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District Informatics
District Informatics

Bagalkote, Karnataka

Marching towards Digital India with ICT Solutions

Edited by REUBAN K.

ith the reorganisation of districts in tion can take immediate action. The system also
1997, the new Bagalkot district came into tracks and monitors FIRs filed and court cases re-
Wexistence during the 50th year of India’s lated to children who are or crossed 18 years of
independence. The district is located in the age. The application has received an appreciation
northern part of Karnataka. Historically, it was letter from Hon’ble Minister of Women and Child
the homeland of the great Chalukyas. Aihole, Welfare, Karnataka.
along with Badami, emerged as the cradle of
experimentation for temple architecture, stone Integrated Livestock Information
artwork, and construction techniques. Aihole is System (ILVS) version 2.0
famous for its Hindu, Jain, Pattadakal temple c and (http://ahvs.kar.nic.in/ahvsmis)
Buddhist temples whereas Badami is famous for its ILVS is a portal to monitor activities and prog-
single stone caves carved in the period of Immadi A number of projects based on ress regarding the Animal Husbandry depart-
Pulakeshin-I, along with the historic temples of ICT have been developed by NIC ment. It captures periodic information from
Pattadakal. UNESCO has identified the Pattadakal
temple complex as a World Heritage Site. Bagalkote District Centre since nearly 45000 institutions on animals treatments
NIC Bagalkote Centre, which was established its inception in 1998. The Centre for various diseases, disease outbreaks, untimely
in July 1998, has completed 24 years since its in- death count, vaccinations (received, issued, uti-
ception. Over the years, it has provided many ICT provides multi-faceted support to lised and availability in each institution), semen
solutions to district administration by developing the local administration and related straws of animals (received, issued, and utilised),
software locally and implementing several State departments by ensuring the reach artificial insemination done, pregnancy, animal
and Central projects. treated (outpatient and inpatient), castration and
Because of its strategic location in the District of Digital India programme upto infertility camps held, progress in socio-econom-
Administrative Building, NIC District Centre able last-mile citizen ic programs, number of cows born, feed and fod-
to provide High Speed Net Connectivity to all de- der, animal slaughtered, liquid nitrogen utilised,
partments with more than 180 nodes. cattle insurance, cattle deaths and village wise
institution mapping. The system generates nearly
ICT Initiatives in the District 140 reports that have helped the department to
regulate livestock in the state.
SURAKSHINI ment makes detailed entries of child parameters
(http://bagalkote.kar.nic.in/surakshini) to monitor their age (before / after / during mar- BTDA MIS
The SURAKSHINI application was designed and riage), address, date of marriage, marriage type (https://www.btda.kar.nic.in/)
developed by NIC Bagalkote to monitor and pro- (happened during individual or mass marriage), BTDA MIS is a G2C Management Information
tect children from child marriages. It captures the caste, religion along with other details. Then, System developed by NIC Bagalkote for Bagalkot
details of children’s lives affected or going to be they track various stages of the act, for example, Town Development Authority. For this appli-
affected due to child marriage. First, the depart- monitoring of the child by various field officers. cation, 64 sectoral maps were digitised, with a
Software captures each activity of various offi- provision to capture 18000 rehabilitated families
cials and departments involved and also tracks information. The allotment of sites to families
the action taken by them. It helps the District was captured and updated online. The data was
Administration to stop remarriage of the child il- analysed and duplicate allotments were rectified.
legally and also bring awareness among the soci- The maps of each site are related to each allot-
V. Giriachar ety against child marriages. The system generates ted family to give a clear identity to the public.
Sr. Technical Director various analytical reports such as abstracts indi- The status and other details of the property sites
& DIO cating various category children affected, details are made available using MIS. Many other reports
giriachar.v@nic.in of visits made to children by officials, so that if were also made available to BTDA. Citizens can
officials have not made any visits, the administra- also search information about vacant sites, site

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