IfG.CC -
Institute for eGovernment

The Common Service Centres will come up in the rural areas with at least one centre in every Gram Panchayat in the state. Stringent service level agreement has been prescribed to ensure the service quality. CSCs will deliver government to citizen (G2C) services like land records, registration, certificates, details of the government scheme, pension scheme, utility bill payments, road transport and employment exchange.

The department has suggested that 10 per cent of such allocation (0.3 per cent of the Plan Budget) may be allocated for innovative projects which can be scaled up later for full scale implementation.

The IT department has emphasized that 0.5-1 per cent of the total Plan Budget needs to be allocated for internal capacity building for taking up e-governance projects in each department.

The initiative taken by the Panchayati Raj Department last year to provide e-connectivity to all the gram panchayats has come to a halt due to lack of administrative decision in selecting a vendor.

Launching the project called e-Dharani here, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said it was a major e-governance initiative to enhance transparency and reliability into citizen-centric services at affordable cost. Through this project, the Revenue Department will ensure deliver property registration-related services in a hassle-free environment.

Addressing the valedictory session of the two-day annual conference of National Medicos Organisation (NMO) here, Bhandare also called for strengthening the primary and community health centres, which are the base of the rural healthcare system.

The time-consuming and laborious task of approving building plans will soon be made a quick affair with the help of specially developed software. The new system will also enable the civic administration to cut on corruption and inaccuracies, BDA officials said.

Under the platform, assesses can make registrations online, electronically file statutory returns and refund claims, access intimations and permissions, make requests for provisional assessment as well as track the status of their documents online.

This project is being taken up at a cost of Rs 200 crore under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) of the Government of India.

OSWAN project is being executed by the Orissa Computer Application Centre (OCAC), the technical directorate of the state IT department.

The Census data collection that rolled out on April 1 also entails images and biometric finger printing of all individuals from the age of 15. “We would be launching a bid for the work in Orissa and are hopeful of winning it”, Managing Partner Santosh Mohanty said here today.

With project e-CDA, the civic authority hopes to increase its functional efficiency and grievance-complaint monitoring system. “CDA’s functioning is also expected to be more transparent, organised, integrated and efficient,” said an official.

The e-CDA project is an integrated solution that enables sharing a centralised database with all users.

The authority has come out with a comprehensive database of all children between newborn and 14 years of age in Orissa complete with details — name, age, education and their family’s financial status.

The mammoth task, which went on for three years, was completed recently.

From Wednesday, they can apply online courtesy the e-Disha service, the first of its kind service in the country, rolled out by the Orissa government.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday rolled out this unique service which will offer online services fro three separate facilities- online payment of tax and fee, web-based application and appointment system for learners' License and issuance of permits for commercial vehicles.

The SREI Infastructure Finance Ltd, CMS Computers Ltd and Zoom Developers Pvt Ltd have been picked as the service providers for six zones with each zone comprising of four to six districts.

The government decided to launch 8,558 common service centres — Biju Seva Kendra — at least one in each block to provide government-to-citizen, business-to-consumer and business-to-business services to citizens at their doorsteps.

Computerisation of administrative departments was taken up on a priority basis and the State Secretariat was covered under local area network (LAN) with the objective to make it virtually paper-less office.

With the objective to make the government procurement practice transparent, cost-effective and efficient, National Informatics Centre (NIC), the Government of India, had designed and developed a secure web-based online tendering solution for the Government of Orissa. NIC-GeP software (National Informatics Centre - Government e-Procurement Project) is a mission mode project under the National e-Governance Plan of the Centre. The major system modules comprise online creation of tenders, publishing in the web, online participation by the bidders and award of contracts.

According to official sources, the e-registration facility named as `Dharani Yojana’, aims at making the process of land registration hassle free for the public who can get their land deeds instantly from tomorrow.

The project is based on the public private partnership (PPP) mode and the Orissa e-Governance Services Limited, a special purpose service vehicle has been set up for this purpose by the Orissa Computer Application Centre (OCAC) and the Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services (IL&FS)-Industrial Development Corporation of Orissa Limited (IDC).

The e-Dharini, a Rs 100 crore project was rolled out on Monday by chief minister Naveen Patnaik.