implementation in various ministries and departments, using state-of-the-technology software tools. During 1980s and early part of 1990s, the policy thrust was on creating "Management Information System (MIS)" and "Decision Support System (DSS)" for development , planning and responsive administration in governments which led to the genesis of

present day "e-Governance" / "e-Government". "Bridging the Digital Divide", "Social and Financial Inclusion through ICT" and "Reaching- the-Unreached" concepts were tried and made operational in the late nineties. NIC has vast expertise and experience in the design, development and operationalisation of various e-Government projects in the areas of Public Administration and Governance like Agriculture & Food, Animal Husbandry, Fisheries, Forestry & Environment, Industry, Health, Education, Budget and Treasury, Fiscal Resources, Transport, Water Resources, Court Management, Rural Development, Land Records and Property registration, Culture & Tourism, Import & Exports facilitation, Social Welfare Services, Micro-level Planning, etc. With increasing awareness leading to demand and availability of ICT infrastructure with better capacities and programme framework, the governance space in the country witnessed a new round of projects and products, covering the entire spectrum of e-Governance including G2C, G2B, G2G, with emphasis on service delivery.

This document presents the details of Nationwide Common ICT Infrastructure to support e-Governance services to the citizen, Products and Solutions designed to address e-Governance Initiatives, Major e-Governance Projects, State/UT Informatics Support and district level services rendered.

NIC has set up state-of-the-art ICT infrastructure consisting of National and state Data Centres to manage the information systems and websites of Central Ministries/Departments, Disaster Recovery Centres, Network Operations facility to manage heterogeneous networks spread across Bhawans, States and Districts, Certifying Authority, Video-Conferencing and capacity building across the country. National Knowledge Network (NKN) has been set up to connect institutions/organizations carrying out research and development, Higher Education and Governance with speed of the order of multi Gigabits per second. Further, State Government secretariats are connected to the Central Government by very high speed links on Optical Fibre Cable (OFC). Districts are connected to respective State capitals through leased lines.

The chapter on Products and Solutions describes various initiatives like Government eProcurement System(GePNIC),

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Office Management Software (eOffice), Hospital Management System (eHospital), Government Financial Accounting Information System (eLekha), etc. which are replicable in various Government organizations.

As NIC is supporting a majority of the mission mode e-Governance projects, the chapter on National e-Governance Projects lists the of details of these projects namely National Land Records Modernization Programme (NLRMP), Transport and National Registry, Treasury Computerisation, VAT, MG-NREGA, India-Portal, e-Courts, Postal Life Insurance, etc. NIC also lays framework and designs systems for online monitoring of almost all central government schemes like Integrated Watershed Management (IWMP), IAY, SGSY, NSAP, BRGF, Schedule Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers Act etc.

The chapter on e-Governance in States enumerates the details of ICT support being provided in the States / UTs by NIC. Separate chapter on District Level Services has been included to enumerate the citizen centric services which are rendered electronically at the district level. The list includes different types of certificates such as Income Certificate, Caste Certificate, and Residence Certificate etc. along with other services like Scholarship portals, permits, passes, licenses to name a few.

In executing all these activities, NIC has been given recognition in terms of awards and accolades in International as well as National levels, which are listed in the last chapter.

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2.1 National Level

2.1.1 NIC Network (NICNET)

NICNET is a Nationwide computer and communication network of NIC, utilizes state-of-the art network technologies to provide connectivity to Central Government Ministries/Departments and all 35 States/UTs and 616 Districts of India. This high bandwidth network forms the backbone in the country to support e-governance initiatives in various sectors and plays a pivotal role in decentralized planning, improvement in Government services, wider transparency of national and local Governments and improving their accountability to the citizens.

NICNET utilizes variety of technologies including terrestrial, wireless and VSAT networking to provide connectivity across the country and is now extending to the grassroots level. Mode of connectivity is decided based on suitability depending on factors such as user requirement and terrain. State Wide Area Networks (SWAN) in a number of states is also being integrated with NICNET. Wireless Metropolitan Area Network (MANs) and Local Area Networks (LAN) have also been established in various government organizations to access NICNET services.

State government secretariats are connected to the Central government by very high speed links on Optical Fibre Cable (OFC). All Districts are connected to respective state capitals through leased lines. 550 Districts have 34 mbps WAN connectivity from their respective state capitals. These are also equipped with Channelised STM-1 for aggregating various other departments/ organizations at district level. Leased circuit connectivity has been provided to 1318 Post Office across the country. Over 50,000 nodes of Local Area Networks in Central Government offices and State Government Secretariats are operational including 6500 nodes in NE States. The Integrated Network Operations Centre (INOC) at Delhi manages and monitors all NIC Centres in States, Districts & Bhawans. INOC has been equipped with a Video Wall for effective monitoring of the network services. Facility Management Services are provided at NIC HQ, States, Districts and Bhawans to extend effective NICNET services.

2.1.2 National Data Centres (NDCs)

NIC has setup National Data Centres at Delhi, Hyderabad and Pune which provide shared hosting and co-location facilities to the Government all over India. Besides this, mini Data Centres are also operational in all NIC State Centres to cater to the e-governance requirements at the state level. The Internet Data Centre (IDC) located in the NIC office at Delhi is equipped with more than 450 servers, 500 TB storage infrastructure and high speed network connectivity. The Data Centre has got ISO/ IEC 27001:2005 ISMS (Information Security Management System) certification. The Storage Capacity is regularly increased to meet the growing demands and providing online backup for critical applications. The National Data Centre at Hyderabad has about 100 racks and 800 TB of storage. The Disaster Recovery site at NIC Hyderabad is connected to IDC, Delhi and some of the State Data Centres for continuity of services in case of disaster. The National Data Centre at Pune is built over 10,000 square feet. This Centre was commissioned in March 2010 and has 137 Server Racks and 400 TB of storage. This centre is also acting as Disaster recovery site for some of the State Centers and organizations. Server virtualization has been

implemented for some of the web applications.

NIC has recently setup a state-of-the-art Tier 3 Data Centre at Delhi to provide services to various e-Governance initiatives undertaken by Government of India. It will also provide Disaster Recovery facilities for few State Data

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Centres and other NIC National Data Centres. The centre is built over an area of 30,000 sq. ft. with over 400 racks.

2.1.3 National Knowledge Network (NKN)

The NKN (http://nkn.nic.in) is a state-of-the-art multi-gigabit pan-India network for providing a unified high speed network backbone for all knowledge related institutions in the country. The purpose of such a knowledge network goes to the very core of the country's quest for building quality institutions with requisite research facilities and creating a pool of highly trained professionals. The NKN will enable scientists, researchers and students from different backgrounds and diverse geographies to work closely for advancing human development in critical areas. In the initial phase of implementation, a core backbone

consisting of 18 Points of Presence has been established with 2.5 Gbps capacity. 774 Institutes have been connected to NKN and 66 virtual classrooms have been setup at mentoring and mentored IITs and other institutes. MoU has been signed with service providers i.e. BSNL, Railtel, PGCIL & MTNL to ensure

connectivity for the high speed backbone within the country. Trans Eurasia Information Network link (TEIN3) has been integrated with NKN for providing international connectivity for global collaborative research. MoU has been signed between GLORIAD (The Global ring network for advanced applications development), NKN and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). A local ring connecting NIPGR, NIPFP, ICGEB, IUAC, NII, and IIMC with JNU has been established. Network Sanitation Lab is being setup at IIT Bombay, for sanitization of network equipment to be deployed in NKN.

NKN network is designed with the aim of providing highest level of availability and scalability, robust & reliable connectivity and best bandwidth capacity. For NKN, various National Long Distance Carriers (NLDs) have provided 1Gbps / 2.5Gbps capacity links which can be self healed. Further, the NLDs are in process of upgrading (using DWDM) to 10Gbps or more connectivity. NKN is a platform for delivering effective distance

education where teachers and students can interact in real time. This is especially significant in India where access to education is limited by factors such as geography, lack of infrastructure facilities etc. The network enables co-sharing of information such as classroom lectures, presentations and handouts among

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different institutions. NKN enables collaboration among researchers from different educational networks like GLORIAD, TEIN3, GARUDA, CERN etc. It also enables sharing of scientific databases and remote access to advanced research facilities

NKN has the capability to handle high bandwidth with low latency with a provision overlay grid computing. Some of the grid based applications are climate change/global warming, science projects like Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and ITER. The Garuda Grid has enhanced its power and stability by migrating to NKN. The Virtual Library will enable sharing of journals, books and research papers across different institutions. The network enables a large number of institutions to access high-performance computing to conduct advanced research in areas such as weather monitoring, earthquake engineering and other computationally intensive fields. NKN provides a test-bed for testing and validation of services before they are made available to the production network. The network will provide high speed backbone connectivity for e-governance infrastructure such as data centres at the national and state levels, and networks (SWANs).

2.1.4 Business Intellegence (BI) Services

NIC is providing services in the area of business intelligence solution to users across the government. The ultimate goal of Business Intelligence (BI) is to provide people with access to the information along with analytical facilities so as to extract knowledge from the vast information base. This enables them to make better decisions, share insights with others, collaborate throughout the organization, and, ultimately, improve its bottom line. The BI system can help to provide insight into the vast government data through an integrated, centrally managed, and trusted data source and BI provides with the reporting and analysis tools and technologies to capture both structured and unstructured information. A BI System on Foreign Tourists Arrival and Departure has been developed and implemented for the benefit of Ministry of Tourism. A BI system on Central Government Health Scheme is being extensively used by the CGHS wing of Health Ministry. A Proof of Concept was

developed and demonstrated to Planning Commission for Bharat Nirman Projects catering to the Left Wing Extremists affected districts. Proof of Concept was also developed on Mother and Child Tracking system for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

2.1.5 Cyber Security

NIC provides necessary security for network, servers, applications and client systems by introducing security appliances at the critical network segments of NICNET using network firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems/Intrusion Prevention Systems, Application Firewalls etc. Additionally, work is being done in the areas of Formulation of NICNET Security Policies, Restructuring of the network, Patch Management, Anti-virus Services, Secure Communication Establishment using VPN/SSL, Scanning of servers for vulnerabilities and hardening, Security Auditing of networks and applications, Log analysis, Security Incident monitoring, Analysis and Response, Development of PKI enabled applications, etc. NIC has formulated and circulated Cyber Security Policies, guidelines and SOPs for Government offices/ministries.

2.1.6 Satellite Communication Services

NICNET VSAT Network is a satellite based network across the country. NIC is providing Data & Video Conferencing services on this network. This network is used widely for various G2G, G2C application delivery across the country. NICNET has the largest Video Conferencing in India and is also providing Videoconferencing services to many Central and State Government Ministries/Departments. NICNET DVB Broadband/DAMA VSATs have been deployed in all the districts of India. NIC has established Disaster Recovery Center at NIC Hyderabad to enable the continuity of VSAT operations at user's premises whenever there is a failure at Delhi.

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NIC is in the process of providing broadband connectivity to 2500 Common Service Centres using VSATs in the North Eastern and inaccessible regions of the country. These Centres are to be used for delivering e-Gov services to the citizen. NIC is also in the process of providing satellite based reliable communication to National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) Battalions using transportable/quick deployable VSATS which can be carried to the disaster sites to set up Emergency Operation Centers.

The rapid growth and vast expansion of the Satellite network led to a need to put in place tools to monitor and evaluate network performance. These tools allow users to check availability and data usage of each VSAT on a daily basis, view the current online status of the VSAT at any moment in time as well as graphically view the details of the throughput of a VSAT. A number of diagrams and graphs of the overview of the entire network as well as summaries for important projects have been provided. The representations are constantly evolving based on feedback from users and to meet new requirements. For an

efficient handling of complaint calls from remote VSAT users, a Complaint Management System has been developed. A remote user can lodge a complaint for his/her VSAT by mailing to helpdesk ([email protected]) or by making a call to the toll free number 1800112489. A complaint ticket is then auto generated which is then sent to the user's registered mail id and the registered mobile number as an SMS.

2.1.7 Messaging Services

A comprehensive web based Messaging Service (http://mail.nic.in and http://mail.gov.in) has been extended to all the Ministries and Departments of Govt of India, including the offices of the President , Prime Minister of India and critical offices like Ministry of External Affairs. During 2009-10, a Disaster Recovery site had been set up for this service at National Data Centre, Hyderabad. Presently, the number of accounts is over 3.5 lakhs. NIC is currently in the process of upgrading the messaging services by introducing advanced features like OTP/Audio and Video and the new service is expected to be launched by Sept 2012.

The Disaster recovery setup was made fully operational in 2010-11. As part of ensuring business continuity 8 DR drills are carried out each year. During the year 2010-11, NIC consolidated all its messaging domains across India into a single domain i.e. [email protected]. At present, it gives messaging cover to over 450 virtual domains. In addition to virtual domains, NIC also offers userids with the domain [email protected] .

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In addition to core messaging, NIC also provides distribution list, SMTP gateway services and single source authentication as part of its messaging framework. Over 500 applications are integrated with the authentication server in NICNET. A very large number of these applications are part of the critical e-Governance framework of Govt of India.

2.1.8 SMS Gateway Services

NIC has setup a SMS gateway with the objective to integrate the various applications hosted by NIC through the SMS gateway for alerts and updates. SMS gateway is being used heavily for a variety of applications and messaging services. In many applications it is being used to populate the database. The system will soon become one of the key resources for various applications and a mode for data dissemination across Govt of India.The roadmap of this service includes deploying a secure

SMS agent for secure transactions. In 2012-13, the service would be enhanced to provide voice SMS, international access,

missed call service etc. NIC has configured a replica of the setup in Delhi at Hyderabad as part of its Business continuity plan and DR.

Since its launch in May 2010, over 400 applications are integrated with this gateway and over 3 Cr SMS are being sent per month.

2.1.9 Certifying Authority

A Certifying Authority (CA) is a trusted third party or an entity that has been granted license by the Controller of Certifying Authorities (CCA), the Apex Regulatory body for Certifying Authorities in the country, to validate identities and issue Digital Signature Certificates. NIC has established the Certifying Authority (NICCA) at NICHQ in May, 2003, which consists of state-of-the-art secure infrastructure, with biometric sensors and surveillance system of international standards.

Establishment of NICCA has vital implication in promoting e-governance in the country, by building the 'trusted' digital environment, in the usage of cyber space. E-mail services and other documents transmitted over Internet can be used as valid legal documents for its further processing, thus minimizing the delays in transmission of documents among the decision makers in the government. NICCA (http://nicca.nic.in) functions as a trusted authority mainly in the G2G domain, for issuance of Digital Signature Certificates (DSC). NICCA caters to the following functions:

• Identification of persons applying for Digital Signature Certificate (DSC) through Registration Authority (RA). • Issuance of DSC.

• Publication of DSCs and Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL).

• Maintenance of online Directory Services for DSCs and CRLs.

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A Digital Signature is analogous to the handwritten signatures and provides the same level of Authenticity, Integrity and Non-repudiation. Digital Signatures are created and verified using Public Key Cryptography, which is based on the concept of a unique key pair - Private Key and Public Key, generated by a robust mathematical algorithm. The private key is used to digitally sign a document and is securely held by the owner, while the public key is made known to everyone for verifying the digital signatures.

NICCA has been successful in proliferation of DSC usage in many Central; State Government Departments and other Public Sector/Autonomous Bodies. NICCA issues both Signing and Encryption Certificates to various individuals and Organizations. Certificates, issued by NICCA may be used for signing, secure-email, encryption, SSL server, SSL Client, Time Stamping Certificate, OCSP Signer Certificate, Smart Card Login, and IPSec Certificate. Some of prominent Organizations/Projects, which are using NICCA DSC and are serving the masses, include DGS&D, DRDO, Ministry of Company Affairs(MCA21 project), Vehicle Registration/Licensing for transport department, Bhoomi Project Karnataka, Department of Post, REIC, Delhi High Court, Supreme Court of India etc. NICCA issues all classes of certificates viz. Class I, Class -II and Class III and more than 18000 DSCs (individual & device) have been issued till date. NICCA is expanding its reach further and has opened four Registration Authorities (RA) at the following locations at NIC-RA, Bangalore, NIC-RA, Bhubneshwar, BARC-RA, Trombay, Mumbai, ECIL-RA Hyderabad

Depending upon the requirement, more RAs are being planned, for faster turnaround time in processing DSC requests. The

Disaster Recovery (DR) system is operational which enables NICCA to recover and renew all critical business processes using the Disaster Recovery site at Hyderabad. Three new Registration Authorities have been established at NIC State Centres in Assam, Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.

2.1.10 Web Services

NIC is extending comprehensive World Wide Web services (http://webservices.nic.in) to Central and State Governments Ministries & Departments in the areas of consultancy, web design and development, web hosting, value added web services for promotion of websites, enhancement of web sites & training. Hosting infrastructure is being provided to a large number of e-governance projects like CGHS, Panchayat Portal, Government accounting, Exam Results Portal, Online Counseling to Admission to various professional courses across the country.

NIC's wide range of hosting services start right from Shared Hosting and Dedicated Servers to Co-located Servers and Managed Hosting. Hosting solutions are available on a variety of platforms such as Linux, Windows, and Solaris etc. NIC also supports state-of-the-art web technologies and a variety of databases on the servers. The hosting infrastructure includes a large number of powerful performance tuned and secure servers. Load balancing and clustering solutions are used to effectively manage the heavy traffic on the websites during peak-hours and to ensure a high degree of availability. A site brought to NIC for hosting can be up on the server in less than an hour's time. Developing a successful presence on the web takes a combination of quality content, dynamic programming, powerful graphics and very importantly, a carefully planned promotion strategy. NIC helps in fine-tuning the site in such a way that it gets a high ranking in various search engines. Sites are also promoted through NIC's own portals such as 'India Image' and "GOI- Directory " which attract a large number of visitors everyday from all across the globe.

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2.1.11 Guidelines for Indian Government

Websites

Guidelines for Indian Government Websites (GIGW) (http://web.guidelines.gov.in) were developed with an objective to make the Indian Government websites comply with the essential pre-requisites of UUU Trilogy i.e.; Usable, User-Centric and Universally Accessible. These guidelines are based on International Standards as well as Information Technology Act of India. The objective was to provide guidelines for maintaining a consistent identity of the Indian Government websites, allowing proper policies and disclaimers in place to enhance the trust levels of the citizens, devising a structured approach towards maintaining the quality and scope of content, utilizing good design features to enhance the user experience and above all confirming to effective management towards website hosting and website promotion. The GIGW advocates policies and guidelines for Indian Government Websites and Portals, at any organizational level and belonging to both Central Government as well as State/UT Governments for making Government websites citizen centric and visitor friendly. These Guidelines have received an overwhelming support from all levels in the Government and have been included as in integral part of the Central Secretariat Manual of Office Procedures (CSMOP) by the Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances (DAR&PG), Government of India.

2.1.12 GOV.IN Domain Registration

As per the new Internet Domain Name Policy released by the Department of Information Technology, NIC is the exclusive registrar for GOV.IN country level Domain Registration. GOV.IN has been reserved for registering domain names for all the Government Departments/ Institutions/ Organizations at various levels right from Central Government, States & UTs, Districts, Blocks and Panchayats. NIC has also been providing Domain Name Registration under NIC.IN as part of their Internet services since 1995 and has around 8000 domain names already registered. A majority of government ministries and departments including State Governments and District Administrations have registered their domains under NIC.IN domain name. Now, these websites have to be hosted under

the 'GOV.IN' domain and NIC is providing this service free of cost to its users. To facilitate the GOV.IN Domain Registration, NIC has set up an exclusive web site (http://registry.gov.in). The domain name registration polices, process and eligibility requirements have also been published on the site. The site also facilitates online registration of 'GOV.IN' Domain Names.

2.1.13 Webcast Services

With the advent of high end streaming media technology, the concept of doing live/on-demand Webcast has gained popularity like never before. Webcasting an event allows you to extend the reach of your events to all corners of the world. At NIC, it is ensured that the events get an optimum webcast with flawless production quality. NIC's webcast service (http://webcast.gov.in/) offers a turnkey solution for an event, bringing onsite production, hosting, and streaming to millions of online viewers. Various features include a webcast room with state of art infrastructure at NICHQ and 15 more at state capitals, MPEG2/MPEG4 media encoding engines used to transmit live media from event venue to NIC webcast room at broadband rate, latest Audio-Video capturing cards and broadcast streaming servers, High speed Optical Fiber/RF/Leased line/Satellite connections to the distributions server, Archiving services for various events, User interaction services, including Q & A session, customizing web interfaces, and support slide transmission, web pages announcing

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upcoming events, Webcast Management Software to support various stages of webcast.

In an attempt to ensure universality, both the popular and prevalent streaming media technologies viz. Real Network Technology and Microsoft's Windows Media technology are being fully supported by the state-of-the art media servers set up by us. Live webcast services are being provided for various programmes, events and conferences. Some of the events webcast include Annual Republic Day Speeches and parade from the Raj path, Independence Day Celebrations Electronics and IT Exposition organized by the Department of Information Technology, union budget speech and presentation in the parliament.

2.1.14 e-Governance Standards

To ensure Interoperability among e-Governance applications, Government of India has setup an institutional mechanism for formulation of Standards through collaborative efforts of stakeholders from DIT, NIC, STQC, other Government Departments, Industry, Academia and Public. Various Working groups and Expert committees have been created for this purpose. NIC is playing a key role in coordination and steering the standards formulation process and also technical participation in preparation of Approach papers, standards formulation, drafts review process and POC.

Policy on Open Standards, Metadata and Data standard for Person Identification & Land Region Codification, Biometric Data Standards for Fingerprint and Face Images, Interoperability Guidelines for Digital Signature Certificates, Guidelines for usage of Digital Signature, Indian Languages Encoding and Font standards, Quality Assurance Framework, Conformity Assessment Requirements document, Information Security Framework and Guidelines have been already published on the portal (http://egovstandards.gov.in). Standards for eForms design, Interoperability Framework for e-Governance in India, Technical standards in Interoperability areas are in the advanced stage of preparation.

2.1.15 Video Conferencing Services

Multipoint Video Conferencing (VC) services are provided over NICNET from 631 existing studios spread across India. NIC has deployed 41 Multipoint Control Units on NICNET and approximately 8500 multisite conferences with total of more than 1,80,000 site hours of VC Services were decentralized by providing Multipoint Control Units to all states. Web based VC services (http://vidcon.nic.in) were launched in Jan-2011. Any user connected over NICNET or Internet can conduct high definition quality VC in Point to point or multipoint conference using their Laptop/PCs. Virtual Class Room was setup over National Knowledge Network (NKN). Total 63 Virtual Class Rooms have been constructed with latest state of art technology at 15 IITs and 5 NIC Centers. Similar facilities have been setup at 13 NITs, 5 IISERs, IISc, Chennai Mathematical Institute and TIFR. Executive VC Systems (EVCS) network has been extended to the office of Director General of Police (DGP) of all states.

Executive VC Systems (EVCS) : Videoconferencing technology has now moved out of conference rooms with ISDN/VSAT connectivity, to desktops due to drastic reduction in price of equipments and improvement in network infrastructure and bandwidth capabilities. NIC has taken the step to shift from group systems to desktop videoconferencing Systems by introducing EVCSNET, i.e. EVCS on NICNET. EVCS is an integrated system with 17" LCD display screen and a fixed

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camera with integrated microphone and speakers and is suitable for conducting small meetings. EVCS is capable of connecting VC sessions over IP up to 768 Kbps using H.264 video codec. It is interoperable with Group VC systems using H.323 protocols and it has the capability to send and receive computer presentations using H.239 standards. EVCS is equipped with Advanced Encryption Standards (AES) to ensure communications are confidential and secure. All the EVCS Systems have been registered with a centralized gatekeeper and their contact address book is being managed with Global Directory Management service.

NIC officers in various Ministries, Departments, States, and Union Territories have extended on-site training, documentation and demonstration to Secretaries and their staff. This is used for providing videoconferencing for Secretaries of GOI, Chief Secretaries of States and UT & Planning Commission. Department of Posts, Labour & Employment, Women & Child Development, Drinking Water Supply, Coal, Border Management and Home Affairs have also been connected through EVCSNET from their respective offices.

2.1.16 Integrated Network Operations

Integrated Network Operations Centre (iNOC) (http://inoc.nic.in/) is responsible for the constant monitoring & troubleshooting of network devices to ensure round the clock

management of NICNET. The iNOC team specializes in technical issues relating to network and guarantees a fast response time to all critical issues. Contactable by phone, fax or

email 24 hours a day, all year round, for emergency cover and support, the team is geared up to significantly to enhance NICNET services. Sophisticated alarm tools prioritize network related issues to ensure quick repair times. Scheduling of planned intervention and management of planned outages of the system, tending to basic daily network operation, fault handling and responding to customer queries are all tasks carried out by iNOC.

2.1.17 Open Technology Centre

Open Technology Centre (OTC) acts as a nodal agency for Open Technology established to spearhead the adoption of Open Technology (which includes components like Open Source Software, Standards, Open Hardware, Open Course ware and Open Product Design) in e-governance. OTC has identified set of Open Source Software (OSS) Stack for development and deployment in various e-governance applications. The stack details are available at the portal.

OTC has evolved a support model for provisioning necessary support for the identified Open Source stack, so that the e-governance applications based on stack implemented are guaranteed of hassle free implementation and also assured of

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technological support for sustained operations. Open Technology Centre sensitizes the adoption of Open Technology and facilitates various knowledge-based Services & Products effectively; it facilitates e-Governance Services to reach vast majority of Citizens effectively, even if they live in remote rural areas. It helps to create National Infra-Structure facilities and Local Capacity Building with the available limited Govt. resources using Open Technologies.

OTC has set up infrastructure for supporting the Open Source software, Open Standards and Open Hardware in the form of Collaborative Portal, Issue Tracking System (ITS) by using Open Source tools. These collaborative mechanisms target towards various users, developers, administrators involved in the E-Governance projects of State governments and the Central government. The OTC portal serves as a digital repository for all the knowledge generated with regards to Open Technology used in e-governance applications. The portal is available at https://portal.otc.nic.in

OTC has set up five technology committees for standardisation in e-governance applications. The committee's are (a) Standards for Digital Signature (b) Standards for Finger Print & Bio metrics (c) Metadata and Data Standards (MDDS) on Person and Identification and Codification of Land Regions, (d) Mapping Open standards Principles to Technology Standards of Interoperability (e) Framework for E-Governance (IFEG), Standards for Indian Languages OTC aims at providing a formal-structure to address issues related to Open Technology Solutions such as Long-term Management Capability, Manpower availability & Internal Capacity Building, selection of appropriate solutions, gap filling in tools/platforms and reducing the risk of Security Vulnerabilities.

2.1.18 Capacity Building

Training Division at NIC Headquarters (http://training.nic.in) conducted update training programmes in PostgresSQL clustering & Replication, Ms Visual Studio 2010, SQL Server 2008, Windows Azure, SQL Azure, Version Control

(Subversion), Change Management (Mantis) Web Hosting Services using Virtual Classroom technology, in which over 225 NIC officers from all over India participated. A series of Training Programmes on Software Engineering with emphasis on Requirements and Design were conducted which were attended by over 240 NIC Officers. The programme focused on skill building in creating good quality Requirement and Design Documents using IEEE Standards. Management Development Programmes on Leadership development, Organisational Behavior Project management were conducted at IIM Indore, IIM Lucknow and LBSNNA Mussoorie which were attended by 90 NIC Middle and Senior level officers. Sponsored programmes included workshops on e-Governance and Trainers Training programme in Hindi. Various components for eForm technology like Code Generator, digital signature and application with workflow have also been developed.

NIC Training Unit (NICTU), Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie provides ICT related training to the officers of All India Services during all the training programmes conducted at the Academy. 7 courses were conducted for officers of IAS and other services in which more than 300 sessions of training were conducted and training imparted to about 900 officials.

The NIC eLearning services over NICNET has been upgraded to higher version with better video quality with bigger size and stabilized across NIC. Over 1500 Live Sessions have been conducted over the NIC Web Connect E-learning Services including tele-education project in North East where online PET/PMT coaching was given to students online.

2.1.19 National GIS Services

"Geographical Information System (GIS)" has emerged as powerful tool which has the potential to organize complex spatial environment with tabular relationships. National GIS Web Portal (https://gis.nic.in) has emerged as single window system for delivering of Spatial Data Infrastructure and Services. "Spatial Data Infrastructure for Multi-Layer

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Geographical Information System for Planning" Project has been implemented with the support of Planning Commission. This has led to establishment of "National Geographical Information System (GIS) Framework" as "Service Oriented Architecture" around at 1,50,000 scale SOI reference framework.

GIS Services Roll-out in States include Transformation of Spatial Data from Everest Datum to WGS 84 Datum for bringing data in Open Series Map format for citizen/public services, Enhancement of Ground Verified Village Boundaries and village/habitation location, Spatial Data procurement,

enhancement, updates, development and building re-usable GIS products for deployment in application services. State Spatial Data Infrastructure Initiatives have been undertaken in Bihar, U.P., M.P., Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan. GIS services have been deployed for critical sectors such as Telecom (OFC Mapping), GIS mapping of Rural Post Offices and Pin Code

Area Mapping, education, Election, water, soil, agriculture and environment. Ground Water Information System from CGWB and Sports Infrastructure Mapping for Common Wealth Games.Telecom Infrastructure has been mapped to facilitate high speed broadband connectivity to Panchayats in Rural Areas. http://gis.nic.in

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The National GIS Asset as Largest spatial data base, known as "National Spatial Database (NSDB)" with integration of raster, vector and MIS data has further been enhanced around which Enterprise Architecture enabling customization of web-GIS applications and services. Satellite Images are extensively processed to synchronize with the base map from SOI and suitable seamless mosaic prepared.

The versatile Enterprise Architecture has capability not only to store and retrieve the data but also provides an environment to share data in service mode. "Value-Added NICMAPS Services" at top of this National GIS enterprise architecture has been evolved as "Common Service Delivery Platform" for E-governance & Planning. Therefore, in order to further scale up the services, the requirement in terms of high scale data organization, particularly city and cadastral level and attribute data management needs to be accessed along with ICT Infrastructure capacity for sustained services.

2.1.20 Utility Mapping

The problems of urban migration, congestion and overloading of utilities in Delhi run parallel to those of any other large city in the

world. In Delhi these problems are compounded due to the fact that the city infrastructure has evolved over several hundred years. The network records have not been maintained properly.

The city administrators realized that conventional methods were not good enough for the management of the utility networks. The "Computer Aided Utility Mapping Project (Delhi)" was initiated during 1998-1999 in the 9th five Year Plan. The objective was to create the large-scale digital maps on scale 1:1250 of Delhi City with utility network and related data about water, sewage, electricity, gas etc. superimposed on them with the help of the utility agencies.

NIC through the project shall support software and hardware for utility mapping. The utility agencies are to create a district wise cell within the organization for using this facility. The project provides excellent planning tools for various local bodies. In addition, many benefits are foreseen such as availability of integrated information of all the underground utilities; Co-ordination of digging procedures; Detection of potential areas of water contamination i.e. proximity of the sewerage line to a leaking water network could cause water contamination; Protection of records from damage; Proper analysis and reanalysis of the water requirement and sewage load of the colonies of the city; Better tool for evaluation of alternatives; Better planning and traffic load analysis.; Easier leak detection and fault detection by preparing history; Reduction in maintenance time

Under the Computer Aided Digital Mapping Project for Six Cities, the map compilation and attribute data collection in the field and its linkage to the corresponding base map features for Bengaluru and Kolkata has been completed. The utility agencies of Ahmedabad, Chennai, Hyderabad and Mumbai city are able to access the base map data, compiled earlier and located at the central map server, to overlay their utility network such as water, sewage, electricity, telephone on the digital base map using location identification. Linking of assets data of Chennai Corporation is completed.

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digital base map is being accessed by Delhi Jal Board, Delhi Police, Delhi Traffic Police on 24 X 7 basis.

2.2 State Level

In addition to the core infrastructure at the national level, NIC centers at States/UTs are also equipped to provide Web Hosting, Internet connectivity, E-mail facility, LAN / WAN connectivity (leased line), Dial Up services, Technical support and consultancy to the state governments and district administration.

2.2.1 Internet Data Centre

Hosting infrastructure of NIC includes strategic storage, known as Storage Area Network (SAN), facilitating high availability (24x7), quick scalability, efficient management & optimized utilization of resources, with connection to Internet on very high bandwidth. Most of the State level IDCs consist of SAN storage along with State-of-the-art Servers, Windows & Linux based hosting environment.

2.2.2 Network Infrastructure

Network Infrastructure in States/UTs supports Video Conferencing, Anti Virus Support and Security services at State/District levels on 24x7 basis. States/ UTs are equipped with high end technology products & solutions to provide seamless services to their users as below:

• State Portal (Government) hosting State websites.

• Intranet applications at State Secretariat

• Web-enabled applications pertaining to Commissioner Land Records, Food Department, School Education, Forest Department, Health, etc.

• FTP Server for transmission of utility/applications software to District Centres.

2.2.3 Local Area Network(LAN) / Wide Area

Network(WAN)

Gigabit Backbone (Upgradeable to 10 G) based Structured & Managed Local Area Network at State Secretariat, to support various upcoming National & State level e-Governance Applications, Media Streaming, High Speed Data Transfer, Various Intranet/Internet Applications, IP Telephone, Desktop Video Conferencing etc are also available.

(Gigabit Multi Link Core & Distribution Network)

NICNET Setup at State Centres

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2.2.4 Video Conferencing (VC) Services

Video Conferencing Services have been provided to the CM Office, Governor Office and Districts in all the states. The VC facilities are extensively used in the states.

2.3 District Level

Each NIC District Center has been provided with state-of-the-art ICT infrastructure including Rack Server, Clients, Printers, 2 Mbps or more Leased Line connectivity to NIC

State Centres with SCPC DAMA backup Link as well as a Video Conferencing System.

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NIC is providing a range of products and services for various government organizations in areas of Business Intelligence, Archiving and management of large government repositories, office management (e-Office), e- procurement, etc.

3.1 Agricultural Marketing Information

Systems Network (AGMARKNET)

NICNET based Agricultural Marketing Information System Network (AGMARKNET) (http://agmarknet.nic.in) has been implemented for linking all important Agricultural Produce Wholesale Markets, State Agricultural Marketing Boards/Directorates and Directorate of Marketing and Inspection (DMI) regional offices located throughout the country for effective information exchange on market prices. AGMARKNET has expanded to 3360 nodes. This system facilitates collection of daily market information from these markets which is being disseminated through the portal for the use of various stakeholders. Apart from English, the daily market information is being disseminated in 11 Indian languages (Hindi Gujarati, Gurumukhi, Marathi, Bengali, Oriya, Assamese, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Malayalam). Interfaces have been provided to facilitate monitoring of transactions below the minimum support prices (MSPs). The portal contents include weekly/monthly price and arrivals trends, market profiles, commodity profiles, commodity grades and standards, market research studies, market atlas, application status of AGMARK certification, etc. An e-Alert system, developed with the support of NIC Kerala state unit, is under implementation to facilitate posting of information to the registered users through e-mail and SMS. Reporting status and likely anomalous prices reported by markets is informed to NIC and DMI State Coordinators through automatically generated e-mails every month for their monitoring use and improving the performance of markets in terms of data reporting.

To expand the reach of AGMARKNET for wider dissemination, measures are being taken to deliver the market information through Regional TV Channels of Doordarshan and Cable TV Network; SMS (a mobile based interface developed in collaborative mode by IIT Kanpur, BSNL, DMI and NIC) and Email; Digital Display Boards being installed in agricultural produce wholesale markets by the Forward Market Commission

(FMC); Farmers' Training Centers (FTCs); Various delivery channels such as Common Service Centres (CSCs), Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS), Mass Media, etc. have been identified.

3.2 Bhu-naksha

Computerization of Land Records has been in practice for quite some time now and various States/UTs have already made significant headway in this regard. While Record of Rights(ROR) data has been converted to the digital form by many States/UTs long back, the preservation and manipulation of cadastral or parcel maps on the digital media had been elusive owing to cost and technology constraints till recently.

Though some States/UTs have taken initiative in this matter the solution provided by them was limited to scanning and printing the maps or generating the MIS reports based on the digitized maps. The real need was to have a mechanism not only to store and secure the digitized maps but to integrate with RoR as well as to edit them to reflect the actual changes arising out of mutations. Accordingly, NIC developed a tool 'Bhu-naksha' to cater to all basic necessities of the tehsil level revenue functionary with regard to land parcel management. Bhu-naksha is suitable for the States/UTs where village cadastral maps are in practice. Bhu-naksha is a tool developed using open source technologies to facilitate management of digitized

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cadastral maps. It integrates with the existing land records application of the States/UTs and enables printing and mutation of map with RoR. The system is Unicode compliant and has all features of LIS system to handle land records data. It allows query on various features available on the map such as all parcels owned by particular land owner, crop wise query, land holding wise queries etc. The system has been designed after studying the requirements of all the states and is easily configurable as per state requirements. The system has been implemented in the states of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Odisha, Tripura and Rajasthan. Customization to suite the requirements of data and formats for the States of Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh are being done. The package has been demonstrated to the States of Jammu & Kashmir, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Assam, Bihar, Sikkim and Daman & Diu to gather state specific requirements from these States/UTs. Web based Bhu-naksha is also under development.

3.3 Cooperative Core Banking Solution

(CCBS)

CCBS (https://ccbs.nic.in) an Integrated Core Banking Application is specially designed to meet all the banking related requirements

of State operative Banks (SCBs), District Central Co-operative Banks (DCCBs), and Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACSs). Common interface for all the category of banks provides integration of information flow within the banks. This will help in financial inclusion and better monitoring of banks. Reports compilation and MIS analysis will be at single button press. CCBS for PACS is fully compliant with Common Accounting System (CAS) recommended by NABARD.CCBS is designed in such a way that all the social sector related Government fund distribution (MGNREGA, Mid Day Meals, Old Age Pension etc) to the targeted beneficiary could be channelized and disbursed at the door step through PACS. The fund disbursement could be easily monitored and day to day position of fund distribution under these heads known at the apex level. The CCBS application has highly parameterized role based security levels. The biometrics based authentication could be enabled for right distribution of funds to right people on various schemes.

CCBS is developed with the great care to minimize the cost of application and better return of Investment (ROI). Banks do not have to invest a large amount of money for creation of Data Centre, Disaster Recovery Centre, purchase of high end server and its maintenance. The main objective is to serve the poorest of the poor in our country by furthering banking in the rural areas of the country.

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Some of the features of CCBS are SOA architecture, Multilingual support,. KYC Norms compliant, Grouping of account, Mobile banking and SMS alert on withdrawal of transaction.

CCBS will help the SCBs, DCCBs and PACS to provide state of the art technology to fully support current and future business needs; fast & error free disposal of transactions; timely & accurate preparation of cash book, trial balance and profit & loss account; Centralized control; MIS and Audit Trail Reports for decision support; effective security management and disaster recovery plans complying with the industry standards and RBI norms; faster response to queries of account holders & branch

manager; better monitoring of agricultural and non-agricultural loans and advances; to compete with other commercial banks.

Many SCBs, DCCBs and PACS have shown interest in CCBS implementation. The application has been successfully implemented at 6 branches of Meghalaya State Cooperative Bank, Shillong, 2 branches each of Nainital, Dehradun and Tehri Garhwal DCCB in Uttarakhand and Hathoj PACS of Jaipur district. It is under implementation at Sikkim State Cooperative Bank and its branches, Raipur DCCB in Chattisgarh and PACS in Odisha etc. The Rajasthan Government has decided to implement the application in all the 6000 PACS in the states.

CCBS may thus be offered as a centrally managed hosted service which could be used by any of the institutions at rural level who may be engaged in making payment to people in rural areas availing benefits from social sector programs of the government. NIC/ NICSI proposes to offer such a technology solution to rural banks and institutions without requiring them to establish infrastructure for deploying such a solution. Recognizing that payments are a Meta requirement and form the core to most transactional services, the CCBS solution will have the capability to become an integral part to a wide range of financial services offered across rural population of India.

3.4 CollabCAD

CollabCAD (http://www.collabcad.gov.in/) is a 3D CAD/CAM Software system for collaborative design & development of Industrial Products. It provides a collaborative framework for Computer Aided Design (CAD), Computer Aided Manufacture (CAM), Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) & Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). It is a total solution from product design, visualization, and analysis to content management, workflow and office automation. CollabCAD is an initiative of National Informatics Centre (NIC, Department of Information Technology), Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC, Department of Atomic Energy) and Vikram Sarabhai Space Center (Department of Space, VSSC). CollabCAD is developed on the Linux platform and is available on Windows and Linux

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(Red Hat, Ubuntu, Mandriva and Mandrake). It is developed using open source software tools such as Java/Java 3D, Open Cascade geometry kernel and supports open standards of data exchange such as XML, STEP, IGES, and VRML to ensure interoperability.

The main objective of the CollabCAD Software is to provide a cost effective, indigenous CAD/CAM Solution to the Strategic Sector, Small and Medium Enterprises and Educational Institutions. It is being used by BARC, VSSC and other government organizations for creating an archival of designs. Further, CollabCAD is an ideal tool for SMEs considering the versatility of the software. CBSE has introduced CollabCAD in the course curriculum of the Engineering Graphics (formerly Engineering Drawing) course for Class XII. CollabCAD Marketing, Support and Training Centres have been established in various educational institutions. An important use of this software has been in the area of computerization of land records for which a product named CollabLand has been developed for mapping of land records. The extension of CollabCAD to biomedical applications has been accepted as a model project for demonstrating the capability of the NKN.

CollabCAD is available in 2 modes: (a) Standalone - to work on standalone systems (b) Client-Server mode for collaborative designing and multiple users. The main features are Design & Drafting, Surface & Solid Modeling (Parametric & Feature Based), Re-Engineering - Surface re-construction, Styling, Constraint Manager - Sketcher, Assembly - Integrated Assembly Manager, Basic NC, Tool palette Customization, Collaborative Design, Database Connectivity, Scripting (Jython) Data Exchange - Supports Open Standards such as IGES, STEP, STL, VRML, Visualisation, Product Lifecycle Management (Content Management & Workflow), Interface to Enterprise Automation Application. CollabCAD also offers other niche features like Bar Code to link the designs to non CAD utilities like MRP, Meshing, Creation and linking of databases etc. It provides database connectivity and a component library framework and enables the user to create or use a Standard Parts/ Component library. CollabCAD has also been integrated with an Advanced multi-purpose CFD Software for Engineering Design and with a Casting Simulation Software.

CollabCAD facilitates the conventional CAD/CAM capabilities like design, drafting, surface and solid modeling, feature based modeling, basic NC features, data exchange, scripting etc. Surface models can be reverse engineered from point cloud digitized data, obtained from raw/scanned data. CollabCAD also provides reflection line analysis for visual inspection using Zebra Stripes mapping. The Zebra stripes mapping is a surface evaluation method for checking surface continuity. It supports basic NC operations like lathe roughing, lathe contouring, lathe center drilling, lathe thread cutting, point-to-point operations, surface milling, tools and animation.

CollabCAD provides a collaborative framework for CAD/CAM professionals to work across a network and concurrently access the same design for viewing and modification. It also offers an interactive design environment through audio and video conferencing, for on-line communication between participating designers. CollabCAD provides a Finite Element Analysis Module (currently only for Linux based distributions). It provides pre and post processor for Meshing, Modifying and Analyzing Geometrical Structures. The Finite Element Solver offers a full range of multiphysics analysis and the modeling methods go well beyond thermo-mechanical calculations, applicable for linear as well as non-linear structures Integrating CAD with PLM, CollabCAD provides an interface to a content repository and incorporates security, locking and versioning of the engineering drawings and documents. It further provides an interface to a workflow system and enables the user to specify, execute, monitor and coordinate the organizations flow of work. It also provides an interface to an open source enterprise automation software, comprising of ERP, MRP, SCM, CRM and Ecommerce modules.

3.5 CollabLand

CollabLand (collabland.gov.in), developed using Open Source Technologies, is a software for digitization and mosaicing of survey maps for computerization of Land Records. It can handle a variety of survey systems, extending from the conventional Chain / Theodolite method to the modern Electronic Total

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