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From the States
Haryana State
Bringing transparency & accountability in delivery of Citizen Services
Edited by SARBJEET SINGH
NIC Haryana with innovative
and out-of-the-box thinking
converted the State into a
digitally empowered and
knowledge economy. Integrated
solutions for cashless, paperless
and faceless ensured the
wide range of quality services
delivered in a fast-track, hassle- Core Infrastructure Services
free and time-bound manner, but
also beat the twin menace of
nepotism and graft. The Haryana
government’s flagship programs
launched by the Hon’ble Chief
Minister such as Antyodaya
SARAL, Parivar Pehchan Patra,
and Integrated Web-HALRIS with
comprehensive dashboards offer
more than 600+ services and
schemes to its citizens.
Deepak Bansal
Dy. Director General
& SIO
deepak.bansal@nic.in Total 56 VC studios have been set up in Haryana
Deepak Sawant
Technical Director
sawant.deepak@nic.in Officers. Total 5020 VC sessions have been held (From
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eing the land of KARMA, Haryana, though a
geographically small State, is the most happening
Bstate of India. NIC Haryana was established in
1988 at Haryana Civil Secretariat with its offices in
every District of the state to percolate the ICT in the
state. Since then NIC Haryana has taken long leaps to
support the State. Today, NIC Haryana with its offices
at Haryana Civil Secretariat, Haryana New Secretariat,
CM office, State Finance Department, Punjab and
Haryana High court, Software development lab at
Panchkula, FCR Software Development Lab, Excise
and Taxation, Directorate of Enforcement, and
22 Districts, plays a pivotal role for spearheading Digital technology has become
e-Governance initiatives in the State. NIC Haryana the backbone of governance and
State unit earned a distinguished place by receiving administration enabling services and
96 awards. schemes to be directly delivered to the
citizens. Govt. of Haryana has begun
innumerable ICT initiatives that bring
Apart from providing the support for design,
services closer to the citizens and enable
development, implementation of integrated citizens to reach out to Government
software solutions, the State office is also providing with ease. NIC Haryana has provided the
the following key infrastructural support to the state technology backbone and development
government: support for these innumerable ICT
NIC Haryana State Data Centre initiatives. There comes a time when
State-of-the-art Cloud infrastructure at NIC Haryana the penetration of ICT in governance
State Data Centre with 1056 cores 421 TB of storage has become deeper and stronger in the
has been put in place for hosting key initiatives of Covid-19 and the emerging post-Covid-19
the state. era. Carrying forward the vision of Digital
NICNET/ NKN Connectivity India, NIC Haryana State Centre is the
Redundant 10 Gbps connectivity at NIC Haryana leading solution provider of ICT services
in the State.
INoC for providing Internet connectivity to 3500
Haryana Government offices in the State. SWAN has I thank NIC Haryana for their premier
been integrated with NKN at the district level. All applications such as SARAL portal, a one-
the 22 Districts of State and the State Data Centre stop point for citizens to access over
established by the State are connected with 1 600+ services and schemes, WebHALRIS,
Gbps/ 34 Mbps fiber with state HQ. 37 Institutes of which enables the registration of property
and providing land records, eOffice, for
Higher learning (NIT, IIM, State Universities, Central a paperless solution to Government
Universities, and Research Institutes) connected to
high bandwidth network with network speeds of 100 functioning and IFMS and HRMS the
Mbps to 1 Gbps. Separate Inter-District links have efficient systems for payroll and human
been established to provide network redundancy at resources management. Haryana has also
the District level had the distinction of presenting a fully
digital budget this year.
E-Mail During Covid-19, NIC stepped to
Support for more than 30,398 e-Mail addresses for the forefront developing at a rapid
the Haryana government is being provided on NIC pace applications to support the State
e-Mail Government in providing succour to the
Video Conferencing Facilities people distressed during the lockdown
and also to reach Government support to
un- der NICNET, at Haryana Civil Secretariat (5 citizens in need.
studios), Haryana New Secretariat (2 studios), All
the District HQs (42 studios, Two each at every V. UMASHANKAR
DHQ), Various Government Buildings, Bhawans (7
studios). Support for “Anywhere- Anytime basis VC” Additional Principal Secretary to Chief
Minister and Principal Secretary
during Covid-19 through desktop/ laptop/ mobile/ Electronics and Information Technology
tablet was provided by State Government Ministers/ Department, Haryana