former SIO Pondicherry - Informatics

H APPENINGSM Manivannan, NIC-A&N (former SIO Pondicherry)A Venkatesan, SIO PondicherryPONDICHERRYSetting an ExampleGrievances Monitoring and RedressalSystem (PUGMARS) as per the requirementsof the District Administration. PUGMARShas a user-friendly interface for submissionof Grievance, knowing the status ofsubmitted Grievance and Frequently AskedQuestions about Grievances. Utility forsearching grievances has also beenincorporated in the system. In the words ofSh.Mehboob Iqbal, IAS, DeputyCommissioner, Doda “Monitoring of PublicGrievances with traditional system was notonly time consuming but also extremelydifficult . With the implementation ofPUGMARS, monitoring of Grievances hasbecome very organized and smooth for theAdministration.Sunil Kumar, J&K Correspondent?| NIC Team Honoured for ResultsThe Haryana State Unit of NIC has beenpublishing the results of various exams of theBoard of School Education, Haryana since theyear 2000. This year, a web-enabledapplication was developed and the results of?| Director General (NIC) FelicitatedAt a function organised recently by theBhoovigyan Vikas Foundation, Dr. N.Vijayaditya, Director General (NIC) washonoured, among other dignitaries. DG (NIC)was presented a memento by Sh. Sompal,Member, Planning Commission.The IT Luminaries from across the Countryhad gathered at the occassion where aLifetime Achievement Award was presentedto Dr. N.R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman &Chief Mentor, Infosys in recognition of hiscontribution towards India’s globalpre-eminence in the area of InformationTechnology. The award was presented bySh. T.N Chaturvedi, Hon’ble Governor ofKarnataka and Dr. K V Sundaram, ChairmanBhoovigyan Vikas Foundation.Kavaratti and Kozhikode through theauthorised ticket counters of theLakshadweep administration. The tickets areissued on-line through Internet. Theadministration is planning to extend thisfacility to all the islands in Lakshadweep andalso planning to have special counter inErnakulam town.Ajith Brahmanandan, NIC Lakshadweep?| Block Community Portals for NE StatesBlock Community portals have been launchedas part of CIC activities (http://www.cic.nic.in) for 487 blocks in eight Statesof the North Eastern Region. The portals aimto project the information about local people,values and practices (Local content) as wellas provide them with an opportunity toaccess the information available in cyberspace (Global content), as per their need.These collaborative, multilingual, multimedia& Knowledge Management enabled portalshave been dynamically generated using singleinstallation of eNRICH (http://enrich.nic.in)Community Software Solution Framework.Anjali Dhingra, NIC HQ?| Papers/Articles Published by NIC Officers10+2, 10th and 8th Standard and OpenSchool Examinations were published on theNet.Access to results was also provided throughIVR System. Due to widespread Internetculture in the state and well-plannedpublicity, there was an over-whelmingresponse. The website received more than2.5 lakh hits and IVRS site received morethan one Lakh hits in a very short period.TheChairman and Secretary of the EducationBoard honoured the NIC team involved inthe project with mementos at a functionorganized in the office of DG(NIC).Hari Chand, Haryana CorrespondentDG (NIC) addressing the gathering. (Inset) : Sh. M.Moni (DDG), speaking at the functionM.Moni, NIC HQ?| Web-enabled Ship Ticket ReservationSystemA Web-enabled Ship Ticket AdvanceReservation System(WEB-STARS) (http://lakport.nic.in) developed by NIC,Lakshadweep U.T. Unit was inaugurated bythe Lakshadweep Administrator Sri. K.S.Mehra,IAS on 15th August 2003. Through thissystem, advance reservation for all the shipsleaving Kochi can be made from Kochi,✟Title : NewsNIC: a Web-based, full-textnews clipping service from the NationalInformatics Centre Library in IndiaAuthors : Ram Kumar Matoria; P.K.Upadhyay; Arvind Mishra, NIC HQPublication : Journal : ElectronicLibrary and Information Systems, Vol37 No. 3Abstract : This case study discussesthe needs, objectives and advantagesof NewsNIC, a Web-based full-textnews clippings project implemented bythe library of the National InformaticsCentre, Ministry of Communicationsand Information Technology,Government of India. The authorsdiscuss the design aspects, varioussystems components, Web technologyand database tools used as back-endsolutions.rkmatoria@hub.nic.in24October 2003This publication is brought to you by:National Informatics Centre, Department of Information Technology,Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India,A-Block, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110003Telephone: 91-11-24361133 Fax: 91-11-24362628 www: http://home.nic.in