Department of Information Technology is engaged in computerisation of various Govt. Department. IT Department is providing hardware as well software for their computerization. Departments like Police, Social Justice & Woman Empowerment, Labour & Employment, Municipal Corporation, Administrative Tribunal, Prosecution, Advocate General, Food & Supplies, Chief Architect, Home Guards, Industries, Election, Economic & Statistics and many more have been provided computer hardware/software.

Department of Information Technology is engaged in computerisation of various Govt. Department. IT Department is providing hardware as well software for their computerization. Departments like Police, Social Justice & Woman Empowerment, Labour & Employment, Municipal Corporation, Administrative Tribunal, Prosecution, Advocate General, Food & Supplies, Chief Architect, Home Guards, Industries, Election, Economic & Statistics and many more have been provided computer hardware/software.

Department of IT is advising various departments in implementing computerization in their offices using an integrated approach. The area of advice covers hardware, software, manpower, training in private sector etc. Besides working as consulting agency, Department of Information Technology is providing consultancy to different government organisations regarding their computerisation.

Advice of Information Technology Department in I.T. Projects

The Department of Information Technology can develop small software packages as per requirement of the State Government Departments. Departments are requested to send a proposal to this department regarding the requirement of additional software applications, so that a team of professionals from Department of Information Technology may visit the office for requirement and system analysis.

Department of Information Technology intends to empower its citizens through the power of Information Technology and websites is one of the means. DIT through its continuous efforts is encouraging the Government Departments to have their own websites and do timely updation if they have one. In this endeavour, DIT has started a training programme on Website Development and Updation. more ...

Himachal State Wide Area Network (HIMSWAN) project is a revolutionary step towards enhancing good governance. By setting up HIMSWAN, the State Government intends to modernize the communication infrastructure in the State to create a state of the art and reliable network for G2C, G2E, G2B and G2G interfaces. The Project is aimed at providing HIMSWAN link to Government Offices and Integrated Community Service Centres at State, District, Sub-Divisional, Tehsil and Block headquarters in Himachal Pradesh.

The first phase of this project has been completed.  Under this project (HIMSWAN-I) a Local Area Network has been established in HP Secretariat with the provision of 600 nodes with an ultimate target criterion of atleast 1 PC for 3 officials. For this purpose a LAN with provision for 620 nodes has been established. Rs.1.55 crores has been spent during the completion of first phase. The network has successfully started functioning and Referencing Monitoring System has been implemented on this network. This network has also been connected to Internet. This network will be useful in saving lots of energy and resources.

This state of the art network in H.P. Secretariat will be useful for all the officials for sharing the resources and data. The drafts for approval may move up the administrative hierarchy on the LAN, so that precious time and resources are not wasted in duplication of effort. Scanners, printers, CD writers etc. also can to be shared across the network. Big documents will be stored on the PC instead of taking print outs of even relatively useless pages. So besides making “less paper” functioning of Govt., this LAN will cater to implementation of various applications like REFNIC and many more. This will only improve efficiency.

The Secretariat has to largely depend on the Directorates for data. The Directorates, in turn, have to rely on their field offices for these inputs. Therefore, this Local Area Network of the Secretariat should expand to become a Wide Area Network for the entire State in the phase-II. Then the instantaneous, accurate and updated information will be retrieved in the prescribed format. Presently, the requisite data is received after a couple of months when it has already become outdated. The IT Department is committed to have this Wide Area Network in place at the earliest. The HIMSWAN-II project proposal has been approved by the Ministry of IT, Govt. of India. MIT GoI has sanctioned Rs 50 crores and released first instalment of Rs 10 Crores. In this project HP Secretariat, Departments, District, Sub-divisional and tehsil offices will be linked with one another for immediate availability of data for queries and reports.

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This department is facilitating computer training to employees of various government organizations so that the computerisation of their respective departments may be carried out to provide services to the citizens in a time-bound and transparent manner. Training on REFNIC and use of PC (word processing etc.) to about 2000 officers and officials including Secretaries and ministerial staff has been provided. Department of Information is planning to impart training to Govt. employees across the State.

In first instance, Training Centres have been setup in three Districts namely Shimla, Kangra and Mandi.  Lodging and boarding facilities for outstation employees have also been made available in these training centres on nominal charges. 20 employees may be trained in a single batch. There is a six days training module available on office suite at present. Any department who intends to provide training to its employees can book a slot by sending an e-mail at dit-hp@nic.in. The same  e-mail  address   may  be  used  for  getting   more  information  in  this  regard  or can contact  on phone  nos 0177-2628914, 2628915.

The Video Conference Facility provided by the Department of Information Technology is an important milestone for good governance. It was decided that all Secretaries and Heads of Departments hold their meetings with the district level officers regularly using this facility. Video Conference will enable participation of all the concerned officials at the district level and their direct interaction with the Secretary or HOD. This would lead to substantial saving in TA, DA and POL expenses, besides making the meetings more result oriented. The Zonal and Divisional officers should also carry out their periodical reviews in a similar manner. In fact, ministers and seniors officers in the Government can even interact with the citizens directly using video conferencing. In order to increase utility and efficacy of the video conferencing, the IT Department has made department-wise monthly time table for video conferencing.

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