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From the States

Kritagyata
(https://kritagyata.assam.gov.in/)
Kritagyata is an offering of the Hon’ble Chief
Minister to the State Government Pensioners as
a mark of gratitude towards their long service
to the Assam Government. It is an all-compre-
hensive pension sanction and payment tracking
system, which aims to streamline and simplify
pension processing in the state, thereby ensuring
smooth disbursement of pensionary benefits to
the retirees.
Kritagyata is based on the Bhavishya Platform,
developed by NIC for Central Government
employees. It has a user-friendly interface which
provides all required information, automates
calculation of pension benefits, enables real-
time application status tracking, and initiates Fig. 1.2: Hon’ble Union Minister of Finance, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman in the august presence of Hon’ble
activity and status alerts. Till date, a total of 10348 Chief Minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma launching the ARTPS Portal to facilitate digital citizen services by
pension cases have been processed and 7166 the various state departments under one roof.
PPOs have been generated.
Further to augment the Kritagyata services, Act (2012) and aims to provide citizen services in schemes, a total of ₹1615.47 crore have been
Jeevan Pramaan (Digital Life Certificate System) a time bound manner. Around 128 services of 20 sanctioned at the state level and ₹897.64 crore
has also been rolled out in the state around July state government departments, three autono- have been sanctioned at the district level through
2021 to facilitate retirees to give life proof online mous territorial councils, and one municipal cor- the system. In future, two more schemes viz.
through registered devices instead of having to poration have already been brought under this “Assam Darshan’’ and “Axom Adarxo Gram Yojana”
personally visit disbursing banks. Till date, a total platform. The platform includes the Service De- will also be boarded to the system.
of over 6,000 DLCs have been generated and 2,500 livery Portal, Grievance and Appeal Management
DLCs have been successfully processed. modules and a comprehensive MIS Dashboard. Public Distribution System (PDS)
The platform is going to be renamed as “Sewa Assam
Assam CM Dashboard Setu”, marking the efforts by state government PDS aims to facilitate the supply of food grains
(https://cmdashboard.assam.gov.in) to provide all-inclusive governance. It will be a and distribution of essential commodities to a
Assam CM Dashboard is an all-comprehensive single-entry point to access a variety of digital large number of poor people through a network
dashboard developed to assist the Office G2C (ARTPS, non-ARTPS), G2B, B2C, B2B services, of Fair Price Shops (FPSs) at a subsidised price on
of Hon’ble Chief Minister of Assam, in order as well as utility services. a recurring basis.
to assess and evaluate the performance of In Assam, NIC has provided all centralised
various eGovernance schemes in real-time to Niyukti software solutions for smooth functioning of
the level of Gram Panchayats. It has helped the (https://niyukti.assam.gov.in/) the system. It hosts and maintains several ePDS
government to become more productive, efficient Niyukti is a comprehensive web solution software and provides all technology support for
and transparent. The dashboard fetches data developed for recruiting agencies to advertise and the digitization, in addition to handling massive
dynamically through APIs from all eGovernance fill up vacancies in their respective departments. data generated by the system.
schemes and reflects the data against pre- It is developed using the open-source technology As on 29th December 2022, Assam has over 56
defined Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in stack and audited for security. As of December lakh ration cards with 2.02 crore beneficiaries.
a visually-appealing manner. As of now, the 2022, a total of 37 recruitment drives have been Among 34,095 FPSs across the state, 98.68% of
dashboard displays data from 50 projects, with 22 made for the total posts of 46 vacancies, for which sales transactions of food grains are carried out
more schemes in the near future. the portal has received 74,476 applications. through ePoS devices. Among the Ration Cards,
Assam Right to Public Services eRupantor 98.6% are Aadhaar-seeded.
(ARTPS) Platform (https://erupantor.assam.gov.in) One Nation One Ration Card (ONORC)
(https://rtps.assam.gov.in/) eRupantor is an end-to-end monitoring system ONORC is an ambitious technology-driven
The ARTPS platform is a noteworthy initiative that monitors the physical and financial progress endeavour of the Department of Food and Public
by the Government of Assam to provide an end- of all development projects under various state Distribution, Government of India to ensure
to-end citizen-centric service delivery. It draws government schemes and programs, viz. MLAADS, seamless delivery of subsidised food-security
its power from the Assam Right to Public Service United Fund and SUHRID. Till date, under these entitlements to all beneficiaries covered under
the National Food Security Act (NFSA) 2013,
Fig. 1.3: Hon’ble Chief Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma launching CM-TRANS at Guwahati irrespective of physical location anywhere in the
country. In order to provide the same facilities
to migrant workers, the State Government
implemented the system on 1st June 2022, in the
state as well.
State Public Procurement Portal of
Assam (SPPP Assam)
(https://sppp.assam.gov.in/)
State Public Procurement Portal of Assam
(SPPP Assam) is an all-comprehensive platform
to access tender related information issued by
the state government departments, state public
sector enterprises, and every other organisation

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