RAJASTHAN: Swift Path To ‘E’ 

Rajasthan’s

department of information technology (DoIT) has developed the government’s

intranet, called ‘raj-SWIFT’–statewide intranet on fast traCck. Raj-SWIFT

is a web-enabled application catering to a closed user group, being hosted on a

web server situated at DoIT and connected to the internet via a 128Kbps leased

line. In the first phase, raj-SWIFT would be used by the chief minister, his

secretariat and district. In the second phase, all district level offices of key

government departments, panchayat samitis, educational institutions and other

agencies would be able to use raj-SWIFT for intra and inter departmental

communication.

RajNidhi

information kiosk project

RajNidhi is a

web-enabled information kiosk system designed and developed by DoIT, Government

of Rajasthan, in collaboration with Rajasthan State Agency for Computer Services

(RajComp). From these information kiosks, citizens would be able to access

information related to health, family planning, immunization schedules for

children, employment, transportation, distance education, agriculture, water and

electricity connection, birth and death registration, approved housing

societies, rates of land and building taxes.

Chief minister’s information

system

An information

system has been developed for the chief minister’s office and some modules of

the package have been implemented to web-enable the vital data. These would be

required by the chief minister to use and monitor key activities of various

government departments. The project has been taken up jointly by DoIT and

RajComp.

Intranet for Jaipur city

police

An intranet,

Aarakshi, built using internet technology, tools and standards for Jaipur city

police, was developed by DoIT. It enables field level officers to carry out

online communication regarding crime data and criminals’ photographs. Besides,

a crime information system has been implemented in majority police stations of

Jaipur.

Computerization of district

collectorate

Computerization

of Ajmer Collectorate was taken up on pilot basis in 1996-97. It includes a

grievance monitoring system, monitoring of court cases, financial accounting,

arms license, small savings monitoring, claims by agents, famine and flood

relief system of various offices like SDO, DRDA, Treasury and ACM.

Computerization of hospitals

DoIT has

computerized registration of outdoor and indoor patients of the Jay Kay Lon

Hospital, Jaipur, on a pilot basis. This has been done using PC-AT 286 and 386

machines which were lying unused in government departments.

Computerization in

Registration and Stamps Department

A software,

Rajcrest, has been developed to computerize the activities of the office of the

sub registrar. This facilitates efficient and fast registration, inquiry and

cash deposit, and storage of registration documents in computer.

Networking of Secretariat

The plan for

networking the Secretariat campus envisages structured cabling in about 1,000

rooms covering 7-8 buildings. Besides other applications, RajNidhi would be

served to the users of this network. IIT Kanpur is providing consultancy for

this project. The design for the project is complete and is awaiting a technical

and commercial bid to be finalized.

Vikas Darpan

A GIS-based

planning and decision support system facilitates resource-based decentralized

planning through comprehensive databases of 40,000 villages, 237 panchayat

samitis and 219 tehsils based on about 200 demographic and socio-economic

indicators. This project has won consecutive awards from ESRI in 1996 and 1997.