Digital India is new platform. It is a technology platform. Future of India and its citizens will happen on it. The Indian government has created Digital India Platform for reaching out every citizen online and deliver citizen services electronically. Hence awareness of Digital India movement, it's scope and services must be there for every Indian. Be one living in cities or deep rural India. Be a housewife or a student or a shopkeeper or an entrepreneur. Digital India is all inclusive and is for every Indian irrespective of gender and geography or age or area. It is universal. Digital India is everyone's concern and reality. Hence the first purpose of this book to change this low ratio of Indian residents using Digital India resources and make them aware of these resources and encourage them to start using them in their daily life..
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This work (accompanying presentations, videos) intends to put the Digital India resources at the center of every Indian’s working and personal day-today life and transform her into a empowered DIGITAL INDIA CITIZEN. Digital India projects are built for and meant for every Indian. It is very inclusive in its objectives and services, every Indian will be affected by it and more importantly benefited by that. Making every Digital India citizen , the largest group of people in India aware of these resources and guide them towards harnessing their potential is the first and foremost objective of this work.
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The second important audience of this (resource) is DIGITAL INDIA WORKER. Digital workers constitute the second largest growing group in India. These are people who use digital India infrastructure and resources within the context of their work and professions. They are employees of state and central government who are directly affected by Digital India programme and working with it, teachers, outsourced skilled office workers, business executives who come across situations where digital India can play a key role and contribute towards their accomplishments and success.
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The third intended audience of the book is DIGITAL INDIA SHAPERS. These are the Indians who are playing leading roles within their groups and communities. They have within them power to use digital India system and services to enhance performance of their own and that of their teams and shape new collective future. These digital India shapers can be institutional leaders, communities leaders , functionaries in local government , people's representatives and more.
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The next important target audience of this resource is the DIGITAL INDIA DEVELOPER. Software applications or simply apps have become the de facto means of building and offering services to both business customers and citizens. In fact today Indian government is offering many of its services through apps. The futuristic Indian government not only wants to use digital India platform for offering its citizens services. Instead it is opening its platform along with incredible number of software resources for developers to build and offer innovative services. The digital India platform often technically called IndiaStack is a set of layered resources for developers to build and offer innovative apps to billion Indians. For Indian developers this is a dream come true and an emerging market in their own home country.
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Another important audience intended by the book is DIGITAL INDIA INNOVATORS.. These are the small, but significant and rapidly emerging digital Indians who have deep dreams and tall talent to look at digital India infrastructure and come out with innovative product, services and business models. These solutions could be india-specific to be targeted at a section of Indian society say rural or urban. These services can be for meeting specific in-transition population - say people who earn and spend all money in cash. The innovator solution can also be with global focus but may start in India and use Digital india as a test bed.
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Another important target audience is DIGITAL INDIA LEADERS whose operative mandate is at state , regional levels. These are people who might carry the baton of national process further into future. Leaders who are in their mid career stages and are expected to take India to new but unknown future
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Another important interested audience of this book is NRIs. They may be interested in knowing the technological developments back in home and would be surprised at the speed of developments and sophistication of the resulting infrastructure and their resourcefulness.
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Digital India is a national technology platform built on open, global standards and practices. Its awareness is must for Indians outside India also. The NRI community living around the globe and experiencing technologies in advanced countries must have basic understanding of Digital Technology. Not only they will feel proud about the same, but also find it pleasant surprise when come back home that they can experience global technology within their home also. Entrepreneurial Indians dreaming of making big in advanced countries may find that the technological platform resulting due to Digital India in India is worth considering for their entrepreneurial ventures.
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Digital India is expected to be an indispensable part and parcel of every resident’s daily life. Hence, an added audience is the teachers and parents who might use this resource and illustrations while teaching to inspire students. Parents can use this resource to keep themselves updated about new and emerging Digital India.
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Last but not least is the social entrepreneurs and change agents who might be interested in seeing how Digital India adds a new dimension and resource pool for them in engaging their audiences, enlarging their base of operations and enriching their stakeholders.
Digital India- The Complete Reference DIGITAL INDIA IN ACTION
Introduction
With huge infrastructure put in place and various projects built on it, it is time to put those resources in to use. Now we will consider how these technologies are being used by government to build and deliver citizen services electronically, integrate services seamlessly and bring about efficiency to adminstrative operations and transparency to its conduct. These technologies can be best understood in terms of (1) how government is using them (2) how residents are able to access services easily and (3) how private institutions and entrepreneurs are harnessing them for building innovative solutions to benefits their country people.
AADHAAR
CONCEPT:
Aadhaar identity platform is one of the key pillars of ‘Digital India’, wherein every resident of the country is provided with a unique identity or Aadhaar number. The largest biometrics based identification system in the world, Aadhaar is a strategic policy tool for social and financial inclusion, public sector delivery reforms, managing fiscal budgets, increase convenience and promote hassle-free people-centric governance. It is unique and robust enough to eliminate duplicate or fake identities and may be used as a basis/primary identifier to roll out several Government welfare schemes and programmes for effective service delivery thereby promoting transparency and good governance. https://uidai.gov.in/beta/
Aadhaar Authentication Uses
Government:
In fact, one of the first authentication applications was for the delivery of LPG canisters. A pilot project started in conjunction with the NREGA is working to allow people to open bank accounts and transfer funds to beneficiaries under the employment guarantee scheme. Many states so far have recognized the UID as proof of identity for various government services
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Jan Dhan Yojana
The scheme Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) accepts Aadhaar card/number as the only document sufficient to open the bank account. Although you open PMJDY account after producing other documents as well. The benefits offered are RuPay card, free zero balance savings account, life and accident insurance and many others.
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Passport in 10 days
This benefit of Aadhaar card will relieve you the most! If you have an Aadhaar card, you can get passport in just 10 days. Under this format, police verification will be done at a later date as opposed to the previous rule requiring police verification which used to be time-consuming. Also under the new government’s rule, if you need a passport, Aadhaar number is compulsory.
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Digital Locker:
Government of India has launched digital locker (DigiLocker) system for everyone for storing all personal document on the government’s server. And Sign-up process for DigiLocker requires a person to link his/her 12 digit Aadhaar card number.
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Monthly Pension
All the pensioners from select states will now have to register their Aadhaar card number to their respective department in order to receive monthly pension. This move was initiated as there have been fraudulent incidents as beneficiaries requesting pension were found to be fake.
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Provident Fund
Similar to pension, provident fund money will be given to the account holder who’ve registered their Aadhaar number with employee provident fund organization (EPFO).
Opening new bank account: Aadhaar letter provided by UIDAI is now acceptable by banks as a valid proof to open bank account. In fact, it can serve as an address proof as well provided address on Aadhaar card and address proof perfectly matches. i.e. no need to produce bunch of documents to the banks for opening the account.
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Digital Life Certificate
Aadhaar linked digital life certificate is another initiative which was launched by Department of Electronics and IT. Named as “Jeevan Praman for Pensioners”, this system will end the process where pensioner had to be physically present at Pension Disbursing Agency to avail pension. Instead all the details of pensioner will be accessed digitally by the agency.
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SEBI
It is now accepted as a proof of address by Securities and Exchange board of India for investing in stock market. Till now, it was used by SEBI as identity proof. Government to use Aadhaar to deliver benefits to unorganised workers: The government is working on a plan to offer benefits like insurance and pension to over 40 crore unorganised workers in India using Aadhaar, Jan Dhan accounts and the existing platform without going for smart cards.
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Voter Card Linking
Starting 9th March 2015, Aadhaar card UIDAI number would be linked to the voter ID’s. This action is taken to eliminate bogus voters. Once an Aadhaar number is linked, it would become impossible for a multiple voter ID card holder to make it’s illegal use, as registration requires voter card holder to be physically present and produce Aadhaar card to the polling booth officer for verification.
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Entrepreneurial Uses
Novopay enables a resident to open an account in a store, and deposit and withdraw money. Every transaction is authenticated by Aadhaar. The system involves three pillars: a mobile phone, a store and an Aadhar card, and the transactions are all paperless. A customer gets a message on the mobile, and a receipt for money transactions. With a mobile, anyone can open an account in a kirana store to become part of Novopay.
The time of using Aadhaar has come. Government has created the infrastructure and leading the way in showing how Aadhaar can be used in service delivery. Even some enterprises have begun developing products and services that use Aadhaar authentication. It is time for others to follow the suit.
[Given the nature of the topic of this blog post- much of the content is sourced from the published documents of UIDAI and other web source. All sources are duly acknowledged.]
Aadhaar is the idea whose usage Time Has Come
The grand project of providing a unique identity to residents by Government of India is coming to its fruitful completion. By April 2018, more than 120 crore Aadhaar numbers have been issued. UIDAI will complete enrollment of entire Indian population soon., With more than a billion people already enrolled in Central Identities Data Repository (CIDR)- aadhaar is increasingly becoming a standard resident authentication and e-KYC. Government is already making Aadhaar a de facto resident identification means and has already made it essential for availing many of its services. The list is expected to grow in coming days and many state government and public institutions have started integrating Aadhaar into their services or have plans to do so in coming days. Hence it is time to look at the Aadhaar authentication offerings and possible use case scenarios. The lead taken by Government in using Aadhaar is inspiring many enterprises to develop new products and services around Aadhaar profile.
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Introduction
The Aadhaar enrollment and database setup of UIDAI is nearing its completion. More than billion people have already enrolled and remaining 280 million enrollment are expected to be completed by 2017. One of the main objectives of the UID program is to be able to accurately identify people at various points of service and enable them to receive the services they are entitled to This process of identifying residents when they submit their Aadhaar Number and demographic and / or biometric attributes is calledAuthentication
Aadhaar authentication is the process wherein Aadhaar number, along with other attributes (demographic/biometrics/OTP) is submitted to UIDAI’s Central Identities Data Repository (CIDR) for verification; the CIDR verifies whether the data submitted matches the data available in CIDR and responds with a “Yes/No”. No personal identity information is returned as part of the response. The purpose of Authentication is to enable residents to prove their identity and for service providers to confirm that the residents are ‘who they say they are’ in order to supply services and give access to benefits
Figure 1: Aadhaar Authentication Process
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The Aadhaar Authentication Operating Model:
In order to allow agencies to use UID as a verification of identity, the UIDAI also created an online-based authentication system that utilizes demographic and biometric data. The authentication system allows an agency to establish that the person is who they claim to be by submitting the person’s biometric to the Central ID Repository and receiving a yes/no answer; eligibility for a given program is done at the agency level.
Figure ; Different roles and agencies during Aadhaar Authentication process (Picture credit:http://www.biometricsintegrated.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Architecture.jpg)
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Authentication User Agency (AUA)
In order to authenticate against the UID database, an agency or company must become a recognizedAuthentication User Agency (AUA). AUAs are entities using Aadhaar authentication as part of their service delivery cycle for customers, beneficiaries, employees, or associates. It is the principal entity that sends the authentication request to enable day-today business functions. The Department of Civil Supplies is an example of an AUA – it seeks to authenticate people before dispensing monthly rations.
The process of becoming an AUA is extensive. First, an entity must identify the service delivery areas for which they would like to authenticate people. The AUA can authenticate for numerous purposes such asverifying a person’s information and to ensure proof of presence at the time of service delivery. AUAs carrying out direct cash disbursement can utilize the Aadhaar Payments Bridge (APB), a platform that was developed with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) as a mechanism of posting payments directly to beneficiaries, in order to avoid state level disbursement of government to person payments (G2P). The APB acts as an aggregator for various government entitlements. Once an account is credited, beneficiaries can withdraw money using the Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AEPS).
AUAs must use certified Point of Sale (POS) devices and certified applications. The applications must be developed using the UIDAI’s published APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and they must be tested by the UIDAI’s technology center prior to implementation. The AUA is responsible for establishing and maintaining the systems, processes, infrastructure, connectivity and security protocols to ensure continuous compliance with UIDAI standards and specifications.
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Authentication Service Agencies
Once the AUA is in place, the information and authentication requests are transmitted to and from the CIDR by registered Authentication Service Agencies (ASAs). The ASAs play the role of “enabling intermediaries” and have an established secure connection with the CIDR. The ASA can also make authentication requests to further its own business and service functions. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) mentioned earlier, is an example of an ASA.
The responsibilities and obligations of the ASAs are also important and extensive. They must ensure that they are compliant with UIDAI specifications and standards and they are responsible for ensuring that any AUAs they support also comply. The ASA verifies the compliance of each authentication request before sending to the CIDR. Lastly, the ASAs are subject to sporadic audits from the UIDAI or agencies appointed and approved by the UIDAI.
While this setup may seem complex, the relationship between the UIDAI, ASAs and AUAs, is designed to provide scalability, accountability and technical compliance at every link in the chain. The arrangement creates an endless array of possibilities for the use of the UID number, whether for the public or private sector.
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Aadhaar Authentication Offerings:
Type 1 Authentication: Type 1 Authentication is based on demographic attributes. Through this offering, service delivery agencies can use Aadhaar Authentication system for matching Aadhaar number and the demographic attributes (name, address, date of birth, etc) of a resident.
Examples of demographic based Aadhaar authentication:
* Banks for automated KYC checking
* Government welfare scheme for eliminating fake and duplicate identities in their databases
* Telecom service providers for address verification
* Private institutions/ banks for date of birth verification
The AUAs can use Aadhaar Authentication system for matching Aadhaar number and the demographic attributes (name, address, date of birth, etc. as per the API specifications) of a resident in the CIDR with the data in the AUA’s database, on a periodic basis to check validity of the credentials or for cleaning up the AUAs database by removing duplicates. AUAs can also use demographic authentication for authenticating beneficiaries/ customers/ subscribers prior to any transactions. See here for complete demo
Figure: Verifying name of a resident using Type 1 Authentication
Figure: A successful verification report from Aadhaar – Type 1 Authentication
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Type 2 Authentication:
This offering allows service delivery agencies to authenticate residents through One-Time-Password (OTP) delivered to resident’s mobile number and/or email address present in CIDR.
Example: This is adopted in situations where there is no scope to use biometric authentication
OTP based authentication could be used by
* Banks for authenticating customers during internet banking transaction
* E-commerce companies before completing a cash-on-delivery transaction
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Type 3 Authentication:
Through this offering, service delivery agencies can authenticate residents using one of the biometric modalities, either iris or fingerprint.
Examples of biometric based Aadhaar authentication:
* Govt. departments delivering services to residents
* Banks for establishing identity of customers before starting a new bank account
* Telecom service providers before issuing a new mobile connection
* Attendance tracking or proof of presence in several scenarios
Figure 2: DCM bank started ATM facility that allows customer to use fingerprints instead of a PIN to make transactions
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Type 4 Authentication:
This is a 2-factor authentication offering with OTP as one factor and biometrics (either iris or fingerprint) as the second factor for authenticating residents.
Figure 3:DigiLocker uses a 2-factor authentication
Example: DigiLocker is a “digital locker” service launched by the Government of India in February 2015 to provide a secure dedicated personal electronic space for storing the documents of resident Indian citizens. The storage space 1GB is linked to the Unique Identification Authority of India(Aadhaar number) of the user.
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Type 5 Authentication:
This offering allows service delivery agencies to use OTP, fingerprint & iris together for authenticating residents.
UN-RESERVED TICKET THROUGH MOBILE APPLICATION (UTS APP)
In order to promote paperless economy, Indian Railways has launched its new UTS on mobile application. This official android mobile ticketing app enables booking unreserved paperless journey ticket, issue/renew season ticket and platform ticket. The app has introduced two modes of booking mobile tickets-Paper Ticket and Paperless Ticket.
UMANG (Unified Mobile Application for New-Age Governance) is one of the key initiatives under the Digital India program to develop a common, unified platform and mobile app to facilitate a single point of access to all government services. It is envisaged to act as a master application, which will integrate 200 applications which will offer around 1,200 services of various government departments of the Centre, states and local bodies, and even some important utility services from the private sector. Its primary aim is to abridge inconvenience faced by users in managing multiple mobile apps and facilitate a one-stop-solution to avail varied government services.
Website.https://umang.gov.in
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UDAAN
Udaan is a special initiative to address the needs of the educated unemployed in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K). It is focused on youth of the state, who are graduate, post graduate and three year diploma engineers. The programme is designed to encourage corporates to travel to J&K meet with the youth and hire aspiring youth in J&K who wish to explore the opportunity to work with corporates. Udaan provides a framework of support to the youth to travel, undergo training in firms and transit to work.
Website.http://nsdcudaan.com/
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SWAYAM
SWAYAM seeks to bridge the digital divide for students who have hitherto remained untouched by the digital revolution and have not been able to join the mainstream of the knowledge economy.This is done through an indigenous developed IT platform that facilitates hosting of all the courses, taught in classrooms from 9th class till post-graduation to be accessed by anyone, anywhere at any time.
Website.https://swayam.gov.in
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SWATCH BHAARAT app
The Swachhta Abhiyan has turned into a National Movement with citizens now becoming active participants in cleanliness activities across the nation. The dream of a ‘Clean India’ once seen by Mahatma Gandhi is being realized with millions of people across the country joining the cleanliness initiatives of the government departments, NGOs and local community centres to make India clean as a part of this ‘Jan Andolan’.
Website.https://swachhbharat.mygov.in/
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SUGAMAYA PUSTAKALYA
“Sugamaya Pustakalaya” is an online platform that makes accessible content available to print-disabled people. The library houses publications across diverse subjects and languages and multiple accessible formats. It has been created by Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan), Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in collaboration with member organizations of Daisy Forum of India and powered by TCS Access.
Startup India is a flagship initiative of the Government of India, intended to build a strong eco-system for nurturing innovation and Startups in the country that will drive sustainable economic growth and generate large scale employment opportunities. The Government through this initiative aims to empower Startups to grow through innovation and design.
Website.http://www.startupindia.gov.in/
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SOIL HEALTH CARD
It aims at promoting Integrated Nutrient Management (INM) through judicious use of chemical fertilisers including secondary and micro nutrients in conjunction with organic manures and bio-fertilisers for improving soil health and its productivity; strengthening of soil and fertiliser testing facilities to provide soil test based recommendations to farmers for improving soil fertility; ensuring quality control requirements of fertilisers, bio-fertilisers and organic fertilisers under Fertiliser Control Order, 1985; upgradation of skill and knowledge of soil testing laboratory staff, extension staff and farmers through training and demonstrations; promoting organic farming practices etc.
Website.http://www.soilhealth.dac.gov.in/
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SMS-BASED MID-DAY MEAL MONITORING SCHEME
Mid-Day Meal mobile app is meant for effective monitoring of daily and monthly mid-day meal data to be sent by the schools. The app provides additional data communicating mechanism for the MDM in-charge/teacher who has to send the daily/monthly data using SMS. The app, once installed on android device, does not need Internet to send MDM figures as user has option to send the figure through SMS from the app. This simplifies the job of MDM in-charge, who even does not have to remember the SMS formats. The higher authorities at Block, District and State level have a very simple and effective mechanism in shape of this app on their mobile devices for effective and efficient monitoring of daily as well as monthly data transmission by all the MDM in-charge falling under their jurisdiction. The authorities can send SMS alerts to all defaulters using single button available in the app.
Website.http://mdm.nic.in/
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Shala Siddhi
The National Programme on School Standards and Evaluation (NPSSE), known as Shaala Sidhdhi is a comprehensive instrument for school evaluation leading to school improvement. Developed by the National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), it aims to enable schools to evaluate their performance in a more focused and strategic manner and facilitate them to make professional judgments for improvement. Website.http://shaalasiddhi.nuepa.org/
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SHAALA DARPAN
KV Shaala Darpan is an e-Governance platform for all Kendriya Vidyalayas in the country. It aims to improve quality of learning, efficiency of school administration, governance of schools & service delivery to key stakeholders namely, students, parents, teachers, community and schools.
Website.https://darpan.kvs.gov.in/shaaladarpan/
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SARANSH
A CBSE Initiative, Saransh is a tool for comprehensive self-review and analysis for CBSE affiliated schools and parents. It enables them to analyze students' performance in order to take remedial measures. Saransh brings schools, teachers and parents closer, so that they can monitor the progress of students and help them improve their performance.
Website.http://saransh.nic.in/?language=en
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PUSA KRISHI
With the vision to take technology to the farm fields, Pusa Krishi application was developed. The app helps the farmers to find easy solutions to problems in their farm fields and get information about weather and accordingly take measures to save crops. It also offers information related to new varieties of crops developed by Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), resource conserving cultivation practices as well as farm machinery and its implementation will help in increasing returns to farmers.
PFMS initially started as a Plan scheme named CPSMS of the Planning Commission in 2008-09 as a pilot in four States of Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Punjab and Mizoram for four Flagship schemes e.g. MGNREGS, NRHM, SSA and PMGSY. After the initial phase of establishing a network across Ministries / Departments, it has been decided to undertake National rollout of CPSMS (PFMS) to link the financial networks of Central, State Governments and the agencies of State Governments.
Website.https://cpsms.nic.in/
PROJECT MONITORING WEBSITE FOR ECOURTS
The website was planned to develop, deliver, install and implement automated decision-making and decision support system in 700 courts of Delhi, Bombay, Kolkata & Chennai; 900 courts in the 29 capital city courts of states and UTs and 13000 district and subordinate courts. The objective of the project was to help judicial administrations of the courts in streamlining their day-to-day activities.
Website.http://ecourts.nic.in/
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (PMIS)
Project Management and Information System (PMIS) has been developed in National eGovernance Division (NeGD) for Mission Mode Projects under e-Kranti.
· PMIS is an integrated information system
· PMIS offers information on cost, time and performance parameters of a project
· PMIS is decision oriented
· PMIS is capable of providing exception reports
Website.http://pmis.negd.gov.in/
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PASSPORT SEVA PROJECT (PSP)
Passport Seva enables simple, efficient and transparent processes for delivery of passport and related services. Apart from creating a countrywide networked environment for Government staff, it integrates with the State Police for physical verification of applicant's credentials and with India Post for delivery of passports. The Passport Seva Project is transforming passport and related services in India to provide a best-in-class experience to Indian citizens. PSP is enabling MEA to deliver passport services in a reliable, convenient and transparent manner, within defined service levels.
Website.http://www.passportindia.gov.in/
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PARIVAHAN PORTAL
The portal was launched to improve the quality of service delivery to the citizen and the quality of work environment of the RTOs. Its mission has been to automate all Vehicle Registration and Driving License related activities in transport authorities of country with introduction of smart card technology to handle issues like inter-state transport vehicle movement and to create state and national level registers of vehicles/DL information. The latest initiative has been to centralize both applications- VAHAN and SARATHI, for ensuring higher tranparency, security and reliability of operations through a countrywide unified database and provision of a highly citizen and trade centric web enabled environment.
Website.https://parivahan.gov.in/parivahan/
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ONLINE LABS (OLABS)
Online Labs (OLabs) for school lab experiments provides students with the ease and convenience of conducting experiments over the internet. It has been developed to supplement the traditional physical labs and bridge the constraints of time and geographical distances. This not only reduces the costs incurred for conducting experiments in real time but gives a student the flexibility to explore and repeat experiments till they are thorough.
To monitor Revised National Tuberculosis Programme (RNTCP) effectively, a web enabled and case based monitoring application called NIKSHAY has been developed by National Informatics Centre (NIC). This is used by health functionaries at various levels across the country in association with Central TB Division (CTD), Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. NIKSHAY covers various aspects of controlling TB using technological innovations. Apart from web based technology, SMS services have been used effectively for communication with patients and monitoring the programme on day to day basis.
Website.http://nikshay.gov.in/User/Login.aspx
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NATIONAL VOTERS SERVICE PORTAL (NVSP)
The portal was developed with an aim to provide single window service electors. Through NVSP, a user can avail and access various services such as access the electoral list, apply for voter id card, apply online for corrections in voter’s card, view details of Polling booth, Assembly Constituency and Parliamentary constituency, and get the contact details of Booth Level officer, Electoral Registration Officer, among other services.
Website.http://www.nvsp.in/
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NATIONAL UJALA DASHBOARD
The initiative is part of the Government of India’s efforts to spread the message of energy efficiency in the country. UJALA scheme aims to promote efficient use of energy at the residential level; enhance the awareness of consumers about the efficacy of using energy efficient appliances and aggregating demand to reduce the high initial costs thus facilitating higher uptake of LED lights by residential users.
Website.http://www.ujala.gov.in/
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NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP PORTAL (NSP)
NSP is a one-stop solution for end-to-end scholarship process right from the submission of student application, verification, sanction and disbursal to end beneficiary for all the scholarships provided by the Government of India. This initiative aims at providing a Simplified, Mission-oriented, Accountable, Responsive & Transparent 'SMART' System for faster & effective disposal of Scholarships applications and delivery of funds directly into beneficiaries account without any leakages.
Website.http://scholarships.gov.in/
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NATIONAL KNOWLEDGE NETWORK
National Knowledge Network (NKN) project is aimed at establishing a strong and robust Indian network which will be capable of providing secure and reliable connectivity. Globally, frontier research and innovation are shifting towards multidisciplinary and collaborative paradigm and require substantial communication and computational power. In India, NKN with its multi-gigabit capability aims to connect all universities, research institutions, libraries, laboratories, healthcare and agricultural institutions across the country to address such paradigm shift.
Website.http://nkn.gov.in/home
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NATIONAL CAREER SERVICE PORTAL
A national ICT based portal has been developed, primarily to connect opportunities with the aspirations of the youth. This portal facilitates registration of job seekers, job providers, skill providers, career counsellors, etc. Additionally, it provides job matching services in a highly transparent and user-friendly manner. These facilities along with career counselling will be delivered by the portal through multiple channels like career centers, mobile devices, CSCs, etc.
Website.https://www.ncs.gov.in/
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mRAKTKOSH
The web-based mechanism interconnects all the Blood Banks of the State into a single network. The Integrated Blood Bank MIS refers the acquisition, validation, storage and circulation of various live data and information electronically regarding blood donation and transfusion service. Such system is able to assemble heterogeneous data into legible reports to support decision making from effective donor screening to optimal blood dissemination in the field.
Website.http://www.eraktkosh.in/
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MOTHER & CHILD TRACKING SYSTEM (MCTS)
Mother and Child Tracking System (MCTS) is an initiative of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare to leverage information technology for ensuring delivery of full spectrum of healthcare and immunization services to pregnant women and children up to 5 years of age. It facilitates and monitors service delivery and also establishes a two way communication between the service providers and beneficiaries.
Website.http://nrhm-mcts.nic.in/Home.aspx
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mKISAN
mKisan SMS Portal has been conceptualised to give a quantum leap in coverage of farmers and geographical area in a timely, specific, holistic and need based knowledge dissemination among the farmers by leveraging the power of mobile telephony in such a way that all sectors use this platform to not only reach out to the farmers but also to address their concerns and queries.
Website.http://mkisan.gov.in/
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mKAVACH
MKavach is a comprehensive mobile device security solution with an emphasis and approach on protecting mobile device resources rather than scanning for malwares signatures. The major threats on mobile devices can be broadly categorized into data compromise, malicious applications, physical thefts and mis-utilization of hardware resources. M-Kavach is designed to provide protection against the above mentioned threats, through its features such as Secure Storage, Application Manager, Anti-Theft, Call/SMS filter and authorized access to device resources like WiFi, Bluetooth & Camera.
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, in partnership with World Health Organisation and the International Telecommunications Union, has started an initiative for utilising mobile technology for tobacco cessation. WHO-ITU’s ‘Be Healthy Be Mobile’ initiative, aims to reach out to tobacco users of all categories who want to quit tobacco use and support them towards successful quitting through constant text messaging on mobile phones.
Website.http://www.nhp.gov.in/quit-tobacco
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MCA21
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), Government of India, has initiated the MCA21 project, which enables easy and secure access to MCA services in an assisted manner for corporate entities, professionals, and general public. The MCA21project is designed to fully automate all processes related to enforcement and compliance of the legal requirements under the Companies Act, 1956.
The project further seeks to achieve inter-operability with the National e-Governance Services Delivery Gateway (NSDG), which will help extend MCA services to businesses via multiple front-end delivery channels, and which will also help provide other value-added services over and above the base services offered by MCA21.
Website.http://www.mca.gov.in
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mASSET
mAsset is a mobile based tool that act as a supplement application to capture details such as photo and Geo-coordinates of the Assets into National Asset Directory (NAD). Additionally, this application is also used to capture the details of Asset (Category, sub-category, name of the Asset, Photo & Geo-coordinates) which are not available in the NAD application. NAD is one of the applications developed under Panchayat Enterprise Suite under e-Panchayat Mission Mode Project.
Website.http://assetdirectory.gov.in/
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MADAD APP
Consular Services Management System (MADAD) has been setup for Indian Citizens to log and track Grievances pertaining to the Consular Services offered by the Indian Embassies (Missions/Posts) abroad. Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) with a view to provide mobile enablement of MADAD, has launched MADAD Mobile Application on Android, iOS, and Windows platforms.
Learning Management System (LMS) is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting and delivery of electronic courses (e-learning) and training programs. As a capacity building tool, LMS facilitates efficient administration of e-learning and training for various government officials both at centre and states/union territories. It has the objective of enhancing knowledge and skills of users as per their roles envisaged in the e-Governance Competency Framework (eGCF).
Website.https://lms.negd.in/
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KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (KMS)
Digital India Program envisions to ‘Transform India into a Digitally Empowered Society and Knowledge Economy’. To spearhead this vision, Knowledge Management Portal has been created to establish a culture where knowledge is captured, shared, created and reused. It provides a platform to leverage the transformation of data to knowledge by systematically aligning with the organizational goals and strategy.
Website.https://kms.negd.in
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KISAN SUVIDHA
Kisan Suvidha is an omnibus mobile app developed to help farmers get relevant information instantly. The app provide information on various details such as weather, market prices, seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, agriculture machinery, dealers, agro advisories, plant protection and IPM practices etc. Other unique features like extreme weather alerts, market prices of commodity in nearest area and the maximum price in state as well as in India have been added to empower farmers in the best possible manner.
Website.http://www.kisaansuvidha.com/
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KHOYA PAYA
The Khoya Paya portal is a citizen-based website to exchange information on missing and found children. It has been developed by the Ministry of Women and Child Development and the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY). The website is an enabling platform, where citizens can report missing children, as well as sightings of their whereabouts without wasting much time. The ‘Found’ children can also be reported on this web portal. The reporting can be done through text, photographs, videos and other means of transmitting and uploading information to the site.
Website.http://khoyapaya.gov.in/mpp/home
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ICDS SYSTEMS STRENGTHENING AND NUTRITION IMPROVEMENT PROJECT (ISSNIP)
SSNIP is World Bank's International Development Association (IDA) assisted project, implemented by Ministry of Women Child Development in 162 high malnutrition burden districts in 8 States viz. Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. The objectives of the project is to support the Government of India and participating States to (i) strengthen the ICDS policy framework, systems and capacities, and facilitate community engagement, to ensure greater focus on children below three years of age; and (ii) strengthen convergent actions for improved nutrition outcomes.
Website.http://wcd.nic.in/issnip/home.htm
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HIMMAT APP
Himmat is an initiative by Delhi police especially for women. Himmat is an emergency service, comprised of an android emergency application, which can send a distress call or emergency message to Delhi Police officials and specified contact or group in an emergency situation faced by a woman. The Police personnel will get these SOS alerts and locations on a portal and as a sms on their mobile phones as well.
Website.http://54.169.6.175/#
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GOODS AND SERVICE TAX NETWORK (GSTN)
The GST System Project is a unique and complex IT initiative. It is unique as it seeks, for the first time to establish a uniform interface for the tax payer and a common and shared IT infrastructure between the Centre and States. The portal envisions becoming a trusted National Information Utility (NIU) which provides reliable, efficient and robust IT Backbone for the smooth functioning of the Goods & Services Tax regimen enabling economic agents to leverage the entire nation as One Market with minimal Indirect Tax compliance cost.
Website.http://www.gstn.org/index.php
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GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA (GSI)
The Portal has been developed through the Online Core Business Integrated System Project (OCBIS). The objective behind the Portal is to provide a single window access to the information and services being provided by the GSI for the broad geoscientific community, citizens and other stakeholders. An attempt has been made through this Portal to provide comprehensive, accurate, reliable and single point source of information about GSI, its activities, achievements, geoscientific information and its various facets.
Website.https://www.gsi.gov.in/
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GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS)
Geographic Information System (GIS Software) is designed to store, retrieve, manage, display and analyze different types of geographic and spatial data, which allows users to produce maps and other graphic displays of geographic information for analysis and presentation and thus serves as a valuable tool to visualize spatial data and/or to build decision support systems for further use in any organization or research bodies. GIS stores data in geographical features and their characteristics; these features are typically classified as points, lines or areas, or as raster images. GIS stores information using spatial indices that make it possible to identify the features located in any arbitrary region of a map.
Website.https://ncog.gov.in/
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FERTILISER MONITORING SYSTEM (FMS)
The FMS software monitors movement of various fertilisers at various stages in their value chain. The website provides information on fertiliser companies dealing with these fertilisers, the rate of concession on each fertiliser, its MRPs and productwise / statewise details of despatch and receipts of fertilisers at different destinations across the country.
Website.http://www.urvarak.co.in/
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FARMER PORTAL
It is envisaged to make available relevant information and services to the farming community and private sector through the use of information and communication technologies, to supplement the existing delivery channels provided for by the department. Farmers’ Portal is an endeavour in this direction to create one stop shop for meeting all informational needs relating to Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries sectors production, sale/storage of an Indian farmer. With this Indian Farmer will not be required to sift through maze of websites created for specific purposes.
Website.http://farmer.gov.in/
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eVISA
The Ministry of Tourism supported the initiative regarding the implementation of Tourist Visa on Arrival enabled with Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) (renamed as e-Tourist Visa) strongly and committed all support to Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of External Affairs and Ministry of Civil Aviation for implementing this programme. The e-Tourist Visa enables the prospective visitor to apply for an Indian Visa from his/her home country online without visiting the Indian Mission and also pay the visa fee online.
eTaal is a web portal for dissemination of e-Transactions statistics of National and State level e-Governance Projects including Mission Mode Projects. It receives transaction statistics from web based applications periodically on near real time basis. eTaal presents quick analysis of transaction counts in tabular and graphical form to give quick view of transactions done by various e-Governance projects.
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eSAMPARK
e-Sampark is a mechanism to connect the government directly with citizens across India by running mailer, outbound dialing and SMS campaigns. The platform is used for sharing informational and public service messages. The concept of e-Sampark has been introduced to establish proactive communication by digitization of campaigns. The multi-faceted platform facilitates not only seamless communication between the government and citizens, but also maintains a database of contacts of the nodal officers, representatives and citizens. In addition, users can also view the previous campaigns conducted.
Website.https://sampark.gov.in
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ePROCUREMENT PORTAL (CPP)
The Central Public Procurement Portal of Government of India facilitates all the Central Government Organizations to publish their Tender Enquiries, Corrigendum and Award of Contract details. The primary objective of this portal is to provide a single p oint access to the information on procurements made across various central government organization.
Website.https://eprocure.gov.in/eprocure/app
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ePRISON
The Scope of this project is to computerize and integrate all the activities related to prison and prisoner management in the jail. This application suite will provide the vital information about the inmates, lodged in the prisons, in real time environment to the prison officials and other entities, involved in Criminal Justice System. It will also facilitate online visit request and grievance redressal. ePrisons application suite, developed by NIC, is cloud based product designed with easy to use GUI and embedded with a comprehensive security features. It can be easily adopted by any state prisons department with minimum customization efforts since all the possible customization features are parameterized and can be configured by the users.
The web portal for Employees' Provident Funds Ordinance allows employees to check their EPF balance through an ePassbook which is an online version of their physical passbook. The mobile app allows the members to activate their UAN accounts from the comfort of their mobile phones and can also access their accounts for viewing their monthly credits through the passbook as well view their details available with EPFO. Similarly the EPF pensioners have been given the facility to access their pension disbursement details through this mobile app. Likewise, the employer can also view their remittance details.
Website.http://epfindia.gov.in/site_en/
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ePATHSHALA
Developed by NCERT, ePathshala for showcasing and disseminating all educational e-resources including textbooks, audio, video, periodicals and a variety of other print and non-print materials through website and mobile app. The platform addresses the dual challenge of reaching out to a diverse clientele and bridging the digital divide (geographical, socio-cultural and linguistic), offering comparable quality of e-contents. All the concerned stakeholders such as students, teachers, educators and parents can access e-books through multiple technology platforms i.e. mobile phones (android, iOS and Windows platforms), and tablets (as e-pub) and on web through laptops and desktops (as flipbooks).
Website.http://epathshala.nic.in/
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eOFFICE
The eOffice product aims to support governance by ushering in more effective and transparent inter and intra-government processes. The vision of e-Office is to achieve a simplified, responsive, effective and transparent working of all government offices. The Open Architecture on which eOffice has been built, makes it a reusable framework and a standard reusable product amenable to replication across the governments, at the central, state and dis trict levels. The product brings together the independent functions and systems under a single framework.
Website.https://eoffice.gov.in/
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eNAM
National Agriculture Market (NAM) is a pan-India electronic trading portal which networks the existing APMC (Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee) mandis to create a unified national market for agricultural commodities. The NAM Portal provides a single window service for all APMC related information and services. This includes commodity arrivals and prices, buy and sell trade offers and provision to respond to trade offers, among other services. While material flow (agriculture produce) continues to happen through mandis, an online market reduces transaction costs and information asymmetry.
The electronic MSIPS (e-MSIPS) Application System enables online submission and scrutiny of applications submitted to the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) under the Modified Special Incentive Package Scheme (MSIPS) and Electronics Manufacturing Cluster (EMC) schemes. All registered users can submit their applications in the system, using the forms designed for the same. The system will enable online scrutiny of applications and online generation of responses to the applicant. The applicants can view the response in the system.
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eHOSPITAL
e-Hospital@NIC(link sends e-mail) is an open source health information management system ( HMIS) which is configurable and easily customizable with multi-tenancy support. It is designed to deploy in cloud infrastructure to manage multiple hospitals seamlessly. The generic application addresses all major functional areas of a hospital. A workflow based HL7 complient and ISO/IEC 9126 certified end-to-end solution Software for hospital management which covers complete treatment cycle of OPD/IPD as well integrates clinical, administrative, and billing/ insurance activities.
Website.http://ehospital.nic.in/ehospital/
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eGREETINGS
eGreetings portal aims to promote a contemporary and eco-friendly method of sharing greetings by Government officials and agencies as well as citizens to colleagues and friends for National Holidays and other national occasions. The portal allows users to select and send greetings from multiple occasion-specific templates. Government Departments can also customize the greetings by adding tag-lines and messages related to their programmes and schemes.
Website.https://egreetings.gov.in/
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eDISTRICT
The e-District Mission Mode Project (MMP) is envisaged to strengthen the district administration of the state by providing ICT support to the participating departments and district administration in terms of providing centralized software application for selected category of citizen services and training for staff of the departments with a view to improve delivery of the citizen services being rendered by these departments. Services developed under e-District project would be delivered through various delivery channels like:
· Direct access by Citizens through e-District portal as a registered user.
· Existing Atal Jana Snehi Kendra's / B1 / K1 service centres.
· Common Service Centres (To be established upto Grama Panchayat Level).
Website.https://edistrict.gov.in/
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ECI EVM TRACKING
It is a GPRS based mobile application for ECI Officials to scan barcode on EVM machines (BU or CU or VVPAT), which is used in Polls.
eBiz is being implemented by Infosys Technologies Limited (Infosys) under the guidance and aegis of Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India. The focus of eBiz is to improve the business environment in the country by enabling fast and efficient access to Government-to-Business (G2B) services through an online portal. This will help in reducing unnecessary delays in various regulatory processes required to start and run businesses.
Website.https://www.ebiz.gov.in/home/
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E-PANCHAYAT
e-Panchayat is an e-Governance initiative for the rural sector providing comprehensive software solution attempting automation of Gram Panchayat functions. It is a platform for panchayat representatives to connect with rest of the world, which aims to bring out the local voices by empowering the local communities to showcase and share local social, cultural and economic practices, stories and challenges.
Website.http://epanchayat.in/
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e-GRANTHALAYA
e-Granthalaya is an Integrated Library Management Software developed by National Informatics Centre,(NIC), Department of Electronics & Information Technology. The application is useful for automation of in-house activities of libraries and to provide various online member services. The software provides built-in Web OPAC interface to publish the library catalogue over Internet. The software is UNICODE Compliant, thus, supports data entry in local languages.
Website.http://egranthalaya.nic.in/
DIGITAL AIIMS
The first step in the Digital AIIMS project was taken in January 2015 with the creation of an effective linkage between AIIMS, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeiTY). A unique health identification number for every patient visiting AIIMS was generated on an Aadhar platform. The Unique Health Identification Number gave every Patient visiting AIIMS a Digital Identity.
Website.http://ehospital.nic.in/ehospital/
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CROP INSURANCE MOBILE APP
Crop Insurance mobile app can be used to calculate the Insurance Premium for notified crops based on area, coverage amount and loan amount in case of loanee farmer. It can also be used to get details of normal sum insured, extended sum insured, premium details and subsidy information of any notified crop in any notified area.
CRIME AND CRIMINAL TRACKING NETWORK & SYSTEMS (CCTNS)
Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems (CCTNS) is a plan scheme conceived in the light of experience of a non-plan scheme namely - Common Integrated Police Application (CIPA). CCTNS aims at creating a comprehensive and integrated system for enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of policing through adopting of principle of e-Governance and creation of a nationwide networking infrastructure for evolution of IT-enabled-state-of-the-art tracking system around 'Investigation of crime and detection of criminals'.
Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM) is an app that makes payment transactions simple, easy and quick using Unified Payments Interface (UPI). It enables direct bank to bank payments instantly and collect money using a Mobile number or Payment address. Bharat Interface for Money app is currently available on Android and it is downloadable from Google Playstore, for smart phones.
Website.http://www.npci.org.in/
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BETI BACHAO BETI PADHAO
The campaign aims at ensuring girls are born, nurtured and educated without discrimination to become empowered citizens of this country. The Campaign interlinks National, State and District level interventions with community level action in 100 districts, bringing together different stakeholders for accelerated impact. The initiatives youtube channel show various videos related to the campaign.
Website.http://wcd.nic.in/BBBPScheme/main.htm
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AGRIMARKET APP
The mobile application has been developed with an aim to keep farmers abreast with the crop prices and discourage them to carry-out distress sale. Farmers can get information related to prices of crops in markets within 50km of their own device location using the AgriMarket Mobile App. This app automatically captures the location of the farmers using mobile GPS and fetches the market prices of crops which fall within the range of 50km. The prices of agri commodities are sourced from the Agmarknet portal. Currently, the apps is available in English and Hindi languages.
Sugamya Bharat Abhiyaan or Accessible India Campaign is a nation-wide flagship campaign for achieving universal accessibility that enables people with disabilities to gain access for equal opportunity, live independently and participate fully in all aspects of life in an inclusive society. The campaign targets at enhancing the accessibility of built environment, transport system and Information and communication ecosystem. The mobile application is a crowd sourcing platform to comprehensively obtain information on inaccessible places across the country. The mobile application is available on IOS, Android and Windows platform and can be downloaded from the respective App Stores.
The Government had approved the Scheme for establishing State Wide Area Networks (SWANs) across the country, in March, 2005 to be expended by the Department under Grant-in-Aid of Rs. 2,005 crore, over a period of five years. Under this Scheme, technical and financial assistance are being provided to the States/UTs for establishing SWANs to connect all State/UT Headquarters up to the Block level via District/ sub-Divisional Headquarters, in a vertical hierarchical structure with a minimum bandwidth capacity of 2 Mbps per link.
As part of the “Ease of Doing Business” initiatives, the Central Board of Excise & Customs, Government of India has taken up implementation of the Single Window Project to facilitate the Trading Aross Borders in India. The 'India Customs Single Window' would allow importers and exporters, the facility to lodge their clearance documents online at a single point only. Required permissions, if any, from other regulatory agencies would be obtained online without the trader having to approach these agencies. The Single Window Interface for Trade (SWIFT), would reduce interface with Governmental agencies, dwell time and the cost of doing business.
Website.https://www.icegate.gov.in/SWIFT
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RAPID ASSESSMENT SYSTEM
National e-Governance Division, a division of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, has developed a Rapid Assessment System (RAS) for continuous feedback for e-services delivered by Government of India and State Governments. This system has multiple channels for receiving feedback and is backed by analytics. These analytics will help integrated departments for continuous system improvement and better governance.
Website.http://ras.gov.in/
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OPEN DATA
Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India - data.gov.in - is a platform for supporting Open Data initiative of Government of India. The portal is intended to be used by Government of India Ministries/ Departments their organizations to publish datasets, documents, services, tools and applications collected by them for public use. It intends to increase transparency in the functioning of Government and also open avenues for many more innovative uses of Government Data to give different perspective.
Website.https://data.gov.in/
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NATIONAL SUPER COMPUTING MISSION (NSM)
National Super Computing Mission has been envisaged to empower the national academic and R&D institutions, spread across the country, by installing a vast supercomputing grid comprising of more than 70 high-performance computing facilities. These supercomputers will also be networked on the National Supercomputing grid over the National Knowledge Network (NKN).
Website.https://nsmindia.in
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MOBILE SEVA APP STORE
A mobile applications store (m-AppStore) has been created to facilitate the process of development and deployment of suitable mobile applications for delivery of public services through mobile devices. The m-AppStore store is integrated with the MSDG and it shall use the MSDG infrastructure for deployment of such applications. The m-AppStore is based on service oriented architecture and cloud based technologies using open standards as far as practicable.
Website.https://apps.mgov.gov.in/index.jsp
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MEGHRAJ
In order to utilise and harness the benefits of Cloud Computing, Government of India has embarked upon an ambitious initiative - "GI Cloud" which has been named as 'MeghRaj'. The focus of this initiative is to accelerate delivery of e-services in the country while optimizing ICT spending of the Government. This will ensure optimum utilization of the infrastructure and speed up the development and deployment of eGov applications.
Website.https://cloud.gov.in/index.php
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JEEVAN PRAMAAN
Jeevan Pramaan is a biometric enabled digital service for pensioners of Central Government, State Government or any other Government organization. The new service aims to streamline the process of issuing life certificate and make it a hassle-free experience for the pensioners. With this initiative the pensioner’s requirement to physically present him/her in front of the disbursing agency or the certification authority will become a thing of the past benefiting the pensioners in a huge way and cutting down on unnecessary logistical hurdles.
Website.https://jeevanpramaan.gov.in/
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IRCTC CONNECT
In order to cater to the growing demand of passengers to make the ticketing application more user-friendly and faster, IRCTC Connect was developed. The new app with several add-on features is based on the next generation e-ticketing system. Synchronised with the ticketing website, the app facilitates search and book train tickets, check existing reservations or cancel them, and get upcoming journey alerts
An Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP) is being setup by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW). The primary objective of IHIP is to enable the creation of standards compliant Electronic Health Records (EHRs) of the citizens on a pan-India basis along with the integration and interoperability of the EHRs through a comprehensive Health Information Exchange (HIE) as part of this centralized accessible platform.
Website.https://www.nhp.gov.in/
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HERITAGE CITY DEVELOPMENT AND AUGMENTATION YOJANA (HRIDAY)
The Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India, launched the National Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana (HRIDAY) scheme on 21st January, 2015, with a focus on holistic development of heritage cities. The scheme aims to preserve and revitalise soul of the heritage city to reflect the city’s unique character by encouraging aesthetically appealing, accessible, informative & secured environment.
Website.http://hridayindia.in/
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GOVERNMENT eMARKETPLACE
Government e-Marketplace (GeM) is single window solution for online procurement of common use Goods & Services required by various Government Departments / Organizations / PSUs. GeM aims to enhance transparency, efficiency and speed in public procurement. It also provides the tools for direct purchase, e-bidding and reverse e-auction to facilitate the government users to achieve the best value for the money. The portal offers online registration facilities for all stakeholders namely Government Users, Product Sellers and Service Providers.
Website.https://gem.gov.in/
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GARV GRAMEEN VIDYUTIKARAN MOBILE APP
The mobile application provides real-time updated data of ongoing electrification process to all users/stakeholders and provides information about Government schemes and electrification data. The app can also be used for sharing inspirational stories of differently-abled, who achieved success despite all odds.
Website.http://garv.ddugjy.in/
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eTRADE
The Department of Commerce is pursuing the project eTRADE, the purpose of which is to facilitate foreign trade in India by way of promoting effective and efficient delivery of services by various regulatory / facilitating agencies involved in foreign trade so as to enable the trade to avail services from these agencies in online environment.
Website.http://etrade.gov.in/project.aspx
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ESSO-INDIAN NATIONAL CENTER FOR OCEAN INFORMATION SERVICES
ESSO-INCOIS was established as an autonomous body in 1999 under the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) and is a unit of the Earth System Science Organization (ESSO). ESSO- INCOIS is mandated to provide the best possible ocean information and advisory services to society, industry, government agencies and the scientific community through sustained ocean observations and constant improvements through systematic and focussed research.
Website.http://www.incois.gov.in/portal/index.jsp
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eSIGN
eSign is an online electronic signature service which can be integrated with service delivery applications via an open API to facilitate an Aadhaar holder to digitally sign a document. Using authentication of the Aadhaar holder through Aadhaar e-KYC service, online electronic signature service is facilitated
Website.http://cca.gov.in/
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ELECTRONIC DEVELOPMENT FUND (EDF)
As part of the ‘Digital India’ agenda of the Government, and to develop the Electronics System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) sector in order to achieve ‘Net Zero Imports’ by 2020 and to look at India as their next destination to cater to the domestic Indian demand as well as act as an exports hub in the ESDM sector. It is with this objective that an Electronic Development Fund (EDF) is set up as a "Fund of Funds" to participate in professionally managed "Daughter Funds" which in turn will provide risk capital to companies developing new technologies in the area of electronics, nano-electronics and Information Technology (IT).
Website.http://www.edfindia-canbankventure.com/
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eBASTA
In line with the Government's Digital India initiative, this project has created a framework to make school books accessible in digital form as e-books to be read and used on tablets and laptops. The main idea is to bring various publishers (free as well as commercial) and schools together on one platform. In addition to the portal, a back-end framework to facilitate the organization and easy management of such resources has been developed, along with the web-based applications that can be installed on tablets for navigating the framework.
Website.https://www.ebasta.in/
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DIRECT BENEFIT TRANSFER (DBT)
DBT was initiated with the aim to reform Government delivery system by re-engineering the existing process in welfare schemes for simpler and faster flow of information/funds and to ensure accurate targeting of the beneficiaries, de-duplication and reduction of fraud. DBT will bring efficiency, effectiveness, transparency and accountability in the Government system and infuse confidence of citizen in the governance. Use of modern technology and IT tools will realize the dream of MAXIMUM GOVERNANCE MINIMUM GOVERNMENT.
Website.https://dbtbharat.gov.in/
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DIGITIZE INDIA
Digitize India Platform (DIP) is an initiative of the Government of India under the Digital India Programme to provide digitization services for scanned document images or physical documents for any organization. The aim is to digitize and make usable all the existing content in different formats and media, languages, digitize and create data extracts for document management, IT applications and records management.
Website.https://digitizeindia.gov.in/
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DIGITAL SAKSHARTA ABHIYAAN (DISHA)
The Digital Saksharta Abhiyan or National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM) Scheme has been formulated to impart IT training to 52.5 lakh persons, including Anganwadi, ASHA workers and authorised ration dealers in all the States/UTs across the country. The initiative aims at training non-IT literate citizens to become IT literate to enable their active and effective participation in the democratic, developmental process, and enhance their livelihood too.
Website.http://www.ndlm.in/
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DIGISEVAK- VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (VMS)
DigiSevak is an online volunteering platform for interested citizens who want to contribute to the success of Digital India program. Various government department and agencies can create volunteering tasks and volunteers can choose tasks based on their skills and interest areas. The platform provides means for end-to-end execution of a volunteering task, right from registration of volunteers to creation of tasks, evaluation of tasks and rewards & recognition of contribution by volunteers.
Website.http://digisevak.gov.in/
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DIGILOCKER
DigiLocker is the Indian Government’s flagship program aimed at transforming India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. DigiLocker ties into Digital India’s visions areas of providing citizens a shareable private space on a public cloud and making all documents/certificates available on this cloud. Targeted at the idea of paperless governance, DigiLocker is a platform for issuance and verification of documents & certificates in a digital way, thus eliminating the use of physical documents.
Website.https://digilocker.gov.in/
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DEEN DAYAL UPADHYAYA GRAM JYOTI YOJANA
One of the flagship programmes of the Power Ministry (MoP), Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) is designed to provide continuous power supply to the entire rural India. With this scheme, the government had decided to electrify 18,452 unelectrified villages within 1000 days, by May 1, 2018. The DDUGJY can benefit rural households significantly as electricity is extremely vital for growth and development of the country.
Website.http://www.ddugjy.in/
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CYBER SWACHHTA KENDRA
Cyber Swachhta Kendra (Botnet Cleaning and Malware Analysis Centre) is a part of the Government of India's Digital India initiative to create a secure cyber space by detecting botnet infections in India and to notify, enable cleaning and securing systems of end users so as to prevent further infections. It is set up in accordance with the objectives of the ‘National Cyber Security Policy’, which envisages creating a secure cyber eco system in the country. This centre operates in close coordination and collaboration with Internet Service Providers and Product/Antivirus companies.
Website.http://www.cyberswachhtakendra.gov.in/
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CSC 2.0
CSC 2.0 aims to establish a self sustaining network of 2.5 lakh CSC centres at Gram Panchayat (GP) level under Digital India and deliver various citizen centric services. It is envisaged as transaction-based and service delivery-based model, delivering a large bouquet of e-services through a single delivery platform, which would increase the sustainability of the CSCs across the Country. The project proposes to strengthen the CSC network by ensuring standardization of service availability and ensuring capacity building of all stakeholders involved.
Website.https://csc.gov.in/
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CERT-IN
CERT-In was formed with an aim to secure Indian cyber space. CERT-In provides Incident Prevention and Response services as well as Security Quality Management Services. CERT-In has been designated under Section 70B of Information Technology (Amendment) Act 2008 to serve as the national agency to perform the following functions in the area of cyber security:
• Collection, analysis and dissemination of information on cyber incidents
• Forecast and alerts of cyber security incidents
• Emergency measures for handling cyber security incidents
• Coordination of cyber incident response activities
• Issue guidelines, advisories, vulnerability notes and whitepapers relating to information security practices, procedures, prevention, response and reporting of cyber incidents
Website.http://www.cert-in.org.in/
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CENTRE FOR EXCELLENCE FOR INTERNET OF THINGS (COE-IT)
The Centre of Excellence for IoT was announced as a part of the Digital India Initiative to jump start the IOT ecosystem taking advantage of India's IT strengths and help the country attain a leadership role in the convergent area of hardware and software. The main objective of the center is to create innovative applications and domain capability. Additionally, the center will help build industry capable talent, start-up community and an entrepreneurial ecosystem for IOT.
Website.http://www.coe-iot.in/
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BHARAT BROADBAND NETWORK (BBNL)
Bharat Broadband Network Limited is a special purpose vehicle set up under Companies Act by Government of India with an authorized capital of Rs. 1000 Cr. It has been mandated to create the National Optical Fiber Network (NOFN) in India. A total of around 2,50,000 Gram Panchayats spread over 6,600 Blocks and 641 Districts are to be covered by laying incremental fiber.
Website.http://www.bbnl.nic.in/index.aspx
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AADHAAR
Aadhaar identity platform is one of the key pillars of ‘Digital India’, wherein every resident of the country is provided with a unique identity or Aadhaar number. The largest biometrics based identification system in the world, Aadhaar is a strategic policy tool for social and financial inclusion, public sector delivery reforms, managing fiscal budgets, increase convenience and promote hassle-free people-centric governance. It is unique and robust enough to eliminate duplicate or fake identities and may be used as a basis/primary identifier to roll out several Government welfare schemes and programmes for effective service delivery thereby promoting transparency and good governance.
