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From the States

ISP coordination and Cisco and Juniper device • All eligible farmers covered
installation/ up-gradations. • Very positive response from Media/ Farmers/
Public Representative
Messaging & Data Centre services:
NIC, AP is successfully providing complete Punarvas and PM Kisan
email services in the state including on-boarding Punarvas Project is designed and developed by
and migration of mailbox and domains to NIC NIC AP State Centre for payment of compensation
email services for paid and free users including to the eligible project displaced families and project
state government departments, corporations and affected families by constructing the Nuclear Power
universities. Email troubleshooting along with DNS Plant at Kovvada, Srikakulam District. Beneficiaries
record updation, security controls, e-forms support, are identified by the District Administration and
application integration and user coordination is the data had been captured through the web
regularly carried out. NIC SMS services for AP state applications. Android application is developed for
Andhra Pradesh has always been at including application integration is being taken Aadhaar Authentication of the beneficiaries to pay
the forefront of adopting ICT for e-Gov- up. Datacenter services like VM Hosting, Network the compensations for different awards. Modules
ernance and Citizen services. After the and Storage services. Provisioning testing and under the Punarvas project are Land Acquisition,
bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, when the development platforms for open-source application Land Alienation, RRAward, Structure and Tree
Andhra Pradesh Government decided to developers based on Linux environments like Ubuntu, Compensations. The same is replicated for the
shift its Capital to Amaravathi, NIC quick- CentOS. Providing system and security administration BRR Vamsadhara project of Srikakulam District. It
ly rose to the occasion and provided all services like OS tuning, Web deployment, App received the National e-Governance award 2018
necessary ICT support by way of providing deployment, SSL services and Audit. (Gold Category) under District level IT Initiatives.
much needed NKN connectivity and oth-
er computing facilitates, NICs E-mail, VC D-Krishi (e-Seed - Aadhaar Enabled e-Pds -Targeted PDS system
facilities, e-Office etc., and facilitated the Seed Distribution System) NIC Andhra Pradesh has developed a fully
smooth transition of Governance. The distribution of Seeds on subsidized rates to automated Public Distribution system from Supply
TPDS is one of the flagship pro- farmers had been a hectic task for the past few years. chain Management to Distribution of food grains
grammes and having achieved 100% Aad- To ensure smooth distribution of seed to eligible to BPL Families. Andhra Pradesh NIC digitized and
haar enabled public distribution, it has farmers, NIC, AP has developed and implemented generated about 1.44 crore Rice cards with 100%
immensely helped in curbing leakages. an Aadhaar enabled seed distribution system. Based Aadhaar seeding and 99.9 % ekyc verification. It has
During COVID-19, we could successfully on the total extent held by the farmer, the eligibility fully automated 29,783 Fair price shops catering to
reach the needy families through a ro- of seeds to be issued is decided by the system. The 4.3 crore people. All the transactions are based on
bust system developed by NIC AP. Andhra farmer can avail the seeds in person or can authorize Biometric authentication and can draw anywhere
Pradesh is the first state in the Country his/ her family member to take the seeds after in the state under the portability option. All the
issuing rice cards within 10days of applica- successful biometric authentication at the counter.
tion anywhere in the State through Gram/ On successful Aadhaar authentication using NIC ASA transactions are captured in real-time through e-pos
Ward Secretariats with 100% eKYC verifi- service, the system allows issuing coupons with pre- machines. The ration is also being issued to MDM and
cation in a very transparent manner with Aganwadi schools. All the entitlements, allotment of
the help of NIC, AP. printed numbers allotted for each counter in each stocks, RO generation, issue of stocks, issue of food
Andhra Pradesh has also become the mandal. The coupon is submitted at the godown to grains, and closing balances are fully automated with
first state to adopt the One Nation One take the delivery, where, the QR image on the coupon real-time reports at various levels. Andhra Pradesh
Ration card in the Country. is scanned to populate the number automatically. e-Pds system has won many state and national level
awards.
Impact
KONA SASIDHAR, IAS • Around 20 lakh farmers across the state getting CARD (Computer-aided
Secretary (FAC), Information the seed in a hassle-free manner every season Administration of Registration
Technology, Electronics and since 2017 Department)
Communication Department & • Bogus Pattadar passbooks and Double benefit CARD provides a transparent method of valuation
Secretary & Commissioner of Civil eliminated. of properties and calculation of stamp duties,
Supplies
Government of Andhra Pradesh • Middlemen and Recycling of stocks avoided simplified the registration procedures, enhanced
• No long queues at any point of time speed, reliability and consistency of the system. It
Hon’ble President of India interacting with Hon’ble Governor of Andhra Pradesh through VC supported by NIC, Andhra Pradesh

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