Chhattisgarh GOVT APP FOR PROJECTS’ STATUS IN WORKS

The Chhattisgarh Government will be getting developed a mobile-based interactive application to check status of a whole set of ongoing projects across the State. The Chhattisgarh Infotech and Biotech Promotion Society (ChiPS) will be implementing the project. The mobile application will be collecting local data or conduct survey for keeping track of various project development status,
officials informed. The mobile application will have the provision of authenticating each user through predefined username and  password or predefined username and OTP based password.

 The application would also map data/task of individual project created for data collection/survey and accessed by a particular user.

 The end user of the application will be able to view list of tasks allocated to him/her.

 The reporting module of the application would have the provision to generate various reports of data collection/Survey project wise such as -- Allocated tasks, Work in progress tasks, pending for approval tasks, completed tasks,time based report and survey based report.

Meanwhile , CHiPS has already commenced the process for implementing Centralized Project Management Software System. The scope of the project is to implement and support Centralized Project Management Software (CPMS) system, official informed.

 The task involves- Data Digitization of two projects per  department, Training and Capacity Building, Deployment of Personnel for Facility Management System (FMS) at Department level, Operational Support Unit and Operation.

 CHiPS will also be deploying an Enterprise-level ‘Network Monitoring System’ for 'Chhattisgarh State Wide Area Network' (CGSWAN) upgradation project, officials informed.

In Chhattisgarh, more than 3,000 rural CHOICE Centres, 200 urban CHOICE Centres and Common Service Centres (CSCs) are functioning where citizens are getting online citizen centric services, they informed.

All the districts now have Lok Seva Kendra and even in remote districts like Sukma, Bijapur, Balrampur people are getting Income Certificate, Birth & Death Certificate, Khasra & B-1 Copy, Marriage Registration, Aadhar Registration, Epic Card printing, Caste Certificate, Resident Certificate, Gumashta Licence etc. online.

The State Portal Service has been provided to more than 40 Lakh persons. The various departments of the State are providing online services to citizens.

The Revenue Department has put their services online like Mutation, Demarcation, Batankan and providing loan Booklet. Any eligible person can apply online to get benefit of pension schemes of Social Welfare Department.

Municipal Corporation, CSEB, RTO are also providing their services online.

Online payment of electricity bill is popular and time saving for urban as well as rural folks. More than 153 rural CHOICE Centres has been designated as Banking Agents and they have opened more than 1.40 lakh Bank accounts.

Commerce and Industry Department has also started online land allocation portal for investors. Public Health Engineering Department is monitoring online, the functioning of departmental activities.

The Health Department has started monitoring and registering of various schemes online like Janani Suraksha Yojna, E-Mahatari.

e-Scholarship has been started by School Education department. Likewise Commercial Tax Department, Forest Department, Finance Department and other government establishments are also fully implementing the e-Governance project.

The e-Procurement system has been implemented in many Government departments.

Chhattisgarh is also the first state to prepare GIS (Geographical Information System) of villages in 37 layers, officials stated.

Through this system, Land Record Map, Topography, Land use, Drainage System, Forest, Land fertility, Minerals data has been collected.

Computerisation of more than 20,000 village Land maps has been completed. Administrative and physical map of all 27 districts has been completed. Dial 100 project of Police Department is also using GIS and based on GPS, officials informed.

Moreover, in order to establish coordination among students, educational institutes and industries, 'Chhattisgarh Campus Connect Portal' has also been started. Through this portal students get to know about skill development schemes.

Chhattisgarh's e-Governance projects has been lauded all over India and we have received various awards in this field recently, officials stated.

Prominent among this are "eReadiness Award" for extensive use of IT services in the State for the year 2013, CSI-Nihilent e-Governance Awards 2013-14 – Sustainability Award to Chhattisgarh Geographic Information System, CSI-Nihilent e-Governance Awards 2013-14 Award for Sustained Excellence in e-Governance among others.