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C-DIT to be service provider for MVD project

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Centre for Development of Imaging Technology (C-DIT) will take over as the service provider of the web-enabled Fully Automated Services of Transport Department (FAST) project of the Motor Vehicles Department (MVD) from this week.

The C-DIT has been selected as the service provider after the contract ended with Electronics Corporation of India Ltd. (ECIL), which implemented the Rs.47.87-crore FAST project to network the 62 offices of the MVD in the State and to convert them into paperless offices. .

Upon the expiry of the three-year term in December last, the government had extended the contract by six months to the ECIL for a sum of Rs.1.80 crore on the recommendation of the FAST project monitoring committee.

“The C-DIT has been selected the service provider after it qualified in the bidding process from among 10 government institutions that participated,” a senior MVD official told The Hindu.

Unlike the agreement signed with the Hyderabad-based ECIL, the contract has been given to the new service provider for only one year for Rs.6.8 crore with provision for extending the period on mutual agreement.

Besides preparing the site and undertaking civil and electrical works, the ECIL had installed all equipment, including furniture, air- conditioners and generators and provided stationery and consumables during the period.

The ECIL had also computerised and networked the 18 Regional Transport Offices, 42 Sub-Regional Transport Offices and 12 check-posts in the State and had linked all the 62 offices to the MVD headquarters in the capital as part of the project aimed at making the offices ‘paperless and ensuring fast and reliable service' to the motorists.

The role of C-DIT as a Total Service Provider will be restricted to providing the forms, extending technical support and ensuring supply of stationery and consumables to the offices of the MVD across the State for the next one year from July. The contract will also take care of the new initiative Fast Track Counters started in the department from this month.

The MVD is using the software SMART-Move prepared by the National Informatics Centre (NIC). As in the previous contract, the service provider would not have any access to the data.

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