Profile of NIC District Centre, Ludhiana

NIC District Center Ludhiana came into existence in November 1988 at Room No.125, First Floor, Mini Secretariat, Ludhiana. Since then, it has been providing various IT related services to State / Central Government departments in the district.

The long term objective of the National Informatics Centre, as approved by the Planning Commission, Ministry of Finance and the erstwhile Electronics Commission, had been to establish the feasibility of a system for the provision of detailed information to government ministers and agencies to assist them in making decisions relating to the country's economic and social development, planning and program implementation. NIC was set up with the aforementioned objective to promote economic, social, scientific and technological activities, and also for macro-economic adjustments program of the Government, through the applications of Information Technology (I.T.)

1. Video Conferencing :

   Video Conferencing Facility started in the NIC District Centre in January 2005. This brings the decision makers and action takers together, face to face, wherever they are across the country and around the Globe. Experts from remote locations can interact with each other in real time interactive mode. By providing strong channels of visual, graphical and multimedia communication, video-conferencing opens new vistas of functioning of government and service delivery mechanism is enabled for various sectors of Indian economy.

   
2. SUWIDHA (Single User-Friendly Window Disposal and Helpline for Applicants)

   This was built to provide convenience to the citizen by capturing the input at a single point for different services, re-engineering Government processes and mapping citizen charter to reality. The citizen approaches the SUWIDHA window and files his application. He is issued a receipt cum token number, which specifies the date of delivery of service. The case is sent to the concerned branch for action and get the delivery of his documents from the SUWIDHA counter itself on the specified date. In order to ensure timely delivery, Deputy Commissioner monitors the progress regularly so that citizen doesn’t have to visit the office again.

3. PRISM (Property Registration Information System Module)

   PRISM automates all major activities of Sub Registrar Office and covers online Registration of all types of deeds, Evaluation of properties, Monitoring of Revenue, Preparation of index register, issue of Encumbrance Certificates and Electronic storage of scanned documents, deeds of Sale, Mortgage, Adoption, GPA, Exchange, Pattanama, Lease etc.

   PRISM is a client/server based software, implemented in All the Sub-Registrar Offices of District Ludhiana and also in All the Tehsil and Sub-Tehsils.

4. Affidavit Information System

   This system was implemented to bring the transparency in the affidavit attestation. Under this module Photo of the Applicant is captured and printed on the backside of the Affidavit paper and delivered instantly. Only Rs. 22/- is charged for this process.

5. AGMARKNET

   AGMARKNET Software is used to computerize data on market fee, market charges, total arrivals, arrivals by agencies , prices, storage, dispatches with destination, mode of transportation , costs, sold and unsold stocks, method of sale, payment ,weighing facility, grading facilities etc.

   In the First Phase, four Market committees viz. Khanna, Jagraon, Samrala and Raikot have been computerized in district Ludhiana and in the second Phase nine Market Committees viz Hathur, Mullanpur, Sahnewal, Machhiwara, Ludhiana, Kila Raipur, Doraha, Maloud and Sidhwan Bet are computerized.

   Now AGMARKNET S/w is implemented in all the market committees of district Ludhiana.

6. District Treasury Office

   Ludhiana was the first district in Punjab to computerize Treasury Office. NIC has fully computerized the District Treasury Office, Ludhiana. All treasury works like Bills, Accounts, data transfer, receipt, Pension, daily data from banks, maintaining of budget etc. has been computerized and running successfully since 2001. This has drastically reduced the work of Treasury Employees as now they don’t have to calculate the complex figure daily. Almost all the things are being done by the Software itself. Payment Checks are now being printed. It brings relief from the hectic and complex work of Treasury and also the payments check has been given to the various departments in time. Now daily data figures of Payment & Receipts are transferred through E-mail.The status of these figures can be seen on the Treasury web Site www.khajana.nic.in

   District Treasury and all the Sub Treasuries of district Ludhiana are fully computerized now.

7. District Social Security Office

   Government of Punjab is giving monthly pensions to Old Age persons, Widows, Dependent children and Disabled persons. More then One lakh beneficiaries are there in District Ludhiana. NIC has successfully computerized all the pension details since 1994 which results in the timely distribution of the pension to the beneficiaries. This will drastically reduce the work of District Social Security Office. Now the new system is going to be implemented by which one can get the status of his/her application at any time from the District Social Security Department. Stamp Module is the latest addition to the above package.

   Latest status pertinent to pension data i.e. List of pensioners under all the schemes is also updated from time to time and one can check his/her status on this website under the Online status tab at the Home page of this website (i.e http://ludhiana.gov.in) www.ludhiana.gov.in

8. Lease Line Connectivity

   NIC Ludhiana has provided Lease Line connectivity to various departments like Post Office(Ludhiana Head post Office, Ludhiana Speed Post Office, Khanna and Jagraon Post Offices) , Pay and Account Office, Jt. Director General Foreign Trade (Jt. DGFT) etc. NIC is providing 2 Mbps Lease Line connectivity to these departments through BSNL.

9. Online Status

   NIC Ludhiana is also assisting the District Administration to provide the Online Status of various services like SUWIDHA , PENSION,INTKAL etc on this website . User can check his/her status of the required service under the tab Online status at Home Page of this website.

10. Digital Signature

    Digital certificates are the digital equivalent (i.e. electronic format) of physical or paper certificates. Examples of physical certificates are driver's licenses, passports or membership cards. Certificates serve as identity of an individual for a certain purpose, e.g. a driver's license identifies someone who can legally drive in a particular country. Likewise, a digital certificate can be presented electronically to prove your identity or your right to access information or services on the Internet.

    NIC is providing the digital certificate facility to various departments through NICCA (NIC Certifying Authority). Interested user/department can see the website https://nicca.nic.in for more details.

11. Payroll S/w

    Software for pay of the employees of the Deputy Commissioner’s Office has been implemented by NIC Ludhiana for many years. Now the pay bills can be prepared very quickly, earlier this process used to take a lot of time. This Payroll Software has been successfully implemented for the offices of Deputy Commissioner, , SDM (East & West) , District Social security Officer, Dy ESA., Food & Civil Supply , Excise & Taxation , etc.

12. Village Directory Information System (VDIS)

    Deputy Economic and Statistical Advisor’s ( Dy E.S.A.) office is maintaining the Village directory of all the 918 villages of District Ludhiana which consists all the possible data of the villages. NIC has also computerized this Village directory and in operation for the past 10 years. After Compilation this data is sent to CMO Office, Chandigarh. This data can also be seen at website http://punjab.gov.in

13. Elections S/w

    All the technical work like Duties of Employees, Reports, Affidavits' scanning and Result of Vidhan Sabha, Lok Sabha, Panchayat, Zila Parishad, Gurudwara Elections is being done by NIC for several years. This process includes the data entry for various departments and their staff. After processing & checking the authenticity of data, pollling parties are made as per requirements of District Administration. Then varous reports like individual order, Party list, Department list, order for reserved staff, consolidated party order are generated. In addition to this result is also transmitted to Doordarshan through internet.

14. Rural Soft

    This is the new on-line project in which entries of all the Rural development schemes is to be entered directly on web site, developed by NIC, by DRDA and Zila Parishad officials.

15. District & Session Court

    NIC is now evolving in all the fields of Government Sector. Courts have also been computerized. Many software’s like Payroll, Judgement software etc have already been implemented. Training to about 300 employees of courts has been imparted.

16. MPLADS S/w

    NIC has implemented the Software Developed in Visual Basic and reports designed using Crystal Reports for keeping records of different funds like MPLAD, IAY, etc.

17. Arms License Information System (ALIS)

    ALIS Software has been successfully implemented with all the services like New Licence, renewal of Licence, Weapon Entry, Addition of Weapon, deletion of Weapon, Change of Address, and Retainer’s Entry.

18. Internet and E-mail Connectivity to user department

    NIC Ludhiana also providing E-mail and Internet Connectivity to various Central/State Offices.

19. Networking plan

    National Informatics Centre is one of the biggest networks in any country and the network is popularly known as NICNET. Each district centre has VSAT installed for the Internet & E-mail facility. The mails to the Collector & various departments are received through NICNET and sent to them.

    Ludhiana has currently New Gen FTDMA VSAT installed in the premises of DC Office Mini Secretariate Ludhiana.

    Office also has Internal Network. All the Computers (Branches ) are connected through Local Area Network (LAN). A Centralized DC Office Server connects all the Clients lying in the different branches.

20. Training

    NIC Ludhiana also imparting training to Various Government Offices (Central/State) from Time to time. Till Now More than 300 Employees have been trained by this office . The Primary training is on the Computer fundamentals and Software for the Office/branch.

    Headquarter also imparting training to various Central/State departments from time to time , for more detail visit http://training.nic.in

21. SARTHI and VAHAN

    NIC has developed these two softwares SARTHI and VAHAN at National level for the Computerization of the Driving Licenses and Registration of the Vechiles. SARTHI Software is running in the SUWIDHA Centre ludhiana for the computerizaiton of the Driving licenses (learner's license as well as Permanent license). Various counters has been established in the SUWIDHA centre for this service.

22. CIPA

    The Common Integrated Police Application(CIPA) is a multilingual application to automate the processes(workflow) at primary sources of data itself e.g. Police Station and to build a crime & criminal Information system based on CrPC. It provides an efficient way of organising crime records for generating queries/reports and crime analysis for decision support. The CIPA Software developed in JAVA and implemented under open source environment viz. Linux (OS), Postgres (RDBMS).

    CIPA S/w is implemented in all the Police Divisions of district Ludhiana.

23. Arms License Issuance System (ALIS) for the o/o Commissioner Police Ludhiana

    ALIS System, which was successfully implemented in the SUWIDHA CENTRE , for the Deputy Commissioner's Office ludhiana, implemented in the office of the Commissioner Police Ludhiana also . It was required after the inception of the Commissioner Police in the Ludhiana district. ALIS System implemented at Single Window Office, Commissioner Police, Mini Secretariat Ludhiana. All the data pertinent to the City Police Stations covered in this System.

24. MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Gurantee Act)

    The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act aims at enhancing the livelihood security of people in rural areas by guaranteeing hundred days of wage-employment in a financial year to a rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. NIC Ludhiana assisting the district administration in implementing this scheme online.

25. Jan Aushadi Software (JAS)

    NIC Ludhiana has successfully implemented the Jan Aushadi Software in the Civil Hospital Ludhiana. The ambitious Jan Aushadhi programme is to ensure availability of medicines at low cost to the common man across the length and breadth of India is in crisis due to the short supply of drugs. NIC HQ Delhi has prepared webbased software for this..

26. CONFONET

    NIC has also implemented the CONFONET project . The Main objective of the ConfoNet is improving operational efficiency, co-ordination, accessibility, speed in judicial administration and to set Information Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure at Consumer Redressal forums all over India to provide IT solution at each level in order to provide: E- Governance Efficiency Transparency and Systematizing of working To achieve time bound delivery of justice to the consumers.

27. Computerization of the Ludhiana Central Jail.

    NIC has initiated the steps for the computerization of the Ludhiana Central Jail along with other jails in Ludhiana (Women Jail and Children Jail) on the outline of Tihar Prisons. Central Jail Ludhiana is taken as a pilot Jail in Punjab for the computerization. Under the Computerization of the Central Jail Ludhiana, NIC will be implementing two software’s namely Prison Management System (PMS) and the Visitor Management System (VMS) . All the necessary steps has been taken for the computerization and these S/w will be implemented this year.

    After the implementation of these s/w's The Prisoner's information shall be globally made available to all the prisons, police and intelligence and central agencies for various other purposes throughout the country.

28. District Website

    With the launch of this official website Ludhiana.nic.in , NIC Ludhiana is also listed in the list of the districts who have their own official website. This site is designed by the NIC District Centre Ludhiana under the guidance of WEB-GROUP, NIC Punjab State Unit, Chandigarh. All the contents have been provided by District Administration.

• Networking and Computerization of the Ludhaina Central Jail and Other Jails
• Computerization of the District Court Ludhiana and Subordinate Courts.(E-Courts Project )
• Computerization of the Web Based System for Animal Husbandry department in all the blocks of district Ludhiana