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WARRIOR STATES

Uttar Pradesh State

The COVID-19 pandemic in Uttar Pradesh was first confirmed in
March 2020 and since then NIC has joined hands with the state
government to fight the epidemic on all fronts - be it state, dis- Sewa Mitra
trict or sub-district level. ICT which emerged as a major tool App&Portal
to extend the government’s helping hand to the citizens
was also used efficiently & effectively as a management

asset by government maintaining social distancing and
lockdown protocols. Video Conferencing, Online Systems
and Mobile Apps were developed and launched to assist
the government wherever and whenever necessary.

Jan Sunwai month from April to June 2020 under PMGKAY. 7.5
lakh MT of food grain was distributed to Anto-
Many applications were developed to help day cardholders and labourers registered un-
the citizens during the pandemic covering a vast der MNREGA and Employment Department, and eLottery
spectrum of services including ePass, Grievance daily wagers of local bodies free of cost. 2,534 MT
Redressal, Migrant Movement, Health initiated by ration was distributed to 4.6 lakh migrants Under
the CM Office under Jansunwai Portal - Atma-Nirbhar Anna Yojana. Also, around 33 lakh
MT wheat was procured from 5.5 lakh farmers
within the state from April to June 2020.
• Applications received on ePass Mgmt System
15,48,972 Social Pension
• Migrant Registration for movement from Uttar
Pradesh to other State 6,89,530 NIC, UP developed the Social Pension Scheme
portal for direct benefit transfer of funds under
• Migrant Registration for Movement from other old age, widows, divyang and leprosy pension ful-
State to Uttar Pradesh 21,83,505 ly integrated with PFMS. Yogi Adityanath, Hon’ble
• Complaints received on CM Helpline under 21 Chief Minister, UP disbursed two months advance
Categories 7,65,229 pension of Rs. 871.48 crore to over 86 lakh pen-
• Complaints through Gram Pradhan / Sabhasad sioners through the portal in April 2020.
from all 75 district 2,88,105
• Complaints lodged by Covid-19 Suspects, Pa- Video Conferencing
tients or their relatives/ neighbours UP Conducted more than 1300 studio-based
47,455 Video Conferencing sessions from Feb - June
2020 taking it to No. 1 position in the country
Food Security using of NIC, VC System during Covid-19. In ad-
dition, numerous desktop-based VCs were also
Uttar Pradesh is the only state to complete conducted all across the state
nearly 98% distribution of the food grain alloca-
tion during this period with bio-metric authenti- New Launches
cation of beneficiaries maintaining, safe, hygienic
and social distancing protocols in the 80,150 Fair • 4 major schemes of MSME- Vishwakarma
Price Shops across the state. A total of 7 lakh MT Shram Samman Yojana, Mukhyamantri Yuva 15,48,972 6,89,530
(MetricTonne) food grain was distributed to 3.5 Swarojgoar Yojna, one district one product, by E-pass issued Migrants movement
cr ration cardholder i.e 14 cr beneficiaries, each Hon’ble CM to other states

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