E-District in Jharkhand
An Overview of the e-District Project in the
State of Jharkhand
Department of Information
Technology,
Government of Jharkhand
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Background
e-District MMP
E-District is Mission Mode Project under the National
e-Governance Plan.
It aims at providing support to the basic administrative unit.
providing support to the basic administrative unit i.e. “District
Administration” to enable content development of G2C services.
It’s vision is to optimally leverage and utilize the three
infrastructure pillars, (SDC, SWAN & CSC) to deliver services to
the citizen at his doorstep.
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Background
e-District MMP
It aims at delivering the services to citizens at the grass-root level and
to create a sustainable model and supporting structures for effective
implementation of the MMP in all the Districts across the State.
It targets certain high volume services, delivered primarily at the
District Level currently not covered by any MMP under the NeGP.
It undertakes backend computerization to e-enable the delivery of
these services through Common Service Centers.
It aims to integrate the MMP with other key MMPs such as State
Data Centre, State Wide Area Network as also with State Portal for
effective utilization of the common infrastructure.
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Current Status
e-District Project in Jharkhand
Jharkhand was selected as one of the pilot states for implementation
of the pilot e-District project.
The Ranchi district was selected as the pilot district for implementation
of the project. This project was sanctioned by the GOI for an amount of
Rs.319.69 Lakhs.
After the administrative approval PricewaterhouseCoopers
Private Ltd was selected as the consultant for the project and Tata
Consultancy Services as the Implementation Agency. The pilot
project went live in the Kanke block of the Pilot District in Ranchi on
13th September 2011, inaugurated by the Honorable Chief Minister of
Jharkhand Shri Arjun Munda.
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Current Status
e-District Project in Jharkhand(Continued)
The application went live the certificate category services including the
following services:
Caste Certificate
Domicile Certificate
Income Certificate
Birth Certificate
Death Certificate
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Current Status
e-District Project in Jharkhand(Continued)
Other services like Revenue Courts, Electoral services, Consumer
court services can be accessed by external links as provided the
home page of the website: jharkhand.gov.in/e-district while rest of
the services viz. Pension(Old-Age/Widow/Handicap Pension), RTI
and Grievance Redressal, Government dues and recoveries will be
introduced in a phased manner.
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Current Status
e-District Project in Jharkhand(Continued)
Infrastructure is being developed at the other 4 blocks of the pilot
district Ranchi viz. Ratu, Bero, Itki, Nagri to benefit the people, who
had to spend months otherwise to get these documents from the block
offices and district headquarter. Hardware has been deployed in all
the 4 blocks and 303 panchayats and the application is planned to go
live with other services very soon.
The application for e-District Jharkhand is also undergoing the STQC
testing and currently Documentation Review is in progress.
All the applications have been submitted and delivered through the
CSCs.
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Current Status
e-District Project in Jharkhand(Continued)
The Panchayat Sevaks, for the time being, are accessing their
accounts from the CSCs itself, till the time when desktops are
provided to the various Panchayats.
The application is currently accessed through JHARNET which
extends up-to the block level and through Broadband at the
Panchayat level. However, to improve the connectivity up-to the
Gram Panchayat level the introduction of wireless connectivity via
Wi-Max has been planned.
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Current Status
e-District Project in Jharkhand(Continued)
A basic computer and application training was carried out at the
Panchayat level for the purpose of familiarization with the new
system.
As per reports, the number of online applications submitted is
more than 200,000, while the number of certificates already
delivered to the residents count to more than 160,000 as on 3rd
may, 2013
A nominal charge of Rs 30 would be levied by the CSCs for processing
each application for which people do not need to fill up the forms by
themselves.
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E-District Project Roll Out in Jharkhand
Coverage of the Project in the State-wide Roll-Out
The State of Jharkhand comprises of 24 districts. The Ranchi
district was selected as the pilot district for the implementation
of the pilot project.
The coverage of the rollout of the project shall constitute the rest
of the 23 districts. The total number of subdivisions in the
scope of the roll out of the project is 33 and the number of blocks
is 196.
The implementation of the Scheme will be completed in four
years commencing from 2011-12 which will include 3 years of
Operations & Maintenance phase which is estimated from the
date of Go-live.
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