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Study Report on Assessment of the Model e-districts Area of Challenge Description Implementation Strategy Financial resource • The district did not recei • A Non Profit Organisation named District Welfa Technology Sustainability any formal commitment Committee, which was headed by the Distri funds from the State budge Collector and participated by the people • Audit objection on t utilization of funds • Lack of awareness Technology Computerization • No existence of application • Resolving bugs/errors/functional ga during operationalizati phase • Software stabilization • Sustainability of t operations 64 representatives was formed for funding this initiative • This Non Profit Organisation mobilised funds fro various sources and schemes such as Members Parliament Local area development Programm (MPLADP) and MLA Constituency development fund. • Declared e-district through a Government order Support from the Political power • A well designed Graphical user interface was develope for ease of Use • The software was developed in the local language ensure acceptance and ease of understating by th lower level officials. • Part of the Collectorate building was converted into software development wing. Four softwa development centres were set up in the Collectora building and 30 programmers were recruited in the centres. • Citizens could have their land purchases recorded the Taluk and village land record registers just paying Rs.20 in person. • Agriculturists could get the cultivation and harve certificates (Adangal extract) within minutes just parting with Rs.20. • Other land record extracts were made available to t citizens at a cost of Rs.10 in all the Taluk offi counters
Study Report on Assessment of the Model e-districts Project • Support from the distri Management officials and administration 7. Current Status of the Project • Project Champion Mr. Umashankar had willing accepted the task of Pilot e-district and was involved the Head of Functional and administrative componen of the project. • He also created Technical team in Collectorate and w involved directly in the software development. • He organized may training programmes for the citize and employees The way-forward for the Thiruvarur e-district project was implementation of the wireless technology to connect all the 7 Taluk offices, 2 revenue divisional offices, 10 Panchayat Union offices with the collectorate. The concept was to convert the collectorate into a paperless environment. However it was not implemented due to lack of funds. • Due to lack of timely funds and project ownership the project progress has not been significant after year 2001. However the e-district application has been running in the Taluks for the last several years and user charges are being collected. The Taluk automation software is widely used application amongst the 20 e-governance application developed. We had visited the Taluk office of Thiruvarur and the collector ate, some of the issues that needs to be resolved in the existing scenario • The Taluk Automation application is the main application which is in use. Other key applications such as Block Automation, Transport, and Estimator etc are not in use • Based on the discussions with the existing officials information technology and its use is not a current priority of the district. • Software was developed by an in-house application development team; all the programmers involved have left the district administration. Since NIC was not involved in the application development, it s not able to provide the software troubleshooting and maintenance • The Hardware installed at the Taluks and Blocks needs to be upgraded. The AMC of the hardware has been expired and hardware support is not provided at the Taluks or blocks • Absence of Diesel Genset for operating at the Taluks. Since there is shortage of electricity supply in Taluks, there is need supplement the UPD with Gensets. 65
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