Wednesday, 15 January 2014

BEST PRACTICES : ICT FOR DEVELOPMENT

Hospital Management Information System, Gujarat

The Government of Gujarat (GoG) launched the Hospital Management Information System (HMIS) in 2006 for streamlining the day to day operations and enabling real-time monitoring of government hospitals across the state.
The HMIS has been envisaged to help health administrators in Gujarat to exercise an enhanced monitoring control over the functioning of government hospitals by using decision support indicators, to assist doctors and medical staff to improve health services with readily reference patient records and a work flow enabled less-paper process and to provide efficient and timely treatment to patients through automatic alerts during patient treatment cycle.
Prior to the HMIS, the absence of a coherent management system made the monitoring of diversely located hospitals difficult. Senior level officials were unable to keep adequate track on usage of funds and to record development on various health indicators of the state. At the same time, hospitals were facing day to day operational challenges and inefficiency in patient handling services resulting in wastage of time, manpower and money and a non-transparent and unaccountable working environment.
Through the efforts of the Commissionerate of Health & Family Welfare and Medical Education, the Health & Family Welfare and Medical Education Department of GoG and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., government hospital processes in Gujarat were re-engineered. This process of re-engineering included the creation of a system of online registration, simplification of diagnostic process through single sample collection, setting up of standardized administrative formats, setting up online inventory management, adoption of standardized biomedical waste management and the proper management and allocation of human resources under the HMIS. HMIS began as a pilot in four hospitals in 2006, by March 2008 the new system became live in all 30 government hospitals across the state.
With the HMIS, the loopholes in the operations of government hospitals throughout Gujarat are sought to be addressed. HMIS has enabled the provision of better care to patients by automating all the major functional areas of government hospitals. It is also facilitating the monitoring of pre-defined health indicators by generating periodic reports for the hospital management as well as state level administrators.

Nemmadi - Rural telecentre project in Karnataka

Nemmadi telecentre project is a public-private partnership model that has contributed immensely to enhance the delivery of all e- governance services in the entire state of Karnataka and also in promoting effective governance using ICT as a tool.
Nemmadi telecentre project was started in September 2006 as apart of PPP model. This partnership was formed to emphasise the goals of responsive governance by developing an effective, efficient, transparent and accountable system of public service delivery in the entire state of Karnataka.
It is based on the telecentre system that avails a variety of e-governance services to all the rural citizens. This initiative has a large network including clients, private organisations and government departments that have been integrated into the system to ensure the effective delivery of government to citizens based services and business to citizens based services.
Nemmadi telecentre offers various services to citizens through internet facilities. Telecentres were operated by IT company and telecentre operators looked after the entry of the citizen database at the time of the application for services. The data was then processed at the back-end taluk office. The citizens had to collect the digital certificates at the telecentres after few days. The geographical coverage of Nemmadi telecentre spreads across the entire state of Karnataka, in each hoblis. Citizens can access the services through these telecentres within their near by village.
The telecentre system has several unique built in features that make the application user friendly and citizen centric. This initiative has forward its best efforts to make the demand and delivery of e- governance services into a hassle free, cost and time effective model. The technical cost for developing the system was incurred by private partners. As a revenue generating model, it has not only benefited the private companies to recover their initial investments but has also generated employment benefits for its citizens in rural areas in significant ways.
Through the innovative use of information and communication technology, Nemmadi telecentre project has helped the citizens to get all the e- governance services at their doorstep by saving their money and time. It has been designed to promote government’s efforts in making its services available in a transparent and accountable manner.
Sanjog helpline: Web based grievance redressal in Odisha

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Source: Government of Odisha
Sanjog helpline facilitates access to public information and acts as a central grievance redressal system for all citizens in Odisha through a call centre.
With the advent of ICT in the governing process, today's citizen has become more empowered, enlightened and more demanding as well. In order to meet the citizens' expectations, the Government of Odisha has taken numerous ICT driven initiatives for the benefit of citizens.
The Directorate of Public Grievances (DPG), Government of Orissa, promotes ICT as themedium of grievance registration and for performance assessment of government officials. This website application gives a clear picture how various government programs and their status can be assessed by the people and grievances can be looped in appropriate redressal forums.
Sanjog Helpline provides a forum to the government to be in touch with the scheme beneficiaries and allows the citizen to register and address their grievances, via four different modes namely Toll free number, e-Mail, Fax and Letter. The citizens can also assess the status of their grievances through a ticket number provided to them onhttp://www.sanjoghelpline.in/website/home.html. The system has an inbuilt intimation and escalation process, which allows registered grievances to reach the right authority in the right place at the right time.

Yantradoot: A farm mechanisation initiative in Madhya Pradesh
The Yantradoot Village Scheme seeks to increase agricultural productivity in Madhya Pradesh through dissemination of information and know-how on improved agricultural technologies among farmers in the state.
Under the Yantradoot scheme, district level agricultural officers in Madhya Pradesh periodcially demonstrate the use of farm implements to farmers in 25 villages spread across 25 districts in the state and make these implements available on hire by the farmers at nominal prices. As a result, farmers in these villages are now using modern farm tools for each stage in the production of their crops.
Such mechanisation is reducing not just the drudgery faced by farmers under traditional manual practices but is also quickening agricultural processes, saving time, costs and enhancing agricultural productivity. With Yantradoot, each of these 25 villages are being turned into complete models for agricultural mechanisation. Such increased mechanisation has resulted in a 40 percent increase in the agricultural productivity of farmers because now their crops are being sown, irrigated, treated and harvested adequately and on time. Farmers' income has also seen an almost two-fold increase in the past two years that the scheme has been operational. As a result of these outcomes, many nearby villages are being inspired to switch over to the Yantradoot model of farm mechanisation.
By implementing the Yantradoot scheme, the Government of Madhya Pradesh is creating access to advanced agricultural technologies and machinery among farmers in the rural areas, increasing the overall agricultural productivity of the state and empowering its farming community. Inspired by the successes of the scheme, the Government of India has proposed to launch a National Mission on Agricultural Mechanisation.
Real-time train tracking system
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Indian Railways in partnership with IIT Kanpur has launched a real-time rail navigation project known as SIMRAN through which passengers can track the exact location and speed of a train.
Project SIMRAN, heralds a new era of using ICT for monitoring railway operations. In order to rectify the problem of provision of inaccurate train information to passengers at most railway inquiry counters across the country, Indian Railways has decided to launch a satellite-based train tracking system . Under this system, a GPS device installed on the train helps in tracking down the exact location and speed of the train and transfers it to the central railway server. This information is then displayed on station and train passenger display panels . Passengers can also know the exact position of a train by sending an SMS to a designated number or by logging on to the website http://www.simran.in .
Compared to the earlier system of manual collection of data, this new railway tracking system provides actual train running information accurately. Currently in its first phase, SIMRAN covers only a few trains including some Rajdhani and Shatabdi routes, however there are plans to scale up the initiative for tracking all trains across India.
Project SIMRAN by providing real time train running information is addressing a vital gap in monitoring the operation of Indian Railways and also has the potential of tremendously increasing passenger/public satisfaction.


Rural technology platform for sugarcane farmers

The Sugarcane Information System (SIS) is a technical platform to streamline interaction between farmers, sugar mills and societies through SMS, IVRS and web portals that provide free of cost services and information to farmers in Uttar Pradesh.
The sugarcane farmers have benefited from SIS system in two main ways: First, they are able to access market information from sugar mills and societies without having to waste time or make numerous travels to the offices. Instead, they are updated on market information detail via SMS, IVRS or websites. Second, they have benefited monetarily through increased quantity of sale of sugarcane to sugar mills, higher weight of supply due to fresh sugarcane, and increase in area under sugarcane.
SIS provides complete transparency into the sugarcane industry benefiting farmers, sugar mills and the societies. Technological intervention has replaced the manual system of previous functionalities and improved efficacy thereby resulting in higher profits and better cane productivity. The success of SIS can be up scaled and replicated in other states to improving living standard of targeted beneficiaries.
eSLA Monitoring System
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The Electronic Service Level Agreement (e-SLA) monitoring system successfully leverages ICT tools to facilitate the efficient implementation of the Delhi Right of Citizen to Time Bound Delivery of Services Act, 2011.
Various Indian states are enacting their respective versions of the Public Service Guarantee Acts that empower citizens with a legal right to demand time bound delivery of services from the government failing which the concerned government official can be penalized. In order for these Acts to be successfully implemented, their enactment has to be accompanied by complementary reforms in service delivery processes and adequate capacity building measures to strengthen public administration. Recognizing the urgency of such reforms in the administrative system, the Government of NCT of Delhi has developed an online monitoring system i.e. electronic Service Level Agreement (e-SLA) for recording and tracking the delivery of various services guaranteed under its Public Service Guarantee Act.
Delhi’s online monitoring system captures the submission of service applications and their disposal electronically through a central software. Various departments’ data is integrated and linked to the central software which can then be used to generate reports and evaluations that assist higher authorities in overseeing and monitoring the performance of their departments and tracking any sort of delay. The e SLA helps in keeping a check on non performing departments and personnel and introduces a culture of transparency and accountability. It also provides citizens’ with a web based interface to track their applications anytime, anywhere and rightly demand their services on time. So far the e SLA system monitors 70 services of 22 departments of the GNCTD. Eventually, this system will monitor up to 100 services.
The e-SLA monitoring system presents an excellent example of leveraging ICT tools for supporting and strengthening governance processes and monitoring mechanisms. Most Indian states can and should learn and adapt from Delhi’s experience to develop an ICT service delivery monitoring infrastructure of their own.
Using mobile phones to check traffic rule violations
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The Third Eye project, initiated by Gurgaon Traffic Police, utilises innovative mobile phone application to capture images and track traffic rule violaters in the city.
Road accidents account for an alarmingly high number of deaths in India every year. Even though most of them are due to traffic rule violations, there is a dearth of adequate administrative attention on traffic management issues. Traditional methods of manually managing traffic have severe limitations in terms of time and location. Keeping this in view, the Gurgaon Traffic Police, in collaboration with Denave India Private Limited, Nokia India and Millennium City Welfare Association, launched the Third Eye project in August 2011 to provide requisite portability to tools used for monitoring traffic rules compliance.
Third Eye uses Nokia E5 mobile phones to capture clear images of traffic offenders. The phones are enabled with software Tselina, developed by Denave, that assists the uploading of these photographs on a central server housed in the Gurgaon Traffic Police headquarters. The images are geo-tagged and used as evidence to issue challans to defaulters. A traffic constable is sent to the doorstep of the defaulter to recover penalty. Extensive training was provided to the constables in daily operation of the handsets, ways to capture clear images, and regular troubleshooting issues.
The project is designed to cover the East, West and National Highway zones of Gurgaon and act as a complement to the outdoor surveillance system. The latter uses fixed Closed Circuit Tele Vision cameras at main junctions in the city to monitor traffic. Third Eye project has provided a cheap, portable, simplified, and familiar solution to the problem of fixity of monitoring tools. As of November 2011, approximately 200 traffic constables have been enabled with these handsets and nearly 3000 challans have been issued. This is the first instance of using mobile phone technology for traffic management in north India.
Leveraging technology for financial inclusion

Punjab National Bank's ICT for Financial Inclusion programme utilises a confluence of simple technologies to extend benefits of formal credit to the unbanked poor masses in India.
Nearly 65 per cent of households in India borrow money from non-institutional sources. The lower the asset class or income of the people, the higher is their degree of exclusion. Based on the Reserve Bank of India's guidelines for use of entities like NGOs and SHGs to reach rural populations, Punjab National Bank (PNB) adopted an ICT-based branchless banking solution that relies on Business Correspondents.
The solution entails use of smart cards, hand held terminals, biometric devices and simple ICT tools like laptops, webcams and battery back up devices to provide for easy enrolment of new customers. 'No frills' (zero balance) accounts are opened for customers with relaxed Know Your Customer norms and an overdraft facility of INR 2,500. PNB Mitra ATM cards are provided with a daily withdrawal limit of INR 5,000.
As of March 2011, under both its ICT-based and branch-based FI models, the bank has opened nearly 74 lacs accounts, amounting to a business of INR 1,00,342 lacs. It currently runs 39 ICT projects across 14 states in India, expanding over 5400 villages. The initiative has proven than provision of banking and financial services to the unbanked can prove to be a profitable business model.
Improving transparency through e-Housing
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e-Housing process flow
The Scheduled Caste Development Department (SCDO) of Kerala initiated a web-based e-Housing project to improve transparency in the process of providng housing assistance to the scheduled caste beneficiaries.
Scheduled caste groups faced several constraints in applying for housing allowance from the government. Apart from the regular delays in receiving disbursements, the complicated procedures combined with no option to track applications make the process cumbersome. The beneficiaries had to skip several days of work and physically visit the department to request for funds at different stages of construction; wasting time and effort. Moreover, there was no transparency as to how much amount was being disbursed in their account.
In order to overcome these challenges, government introduced a web based solution to specifically target the beneficiaries. E-housing project, launched in February 2011 by SCDO in Kerala with Centre for Development of Imaging Technology,ensures time-bound, efficient, transparent and error-free housing applications. SCDO allots a total of Rs 1 lakh to each beneficiary at particular construction stages and is disbursed in four instalments: first 15,000, second 30,000, third 40,000 and last, 15,000.
Since the execution of the project, a total of 1423 houses have been built, 2000 beneficiaries have opened postal savings bank and an amount of Rs 5 crores has been disbursed through the system.
Radio Ujjas- Giving voice to the women of Kutch

Radio Ujjas is a successful community radio initiative that works to sensitize the people of Kutch on local issues, particularly on matters related to women.
Started by the Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan (KMVS) in 1999, Radio Ujjas arose out of the need to overcome the barrier that illiteracy poses to people's access to information. Moreover, Kutch is a large and disaster prone area that makes it difficult for any constant and reliable source of information and entertainment to be available to the people. Combined with the fact that approximately 90 per cent of households in Kutch own a radio set, KMVS's idea of using the medium of radio for development holds immense potential. 

Radio Ujjas works at the grassroots to identify concerns specific to the people of Kutch, and involves the community members extensively in mobilising resources and in programme production. The programme themes are very diverse and include education, handicrafts, fishing, panchayat, girls' rights, environment, natural resource management and such like. The overarching aim of all these programmes is to give a space to women to voice their concerns related to these issues.
 

For its first radio show aired in 1999, titled 'Kunjal Paanje Kutchi', Radio Ujjas was awarded the Chameli Devi Jain Award in 2000. Currently, Radio Ujjas operates from the Bhuj and Rajkot AIR stations and enjoys a listenership of over 75 per cent. It has acquired government clearance for a radio station of its own. The proposed radio station will reach over 7000 people within a 10 km area.
Transparent Chennai: Maps, Data and Insights
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Transparent Chennai seeks to create access to urban spaces for the marginalised sections of the urban population. It empowers citizens with online interactive information about their city, including critical public services.
Centre for Development Finance, a research centre of the Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR), launched Transparent Chennai in October 2010. The website, www.transparentchennai.com, creates maps to display the status and nature of important public facilities. Data collected through field research is digitally displayed on interactive maps. Locations of public toilets, flyovers, slums, and bus routes are examples of information published on the site. A myriad of technologies such as GPS, GIS, Google Earth, Wikimapia are used to prepare the maps. By providing spatial information regarding various aspects of city planning, Transparent Chennai is helping to chalk out areas that need greater attention.
Freedom TB: Mobile for Tuberculosis Treatment
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Source: www.freedomtb.org
ZMQ Software Systems, with support from Microsoft, launched the Freedom Tuberculosis (TB) programme in 2009 to provide relevant information on the disease, treatment schedules and medicine alerts on patients’ mobile phones.
ZMQ leveraged mobile technology towards the Freedom TB programme to promote awareness among patients about the disease and connect them with health service providers for treatment.
As of June 2011, Freedom TB has used four types of technology interventions to achieve their goals. First, 1.4 million mobile phone games were downloaded to make illiterate and marginalised patients aware of TB in local languages and free of cost. Second, smart phones with mobile training kits are given to DOTS healthcare providers and community health workers, who in turn spread awareness at the local level. Third, all DOTS centres are connected to a central server and monitored with limited human supervision. An automated message generated from the server is sent to all patients reminding them to take medicines through a universal patient identification system that contains a database of patients of all DOT centres. Fourth, after receiving the automated SMS, patients send their response regarding medicine consumption via mobile to the DOT centre/worker. This has helped in monitoring patients’ treatment and their compliance, especially with those living in remote regions and isolated locations.
Women Video Bloggers
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Journalists attending a video production workshop
Women Aloud Video Blogging for Empowerment (WAVE) is an initiative that trains women who lack access to a 'voice' in video production and blogging to spread awareness about certain issues and to facilitate pertinent information exchange.
WAVE aims to empower women by providing them access to a medium of technology for expressing their opinions online through video or written blogs.
The women participants are given video equipment, training on ideating, research writing and shooting videos for 10 days, followed by mentoring for nine months. They are required to submit one video per month and in turn, they receive a stipend.
WAVE addresses the problem of educated urban women’s unemployment, which is higher than other demographic groups, and provides them with the financial security they require to make their own choices.
Project Arrow - Improving postal service delivery
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Project Arrow aims to completely transform the postal service in India. By upgrading key postal operations such as mail delivery, remittance and banking services, India Post has become an effective and reliable service provider.
The Department of Posts introduced Project Arrow in 2008 to transform the existing India Post infrastructure across the country. The project aims to revitalise the organisation, capitalising on its strengths and recognising and dealing with the weak areas of the department through a sustained, sincere and honest team effort. Customers' satisfaction is the priority for the department.
Under the project, the exterior and interior of the post offices have undergone a transformation. Service delivery has been upgraded through information technology-enabled procedures. The fear of late delivery of mails is a thing of past under Project Arrow as all the letters including registered, speed posts, ordinary mails are delivered the same day. Also money transactions have become simpler and faster between post offices through instant money order.
Mobile-Based Management Information System for SHGs
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Source: National Institute for Smart Governance, Knowledge Centre
MITRA is a MIS system that utilises SMS based technology and web-based software to facilitate financial management of Self-Help Group (SHG) micro-finance activities in Dungarpur district, Rajasthan.
To improve the lives of the local community in Dungarpur, Rajasthan, a voluntary group called People’s Education and Development Organisation (PEDO) encourages local women to form SHGs and to take responsibility of their own savings and credit. PEDO’s key role in the district is to offer capacity building training and enable steering of these SHGs, including financial monitoring. Considering PEDO works with more than 2,000 tribal SHGs, consisting of 40,000 members in the district, the task of manually maintaining records and processing information became complicated over time.

To overcome this challenge, in December 2008, PEDO introduced a mobile based management information system known as Mobile Information Technology for Rural Advancement (MITRA) – a technology-ledl intervention to assist with recording of financial data at the grassroots level. The application uses SMS technology to transfer transactional information to a central server that can be accessed with the help of web-based software to generate financial and accounting statements at either the federation office or PEDO headquarters.

The introduction of MITRA has reduced the amount of time spent on processing financial data for bookkeeping. Now, there is no need to write account statements. This has not only saved time but has also facilitated transparency at the grassroots level as information from SHGs is now sent in the presence of the account holder and a receipt is provided immediately.
 
Human Resources Management System (HRMS)
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The General Administration Department of Odisha has developed a modern personnel management system that makes effective use of the latest information technology.
The Human Resources Management System (HRMS) has been successful in computerisation of personnel details in 38 administrative departments, with 102 heads - a total of 4,50,000 employees in 6543 offices across 30 districts.
Prior to its implementation, mismanagement, combined with an unclear management structure created delays in recruitment and promotions. Pensioners also faced difficulties in claiming their pensions because they were not sanctioned on time. Moreover, there was no mechanism for redressal of employee grievances.
HRMS has improved productivity by allowing public sector managers to have greater freedom and discretion in managing their staff. They are now in a position to enhance meritocracy and strengthen the process of performance monitoring and evaluation and finally improve the quality and skills of the workforce.
With HRMS, personnel information can be shared by departments, establishment offices and field offices easily which was impossible when it was manually managed. It provides accurate and timely information on the size and composition of the civil service. It has achieved success in ensuring efficiency and increased employee productivity across the state departments and district offices. HRMS has improved communications and cross-functional integration. The efficiencies created by the tool has maximised employee satisfaction.
Geo-informatics for Forest Rights

The Tribal Research and Training Institute (TRTI), Pune has implemented a GPS land measurement and satellite imagery for verification system to generate fair and accurate evidence for recognising forest rights.
The Government of India enacted The Forest Rights Act, 2006 to present the opportunity for forest dwellers and cultivators to claim individual land rights. The Tribal Research and Training Institute (TRTI), Pune has developed a GPS and satellite imagery programme to claim benefits under the Act for the intended population in the state of Maharashtra. There are approximately 0.33 million claimants of Forest Rights in Maharashtra.

By leveraging GPS and satellite technology to document and determine the legitimacy of land claims, TRTI has enabled decision makers to take appropriate action based on unbiased evidence. Through persuasive ICT-led evidence, the Maharashtra system provides precursory information to plane table diagrams of land plots, expediting and lowering the cost of the entire process. It also reduces unnecessary conflict and corruption in the field that has historically been connected to issues of land rights. To date, 1.6 lakh cases have been measured by GPS.
Maha-e-Biz: Single Window Clearance Portal
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Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation’s Maha-e-Biz portal will serve as a one stop solution for business facilitation in the state by providing online processing for clearances required to set up a new industrial unit.
Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) is the nodal agency responsible for the industrial growth of Maharashtra .In order to make the state more investor-friendly MIDC recently launched the Maha-e- Biz - Single Window Clearance facility.
The Maha-e-Biz portal provides clearance facilities for 215 services - 37 MIDC and 178 Non-MIDC services. Customers can now apply and get approvals for all MIDC department services and can also track the status of their applications online instead of physically moving from one department to another. The online tracking system shows exactly where the application is pending, making it easy to call faulty departments into account. Currently, for the Non-MIDC services customers can download the forms from the portal but have to submit it physically.
By transforming the age old administrative procedures gradually, Maha-e-Biz promises to usher an era of hassle free transactions between industrialists and concerned government departments.
Trafficop: m-development for safer streets

To maintain traffic discipline, the Pune police have launched Trafficop - an m-development project that enables on-the-spot recording of traffic violations and maintaining of past offences committed by commuters.
Trafficop is a software application installed on a Blackberry mobile device that stores individual vehicle and license data. Traffic officers can enter the vehicle and license details of the offenders on the device and in real time, see the offender's past history to issue a penalty accordingly.
Each offence acts as a red mark on a report card creating a sense of fear and respect for traffic law amongst citizens. For authorities, readily available data helps them to carry out their duties efficiently. The initiative thus far has succeeded in registering 8.36 lakh offences, suspending 2400 licences, identifying 950 regular offenders, and tracing 200 stolen vehicles.
Higher authorities can monitor the system through a web interface where they can use the data regarding number, type and location of offences to determine traffic patterns and future plans of action.
FINO-Tatkaal: Financial inclusion for migrants

FINO-Tatkaal is a smart-card based remittance banking system for migrants. It operates on a business correspondent (BC) model, whereby agents facilitate transactions at the customers’ doorstep.
FINO-Tatkaal operates on the BC model in three slums of Mumbai - Dharavi, Ghatkopar, and Shivajinagar – where migrant populations are highest.
One of the greatest benefits to the programme is the breeding of a savings culture. Due to the low cost of transactions – 25 rupees for a 10000 rupee remittance – FINO customers tend to save and remit incrementally, instead of sending lump sums of money after longer periods of time. Another advantage is the door-to-door banking model. This allows for workers, such as small shopkeepers, to conveniently remit money without sacrificing time that could be spent maintaining their livelihood.
Since its inception in 2009, FINO-Tatkaal has succeeded in servicing approximately 3000 migrant remittances per day. Its success can be attributed to its low user fees, convenient BC model, and an end-to-end streamlining of banking – from enrolment to continual and consistent access.
Sulekha - Decentralised Planning

Sulekha is a tool designed to enhance financial accountability by digitising the local plan formulation, appraisal and approval, and monitoring processes in the highly decentralised state of Kerala.
In 2002, the Information Kerala Mission (IKM) in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala - a government body established to strengthen local governance through ICT - launched Sulekha, a digital system designed to streamline local plan formulation, appraisal and approval, and monitoring.

Today, 100 percent of local bodies are utilizing the Sulekha software for annual plan formulation. All plans are project based and provide valuable insight into the areas that necessitate funds and how funds are used.

Sulekha facilitates an end-to-end decentralised plan process. Projects are classified by unique id through which the software becomes a comprehensive tracking system of local plans across the state. The digital records of plan details are copied onto CDs and sent for appraisal and approval to the technical advisory group (TAG) and District Planning Committee (DPC) respectively. Once submitted through Sulekha, all data (plan and expenditure) is uploaded to the central server and published on the website of the LSGD for public scrutiny.
 

Annually, Sulekha digitizes the records of the entire state’s 1.5 lakh project plans of 1223 local governments.
Akshaya: Innovative Operations and Service Delivery, Kerala
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E-literacy training is imparted through Akshaya centres for community development in Kerela under the initiative of local self-governing institutions.
The Akshaya ICT provide G2C, G2G, C2C, and G2B information, interchange and dissemination. These centres cater to citizen needs in terms of offering services in communication, e-education, e-governance etc. It also allows citizens to pay government online through an ICT single window payment facility.
The Akshaya Centres also offer quality training programmes including computer courses, language training, designing courses etc at affordable rates for the users in their locality. Citizens can also benefit from resources online based on self-development modules, personality development and career planning.
In addition, it has a well-managed e-library that stores an exhaustive database on areas related to Health, Agriculture, Career, Education and Law. This PPP project can be easily replicated in other places due to its utility.




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