A one day training programme was organised to implement FORM-S module under IVFRT-MMP at Jaipur, Rajasthan. This training program for FRO Rural Officials and Educational Institutes was conducted at renowned NIMS Medical University, Jaipur on 14th March, 2014. The main objective of these programmes was to create awareness among the Institutes and FRO officials on IVFRT Modules. The trainings program was jointly conducted by FRO Rural Jaipur and National Informatics Centre NIC-IVFRT team Jaipur. The training programs were formally inaugurated by Hon’ble Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. K. C. Singhal, NIMS Medical University, Sh. Arvind Kumar Sharma, Scientist “C”, NIC, Jaipur, Sh. M. Yaseen Husain, Scientist “C”, NIC, Jaipur, Sh. Dr. K. P. Singh, Registrar, NIMS, University, Jaipur, Asst. Professor, Sh. Udai Singh, S.I. FRO (Rural), Jaipur, Sh. Kalesh, OSD, NIMS, University, Dr. Poornima Sharma, Vice Principal Humanities, Dr. Rajeev Ranjan, Asst. Professor and Ms. Shabana Jafri, Asst. Professor, NIMS, Jaipur. In the inaugural session, the IVFRT team stressed on the need for mandatory requirement of on-line submission of foreigners’ stay details as per the Govt. of India notification and BOI directions. NIC officials demonstrated the web-based work flow on C-Form & Form-S in detail along with various salient features of these applications. FRO Office & NIC also handover the first authorization letter of FORM-S registration to NIMS, University, Jaipur.

FORM-S is one of the very important Application Module of IVFRT-MMP. FSIS (Foreign Students Information System) is used to capture information about foreign students admitted in Indian educational institutions. It is mandatory for all educational institutions in India admitting foreign students for various courses to register themselves first. After their user-id approved by the competent authority i.e. FRRO/FRO concerned, the said institution will be able to fill the details of foreign students in both C-Form and FSIS.

NIC IVFRT team Sh. Arvind Kumar Sharma, SSA and Sh. Mohammed Yaseen Husain, SSA imparted lectures on topics like Overview of IVFRT-MMP, Online registration procedure for C-Form & S-Form submission and Registration of Hotel/ Dharamshala/ Institute/ Guest House, Application Processing of online services like Foreigners registration and VISA extension etc., Dynamic reports generated on C-Form & S-Form modules. Sh. Udai Singh, SI FRO (Rural) Jaipur & his team interacted with all participants in the feedback session along with NIC officers and answered all queries and clarified doubts. The training program was attended by 20 persons from major Institutes (Universities, Medical College, Engineering Colleges) and major Hotels of Jaipur and 5 FRO officials.