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NIC (National
Informatics Centre) is an organization set up by the Govt. of India
in 1977 to promote informatics culture in the Govt. departments and develop
computer based Management Information System (MIS) for decision support at
various levels.
Computers today provide
accurate, adequate, and timely information and assist the management in
monitoring and analysis of plan schemes, programmes and related activities
with relatively high efficiency and help in control over expenditure. NIC
has been playing a vital role in promoting computer consciousness among the
masses and with more than 600 computer centres
throughout the country at district headquarter level. It has virtually
brought the computer to your doorsteps. It essentially operates as an
informatics service oriented organization providing hardware, software and
processing facilities to various departments of Govt. of India, State
governments and district administration.
Since its birth in 1977
it has passed through a many barriers to fulfill its objectives and has now
become a name of National and International repute by scoring a series of
successes.
DISNIC: NIC has
launched its DISNIC programme to provide timely, complete and accurate information/
data to the policy/ decision makers for effective planning at various
levels of government. It captures data in sectors of importance in respect
or infrastructural facilities and development indicators relating to
demographic, agro-economic and socio-economic aspects at the root level and
transmits the same to state capitals. The relevant decision support
information from the districts will thus be readily available with the
State Govt. and of course to Centre as well through NICNET.
NICNET: NIC has the honour to introduce you to the world's largest
Satellite based Computer communication network known as National
Informatics Centre network, generally referred to as NICNET. Commissioned
in 1977, NICNET comprises of a satellite over the Indian
Ocean, a giant Computer and Mother Earth Station (MES) in Delhi and some 500
Computer terminals with their own antennas in each of the District
Headquarters and State secretariats. It is an efficient and reliable means
for interchange of information between various NIC Centres.
NICMAIL: NICMAIL is a
special purpose, fully secured electronic mail system made available on
NICNET with the Super Computer System as the central node. This
configuration allows messages to be transferred between different sites via
HUB. Each NICMAIL user is assigned a password-protected mailbox with unique
mailing address. NICMAIL asks for the password for important confidential
messages and can send mail to any number of nodes simultaneously within
very short time.
GISTNIC: GISTNIC
is designed with an objective to make available general information to
public about India, Important national and international information,
infrastructural and recreational facilities and other static and near
static information through query system. The content and scope of
information provided on GISTNIC spans a very wide range of potential user's
viz. farmers, tourists, students, researchers, Govt. Officials and
foreigners.
NIC UNIT AT RAJOURI: District Rajouri has in no way
lagged behind the other Districts in making use of computer technology as a
decision support system. The NIC Computer Centre at Rajouri was set up in
1989, to introduce and promote the informatics culture and to create the
computer awareness among the masses as a whole and government organizations
in particular. It provides the facilities of using NICNET, electronic mail
and general Information System Terminal. In close cooperation with the
district administration the unit has launched many programmes for
computerization of different sectors and is conducting short-term training
courses on the computer related subjects regularly. The centre has so far
carried out the Computerization of Planning Section, Revenue section,
Election process, District Court, Various district offices, Payroll at
various offices, Village Amenity Directory, Panchayat Databases, District
Employees Database, Relief Database, District Phone Directory, Traffic
Monitoring System, Tourism Development Plans, School Up gradation Plan,
successfully.
1. ASSEMBLY/PARLIAMENTARY
ELECTION : NIC district centre
is providing all types of assistance to District Election Officer during
Assembly/Parliamentary elections. List of all polling stations, staff
working in District, Transport plan with various details have been computerized.
Duties of Presiding/Polling officers, Zonal/Sector Magistrates to be
assigned to officers/officials during election are sole responsibility of
NIC. Software with randomization technique have been prepared and used for
assigning duties.
2. IT SUPPORT TO
DISTRICT OFFICES : All kinds of Information Technology support i.e.
Consultancy, Hardware/Software problem solution, Trainings, Visits etc. is
provided to various Govt. offices of district for smooth/optimal
functioning of Computers at their end.
3. TRAININGS : Regular
training programmes are being conducted at NIC District Centre Rajouri for
Govt. staff at District. Trainings are conducted in MS-Windows, MS-Office,
Networking, Internet etc.
4. PAYROLL : Payroll package has been implemented
at 6 offices of District. More offices have been approached for
computerization of their pay accounts.
5. COMMUNITY INFORMATION
CENTRES : Community Information Centres are being set up at three blocks of
District Rajouri under the supervision of NIC Rajouri. All efforts are made
by NIC to complete the project well with in time i.e. Site preparation,
Hardware Installation, Appointment of CIC operators, Functioning of CIC
Centres etc.
6. VILLAGE AMENITY
DIRECTORY: This helps the district administration
in providing timely and
accurate information to the concerned for any decision making and planning.
It contains information regarding thirty odd parameters of all the villages
of the district. The information is of two types viz. general and
facilities available. The later information is regarding health facilities,
educational facilities, banks, the availability of other government offices
etc. of the village.
7. PLAN MONITORING
SYSTEM: NIC District Centre Rajouri helps the
planning section of the district administration in generating the quarterly
and monthly reports regarding the development schemes to depict the
progress of the schemes in all the sectors in which they are undertaking
the development activities. Reports regarding the financial details,
Capital works, Achievements and physical targets are generated as also the
sector-wise and scheme-wise financial details.
8. ANNUAL PLAN OF
RAJOURI: It involves hundreds and tiring working
hours full of fatigue to compile the annual plan of the district. NIC
extends support to the office of Chief Planning Officer in generating the
annual plan, thus saving a lot of time and thereby increasing the
efficiency besides making the big and complex task look so easy.
9. TRAFFIC MONITORING
SYSTEM: NIC centre has also computerized the
traffic movements of vehicles in the Rajouri district. Data regarding the
vehicle particulars is gathered from the various traffic check posts of the
district and fed into the computer. The data is processed and
weekly/monthly traffic analysis reports are generated.
10. OFFICE AUTOMATION
JOBS: NIC Computer Centre at District Rajouri
is also engaged in various day-to-day office automation jobs. The centre
maintains a large number of important documents and the District administration
uses the computing and printing facility to maintain a large no. of
documents. Many records are periodically generated as and when required.
Word processing facility of the computer is also extended to the District
administration in cases where aesthetics and presentation require more
weightage.
The
installation of high speed FTDMA system has provided Internet access and
email.
Some of the projects in
the pipeline include the computerization of DRDA, Industries, Treasury and
the all-important Revenue sector. These will surely help in the effective
and meaningful planning at the district level as also at the state level
for district Rajouri.
NIC
Staff Members
Sanjay Kumar Puri,
Scientist-C,
District Informatics Officer.
Muzafar Iqbal Mir,
Scientist-C,
District Informatics Associate.
Contact Address:
NIC Computer Centre,
D C Office Complex,
Rajouri-185131 J&K.
Ph.:01962-261898
Email : rajauri@nic.in
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