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District Informatics
Shimla District
The Queen of Hills Going Digital
Edited by MOHAN DAS VISWAM himla, known as the Queen of Hills, was the
summer capital of India during the pre-in-
District Shimla has tough Sdependence era and presently it is the State
Capital of Himachal Pradesh. It is a famous tourist
terrain and most of the area destination worldwide and every season of the
year has something in store for the tourists. Shim-
is snowbound, the automation la had been the centre of many historical events,
which were held here before independence. The
and computerization activities town has some marvelous buildings known for its
Architect & Design. The District Centre of NIC was
are tough to implement in far- set up in the year 1988 and has witnessed how ICT
flung areas of the District. The has become part of life in offices and how it has
brought changes in work culture. The advantage
citizen service centres named of digitization has benefitted the citizens in get- Citizens should get the benefits of dig-
ting the services at their doorsteps.
SUGAM have been set up in itization at their doorsteps and ePermis-
sions mobile application is a step towards
ICT Initiatives in the District
the lower offices up to Sub achieving this goal. I Congratulate the NIC
Shimla District Website District team for developing such an ex-
Divison and Tehsils. One such The website of District administration at cellent mobile app. It gives me immense
https://hpshimla.nic.in covers various sections pleasure that the Informatics Magazine
centre was set up at Dodra and emphasis has been given to G2C and G2G ser- of NIC will be covering Shimla District
Kwar, which has very poor road vices. This website has separate sections such as in its next edition. District Centre of NIC
is playing a major role in the spread of
Tourism, Citizen Services, Directory, Notifications, ICT in the District and their work is com-
connectivity, the hardware Events, etc. The Citizen Service section provides mendable.
multiple services to the citizens. District web
and all the infrastructure were site is frequently visited by citizens and tourists
for any type of authentic information. The web-
transported by Helicopter from site has been among the leading sites, which got ADITYA NEGI, IAS
Shimla, and centre was set up migrated to the SWaaS platform. The website Deputy Commissioner
adheres to the GIGW guidelines and it has been
District Shimla
after fighting all the odds. The awarded as Certified Accessible Website by STQC
in compliance with these standards. The CAW logo
Sugam centres are the single is being displayed on the website.
point of contact for the citizens Shimla District Website
to get any of the services being
provided by the Administration.
Pankaj Gupta
Sr. Technical Director
& DIO
pankaj.gupta@nic.in
Deepak Kumar
Scientist - B & ADIO
deepak.kumar84@nic.in
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