E-District

e-District is one of the Mission Mode Projects under National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) of the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India. “e-District” project aims at integrated & seamless delivery of high volume citizen centric services through automation of workflow, backend digitization, integration and process re-design across participating departments, which are not part of any other Mission Mode Project. Initially, high volume citizen centric services will be taken up for implementation. Subsequently, new services will be added to the portfolio, once the demand for the initial set of enabled services increases. This project enables processing of these applications through workflow based system (back-end computerization). The Puducherry e-Governance Society functioning under the Directorate of Information Technology, Puducherry is the State Designated Agency for implementation of the e-District project in the Government of Puducherry. Under this project, around 73 services have been identified in consultation with the line Departments. These services have been categorized as 34 individual services and 7 workflow-based services covering the following departments :

• Revenue & Disaster Management
• Social Welfare
• Women & Child Development
• Adi-Dravidar Welfare
• Fisheries & Fishermen Welfare
• Animal Husbandry & Animal Welfare
• Agriculture
• Education
• Industries & Commerce
• Survey and Land Records
• Revenue Court services of Sub-Collector offices (North and South)

The key objectives of e-District project :

• Leveraging and utilizing the existing e-infrastructure, namely, State Data Centre, State wide Area Network, Common Services Centres optimally to deliver public services electronically to citizens at their door steps.
• Undertake back-end automation of District and Tehsil level offices to ensure electronic delivery of high volume citizen centric services at the District level.
• Improve efficiency and effectiveness of the service delivery by undertaking extensive Government Process Re-engineering.
• Providing easy anywhere and anytime access to Government services to ensure reliability, efficiency, transparency and accountability.
• Reducing number of visits of the citizens to a Government office for availing the services and thereby eliminating harassment.
• Reducing administrative burden and service fulfilment time and cost for the Government, citizens and businesses.
• Enhancing perception and image of the Government and its' constituent Departments.

List of Services under this project :