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New IT link for Rajasthan district departments

Special Correspondent

District-level officers now need not send information manually but can update data periodically

JAIPUR: The Hanumangarh district administration in Rajasthan has, with the help of National Informatics Centre (NIC), introduced a web-enabled software named "District Infoway" to collect, compile and consolidate information from various departments within the district. With the "District Infoway" in place, the District Level Officers (DLOs) need not send information manually but can update their data periodically.

The software simplifies the cumbersome procedure of collecting information of various schemes and programmes run in the districts for socio-economic development at grass-root level. As the State Government frequently demands information from the districts, till now the administration had to compile and consolidate such information manually and after much paper work.

"Web-enabled District Infoway is a new gateway of information at district level. The software consists of features to collect works and baseline notes rapidly with ample amount of purity. The Government departments located at distant and remote areas of the district can be connected to the intranet server using the dial up connectivity and submit the required information in electronic form by just roll of fingers on desktops," T.Ravikant, Collector of Hanumangarh, observed talking about the IT initiative in his district.

Prior to the developing of the software, an extensive survey was conducted to take stock of the IT resources available at all the Government offices in the district. The district administration set a deadline for the offices to install the required hardware. Meanwhile, NIC's District Informatics Officer Vishwanath Sharma and his associate Parvinder Singh prepared the software.

A Linux-based server installed at NIC automatically compiles and consolidates the information. "It is a ready reckoner," asserted Mr.Ravikant.

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