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eGov Products & Services
e-Labharthi
Heralding a new approach towards electronic service delivery
with a Common Social Registry of Beneficiaries for DBT
Edited by DIBAKAR RAY
Students, farmers, pensioners, O to deliver benefits with different payment
disabled, poor, and vulnerable
sections of the society comprising
the bulk beneficiaries of
the various schemes of the
government of Bihar had a
pleasant surprise when they
swiftly and securely received
their share of fund benefit
directly into their bank accounts.
Happened after an initiative to
build a centralized repository of
beneficiaries of various central
and state government-operated
social security subsidy schemes
using technology, architecture,
business intelligence reports
factoring availability, accessibility,
and ease of use, which resulted in
the development of e-Labharthi.
Dr. Shailesh Kumar
Shrivastava
Sr. Technical Director & Head
- DGRC, Patna
sk.shrivastava@nic.in posting of payments files to PFMS, etc. The application
Niraj Kumar Tiwary
Scientist D
nk.tiwary@nic.in
ver the last decade, various state government
departments followed isolated approaches
procedures leading to overlap, delay, and untargeted
disbursement of benefit. eLabharthi is an integrated
platform for handling transactions related to
various social sector schemes supporting workflow-
based system includes the creation of a centralized
beneficiary/ transaction database and a reporting
system integrated with other external systems like
bio-metric enabled identification mechanisms –
Aadhaar, PFMS, etc. The database augments various
business rules and processes for the management e-Labharthi Portal is a step towards
and generation of MIS reports. creating centralized Social registry of State
Features of the Product Beneficiaries for various social protection
schemes. This promotes an integrated
• Centralized beneficiary database of Social Sector delivery approach and expands social
Schemes care services for the poor and vulnerable
• Integration with Aadhaar Platform households, persons with disabilities,
• Payment Bridge with PFMS and Banking Networks older persons & widows, students and
• Automated reporting and Alert Systems farmers etc. It can serve as a model and
• Integrated with Common Service Centre provide evidence of good governance
• End to end System for Beneficiary management practice which could be replicated in
and Payment other states. The joint effort of Govt. of
Technical Specifications Bihar and NIC is a path breaking initiative
• Three-tier architecture for data, application, and which has resulted in streamlining
middleware management beneficiary payment process and bringing
• Data Analytics to identify ghost beneficiary transparency in social delivery systems.
• Developed on .net framework and PgSql Database
• Fuzzy logic for matching names of Beneficiary and
the name received from Banks Dr. S SIDDARTH, IAS
• Aadhaar and PFMS Integration for payment bridge Principal Secretary
and MSDG for SMS Finance Department
• Digital Signature for Data Transfer and Signing Govt. of Bihar
fund transfer Application Architecture finsecy-bih@nic.in
Application Architecture
Presentation Layer: The website, accessible view of beneficiary registration, enrolment, and
over the URL http://elabharthi.bih.nic.in has been payments processes.
developed using Microsoft’s .NET technologies with Mobile Apps: e-Labharthi Mobile app provides
PostgreSQL. It provides various user-level accesses real-time updates to beneficiaries registered,
(role-based) which allow different categories of users the status of pension registration, and payout.
to view and edit information related to beneficiaries
and their payments. Jeevan Pramaan for Life Certificate has also been
Application Layer : The application layer consists implemented for pensioners.
of business rules to validate beneficiaries, payments, Beneficiary Phonetic Matching procedure:
The system uses the phonetic matching process of
identifying a set of strings that are most likely to be
layer provides a database abstraction layer which is similar in sound to a given keyword using FuzzyWuzzy,
leveraged for making enquiries to the database and a package in python.
generate various reports using open APIs.
Database Layer: The database layer is an Software Architecture
instance of PostgreSQL which houses the data in the e-Labharthi framework creates beneficiaries
RDBMS model. data and payments files for various schemes
Reports and Views: Analytical, periodic, and with real-time integration with PFMS and UIDAI
exception-related MIS reports provide a detailed to enable direct payments into the bank account
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