Discuss about the e-District

e-District

e-District is one of the State Mission Mode Projects under the National eGovernance Plan, which aims at electronic delivery of identified high volume of citizen-centric services through Common Service Centers (CSCs), by leveraging the common infrastructure of TNSWAN, SDC, and SSDG.
Tamil Nadu is one of the State Chosen for the Pilot implementation of the e-District Project.
e-District has been envisaged by the Government of Tamil Nadu as automation of workflow and internal processes of District Administration with the possibility of seamless integration of various departments for providing services to the citizens.
This project is of paramount importance to the State as it would help in creating an automated workflow system for the district administration and help in providing efficient department services through Common Service Centres (CSCs), the primary front-end channels envisaged under the NeGP programme by the Department of Electronic and Information Technology (DeITY), Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT), Government of India (GoI).

Project Objective

The broad objectives of the project include
IT enablement of internal processes of district administration and subordinate offices to increase functional efficiency.
Automation of workflow and internal processes of district administration
Seamless integration of the departments for providing services to the citizens – by integrating various District databases
Infusion of transparency and accountability in operations
Reduction of the workload of officials involved in service delivery
Develop a mechanism for maintaining of the departmental electronic database
To enable easier access to government services and dissemination of information required by the citizens
Creation of IT infrastructure for rolling out e-Governance plan up to the Taluk levels
To provide a self-sustainable operational model extending Taluk levels with zero-down failure risk
Capacity building to empower employees to own and operate the IT enabled Systems with confidence
To enable the District Collector to carry out tasks with far more efficiency and ensure that the various Departments under him are working optimally

Scope of work

The scope of the program is to cover maximum G2C and G2G/E services provided in the district through the use of Information Communication Technology, the services in the district which are delivered through the Taluk level are brought under the ambit of e-District.

Pilot Districts

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