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get multiple development works executed in the wherein farmer can register, provide produce to the
rural area so that the basic infrastructure is built for procurement agencies and receive the payment
rural people. for their produce directly to his bank account. The
The comprehensive Worksoft system facilitates registration of farmers is done through the FRUITS
the RDPR department in following the procedure system, which will validate his details along with land
laid down for execution of works and effective records and agricultural produces.
monitoring of implementation of the same under With the introduction of the above system,
different schemes. the registrations of farmers and procurement of
produce is done with ease and the payment to the
FRUITS farmers is made within 15 days of the procurement,
Farmer Registration & Unified Beneficiary which otherwise used to take 3 to 4 months. This
Information System has benefitted a substantial number of farmers.
FRUITS is an e-Governance application for During the last financial year, more than ten
managing farmers database and benefits provided commodities were covered under MSP operations by
to farmers/ institutions/ producing organisations, six departments/agencies and more than 5.80 lakh
covering the schemes executed by Department farmers are benefitted from this system.
of Agriculture and allied departments. All these
departments deal with farmers when it comes to Samrakshane
providing benefits from the government in the form https://www.samrakshane.karnataka.gov.in
of subsidy/ financial assistance. A well organised and Samrakshane (meaning protection) is an end
scrutinised farmer database will avoid farmers from to end, state-of-the-art e-Governance solution and
running from pillar to post for availing benefits and farmer-friendly system for crop insurance enrolment,
submission of same set of documents repeatedly. registering claims, compensation calculation and Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Hon’ble Union Minister
For departments, it helps in bringing transparency in payment of compensation to farmers under the inaugurating the CoE in Blockchain Technology
selection of beneficiaries, avoiding chances of same Crop Insurance Schemes, Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima digitally
beneficiary(ies) availing multiple benefits. Yojana (PMFBY) and Modified Weather Based Crop
Farmers can request online for registration, Insurance Scheme (MWBCIS). services to citizens.
modification of existing details etc. Electronic It has been operationalised in 2016 and As of now, Seva Sindhu provides 760 online
integration has been achieved with Aadhaar, successfully completed 14 seasons since inception. services of 64 departments.
BHOOMI (land Records System), Nada-Kacheri It has resulted in increase in Non-loanee farmer EASE
(Revenue departments certificates issue system), enrolments and reduction in Process cycle time for Electronic Answer Script Evaluation System
PDS and EPIC system. The system also facilitates compensation payment by almost 10 months. The EASE is a system to carry out the computerized
updation of details of benefits passed on to farmers payments are made through SBI payment gateway. evaluation of the theory examination, conducted
by stakeholder departments based on registration by the various universities, agencies. The system
ID. Applications of stakeholder departments interact Seva Sindhu enables onscreen evaluation of theory examinations
and exchange data using Web API. http://sevasindu.karnataka.gov.in and is being used by Education Department for
6 Departments with 27 schemes are on-boarded Seva Sindhu is a Service Plus based platform entrance tests conducted for recruitment of teachers
with FRUITS (http://www.fruits.karnataka.gov.in). to deliver government services at the doorsteps and lecturers. It is hosted in cloud environment
Payments to beneficiaries are being done using the of citizens. Seva Sindhu is integrated with various with distributed scanning stations and onscreen
DBT platform. An amount of Rs. 570 Crores has been service delivery channels of the Government of evaluation centres, accessed through internet/
disbursed to about 1 Crore beneficiaries till date Karnataka namely citizen service centres (Bangalore intranet.
under different schemes. One, GramaOne, JanaSevaka, Karnataka One) , Atalji
Jana Snehi Kendra and Bapuji Kendras. It aims to It is generic system and supports academic
FAPS bring all departmental services under one platform. related activities covering parallel evaluations of the
Farmer Agriculture Produce Support System It is a step towards providing accessible, cost- same answer scripts by different evaluators using
FAPS application is a total work flow based system effective, accountable and transparent government secured encryption of data. It is being implemented
for KPSC (Karnataka Public Service Commission),
Govt. of Karnataka, for their regular recruitment
Dr. C N Ashwathnarayan, Hon’ble Deputy CM and Hon’ble Minister, Higher Education inaugurating
the Online e-Affiliation Portal for Universities of Karnataka purposes.
e-Gazette system
http://erajyapatra.karnataka.gov.in
The e-Gazette is web application with built in
workflow for all the stake holders starting from
submitter, uploader, approver and nodal officer. At
each stage, the document is digitally signed and
finally the Gazette is published on the portal. With
launch of e-Gazette, the physical publication of
Gazettes has been discontinued and very minimum
copies of e-Gazettes are printed and kept for record
purpose. Government printing press used to print
an average of 39 crore pages of weekly gazette and
1.2 crore pages of extra ordinary gazettes each year.
With e-Gazette, the number of pages per year is
reduced to 10,000 pages.
Since it is a web application, all the Gazettes

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