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- Abraham Lincoln
Ascender The
“The philosophy of the school room in
one generation will be the philosophy
of government in the next.”
admirer of Dr. Seshagiri, highlighted
his academic excellence as an IISc
luminary. Shri Murthy also appreciated
Dr. Seshagiri’s rare combination of
administrative acumen with sense of
alacrity in decision making which has
been instrumental for accelerating the
use of Electronics and Information
Technology in India. Being awarded with Padma Bhushan,
Dr. Narasimiah Seshagiri has also been
honoured with Vikram Sarabhai
Research award, Asia Jyoti award, Om
Prakash Bhasin award for Science and
Technology, Karnataka Rajyotsava
award etc. In his speech Shri Sanjay Dhotre
emphasized that Dr Seshagiri has
catapulted NIC as a formidable,
indispensable and omnipresent
organization with its footprint across the
country. Dr. Neeta Verma, DG NIC reiterated that
e-Governance today is the visionary
outcome of Dr. Shesagiri and “Digital
India” programme has been built on the
ground work done, because of his
pioneer initiatives in 80’s. She expressed
her pleasure how this memorial lecture
would assist intellectual discussion on
changing digital eco system of country
and make all stakeholders aware about
the emerging changes in IT from highest
level to the lowest possible local level.
Odisha get instant pest advisory in
Odia language from expert on their
mobile phone, registered against Farmer
ID. A Dashboard system has been
designed Agriculture Officers to monitor
pest/disease situation across the State. A
Mobile app has been designed separately
for emergency information exchange
among the Farmers and Experts on any
alarming pest/disease condition.
Shri Naveen Patnaik, Hon’ble Chief
Minister, Odisha has launched Online
Land Revenue Payment Services,
infused with 5Ts service delivery
concept of Govt of Odisha, through
(https://odishalandrevenue.nic.in),
developed by NIC, Odisha. Shri Sudam
Marndi, Hon’ble Minister, Revenue &
Disaster Management, Principal
Secretaries, Secretaries and other senior
officers of Government of Odisha were
present in the inaugural function. Shri Nikunja B. Dhal, IAS, Principal
Secretary, Revenue & Disaster
Management Dept., appraised the
features of e-Pauti to Hon’ble Chief
Minister and other dignitaries present in
the event. Soon after launching the
application, in the Chief Minister’s
Conference Hall, the farmers and other
citizens made online Revenue Payment
in al l 30 Districts . Dist r ic t
Administrations participated through
Video Conferencing.
It was a proud moment for IT Industry
in country and especially for NICans
when the first Dr. Seshagiri Memorial
Lecture was held for this legendary
scientist, visionary leader and the
founder Director General of National
Informatics Centre at Vigyan Bhawan,
New Delhi on 5th August 2019. Minister
of State for IT, Shri Sanjay Dhotre
graced the occasion as the Chief Guest. IT Secretary to Govt. of India Shri Ajay
Sawhney termed Dr. Seshagiri as doyen
and architect of ICT Revolution in the
Country and credited Dr. Seshagiri as
founder of NIC, STPI, NICSI and the
Chief Architect of the biggest civilian
satellite based network (NICNET) of the
world in eighties, when it was
unthinkable. Shri N R Narayana Murthy, Founder of
Infosys, an old time friend and an ardent
D r . A r u n K u m a r S a h o o ,
Hon'ble Minister of Agriculture &
Farmers Empowerment, Govt of
Odisha , inaugura ted the web
portal (www.epestodisha.nic.in) for e-Pest
surveillance and pest management
automation system developed and
deployed by NIC, Odisha. The ePest
Surveillance and Pest Management
Program is a major component of IPM
for major crops of Odisha. Farmers of
Shri Naveen Pattnaik, Hon’ble CM, Odisha launches Online payment of Land Revenue
ePest : An instant advisory platform for Farmers of Odisha
Dr. N. Seshagiri Memorial Lecture held in New Delhi
Launching of ePest web portal for Farmers
InSight Online Land Revenue Payment Service rolled out to empower Citizen of Odisha under 5Ts.
National Informatics Centre
Odisha State Centre Unit - IV , Sachivalaya Marg,
Bhubaneswar –751001
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Hon’ble PM of India with Hon’ble PM of Bhutan in Thimpu
...Oh ho ho ho...since 30 years I was thinking that in IT, a vowel leads the Technology...now its clear...it was a number...
NavIC : India’s own navigation system
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National Knowledge Network extended to Bhutan
NavIC is India’s indigenously built navigation system which is
a constellation of satellites under Indian Regional Navigation
Satellite System (IRNSS). This is the fifth navigation system of
the World after GPS of US, GLONASS of Russia, Galileo of
European Union and BeiDou of China. NavIC is an autonomous regional satellite navigation system
that provides accurate real-time positioning and timing
services covering India and region extending 1,500 km around
Indian borders. The system at present consists of a
constellation of eight satellites with two additional satellites on
ground as stand-by. NavIC provides two levels of service, the
"standard positioning service", which will be open for civilian
use, and a "restricted service" (encrypted) for authorized users
(including military). There are plans to expand NavIC system
by increasing constellation size from 8 to 11. After cyclone Ookhi, ISRO has successfully tested NavIC,
collaborating with Tamil Nadu Government, distributing 200
NavIC devices to 80 fishing boat groups. These devices, which
are of the size of a soapbox and Bluetooth enabled, are
receivers through which alerts received can be read on the
NavIC App on an Android phone. The alerts are in regional
Language so that the fisherman finds it easy to understand. In future, Phones in India may have NavIC instead of GPS and
NavIC will have its presence in all e-Governance applications.
In a recent joint programme in Thimpu, Bhutan,
Shri Narendra Modi, Hon’ble Prime Minister of India and
Dr. Lotay Tshering, Hon’ble Prime Minister of Bhutan,
inaugurated the interconnection between India’s National
Knoweledge Network and Bhutan’s DRUK Research and
Education Network; linking both countries with Information
Gateway. This would help students and researchers of
Bhutan in eLearning, Access of Digital Libraries, CDN,
Virtual Class Rooms. Apart from Education sector, services
from other sectors like Agriculture, Health etc will be
available for the Citizen of Bhutan. Based on the philosophy to Encourage, Enable, Enrich and
Empower and with the objective to inculcate innovation, the
strong and robust network from India known as National
Knowledge Netwok (NKN), designed and deployed by
National Informatics Centre, connects all universities,
research institutions, libraries, laboratories, healthcare and
agricultural institutions across the country and facilitates
the flow of information, collaborative research and has been
instrumental to bring the knowledge revolution for
transforming society and promoting inclusive growth. The
ultra-high speed e-governance backbone with state-of-the-
art Pan-India network has been able to connect more than
1700 education institutes with more than 50 million
students, researchers and educationist. NKN as an establishment of Rs 5990 Crore outlay, has
proven itself as the backbone that capable to cater ICT
services to neighbouring foreign countries like Bangladesh,
Sri lanka and now, Bhutan; becoming a true global network
link to collaborate with foreign countries.
This has been a great step for extending India’s technology
to the neighbourhood country where NIC being instrumental
for facilitating better bilateral relationship between
countries. In Odisha, more than 50 educational and research
institutions, including AIIMS, IIT and Universities, have
been connected to this Global network along with OSWAN
and State Data Centre of Odisha.