NIC District Computer Centre, Department of Information Technology, GULBARGA.

National Informatics Centre (NIC), is a premier Information Technology organization in India which is committed to providing state-of-the-art, solutions for the IT needs of the Government at all levels. NIC carries the distinction of being the largest IT Organization in the Country and has set up a satellite based nationwide computer communication network and through 2MBPS leased line, called NICNET, with over 1400 nodes connecting the National Capital, the State Capitals and the District Headquarters to one another. The IT services of NIC range from Consultancy, Software Design & Development, Office Automation and Networking Services to Training, Video Conferencing and Internet Services including Web Site Development and Hosting. NIC has a nationwide presence, with its offices spread all across the Country, from Leh to Andaman & Nicobar Islands.

Gulbarga   NIC District Computer Centre  was set up in 1988 and was located at Zillapanchayat Office premise. ZP building is 3 KMS away from the Bus-stand and 1.5 KMS away form the DC Office.

NIC District Centre is providing IT Services to the District Administration by computerising various activities of DC Office, Zilla Panchayat.

Major Projects developed / implemented by NIC District Computer Centre, Gulbarga

NREGA:  NIC is playing a major role in implementation of NREGA software in all the 337 Gram Panchayats of the District covering all 10 Taluks. Training has already been conducted 2-3 times to all the Computer Operators, Gram Panchayat Secretaries, Executive Officers and other concerned staff on the software. Presently the software has been installed at all the GPs and computerisation is under progress. Support is also extended for monthly updation of progress reports along with other ZP Schemes.

Software has been developed for preparing perspective plan for all TPs under NREGA.

A workshop was conducted on Nov 6 for release of NREGA software ver 1.0 software at ZP meeting hall which was attended by RDPR Secretary, State Informatics Officer of NIC, Chief Executive Officers, Executive Officers and DIOs of 5 districts namely Gulbarga, Davanagere, Chitra durga, Bidar and Raichur. Another 2 rounds of workshop have been conducted with the help of ZP in Aug and Sept for all 10 Taluks GP secretaries and Computer staff.

Website :  NIC has developed a District Web site and Zilla Panchayat Web site for which content has been provided by both Dist Administration and Zilla Panchayat.

2 Mbps LAN: NIC has set-up a Local Area Network covering all the sections of ZP Office where in more than 30 nodes/clients have been interconnected and 2 Mpbs leased line and VSAT connectivity has been extended.

DISNIC : Gulbarga District has been selected as a pilot district for computerization and implementation of DISNIC PLAN project on ICT Support for Decentralized planning. Twenty eight districts have been identified across the country by Planning Commission, Government of India out of which Gulbarga is the only district in Karnataka.

A workshop was conducted in this regard on 24/03/2007 at ZP Meeting Hall, Gulbarga for finalising the datasets which runs into nearly 140 pages. The following officers were present.

1. Sri. Moni, Deputy Director Genral, NIC-HQ, New Delhi.

2. Sri.Pankaj Kumar Pande,IAS, Deputy Commissioner, Gulbarga

3. Sri.P.C.Jaffar, IAS, Chief Executive Officer, Zilla Panchayat, Gulbarga

4. Dr.Shukla, Senior Technical Director, NIC, New Delhi

5. Smt.Sameena Mukhija, Principal System Analyst, NIC, Dehli

6. Sri.Mohan Das, Technical Director, NIC, KSU, Bangalore

7. District Informatics Officers of Gulbarga,Belgaum,Raichur,Bellary,Bagalkot , Bidar and Nalgonde (Andra Pradesh)

8. All the Heads of  the  Department at District Level

9. Senior Professors from Computer Science, MCA, Environmental Science etc and other representatives from Gulbarga University, Gulbarga

10. Representatives from NGO’

11.Representatives from Monster.Com.

Bhoomi:All the RTC's are computerised using Bhoomi Software & are fully operational in 10 tahasildar offices covering nearly 8 Lakh RTCs. Kiosks have been set up for issue of on-line RTCs to farmers. Transactions on all the land records carried out using Bhoomi software

Elections : IT support has been extended in computerising Election activities for DC Office for both Parliamentary, Assembly & GP Elections

ZP Projects : Main projects like MMR, Samanya Mahithi Database, BPL survey Database, Annual Budget Draft Plan, Appendix-B Salary Budget Estimates   have been computerised for Zilla Panchayat which have been extensively being used by ZP.

Student Internet World - This event is being conducted as part of BangaloreIT.in event since 2005 at Gulbarga. More than 100 computers were installed in 2004 and 2005 at District Stadium and University with LAN and internet facilities which was attended by nearly 10,000 students of class 8th to 10th from rural areas. Free transportation and food arrangements were provided by District Administration.The same event for 2006 was held at Sri. PDA and Sri. Appa Colleges of Engineering where in more than 400 computers were used for giving live internet exposure to students. The event was organised by District Administration and NIC co-ordinated all the needful arrangements for making the event a success in all the 3 years.

NIC has extended software support in carrying out recruitment, Transfers, Promotions of Primary school teachers of Education Dept. Computerised counselling system was adopted in Postings & Transfers of Teachers.

Training : Regular training, Internet & E-mail support to various departments coming under ZP & DC Office.

NIC is actively supporting the District Administration and Zilla Panchayat in computerising various activities.

RTO : Gulbarga RTO office has been fully computerised with the technical support of NIC.

CTO:Commercial Taxes departments have been compturised with VAT softwared developed by NIC Bangalore and technical support is extended for the same by District Unit.

Future Projects: CIPA Project for Police Department, Computerisation of District Consumer Forum, Rainfall and Record Rooms computerisation for DC Office.

Sri S.H. Awadhani
Technical Director/DIO

G.Rajagopal Rao
District Informatics Associate/Scientific Officer-SB

E-mail : kargul@nic.in Phone - 08472-278640