A two-day Trainers’ Training Programme (TTP) was organized during 15.12.2016 and 16.12.2016 at IVFRT Centre, 5th floor, DMRC Building, Shastri Park, Delhi. IVFRT is a Central Mission Mode Project (MMP) under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) which is conceptualized with an aim to enhance the experience of in-bound and out-bound travellers from and to India by looking into the aspects of Passport, Visa, Immigration, Foreigners Registration and Tracking.

The IVFRT-Mission Mode Project (MMP) has global outreach since the scope of the project includes 178 Indian Missions Abroad, 83 ICPs (Immigration Check Posts), 13 FRROs (Foreigners Regional Registration Offices), and 674 FROs (Foreigners Registration Offices) in the State/ District Headquarters. The project is being implemented in a planned and phased manner. During the training, presentations along with discussions were carried out on new versions of software pertaining to IVFRT for all the NIC/ MHA Officers posted in remote locations for smooth implementation/ functioning of the IVFRT project. More than 65 IVFRT Officials from across the country had participated in TTP.

In the beginning of the first day, Sh. C. L. Sharma (TD, NIC), Dr. R. K. Mishra (TD, NIC) and Sh. NK Prasad (PSA, NIC) briefed about the current status of IVFRT Project and also explained about the other projects like Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems (CCTNS), Online e-Service Portal for verification and attestation of documents of Indian Citizens abroad (eSanad), Nationality Status Verification (NSV) etc. Module leads of IVFRT Project have given Presentation/ Demonstration of their respective modules. Subsequently on first day, Visa Issuance Process, Immigration Control System/ APIS, Indian Citizenship, ICP Networking & FRRO Video Conferencing, Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI), VPN Token Issuance System, Introduction of Antivirus & Webex, Biometric Enrolment and Deportee System and CONSPROM System were made. On second day, Unique Case File (UCF) System, C-FRO System, ICJS, NSV, eSanad, Prior Referral Check (PRC) System, National Data Arms License (NDAL) System, Armed License Issuance System (ALIS), C-Form and S-Form were covered.

Sh. T. V. S. N Prasad, JS (PM), MHA, Dr. Deepak Mittal, JS (CPV), MEA and Dr. B. N. Shetty, CTO, MHA also joined the TTP and highly appreciated the role of NIC in various Ministries/ Stake holders at all over the country. After the Presentation/ Demonstration of various modules, the last day a Q&A session was organized to clarify the doubts of participants. This session was chaired by Sh. G. K. Gaur (DDG, NIC), Sh. P. K. Bhardwaj (JD, BoI) and other bureaucrats. The TTP was concluded with the acknowledgement speech of Sh. G. K. Gaur.