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Gujarat - List of e-Governance Initiatives
S. No.Name of the
InitiativeDescription Status /Reach / Other details
Gujarat Informatics Limited (Nodal agency for IT implementation)
1. eGram
Panchayats having population
greater than thousand (10,774)
to be computerized and basic
services pertaining to Panchayat
to be provided in first phase.
5,875 Village Panchayats supplied
with infrastructure and 4,826 are in
operation. A further 3,000 VPs will
be provided the infrastructure in
the coming financial year
2. Gujarat Portal
A single point entry portal for
the state of Gujarat for
providing government
information and transaction
services online to both citizens
and businesses
Information of most of the
departments is hosted online and
many informative, interactive and
payment services are under
development across the state
3. e-City
City Civic Centres or Jan Seva
Kendras envisaged under this
project with emphasis on cities
of Gujarat. These centres
provide a host of services to
citizens ranging from various tax
collections; issue of certificates,
permission letters; complaints;
information disbursal and
tendering.
With the successful implementation
and functioning in Ahmedabad
Municipal Corporation, GIL has
initiated the replication in other six
Municipal Corporations. Surat has
successfully created the civic
centres. Vadodara has created city
civic centre and is in the process of
expansion. Rajkot is in the process
of creating the civic centres and
Jamnagar, Bhavnagar and Junagadh
have taken up the project
4. IWDMS Integrated
Workflow &
Document
Automate the workflow of
Gujarat Sachivalaya and
integrate with that of other
Implemented in CM Office and
being extended to all other
departments
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Management
Systemdepartments
5.Form Book & GR
Book
Online book containing the
various forms required by the
citizens and also a book
containing Government
Regulations made online with
facility to search, print and save
provided in it.
Over 100 forms and 5000 GRs are
already online.
6. E-databank
The basic purpose is collating
the information from the
various Government offices
based on the user need &
disseminate effectively through
single window
As part of Phase-I, 50 services of 10
departments have been finalized
and the process flows for each of 50
services have been completed.
Demonstration of prototype of the
portal done and development work
of the Portal is under progress
7.e-Dhara, Land
Records Online
Complete computerization of all
the Land Records and
developing a transparent and
citizen-centric delivery of
services. In addition various
kinds of reports can also be
generated for departmental
purposes
In all Talukas computerized copy of
village forms 6, 7, 8-A, 12 (Record
of Right) is available to citizens from
Taluka Headquarter.
8. e-Nagarpalika Complete computerization of
Municipalities and provision of
services like Registration of
Birth & Death, Property Tax
billing & collection, Trade
licenses, Water Supply billing &
collection, Tenders, Solid Waste
Management, Complaints Public
Grievances, Accounts, Payroll,
Infrastructure details, Self
Out of 141 Municipalities, 91 have
been completely e-governed and
rest 50 are under implementation
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Assessment Scheme
9. Gyan Ganga
The project looks to provide the
citizens of rural Gujarat the
advantage of health counselling,
information related to
agriculture, services of
veterinary doctors and
education right in their village.
They can videoconference from
kiosks, helping them interact
freely with those far away. Over
and above this, information
related to the various
Government schemes too would
be provided.
As of now the project has been
started in seven out of sixteen
initially planned locations and
around 200 kiosk information
centers are currently operational.
Three more projects are on the
verge of commencement within a
month or two. The project looks to
cover about 3,000 villages on
completion.
10. Mahitishakti
It involves setting up of manned
information access centers with
access to information on a
computer or a kiosk.
Information is provided on a
browser and is also available on
the web at
www.mahitishakti.net. The
application includes online
forms for the citizens for the
ration card and the Old age
Pension Scheme. Information
related to other schemes and
relevant to the region is also
provided through the number of
Mahiti Shakti Kendras setup at
the dairy cooperative & district
cooperative banks and STD/PCO
booths.
80 Mahiti Shakti Kendras (MSKs)
have been set up so far and 76 out
of 80 have been running
successfully, there are 25 MSKs are
in Dairy centers. The 45 enthusiastic
kiosk operators have earned Rs.
6,88,305/- by selling 46,721 forms
up to December 2004. As many as
200 forms have been made
available on-line. Information
pertaining to ongoing schemes like
those under the District Rural
Development Agency and District
Planning Board have also been
made available. The web-enabled
version of the Gujarat Geographic
Information System (GGIS) giving
details of the resource availability in
terms of 95 parameters of every
village of the district is available on
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a query-based system.
Revenue Department already
hosted the web sites of all 25
district collectors. To have proper
interface with GSWAN and the
common information and services
from District collector’s web site,
now, the website is hosted at the
Server Farm.
11.Sales Tax and
Treasury
The online sales tax and
treasury services deal with
payments, books, deposits and
EMD, stamp management, LC as
well as pension.
In use by all the departments and
facilitates timely submission of all
accounted information and easy
generation of reports on demand.
12. Talimrozgar
Website www.talimrozgar.org
developed which contains data
related to all the jobseekers
registered in the various
employment exchanges
All employment exchange centres
connected and a comprehensive
database is available at site for both
employers and job-seekers with a
provision of online registration as
well.
13. TeleFariyad
“Chief Minsiter’s Call Centre”
enables an easy-grievance
redressal mechanism for the
public anywhere in Gujarat.
Offers a uniform telephone
number 1505 for registering
complaints and reduces
paperwork by transferring a
paper-based process into a web-
based application and gives
people the chance to register
their grievance from their
homes.
Complaints are received at the
District GSWAN center. They are
compressed and transmitted to the
Chief Minister’s Office,
Gandhinagar. The existing
infrastructure of GSWAN, Server
farm and the Chief Minister’s Web
Center are used to receive,
transcript and forward complaints
to the respective Heads of
Departments for redressal. The
entire process takes a mere 10
minutes.
14. GSWAN GSWAN is the backbone
network for voice, data and
Connecting more than 1,400
government offices in all the 25
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video communication through
out the state of Gujarat. It
connects the Sachivalaya at
Gandhinagar to the district level
with 8 Mbps backbone while
from the district level to the
taluka level with 2 Mbps
connectivity.
districts and 225 talukas to the
state capital. With the GSWAN
connectivity having already been
provided at the taluka-level, the
government has plans to cover all
the 18,000 villages in the state.
15.
SICN Sachivalaya
Integrated
Communication
Network
State-of-the-art EPABX of 5100
subscribers, CCTV, Inmersat
telephones for disaster
communication, video conference
facility attached with EPABX with
multi conference unit, and data
communication back bone. Some of
the points kept into consideration
were number of users and the
coverage area.
Has been completed and very much
in operation with high traffic figures
of
Average 1,25,000 calls are made
within the network every day;
Average 60-70,000 calls made out
side the network every day and
Average 40,000 calls are incoming
every day.
16.
SWAGAT (State-
Wide Attention on
public Grievance
by Application of
Technology)
A unique complaint redressal
facility developed in Gujarat
having a direct interface
between the Chief Minister and
citizen on 4th Thursday of every
month wherein a direct
interaction between the CM,
Citizen and officials concern
takes place if the need arises.
SWAGAT is a combination of
digital management and WAN
technology
The success has been huge with
over 17,000 complaints being
addressed till date since its
implementation in 2004.
17. Centre of
Excellence
The Centre is providing state of
the art Information Technology
Training and Support
Infrastructure to the
Publishing of eGov@Gujarat
newsletters, Lecture series on
various IT topics, Module-I,II
training provided and E-databank
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Government personnel. It is
conveniently located within the
Udyog Bhavan and is easily
accessible by all Government
departments.
Phase-I started.
Department of Settlement and Land Records
18.Computerization
of Kami jasti Patrak
After original survey areas of
revenue survey No. are shown
in village Form I. If there is any
arrear or revenue of any Survey
number measurement is carried
out and area after
measurement with any change
is shown in Kami jasti Patrak.
Records in the district office are
modified and correction is
carried out in the map. The
same KJP and the corrected
map is provided to the village
accountant for correction
KJP software is implemented in
many districts for the District
Inspector of Land Records (DILR),
providing solutions regarding the
mutations of the land.
19.
Computerization
of Cadastral Maps
and GIS based
system
Scanning and digitization of all
the maps with help of
Bhaskaracharya Institute for
Space Applications and Geo-
informatics( BISAG)
All villages (over 23,000) maps have
been scanned and around 2000
maps have been digitized
20. City Survey Record
Computerization
An approach for
computerization of Urban Land
Records i.e. Cities / Towns,
which includes the Property
ownership & other attribute
information, spatial scope of the
property, maintenance of the
spatial & tabular database.
NIC has developed a complete
software solution for Urban Land
Records System for the use of 66
City Survey Offices located at 25
districts of Gujarat State. Software
is being implemented in pilot
offices at Ahmedabad and
Sabarkantha districts. The software
supports local language and
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generates the PROPERTY CARD for
the landowner. GIS support is
expected to be provided in future.
Registration and Stamps
21.
Computerized
Registration of
Documents
Stamp Duty Calculation based
on parameters given
Available on GSWAN and being
used by all officials
22.Registration of
Documents ReD
Computerization of complete
process of Registration of
documents under the
Registration Act
25 SRO in 7-corporation area is
automated since 1st May 2005.
Registration, Photo capturing,
scanning etc are done
electronically.
Revenue Department
23. LRMIS
Land Records Management
Information System (LRMIS)
enables issuance of extracts of
land records, mutation of title,
generation of notices and
reports etc.
Implemented at all 225 Taluka
offices through specially set-up
centres called as e-Dhara kendras
and being extended to Panchayat
level in few districts through e-
Gram project. Report generation of
revenue collected and certificates
issued can be done by all GSWAN
users
24. PCIS
Property Card Information
System for property cards in
urban areas
Under implementation in all the 7
Corporation area offices
Commissionerate of Transport
25. Registration
Outsourced to Shonk for
computerization of Registration
procedure of vehicles
Implemented in 7 offices but will be
replaced by Vahan in future which
includes other services like permits,
fitness certificates, etc.
26. Smart Chip License Smart Card type license being
issued to citizens for better
Implemented in 23 offices out of 25
and running smoothly but now
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security and identification by
competent authorities.
being withdrawn in favour of
implementing Saarthi
27.Receipt Reporting
System RRS
Receipt entry by the RTO offices
at a centralized database
RTO offices login and enter through
GSWAN
28. Website
Online availability of forms,
procedures and information
relating to the department
Already in development phase and
likely to be completed in 3 months
time.
Directorate of Agriculture
29. Krishi Mahatsov
Every year a one-month
programme for benefit of
farmers is organized by
department and Krishi Rath
visits each location providing
training, health cards, solving
problems
In use since last year and during the
period shows all the information
about the location of Krishi Rath
and probable dates of coverage of
various areas
30.Weather Watch
Module
G2G application wherein all
information pertaining to Rain
effect, pest effect, sowing area,
expected crop production will
be digitized
Implemented at the district level
and data is being entered on
regular basis by assimilating the
entire district information
31. Farmers Insurance
G2G application providing
information about the
accidental death claims of
farmers and status of their
claims
Development complete and
implementation at a few districts
done
32.Crop Cutting
Experiment
Comprehensive database of all
data related to crop-yields
throughout the state
Contains very sensitive data and
being implemented in a slow and
steady manner
33. Agriculture Portal
Complete computerization of all
the processes of the agriculture
department mainly catering to
intra-department services
33 modules in all identified by the
TSP-NIC and development of these
are in progress.
Directorate of Animal Husbandry
34. Livestock census Common database of all the Application is ready and being
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information
system
Livestock present distributed
up-to the village levelimplemented
Director of Municipal Administration
35.e-Governance
Application
Consists of 7 modules namely
1.Property & Other Tax
2.Death/Birth Certificate
3.Certificates/Licenses
4.Accounting
5.Solid Waste Management
6.Public Grievances
7.Town planning & Building
Plans
Being implemented at all the
municipalities and a municipality
having any 5 modules in
operational state is deemed as e-
governed municipality
High Court of Gujarat
36.Automation of
High Court
Complete automation of High
Court procedures including
issuing certified copies of
judgements and orders.
The case information and case
related services are provided to the
litigant public and legal community
over Internet and locally.
The existing software is being re-
developed and migrating to new
platform - Oracle and Linux.
37.
District Court
Information
System
Computerization of activities of
district court and setting up a
common link with the High
Court
Running at 17 district courts,
metropolitan court and city civil
court.
State Election Commission
38.Nagarpalika
Election 2006
G2G web-based application on
the intranet for easy viewing of
the election progress of the
newly formed Municipalities
Developed and maintained by NIC
the application provides complete
analysis of the election proceedings
on a day to day basis up-to the
grass root level
Sales Taxes Department
39. VATIS Consists of 4 modules namely
1. Registration
2. Return
Software is ready and being
implemented.
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3. Goods Information System
for Check-posts
4. Opening Stock & Closing
Stock
Covers all aspects of sales tax
department under the new VAT
regime including Border check
post monitoring
Will be in operation by March end
in all 103 offices
40.High Seas Sales
Monitoring
Effective monitoring of Goods
movement at the Gandhidham
port for prevention of Tax
Evasion
Satisfactory
41.Professional Tax
Payer’s Database
A comprehensive system for
building the 10 lakhs
professional taxpayers’
database and collection of the
professional tax at all the sales
tax offices throughout the State.
Under implementation
Finance Department
42.
Online Bill/Cheque
status and Voucher
info of Treasuries
Status checking of Bills/Cheque
handled by the treasury
department
Implemented in Ahmedabad district
office only
43.
GIFT -Government
Insurance Fund
Transactions
Automate the functionality of
the major work areas of GIF,
more particularly Co-Insurance,
Direct Business, Re-Insurance
and HBA insurance
GIFT package is being developed
and Co-Insurance business portion
is being implemented.
44.PF Management
System
Complete computerization of
the General Provident Fund
GPF account details received at
DPPF from 25 district treasuries and
2 pay & account offices are
reconciled with Accountant General
office, Rajkot. Total 69,000 PF slips
were printed for 2002-2003.
45. Pension Case Status of pension application Implemented and available to all
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Status Onlinefiled with the department can
be checked easilyGSWAN users
Panchayat Rural Development Department
46.
District Panchayat
Accounting System
DPAS
DPAS software developed by
NIC, Gujarat State is for the
accounts section of the District
Panchayat. This software helps
in effective monitoring of the
utilisation of different funds for
the development and uplift of
rural people.
It has been tested for the financial
year 2002-2003 and is officially
released by the Development
Commissioner of Gujarat on May 8,
2003 at Gandhinagar. The software
is being implemented at all the 25
districts by the respective DDOs.
The web based reporting from DDO
to Development Commissioner is
under development.
47.Gram Panchayat
Accounting system
Internal Application for account
management and monitoring by
the Gram Panchayats
Application is ready and pilot is
being launched in Gandhinagar
48.
e-PRIMA –
Panchayati Raj
Institution of
Maintenance of
Accounts
Centralized system for
monitoring of grants and
scheme-wise progress.
Implemented at Panchayats having
GSWAN connection and daily
monitoring and report generation is
possible.
49.Loan Advance/
Recovery system
Monitoring of loans provided to
the Zilla Panchayats by the
Ministry for its development
activities
Pilots successfully run at Valsad and
Gandhinagar.
50.Provident Fund
Software
Computerization of the
Provident Fund maintained by
the Gram Panchayats
Implemented at all District
Panchayats
51. Manpower System
Application to keep records of
officers hired by the department
on a contract or day-to-day
basis
Being used by the district offices
52. E-Patrak Reporting of activities by District Implemented and available on
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Rural Development Agency GSWAN
53. Panchayat Portal
Objective of this portal is to
disseminate Panchayat
department activities like
various schemes running for
village population, their budget,
grant received for them, grant
expenditure, district wise and
taluka wise details etc.
7 modules have been identified by
NIC and their development is near
completion
Police Department
54. FIR onlineComplete process of FIR lodging
by citizens to be made online
In process, training and computers
have been provided at all Police
Stations and connectivity is being
established
55. Vehicle Lost/Found
Database containing all the
vehicles lost or found by the
department
Implemented at central and district
level
56. CCIS
Comprehensive application
containing 7 modules which on
implementation computerizes
all police activities and builds a
digitized database of all
information
Only FIR lodging and to some extent
Personnel Information is being
maintained by the District
Headquarters
57. Dial 100 project
Crime reporting and prevention
with aid of GPS and GIS aided
equipments
Planned
58.Portrait Building
System
Computer aided criminal photo
building software
Being used at all District
Headquarters
59. Payroll systemSalary information and status of
payments made
Being used at all District
Headquarters
60.Jail Information
System JIS
Supports the Jail Administration
in the state to effectively
manage the limited facilities
available in jails.
Implemented in all jails of the state
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61. Pollnet
Dedicated communication
network for police use between
various districts and states on a
larger scale
State wise implementation is
completed up-to the district level
and in use since last year
Directorate of Employment & Training
62.
Trainees
Management
System TRAMS
A comprehensive system
covering Admission,
Attendance, Internal and Final
Exams. These activities start
from the admission of trainees
to the printing of
mark-sheet/certificate
Software consists of 3 modules
which have been implemented in
all 139 ITI centres.
63.
Employment
Exchange
Management
System
To provide better Services to
the Unemployment Youth
Implemented in all 45 locations and
also registration has been made
online under the Talimrozgar
scheme
Department of School Education
64.Mamlatdar Offices
Reporting System
Used to keep track of resources
at various Mid-Day-Meal
scheme centres
Being effectively used through
GSWAN at offices where
connectivity had been provided
Food & Civil Supplies Department
65.
GRCC – Gujarat
Ration Card
Computerization
Complete computerization of
the ration card process at the
Gram Panchayat level and
issuing a computerized Ration
Card to the citizens
It has been implemented in all
Taluka offices and is being extended
to the Gram Panchayats
66. RRC – Roaming
Ration Card
A very unique concept being
implemented for first time in
Gujarat for provision of
Roaming Ration Card to the
citizens shifting from one
locality to another. The service
has been integrated with the
Department website and facility
More than 1400 Roaming Ration
Cards have been issued till
February’06
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is provided online
67.
Essential
Commodities and
Edible Oil price
monitoring
Monitoring of prices by the
government official on a daily,
monthly basis
Available on GSWAN and being
successfully used
Department of Health and Family Welfare
68.Integrated Disease
Surveillance
For 16 identified diseases, data
of new cases and deaths are
collected week wise at remote
units, Corporation Hospitals and
Medical Colleges (Hospitals
attached to it). Data on weekly
basis is entered at the district
level and transferred to Central
server at Gandhinagar for
analysis.
Functional and running on intranet.
Online detail analysis module is also
provided which is running in
Intranet mode
69.
PHArmacist
Registration and
Monitoring System
(PHARMS)
Function of Gujarat State
Pharmacy Council (GSPC)
contains registration of
Pharmacists, their working and
educational details including
business and residential
addresses
From 1st January 2003, registration,
renewal and re-registration are
made online. The annual reports
for the Pharmacy council of India
are also prepared using PHARMS.
Now GSPC is in the process of
implementation of Fresh
Registration using PHARMS, which
results in the total computerization
of the Council.
Directorate of Social Defence
70.
Computerization
of schemes and
services
Different modules Housing,
Certificates, scholarship,
medical aid, etc. have been
identified
Software development is complete
and implementation is to be done
Directorate of Scheduled Castes
71. Computerization
of schemes and
Different modules Housing,
Certificates, scholarship,
Software development is underway
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servicesmedical aid, etc. have been
identified
Directorate of Developing Caste Welfare
72.
Computerization
of schemes and
services
Different modules Housing,
Certificates, scholarship,
medical aid, etc. have been
identified
Software development is underway
Department of Archives
73.
Archival
Information
System for
Department of
Archives (ArIS)
Records dating back 2 centuries
are maintained by the
department amounting to 27
Lakh records which needs to be
digitized
The data from three centres has
been captured
Commissioner of Cottage & Rural Industry
74.Monthly Progress
Report
System is for monitoring the
monthly expenditure done
under various plans as well as
schemes against the allocation
and targets for the financial year
and generation of monthly
reports
There are about 50 schemes and 5
plans for which the software is used
to monitor regularly.
Gujarat State Disaster Monitoring Department
75.Monsoon
Reporting System
Application assists the online
collection of data from all places
of the State for Monsoon
monitoring.
Satisfactorily been used since 2004
76.Scarcity
Monitoring System
Taluka wise statistics are
collected weekly on Intranet for
better management of scarcity.
Satisfactory
Roads & Building Department
77. Computerization
of all the
functionalities of
the department
Web-based containing many
applications, main ones being
Works Monitoring system
Implemented at the divisional level,
and being implemented at the sub-
divisional level
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Budget Monitoring System
Schedule of Rates
Contractors Registration
Staff Training College
Capital Project
Quality control
Asset Management
Electrical Circle
Mechanical circle
Drawing Branch
Traffic Registration
Stores
Legal Department
78.
Legal – IITS (Legal
dept’s Integrated
Information
Technology
Solution)
Consists of various modules
which are
CIO (Court fees) module
Charity Commissioner and
Wakaf Board
Legal Case Management
System
o DGP module
o GP, High Court
Civil opinion module
Establishment &
Administration of Judiciary
Other modules
Partially implemented and most of
the information is available online
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