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Jharkhand BPL families to get incentives for Aadhaar

health records

Haryana to e-track expecting mothers’ health

land records

Goa dept to offer e-tracking for all land record details

the state information

commission (sic) of

haryana, in association

with hyderabad-based

centre for Good

Governance will be

implementing an sMs-

based system to provide

status of rti cases filed

with sic. upon completion

of the project, citizens

will be able to instantly

get replies to queries

like status of appeals,

complaints, decision and

the date of hearing for

their respective cases.

the required train-

ing has reportedly been

imparted to the sic staff on

the use of the software. the

commission will be issuing

a set of numbers on which

people would be sending

their queries.

the information com-

mission in andhra pradesh

already has this sMs-based

service in place for similar

queries. sic in haryana will

be the second such body to

provide the service to appel-

lants. sic haryana is also in

the process of revamping its

Website so that appeals are

filed online as well.

The Government of Jharkhand has decided to give incentives to families living below the poverty line (BPL) to get the Unique Iden-tification Development Authority of India (UIDAI) project rolling. A token amount of `100 will be given as a financial incentive to BPL families to get each of their members enrolled for Aadhaar.

Further, the state UIDAI is also said to be considering the possibility of giving incentives to introducers who would aid in the identification of BPL families and the illiterate. The incentives will

be credited directly in the bank accounts of Aadhaar card holders.

UIDAI will be issuing the Aadhaar cards in five districts of Jharkhand—Ranchi, Hazaribag, Lohardaga, Dhanbad and Deoghar—where the project has been launched initially.

The rural development department, registrar department for the project, has planned to offer Aadhaar cards to about 38 lakh Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) workers and BPL families in the first phase. The

plan is to make payments of wages to MGNREGA workers through Aadhaar numbers. Jharkhand is

one of the few states where issuance of cards began soon after the formal countrywide launch of the project.

As part of a pilot project in the rural areas of Kurukshetra, Kiathal and Rohtak districts of Hary-ana, children up to the age of five and expecting women are being issued a 16-digit unique identifica-tion number to keep track of their health. The pilot has been taken under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), and will gradually be extended to the entire state.

Initially, the unique identification number will

be used for keeping track of ante-natal and post-natal vaccination and immunisa-tion schedules. As of now, immunisation schedule of pregnant women and children and other health related-data of every village are maintained manually in registers.

The modalities of the project are reportedly being worked out for the state of Punjab too.

The Directorate of Settle-ment and Land Records (DSLR) in Goa is planning a Web-based system where all survey numbers of land in Goa and their details will be visible on the Internet for viewers. The facility will allow anyone, anywhere in the world to log on to the Website and access the land

records in Goa. This would be especially beneficial to non-resident Goans who can track any parcel of land of interest to them and even print the records through a payment gateway.

In particular, non-resident Goans who own properties in Goa, will be the immediate beneficiaries. In case of any change in the details of their property such as ownership, they can track the changes immediately because of the computeri-sation of the land records

in Goa and the online updating of records.

DSLR had recently bagging the national level ‘Land Records Informa-tion System’ award. Goa bagged the award among 140 other entries because of the unique features of the system such as the integrated land records which are a combina-tion of text and graphic data. Another unique feature of the system is that it instantly updates the records when land acquisition takes place.

Haryana SIC to launch SMS service for case status queries

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Govt sector demand to push India CCTV market growth

A recent report by market research and information analysis firm RNCOS has indicated that the Indian CCTV market is poised to grow at 34 percent CAGR during the 2010-12 period.

According to the report titled India’s globalisation and rising security con-cerns demonstrated the importance of electronics security equipments and services. “This diversified requirement of security applications was driven by the strong demand from government and other entities,” the report said.

It further stated that government establish-ments in India were gearing up to install video

surveillance systems at public places and sensitive government buildings. An end-user analysis pointed out that the gov-ernment and public sector demand was high for overall security systems, followed by industrial and commercial sector, the RNCOS release said.

The report estimated the Indian electronics security market at around `1,600 crore in 2008, with CCTV accounting for more than a third of the market. This segment has been growing at a much faster rate than other segments such as access control, intrusion alarm or fire detection alarm.

A common transport card, which can be used for all modes of travel—buses, trains, metros, and taxis, excluding airplanes—is being planned by the Union Urban Develop-ment ministry. The card, which is also being called the India Mobility Card, could see initial deploy-ments as early as the next

year. The ministry will soon hold a nationwide competition on the design of the cards, their logo and their final name.

While the card will be introduced in chosen cities across various states to begin with, officials say that the goal is to have a single ticketing system tying the country. This

would obviate the need to buy tickets.

Delhi, Bangalore, Jaipur, Bhopal, Indore and Mumbai have reportedly been chosen for the launch. A similar ticketing system is already in place in many cities across the world, including Hong Kong, Singapore, Beijing, Seattle, San Francisco,

Stockholm, Gothenburg and Rome.

Earlier this year, the Ministry engaged UTITSL, a fully owned PSU of the Ministry of Finance, to work on the concept of the Common Mobility Cards as well as the Automatic Fare Collection system, which is to be linked to the

card system. UTITSL is a government agency and a non-banking financial institution under the Reserve Bank of India.

The ministry plans to extend the use of the card further to payment of tax on national highways, and even finally for utility payments, car parking, and shopping.

education

MHRD to use UID for tracking child development

India Transport card to arrive next year

the Government of Kerala

will soon be piloting new

citizen services through

the state-wide network

of akshaya centres. the

pilots are expected to be

launched in Kannur and

plakkad districts.

the government will

reportedly designate

akshaya centres as the

front-end for government-

to-citizen (G2c) services of

all departments. “a total

of 40 such new services

are expected to be rolled

out under the e-district

programme through

akshaya centres,” informed

dr ajay Kumar, principal

According to a MoU signed between Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and Unique Identification Development Authority of India (UIDAI), the Government of India is planning to provide unique identification (UID) numbers to all

school children above five years age to track their progress at every stage.

The basis of the MoU is that while fingerprint stability begins at the age of 15, the iris stabilises at the age of five. Therefore, children above five can be mapped biometrically and issued UID numbers.

Biometric data collec-tion will be done through enrolling agencies. Ministry of HRD will be using the database to keep track of students’ progress on the basis of parameters such as attendance and grades. Students’ movements from primary and secondary to higher education will be tracked and movement from one institution to another will also be monitored. Additionally, the UID numbers can be used to track children immunisa-tion programs and can also be used to weed out bogus entries from welfare schemes like the mid-day meal scheme.

KerALA PLAnS More G2C ServICeS THrouGH AKSHAyA CenTreS secretary it, Kerala.

he further informed

that the Frees software

developed by the national

informatics centre (nic)

will help the state add new

G2c services in real time.

the project is expected

to be completed by March

2011.