The Ascender

September N e w s l e t t e r

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- Abraham Lincoln

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“The philosophy of the school room in

one generation will be the philosophy

of government in the next.”

admirer of Dr. Seshagiri, highlighted

his academic excellence as an IISc

luminary. Shri Murthy also appreciated

Dr. Seshagiri’s rare combination of

administrative acumen with sense of

alacrity in decision making which has

been instrumental for accelerating the

use of Electronics and Information

Technology in India. Being awarded with Padma Bhushan,

Dr. Narasimiah Seshagiri has also been

honoured with Vikram Sarabhai

Research award, Asia Jyoti award, Om

Prakash Bhasin award for Science and

Technology, Karnataka Rajyotsava

award etc. In his speech Shri Sanjay Dhotre

emphasized that Dr Seshagiri has

catapulted NIC as a formidable,

indispensable and omnipresent

organization with its footprint across the

country. Dr. Neeta Verma, DG NIC reiterated that

e-Governance today is the visionary

outcome of Dr. Shesagiri and “Digital

India” programme has been built on the

ground work done, because of his

pioneer initiatives in 80’s. She expressed

her pleasure how this memorial lecture

would assist intellectual discussion on

changing digital eco system of country

and make all stakeholders aware about

the emerging changes in IT from highest

level to the lowest possible local level.

Odisha get instant pest advisory in

Odia language from expert on their

mobile phone, registered against Farmer

ID. A Dashboard system has been

designed Agriculture Officers to monitor

pest/disease situation across the State. A

Mobile app has been designed separately

for emergency information exchange

among the Farmers and Experts on any

alarming pest/disease condition.

Shri Naveen Patnaik, Hon’ble Chief

Minister, Odisha has launched Online

Land Revenue Payment Services,

infused with 5Ts service delivery

concept of Govt of Odisha, through

(https://odishalandrevenue.nic.in),

developed by NIC, Odisha. Shri Sudam

Marndi, Hon’ble Minister, Revenue &

Disaster Management, Principal

Secretaries, Secretaries and other senior

officers of Government of Odisha were

present in the inaugural function. Shri Nikunja B. Dhal, IAS, Principal

Secretary, Revenue & Disaster

Management Dept., appraised the

features of e-Pauti to Hon’ble Chief

Minister and other dignitaries present in

the event. Soon after launching the

application, in the Chief Minister’s

Conference Hall, the farmers and other

citizens made online Revenue Payment

in al l 30 Districts . Dist r ic t

Administrations participated through

Video Conferencing.

It was a proud moment for IT Industry

in country and especially for NICans

when the first Dr. Seshagiri Memorial

Lecture was held for this legendary

scientist, visionary leader and the

founder Director General of National

Informatics Centre at Vigyan Bhawan,

New Delhi on 5th August 2019. Minister

of State for IT, Shri Sanjay Dhotre

graced the occasion as the Chief Guest. IT Secretary to Govt. of India Shri Ajay

Sawhney termed Dr. Seshagiri as doyen

and architect of ICT Revolution in the

Country and credited Dr. Seshagiri as

founder of NIC, STPI, NICSI and the

Chief Architect of the biggest civilian

satellite based network (NICNET) of the

world in eighties, when it was

unthinkable. Shri N R Narayana Murthy, Founder of

Infosys, an old time friend and an ardent

D r . A r u n K u m a r S a h o o ,

Hon'ble Minister of Agriculture &

Farmers Empowerment, Govt of

Odisha , inaugura ted the web

portal (www.epestodisha.nic.in) for e-Pest

surveillance and pest management

automation system developed and

deployed by NIC, Odisha. The ePest

Surveillance and Pest Management

Program is a major component of IPM

for major crops of Odisha. Farmers of

Shri Naveen Pattnaik, Hon’ble CM, Odisha launches Online payment of Land Revenue

ePest : An instant advisory platform for Farmers of Odisha

Dr. N. Seshagiri Memorial Lecture held in New Delhi

Launching of ePest web portal for Farmers

InSight Online Land Revenue Payment Service rolled out to empower Citizen of Odisha under 5Ts.

National Informatics Centre

Odisha State Centre Unit - IV , Sachivalaya Marg,

Bhubaneswar –751001

Tel: +91 - 674 - 2508438 ● www.nic.in ● www.gov.in e-Mail : sio-ori@nic.in

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इलेक्ट रॉनिकी औक ूर स पऔा द्योगिकी मक रालालक MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Hon’ble PM of India with Hon’ble PM of Bhutan in Thimpu

...Oh ho ho ho...since 30 years I was thinking that in IT, a vowel leads the Technology...now its clear...it was a number...

NavIC : India’s own navigation system

Deleting or restricting visibility of photos/videos by the

user from own social media account does not remove the

contents permanently from the social media site. In fact, any

photo/video uploaded to the social media site is pushed to

special type of storage network called CDN (Content

Delivery Network). Once uploaded to CDN, this content is

distributed across multiple geographical locations. The

above action of user only removes the reference but the

content is never deleted by CDN. Any one knowing the

URL of the content can view/retrieve the same even after

deletion. Periodical deletion of contents depends on the

policy of social media sites.

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National Knowledge Network extended to Bhutan

NavIC is India’s indigenously built navigation system which is

a constellation of satellites under Indian Regional Navigation

Satellite System (IRNSS). This is the fifth navigation system of

the World after GPS of US, GLONASS of Russia, Galileo of

European Union and BeiDou of China. NavIC is an autonomous regional satellite navigation system

that provides accurate real-time positioning and timing

services covering India and region extending 1,500 km around

Indian borders. The system at present consists of a

constellation of eight satellites with two additional satellites on

ground as stand-by. NavIC provides two levels of service, the

"standard positioning service", which will be open for civilian

use, and a "restricted service" (encrypted) for authorized users

(including military). There are plans to expand NavIC system

by increasing constellation size from 8 to 11. After cyclone Ookhi, ISRO has successfully tested NavIC,

collaborating with Tamil Nadu Government, distributing 200

NavIC devices to 80 fishing boat groups. These devices, which

are of the size of a soapbox and Bluetooth enabled, are

receivers through which alerts received can be read on the

NavIC App on an Android phone. The alerts are in regional

Language so that the fisherman finds it easy to understand. In future, Phones in India may have NavIC instead of GPS and

NavIC will have its presence in all e-Governance applications.

In a recent joint programme in Thimpu, Bhutan,

Shri Narendra Modi, Hon’ble Prime Minister of India and

Dr. Lotay Tshering, Hon’ble Prime Minister of Bhutan,

inaugurated the interconnection between India’s National

Knoweledge Network and Bhutan’s DRUK Research and

Education Network; linking both countries with Information

Gateway. This would help students and researchers of

Bhutan in eLearning, Access of Digital Libraries, CDN,

Virtual Class Rooms. Apart from Education sector, services

from other sectors like Agriculture, Health etc will be

available for the Citizen of Bhutan. Based on the philosophy to Encourage, Enable, Enrich and

Empower and with the objective to inculcate innovation, the

strong and robust network from India known as National

Knowledge Netwok (NKN), designed and deployed by

National Informatics Centre, connects all universities,

research institutions, libraries, laboratories, healthcare and

agricultural institutions across the country and facilitates

the flow of information, collaborative research and has been

instrumental to bring the knowledge revolution for

transforming society and promoting inclusive growth. The

ultra-high speed e-governance backbone with state-of-the-

art Pan-India network has been able to connect more than

1700 education institutes with more than 50 million

students, researchers and educationist. NKN as an establishment of Rs 5990 Crore outlay, has

proven itself as the backbone that capable to cater ICT

services to neighbouring foreign countries like Bangladesh,

Sri lanka and now, Bhutan; becoming a true global network

link to collaborate with foreign countries.

This has been a great step for extending India’s technology

to the neighbourhood country where NIC being instrumental

for facilitating better bilateral relationship between

countries. In Odisha, more than 50 educational and research

institutions, including AIIMS, IIT and Universities, have

been connected to this Global network along with OSWAN

and State Data Centre of Odisha.