Significant projects executed in past

The project e-Kosh is intended for intranetworking of all the 18 district, 1 city and 45 sub treasuries, 3 divisional joint director offices in the state with the directorate using VSAT network to facilitate accessing a common pool of data resources for budget distribution, online bill passing, pension disbursements, receipt consolidation etc. and enable the finance department reporting the latest financial position to government from time to time. e-Kosh is running successfully since April 2005 in all the treasuries and sub treasuries across the state. e-Koshonline provides online information to government departments, DDOs, citizens on expenditure, receipts, budget availability etc. in a classified manner.

NPS (CPS) Accounting System

The requirement is initiated as a result of state government order that employees recruited on or after 1.11.2004 shall be covered under the New Pension Scheme (Contributory Pension Sceheme) that has come out in January 2006.

LoC System

Letter of Credit is issued to the Executive Engineers who are also DDOs of works departments to enable them to draw amount to the cumulative limit of budget mentioned in letter of credit from time to time.

e-Karmachari ( Employee database )

The data pertaining to employees of state government under the categories of Permanent/Temporary/Contract and Contingent is captured and maintained in central server on oracle database. The data comprise personal information, initial appointment information, present posting details, nominee-details besides details of transfers, promotions, disciplinary cases from time to time.

e-Challan

e-Challan is the web enabled software to facilitate capturing of online payments made by the users who have an internet enabled online bank account. The users can make any government payment of any department by simply filling the e-form provided and through the selected bank�s gateway in which he/she has an online account. The data at the end of each day will be communicated by the bank concerned to treasuries for compiling required receipts account.

Pension Management System

Online pension management system is developed and maintained to automate the pension processes at divisional joint director offices from accepting the case to calculation of pension, gratuity, commutation and preparation of orders on pre-printed stationery for issue to beneficiaries, treasury concerned, DDOs and AG office. Pensioners database is created by capturing information of existing pensioners and maintained. Treasuries access the online database to release initial payment and transfer the case to the choice bank of the pensioner. The broad objectives are to track monthly pension payments, evaluate government requirements on pension liabilities from time to time and redressing the grievances of pensioners. Monthly pension payments from banks and treasuries are captured to monitor the eligibility criteria once the pension becomes family pension

Technologies used:

For cost effectiveness, Oracle 10g DB EE is used at central server, Oracle 10g DB Std. Edition 1 is used at Treasuries and free edition of Oracle 10g DB Express edition is used at sub treasuries as a backend database. Visual Basic serves as front end requirement at treasuries while web technologies of PHP, ASP.Net, JSP, Java with web server are used for online software projects mentioned above.

The project has been operational since Nov 1st, 2007 and proved to be giving envisioned results. Registration of 1500 mills, granting of permission and generation of delivery orders are being done through a web based application ensuring uniform procedures throughout the state. Automated allotment eliminated grafts involved to get excess allotment. The computerization ensured 100% lifting before 6th of every month.

Fruitful Innovations used in the project.

Adopting Motor Cycle Riders for data transmission.

Paddy procurement centres are generally in remote locations where internet connectivity is not available. V-Sat based internet connectivity is available in Chhattisgarh at block headquarters in the offices of Janpad Panchayats. Motorcycle riders have been hired to bring data everyday from procurement center computers to block headquarters, where they upload the data on the central server through the internet. This innovation has resulted in having near real-time data in the absence of internet connectivity.

Truck Dispatch Information to Citizens through SMS

Citizen interface web-site provides a method of citizen participation in monitoring of PDS. Citizens can register their mobile numbers on this web-site for participation in the monitoring of PDS by selecting one or more Fair Price Shops (FPSs). Whenever PDS commodities are dispatched to an FPS from the warehouse, an SMS is sent to all the mobile numbers registered for that FPS. This message has the truck number, the quantities of PDS commodities being sent by that truck, and the date and time of dispatch. This improved transparency and citizen.

An application in J2ME has been developed and loaded in a GPS enabled mobile phone with camera to be used at warehouse. When a truck with rice and other commodities reaches the warehouse for delivery, the truck is photographed using the application and sent to the server. The truck and receiver's photograph along with latitude and longitude reaches the server. Server side program compares the latitude and longitude of truck with latitude and longitude of the warehouse to ensure that the truck is the warehouse per misses by the said date and time. This innovation is helping to check diversion.

The project has received six national/international awards as on 01.03.2008 and short listed for Prime Minister Award and World Summit Award.

The textual data module was initially implemented at all Tehsil offices since December 2002 and later extended down to village level since 2007. Devanagari language support has been provided in the software with the help of UNICODE. All the Patwaris are given one Personal Computer each to handle the data pertaining to villages of their jurisdiction. Patwaris periodically update the database at Tehsil office. The system has facilitated villagers to acquire RoRs in the village itself that too instantaneously by paying nominal stationary charges fixed by the Government. The data from all the Tehsils is integrated at NIC District centre and made available to public for information and viewing through a website http://cg.nic.in/cglrc . This system has eliminated illegal manipulation of land records data by the Patwari as it is now made transparent to the public. The software has minimized the time and labour required to compile the land records data at Tehsil, District and State levels. The Patwari has also got rid of the cumbersome and time consuming process of annual KHASARA record preparation.

The spatial component of the BHUIYAN is to take care of Land Parcel map modifications and maintenance. All the Land Parcel maps (KHASRA MAPS) have been got digitized through Regional Remote Sensing Satellite Centre RRSSC), Nagpur. The software developed using open source GIS tools at present provides facility to view the map, divide a single map into multiple parts, merge Khasra maps into one, printing of map to desired scale and map based depiction of answers to some queries such as highlighting the Government lands in the village etc. The module is considered by the NIC HQ for enhancement by adding more features, its generalization and customization for other states.

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