Orissa government is gearing up to take IT to villages by initiating various programs of e-governance in its Panchayati Raj department.

"We annually monitor near about 1.25 lakh projects including roads, buildings, water bodies, director special project of the state. Besides we monitor village bodies, blocks and district bodies covering 2.5 lakh individual beneficiaries in various schemes like Indira Aawas Yojana and self employment assistance," informed Panchayati Raj department RN Dash. He added that the department has launched a website where it has posted all rules and circulars of the department, funds flow monitoring and provided citizen centric information that one can access just with a click on mouse. The Soochana Soft Model, which has been introduced, has workflow method and accounting automation along with integrations with DRDA (district rural development agency) office automation pay and allowances.

Dash said that the department website has also hosted details of various projects and schemes that come under it including SGRY, SGSY, and IAY in a software package naming projects and location details. Besides it also has assets monitoring of Panchayati Raj institutions including gram panchayat monitoring, meeting of gram sabha, paslli sabha.

The government is going to set up touch screen kiosk at block headquarter for transparency, a paperless citizen-centric information processing centre.

Besides the department has also introduced public grievance hearing and disposal system online and is developing websites for all 30 district rural development agencies, 314 blocks and 6,234 gram panchayats on e-NRICH package of National Informatics Center (NIC), Dash informed.

"We have created infrastructure like Gramsat accommodation and DRS set in each of 30 districts and each of 314 blocks providing them with three PCs each with peripherals from NICSI. This would be further extended to state’s 6,234-gram panchayats in phases," he added.

Manoj Dash / CyberMedia News in Bhubaneswar

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