MULTITUDE OF ICT INITIATIVES 800…80…8
SMS PORTAL FOR FARMERSAll 3 Departments of Ministry of Agriculture, IMD, SAUs, KVKs etc. and State Governments. Nearly 97 crore messages since inauguration by President 11 months ago through DeitY and NIC Gateways
Different databases from above offices, Kisaan Call Centres and Web Registration have been integrated to have a foot-print of about 60 lac farmers as of now – potential to reach 8.93 crore farmer households
Dissemination of information and provision of services & advisories to farmers in their own languages free of cost. To avoid duplication & contradiction, IT enabled checks and search facility
Content based on farmers’ location & priorities of crop / agricultural practices. SMS based services such as Soil Test, Market Information have been integrated, Universal Plug-in
Easy Phonetic Typing Tools for12 Indian languages. Mobile based Text to Speech conversion under testing. New Features: Delivery Report, Supervisory Control, User Feedback, Graphical Dashboard
Fresh registration on KCC, Web, CSC and Pull SMS; Officers down to Block level send Excel sheets also
THE USSD MAGIC…
• IAMAI and IMRB Report: Active internet users in rural areas by June,
2014 will be 5.6 crore but 40 crore mobile phones in rural areas
• Unstructured Supplementary Services Data (USSD) - A rarely used
technology as old as mobile telephony itself will work even on the
ancient Nokia 3115 or 1110
• USSD is interactive text messaging
• Remote location data entry and query on databases by text messaging
• Fixed monthly charges @ Rs. 5 – database to be collected through CSCs
• Applications developed already Mandi price data entry, choice of right
machine, seed availability and agromet advisory (last two being tested)
• Android Apps in pipeline
KCCs…Need Specific Resolution
Aim: reach at least one third the farmers households, once in a year. It amounts to
about 4.25 crore calls/year. Requires 3000 plus FTAs
Total 1.60 crore calls registered at KCCs since inception.
IPPBX based & MPLS. Call barging and 100% call recording
SMS to caller farmers providing a gist of advisories given to them on phone in local
language.
Voice mail system for recording farmer’s queries with provision for call back.
Facility of video conferencing for upgradation of skills of KCC agents.
Centralized monitoring of KCCs at different locations and relevant web resources.
Full Involvement of State Governments, KVKs and SAUs in Call Escalation Matrix &
Training
Integration of KKMS (http://farmer.gov.in/kkms) with CSCs (http://staging.csc.gov.in)
NATIONAL e-GOVERNANCE PLAN Agriculture (NeGP-A)
Phase-I Coverage: 7 States during last one year, 90:10 Funding Pattern
12 cluster of Services, 78 components. Present status 39 + 8. Rs. 800 crore plus
Web enabled delivery of services & service levels
Process re-engineering, change management and project management
Centralized Initiative - Decentralized Implementation
Project Activities & Timelines of NeGP-ASR Activity Timelines
A IMPLEMENTATION PRE- PLANNING
A1 Date of RFP Release 31 May 2014
B IMPLEMENTATION
B1 Completion of Software Development by NIC of
components which have been cleared for development.
30 Apr
2014
B2 Incorporation of changes/suggestions from Divisions and
States to all SRS documents for software development in
remaining service clusters
30 Jun 2014
B3 Completion of all SRS of remaining components to such a
level that on which Software Development can start taking
place.
31 Jul 2014
B4 Completion of Data Entry Screens 30 Sep 2014
B5 Selection of Hardware Vendor by DAC 15 Sep 2014
B6 Completion of Civil Infrastructure and Site Preparation (by
State Agriculture Department
31 Aug 2014
B7 Signing of Agreement 30 Sep 2014B8 Installation of Hardware by Hardware Vendor 15 Jan 2015 B9 Pilot launching of all Services
Data Digitalisation by States30 Nov 2014
B10 Suggestions received from States on services 31 Dec 2014 B11 User Acceptance Testing
Completion of Data Migration
31 Jan 2015
B12 Complete Implementation / Deployment / Stabilisation including
required software and hardware for Central Segment (Go-Live)
at all locations
31 Mar 2015
C Operations & Maintenance and Support Phase 01 Apr
2015
Support of GOI under NeGP-A
H/W & and System S/w with comprehensive onsite warranty for 5 years
Basic IT training to end users.
Full support for site preparation of Training
Centers and 55% share for other sites.
100, 70 and 50 percent for manpower cost for first
three years.
Connectivity charges with SWAN for end user locations for a period of 3 Years at an average of Rs. 11000 per
location per year.
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Mode of Delivery of Services in NeGP-A
FA
RM
ER
DE
PA
RT
ME
NT
PR
IVA
TE
SE
C.
State Level Modules
e-Registration- Application Submission- Status Tracking- Electronic Registration
Grievance Mgmt.- Grievance entry- Routing & Alert- Status Update
e-Certification- Application Submission- Status Tracking- Electronic Certification- Inspection Report
KMS- Upload Content- Review & Edit Content- Remove Content
CMS- Capture Content- Manage Content- Store Content- Preserve Content
User Mgmt.- Account Creation, Modification, Deletion- Rights Management- MIS Reports
e-Monitor- Scheme monitoring- Target monitoring- Monthly progress
Pesticide Testing- Sample submission- Status tracking- Result upload
Fertilizer Testing- Sample submission- Status tracking- Result upload SEEDNET
CIBRCDPPQS
FMSAGRICOOP
INTRADAC
Soil Testing- Sample submission- Status tracking- Result upload- Soil Health Card
Seed Testing- Sample submission- Status tracking- Result upload
Seed Certf.- Sample submission- Status tracking- Field result upload- e-certificate
Scheme App.- Application Submission- Status Tracking- Query uplaod
Grievance Mgmt.- Grievance entry- Routing & Alert- Status Update
KMS- Upload Content- Review & Edit Content- Remove Content
CMS- Capture Content- Manage Content- Store Content- Preserve Content
User Mgmt.- Account Creation, Modification, Deletion- Rights Management- MIS Reports
e-Monitor- Scheme monitoring- Target monitoring- Monthly progress
Pesticide Testing- Sample submission- Status tracking- Result upload
Fertilizer Testing- Sample submission- Status tracking- Result upload
IMD
Central Level Modules
State Portals
AGMARKNET
CSC
Department
KCC
SCC
Private Kiosk
Mass Media
Mobile
IVRS
Agri Clinic
Agri Biz Centre
Delivery Channels
Participants and Workshop strategy
State Deptts of Agri & IT, State NIC, Farmers
Industry, ICAR
Scientists, SAUs
DAC, DAHDF,
DARE, IMD
ISRO, CDAC, NIC, Domain
Experts
• 6 Working Groups comprising all stakeholders
• Screen Level Discussion
• Extension of Direct hands-on Approach
• Upgradation, Integration and Standardisation of practices
•
Some Recent Initiatives to be Discussed E-Parwana, Soil Testing/Fertility Maps
Farm Implements Delivery system, e-Jalnidhi
Micro Irrigation, FCMS, Crop Doctor
Buyer Seller Interaction Platform
GIS of Marketing Infrastructure
Bhuwan of ISRO with Drought MIS
E-Krishi Kiran and Soil Fertility Maps
Management of Micro Irrigation
NeGP-A Service Components