PES

S.N Application Description

1 Local

Government

Directory

Unique codes to all local governments (panchayats, municipalities,

traditional bodies), land regions and departments. It will link all

applications of e-Panchayats

2 Area Profiler Information: Socio-economic, Socio-demographic , Public

Infrastructure & Services, Geographical boundaries of rural and

urban local bodies

3 PlanPlus Facilitates the preparation of Perspective, Annual and Action

Plans of rural and urban local bodies and line departments.

4 PRIASoft A n accounting software for Panchayats that captures details of

receipts & expenditure, automatically generate cash book,

registers, Utilization Certificate .

5 ActionSoft Easy & User-friendly Scheme Implementation & Monitoring.

5 Asset Directory Information of assets & utilities created & maintained by

Panchayats, urban local bodies and line departments.

S.N Application Description

7 ServicePlus and

Grievance

Redressal *

A dynamic metadata-based service delivery portal to help in

providing electronic delivery of all services in all States. The

functionality of the erstwhile Grievance Redressal applications has

also been subsumed into this application.

8 Social Audit Social audit and meeting management details.

9 Training Captures details related to training demand and supply to

functionaries and elected representatives.

10 Panchayat

Portals

Web site for each Panchayat, integration with other software

applications to act as a single delivery gateway.

11 GIS Maps of all Panchayats, spatial view of the profile/plan of a

Panchayat by overlaying non-spatial data.

*Note: The functionality Grivenance Redressal module has merged with ServicePlus

National Panchayat Portal

Local Government Directory

Accounting &

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Planning &

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Scheme Impl.

Monitoring

PRI Profiler

Asset Directory

Service Delivery

Skill Management

GIS

Social Audit

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Single portal to act as the front-end for all PES

applications

All applications can be accessed through single sign-on

States may operationalize PES applications one-by-one as

per their readiness

All applications are available in the local languages

All applications are integrated with SMS and email

gateways

PES to be made available free of cost to all the States

All of these products(except PRIASoft) can be used by

Line departments as well as Urban Local Bodies

Strong Authentication Mechanism

Based on Open Source technologies

Browser independent

Simple and User Friendly

Facilitates Transparency

Web-based and available 24X7

LGD aims to keep all the information about the Local

Governments online

Maintain updated list of revenue entities (districts/sub-

districts/villages) , LGBs and their wards organization structure

of Central, State and Local Governments, reporting hierarchy

within the government organizations and parliamentary and

assembly constituencies and their relationship between one

another

Features Each state can define Local Government /Panchayat setup

Generates unique codes for each LGBs , revenue entities, departments,

wards etc.

Features Continued

Facilitates user departments to generate Govt. orders on formation/re-organisation of LGBs or revenue bodies

Versioning facilitates the user to navigate the complete history of local bodies

Conversion of Local bodies such as merging of RLB to ULB can be managed

The contents of Local Government Directory can be downloaded in HTML, .pdf , spreadsheets, csv and XML formats

Facility to upload GIS maps for each panchayat/LGB , revenue body and Parliamentary and Assembly Constituency

Capture details of Central and State Line Departments as well organizations under them

Facilitates the local governments to maintain and manage their

socio-economic , demographic information, public infrastructure

and amenities details, family register, election and elected

representative’s details, officials working in local government

Assist in maintenance of data sets proposed by MoSPI for

capturing the information related to Basic Statistics for Village

Level Development.

Features Facilitates each local Government to maintain its profile

Facilitates to maintain Family Register village wise and capture migration

details of family members

Maintain details of Election and elected representatives; and functionaries

working with the Local government

Generates reports based on Family Register, Election, Standing Committee

and BSLVLD dataset in Excel , pdf formats and available via email.

Strengthens participative decentralized planning and enables

preparation of districts and sectoral plans; in harmony with the

guidelines for decentralized planning issued by the Planning

Commission, GoI

Supports Transparency and feedback from people

Features◦ Supports captruing of Wish-list

◦ Facilitate self-of-works, Resource envelope management

◦ Configurable as per state approval(Planning, Technical, Administrative)

◦ Supports preparation of Perspective, Draft Annual and Annual Action Plan

◦ Supports Financial, Institutional and Sectoral

◦ Generates various views such as Sectoral, Scheme Plans, Panchayat, ULB

etc

◦ Generation of Integrated District Plan

More than 75,000 units are using and their plans are available in public domain

Aims to keep track of all the in-flow (Receipts) and out- flow

(Expenditure) of the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs)

Facilitates maintenance of accounts under MAS/CAG

Ensures monitoring of allocated funds, expenditure incurred,

inter-PRIs transfers/advances and automatic generation of

desired reports, registers and other financial information just by

making basic transaction entries from the vouchers.

Ensures better financial management, transparency and

accountability of the Panchayats leading to the following two-

fold advantage: Enhanced credibility of Panchayats which would induce greater devolution

of funds to PRIs.

Enhanced ability of higher authorities to track the flow and usage of funds

and accordingly decide on subsequent releases

Features Captures 4-tier accounting structure and generates all the reports in the

format as prescribed by the C&AG

Facilitates each PRI to specify scheme-wise opening balance for the first

financial year maintained under various Bank/ Treasury/Post Office

accounts

Follows Double- Entry , Cash Basis system of Accounting

Captures Work Record

Facilitates PRIs to reconcile Cash book generated with actual pass book

maintained by Bank/ Treasury/Post Office

Facilitates PRIs to close the daily, monthly and yearly book of accounts

Facilitates smooth synchronization of accounts among the Panchayats of all

three tiers of a State

Record details of funds to received or paid by Panchayat in future

Budget Estimation

Generated MIS reports

More than 1,35,000 units have their accounts online and are available in public domain.

Facilitates the process of proper recording of the Financial and

Physical progress of the work

A tool, which will facilitate in the monitoring of the physical

status and the expenditure incurred in works undertaken under

various central and state schemes by rural and urban local

governments and their line departments

Features Work creation

Allocation of funds to a work from different schemes

Capture Technical & Administrative approval of a work before updating

physical & financial progress of a work

Progress Reporting of work - update the physical and financial progress of

work

Aims to keep a stock of all the assets created/ controlled/

maintained by the RLBs, ULBs and Line Department in the

country

Acts as a repository of various assets created/ controlled/

maintained by RLBs/ULBs/Line Departments

Assigns a unique code to each asset to identify it uniquely and

effective utilization of the assets

Features◦ Generates unique id for each asset

◦ Capture asset details throughout the lifecycle of an asset

◦ Captures details of transfer and receiving of assets among entities (RLB/

ULB/ Line Department)

◦ Generate Reports on complete list of Asset, Asset Maintenance details etc

in Excel and PDF format.

Generic and configurable application to provide an electronic

delivery for the services.

Provides a single, unified, metadata-based portal to citizen and

government alike where any service can be defined, accessed,

delivered and monitored

Built-in mechanism for redressal of grievance related to

deficiency or failure of service delivery

Service captured are be classified into G2C and G2B services

Other categories are also possible to help monitoring process

Can be used by any entiry (Panchayat or ULB or Line

Department) of government.

Features

Facilitates Government◦ Define services

◦ Quick, efficient and transparent delivery of services to citizens and in

efficient monitoring of service delivery

◦ Address immediate attention to delays in each step of service delivery

through Auto-escalation so that overall SLA of the service is met

◦ Make official transactions more secure through the use of digital signatures

◦ Monitor the performance of individual functionaries and take corrective

action to discipline them or provide support system to enable them

◦ Define its Grievance Redressal Policy as per the State’s Service Delivery

Act in terms of provisions for designated officers, appellate authorities and

duration for grievance redressal

◦ Define Government kiosk policy in terms of their role and charges

◦ Advertise for kiosk operators and approve them based on pre-defined

selection criteria

Features continued

Facilitates Citizen To receive service at door step, to access all types of services through a

single portal

To register and define his profile and also manage a repository of all

enclosures

To query the system on his entitlement to various services across the

country

By sending proactive alerts on the launch of new services based on

registered profile and by providing frequent updates over e-Mail and SMS

on the status of the submitted application

By providing easy access to application form with detailed checklist and

instructions for filling up the same

By obviating the need to submit the same documentation again and again

to the Government for same or different services

By providing voice/icon based interfaces for illiterate service seekers

By providing an integrated online grievance submission and redressal

facility

Features continued

Facilitates Kiosks◦ To apply against advertisements for kiosk operator services

◦ Provide services to citizens using secure user credentials

◦ Manage financial transactions with the Government

Technical features◦ Integration with payment gateways

◦ Output Certificates with 2D bar codes

◦ Digital Signatures for officials

◦ UID compliant

Features continued

General Features

◦ Service Management

◦ Service Customization

◦ Citizen Registration

◦ Kiosk Operator Registration

◦ Master Data Entry

◦ Third-party Software application integration

Facilitate social audit of works taken under different

schemes/programmes of central and state governments

Assist the management of statutory meetings of local

governments

Features◦ Registration of Social Auditor (SA) & Social Audit Facilitator (SAF)

◦ Provision of information requested by SA or SAF for auditing purpose

◦ Provision for uploading Social Audit Report submitted by SA or SAF

◦ Facility for submission of action taken report on findings reported by SA

◦ Provides facility for capturing agenda, issuing meeting notice and recording

Minutes and action taken report for various statutory meetings as per State

Panchayati Raj Act.

◦ Generates Reports on real time basis

Supports submission of training needs by Government Official

and Elected Representatives

Provides a platform for training agencies to register as a

provider with moderation by Government

Attempts to automate all the processes involved in training

management.

Features Request training - Govt. official and Elected Representatives can request

training

Preparation of Training Calendar -help user organizations in preparation of

Training Calendar

Training Resources – facilitates in creation and maintenance of training

Resources.

Generate of Invitation Letters/Training Participation

Features continued

Training Process Scheduler can be created be training organizations

Feedback capturing and analysis - Training organizations can design

feedback forms and capture the feedback using them

Impact Analysis forms can be designed for capturing input online

Awareness Campaigns can be added and managed by the users

Register as Resource Person/ Training Agency

Publications and Content Management – Training organizations can upload

their publications. Any citizen can also upload useful content

To provide each panchayat its own dynamic website.

Facilitates registration of its own URL i.e. unique web identity

and presence to each PRI in the country

Helps them in easy to do content management(upload,

moderate, publish, archive, share etc)

Each PRI Portal to publish relevant reports generated by

various PES Applications automatically.

To generate dynamic portals for all 580 district panchayats,

6312 intermediate panchayats, 2,38,172 village panchayats in

the country as well as State PR departments and MoPR

All these sites shares single logical repository and therefore

serach is becomes very easy

Features Content Management

Site Management

Multiple Language Support

Improved user experience

Generate reports

o State wise Panchayat Activity Report

o State wise Panchayat Activity Chart

o Consolidated NPP Adoption Report

Basic data from PES applications to be presented on spatial

boundaries using GIS

Spatial boundaries are to be made available by State

Government.

GIS system for PES enables users in Efficient decision making for planning and expenditure monitoring

Provide efficient means for data distribution and handling

Eradication of the duplicated data

Integration of information from many sources

Analysis of queries involving geographical reference data for generation of

new information

Help in quick and easy updation of data

Feature Generate Symbolic and Thematic GIS maps based on its interface with

other PES applications

Newly developed ePanchayat applications were

demonstrated in the 4 Regional Workshops during Feb

and March 12 to officials from State PR Department ,a

few Representatives of ZPs, NIC State and a few district

level officials, and SIRD from each state to seek

feedback.

Approach was firmly driven by collaborative,

participative and consultative values in nature.