Sh. K.C. Chaman, IAS, Deputy Commissioner, Solan launched the eKalyan Mobile App for Social Justice and Empowerment Department. This is the District Administration initiative with an objective to facilitate Social Security Pensioners to know the status of their Pension. Further, this App will also provide real time data pertaining to Social Security Pensions of all Districts in State for better decision making through respective authorized login.

The Deputy Commissioner informed that with the help of this App Social Security pensioners can get the status of the pension credit in their account on quarterly basis thus, eliminating visit to respective Welfare Offices for queries. He appreciated the efforts of the Department of Social Justice and Empowerment and NIC Solan in developing this App, which will be useful to more than 6 lakh beneficiaries under various schemes.

eKalyan App has been developed by the NIC District Unit, Solan in Android platform initially and is available on Google Play store under NIC Account. The App has been developed under the guidance of Sh. Lalit Kapoor, ASIO and Sh. Ashish Sharma, Scientist-C who are handling the back-end eKalyan web application.

Sh. Sanjeev Kumar, DIO and Sh. Swetansh Shatak, DIA have developed this App. The application provides data for the State and, hence, is useful for the State of Himachal Pradesh covering all Districts.