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District Informatics
Howrah, West Bengal
Citizen-Centric Digital Governance using cutting edge technologies
Edited by Dr. DIBAKAR RAY owrah is located on the western bank of the of Covid 19 using Chest X-Ray images” and
Hooghly River opposite to its twin city of the Development of Face Recognition based
HKolkata. The history of Howrah dates back Attendance System (FRBAS) for contactless
over 500 years! Major attractions of the Howrah attendance under the guidance of CoE-AI, NIC Hq.
District are: the iconic cantilever Howrah Bridge or NIC Howrah District Centre has also developed
the Rabindra Setu, the Indian Botanical gardens, an “AI-enabled mobile app for tracing Missing
Belur Math, Panitras Samtaber, Garchumuk, Children” under District Governance through
Gadiara, Vidyasagar Setu, and Santragachhi Jheel Mobile Challenge (DGMC).
NIC Howrah District Centre are among the few. It is also known as ‘Sheffield of
the East’ due to its cluster of small scale industries. ICT Initiatives in the District
has participated in the The State Secretariat ‘Nabanna’ is also located in
development of “AI-enabled Howrah District. Online performance monitoring system
of various schemes
early screening of Covid 19 Overview The online performance monitoring
Since its inception in the 1980s, NIC Howrah system provides a dashboard for the district
using Chest X-Ray images” District Centre is pioneering in designing, administration, line and engineering departments
developing and implementing ICT projects to use in the district for the review meetings held from
and the Development of Face scientific and technological means to assist the time to time at district and block levels. The
Recognition based Attendance District Website Howrah
System (FRBAS) for contactless
attendance under the guidance
of CoE-AI, NIC Hq. NIC Howrah
District Centre has also
developed an “AI-enabled
mobile app for tracing Missing
Children” under District
Governance through Mobile
Challenge (DGMC).
District Administration in good governance. It
is supporting the District Administration in the
implementation of various flagship eGovernance
programmes of the Government. NIC Howrah
has been facilitating system study, technical
consultancy and innovative use of ICT tools and
Dr. Subrata Roy established a state of the art communication
Gupta system for providing efficient G2G and G2C
Scientist-D & DIO services by the District Administration. Howrah
s.roygupta@nic.in District Centre is actively engaged in developing
various AI-based tools in different eGovernance
sectors.
Development of cutting edge
Sudipta De eGovernance solutions using
Scientist-C & ADIO Emerging Technologies
Sudipta.de@nic.in
NIC Howrah District Centre is involved in the
development of “AI-enabled early screening
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