 AADHAAR

About.
Aadhaar identity platform is one of the key pillars of ‘Digital India’, wherein every resident of the
country is provided with a unique identity or Aadhaar number. The largest biometrics based
identification system in the world, Aadhaar is a strategic policy tool for social and financial
inclusion, public sector delivery reforms, managing fiscal budgets, increase convenience and
promote hassle-free people-centric governance. It is unique and robust enough to eliminate
duplicate or fake identities and may be used as a basis/primary identifier to roll out several
Government welfare schemes and programmes for effective service delivery thereby promoting
transparency and good governance.
Website.https://uidai.gov.in/beta/
 AADHAAR ENABLED PAYMENT SYSTEM
About.
AEPS is a bank led model which allows online interoperable financial inclusion transaction at
PoS (MicroATM) through the Business correspondent of any bank using the Aadhaar
authentication. It is a payment service empowering a bank customer to use Aadhaar as his/her
identity to access his/ her respective Aadhaar enabled bank account and perform basic banking
transactions like balance enquiry, cash deposit, cash withdrawal, remittances through a
Business Correspondent.
Website.http://npci.org.in/home.aspx
 ACCESSIBLE INDIA CAMPAIGN MOBILE APP
About.
Sugamya Bharat Abhiyaan or Accessible India Campaign is a nation-wide flagship campaign for
achieving universal accessibility that enables people with disabilities to gain access for equal
opportunity, live independently and participate fully in all aspects of life in an inclusive society.
The campaign targets at enhancing the accessibility of built environment, transport system and
Information and communication ecosystem. The mobile application is a crowd sourcing platform
to comprehensively obtain information on inaccessible places across the country. The mobile
application is available on IOS, Android and Windows platform and can be downloaded from the
respective App Stores.
Website.http://accessibleindia.gov.in/content/
 AGRIMARKET APP
About.
The mobile application has been developed with an aim to keep farmers abreast with the crop
prices and discourage them to carry-out distress sale. Farmers can get information related to
prices of crops in markets within 50km of their own device location using the AgriMarket Mobile
App. This app automatically captures the location of the farmers using mobile GPS and fetches
the market prices of crops which fall within the range of 50km. The prices of agri commodities
are sourced from the Agmarknet portal. Currently, the apps is available in English and Hindi
languages.
Website.http://mkisan.gov.in/downloadmobileapps.aspx
 BETI BACHAO BETI PADHAO
About.
The campaign aims at ensuring girls are born, nurtured and educated without discrimination to
become empowered citizens of this country. The Campaign interlinks National, State and
District level interventions with community level action in 100 districts, bringing together different
stakeholders for accelerated impact. The initiatives youtube channel show various videos
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 Website.http://wcd.nic.in/BBBPScheme/main.htm
 BHARAT BROADBAND NETWORK (BBNL)
About.
Bharat Broadband Network Limited is a special purpose vehicle set up under Companies Act by
Government of India with an authorized capital of Rs. 1000 Cr. It has been mandated to create
the National Optical Fiber Network (NOFN) in India. A total of around 2,50,000 Gram
Panchayats spread over 6,600 Blocks and 641 Districts are to be covered by laying incremental
fiber.
Website.http://www.bbnl.nic.in/index.aspx
 BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money)
About.
Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM) is an app that makes payment transactions simple, easy and
quick using Unified Payments Interface (UPI). It enables direct bank to bank payments instantly
and collect money using a Mobile number or Payment address. Bharat Interface for Money app
is currently available on Android and it is downloadable from Google Playstore, for smart
phones.
Website.http://www.npci.org.in/
 BPO Scheme
About.
The India BPO Promotion Scheme (IBPS) seeks to incentivize establishment of 48,300 seats in
respect of BPO/ITES operations across the country. It is distributed among each State in
proportion of State's population with an outlay of Rs. 493 Crore. This would help in capacity
building in smaller cities in terms of infra & manpower and would become basis for next wave of
IT/ITES led growth. This scheme has potential to create employment opportunities of around 1.5
lakh direct jobs considering three shift operations. It may also create good number of indirect
jobs.
Website.https://ibps.stpi.in/
 CENTRE FOR EXCELLENCE FOR INTERNET OF THINGS (COE-IT)
About.
The Centre of Excellence for IoT was announced as a part of the Digital India Initiative to jump
start the IOT ecosystem taking advantage of India's IT strengths and help the country attain a
leadership role in the convergent area of hardware and software. The main objective of the
center is to create innovative applications and domain capability. Additionally, the center will
help build industry capable talent, start-up community and an entrepreneurial ecosystem for
IOT.
Website.http://www.coe-iot.in/
 CERT-IN
About.
CERT-In was formed with an aim to secure Indian cyber space. CERT-In provides Incident
Prevention and Response services as well as Security Quality Management Services. CERT-In
has been designated under Section 70B of Information Technology (Amendment) Act 2008 to
serve as the national agency to perform the following functions in the area of cyber security:
• Collection, analysis and dissemination of information on cyber incidents
• Forecast and alerts of cyber security incidents
• Emergency measures for handling cyber security incidents
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 • Issue guidelines, advisories, vulnerability notes and whitepapers relating to information
security practices, procedures, prevention, response and reporting of cyber incidents
Website.http://www.cert-in.org.in/
 CRIME AND CRIMINAL TRACKING NETWORK & SYSTEMS
(CCTNS)
About.
Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems (CCTNS) is a plan scheme conceived in the
light of experience of a non-plan scheme namely - Common Integrated Police Application
(CIPA). CCTNS aims at creating a comprehensive and integrated system for enhancing the
efficiency and effectiveness of policing through adopting of principle of e-Governance and
creation of a nationwide networking infrastructure for evolution of IT-enabled-state-of-the-art
tracking system around 'Investigation of crime and detection of criminals'.
Website.http://www.ncrb.gov.in/BureauDivisions/CCTNS/cctns.htm
 CROP INSURANCE MOBILE APP
About.
Crop Insurance mobile app can be used to calculate the Insurance Premium for notified crops
based on area, coverage amount and loan amount in case of loanee farmer. It can also be used
to get details of normal sum insured, extended sum insured, premium details and subsidy
information of any notified crop in any notified area.
Website.http://mkisan.gov.in/downloadmobileapps.aspx
 CSC 2.0
About.
CSC 2.0 aims to establish a self sustaining network of 2.5 lakh CSC centres at Gram Panchayat
(GP) level under Digital India and deliver various citizen centric services. It is envisaged as
transaction-based and service delivery-based model, delivering a large bouquet of e-services
through a single delivery platform, which would increase the sustainability of the CSCs across
the Country. The project proposes to strengthen the CSC network by ensuring standardization
of service availability and ensuring capacity building of all stakeholders involved.
Website.https://csc.gov.in/
 CYBER SWACHHTA KENDRA
About.
Cyber Swachhta Kendra (Botnet Cleaning and Malware Analysis Centre) is a part of the
Government of India's Digital India initiative to create a secure cyber space by detecting botnet
infections in India and to notify, enable cleaning and securing systems of end users so as to
prevent further infections. It is set up in accordance with the objectives of the ‘National Cyber
Security Policy’, which envisages creating a secure cyber eco system in the country. This centre
operates in close coordination and collaboration with Internet Service Providers and
Product/Antivirus companies.
Website.http://www.cyberswachhtakendra.gov.in/
 DEEN DAYAL UPADHYAYA GRAM JYOTI YOJANA
About.
One of the flagship programmes of the Power Ministry (MoP), Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram
Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) is designed to provide continuous power supply to the entire rural India.
With this scheme, the government had decided to electrify 18,452 unelectrified villages within
1000 days, by May 1, 2018. The DDUGJY can benefit rural households significantly as
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 Website.http://www.ddugjy.in/
 DigiDhan ABHIYAAN
About.
The initiative plans to enable citizens and merchants to undertake real time digital transactions
through the DIGIDHAN Bazaar.Through organising DigiDhan Mela’s across the country, it aims
to handhold users in downloading, installing and using various digital payment systems for
carrying out digital transactions.
Website.https://digidhan.mygov.in/
 DIGILOCKER
About.
DigiLocker is the Indian Government’s flagship program aimed at transforming India into a
digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. DigiLocker ties into Digital India’s visions
areas of providing citizens a shareable private space on a public cloud and making all
documents/certificates available on this cloud. Targeted at the idea of paperless governance,
DigiLocker is a platform for issuance and verification of documents & certificates in a digital way,
thus eliminating the use of physical documents.
Website.https://digilocker.gov.in/
 DIGISEVAK- VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (VMS)
About.
DigiSevak is an online volunteering platform for interested citizens who want to contribute to the
success of Digital India program. Various government department and agencies can create
volunteering tasks and volunteers can choose tasks based on their skills and interest areas. The
platform provides means for end-to-end execution of a volunteering task, right from registration
of volunteers to creation of tasks, evaluation of tasks and rewards & recognition of contribution
by volunteers.
Website.http://digisevak.gov.in/
 DIGITAL AIIMS
About.
The first step in the Digital AIIMS project was taken in January 2015 with the creation of an
effective linkage between AIIMS, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and the
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeiTY). A unique health identification
number for every patient visiting AIIMS was generated on an Aadhar platform. The Unique
Health Identification Number gave every Patient visiting AIIMS a Digital Identity.
Website.http://ehospital.nic.in/ehospital/
 DIGITAL SAKSHARTA ABHIYAAN (DISHA)
About.
The Digital Saksharta Abhiyan or National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM) Scheme has been
formulated to impart IT training to 52.5 lakh persons, including Anganwadi, ASHA workers and
authorised ration dealers in all the States/UTs across the country. The initiative aims at training
non-IT literate citizens to become IT literate to enable their active and effective participation in
the democratic, developmental process, and enhance their livelihood too.
Website.http://www.ndlm.in/
 DIGITIZE INDIA
About.
Digitize India Platform (DIP) is an initiative of the Government of India under the Digital India
Programme to provide digitization services for scanned document images or physical
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 in different formats and media, languages, digitize and create data extracts for document
management, IT applications and records management.
Website.https://digitizeindia.gov.in/
 DIRECT BENEFIT TRANSFER (DBT)
About.
DBT was initiated with the aim to reform Government delivery system by re-engineering the
existing process in welfare schemes for simpler and faster flow of information/funds and to
ensure accurate targeting of the beneficiaries, de-duplication and reduction of fraud. DBT will
bring efficiency, effectiveness, transparency and accountability in the Government system and
infuse confidence of citizen in the governance. Use of modern technology and IT tools will
realize the dream of MAXIMUM GOVERNANCE MINIMUM GOVERNMENT.
Website.https://dbtbharat.gov.in/
 e-GRANTHALAYA
About.
e-Granthalaya is an Integrated Library Management Software developed by National Informatics
Centre,(NIC), Department of Electronics & Information Technology. The application is useful for
automation of in-house activities of libraries and to provide various online member services. The
software provides built-in Web OPAC interface to publish the library catalogue over Internet.
The software is UNICODE Compliant, thus, supports data entry in local languages.
Website.http://egranthalaya.nic.in/
 E-PANCHAYAT
About.
e-Panchayat is an e-Governance initiative for the rural sector providing comprehensive software
solution attempting automation of Gram Panchayat functions. It is a platform for panchayat
representatives to connect with rest of the world, which aims to bring out the local voices by
empowering the local communities to showcase and share local social, cultural and economic
practices, stories and challenges.
Website.http://epanchayat.in/
 eBASTA
About.
In line with the Government's Digital India initiative, this project has created a framework to
make school books accessible in digital form as e-books to be read and used on tablets and
laptops. The main idea is to bring various publishers (free as well as commercial) and schools
together on one platform. In addition to the portal, a back-end framework to facilitate the
organization and easy management of such resources has been developed, along with the web-
based applications that can be installed on tablets for navigating the framework.
Website.https://www.ebasta.in/
 Ebiz
About.
eBiz is being implemented by Infosys Technologies Limited (Infosys) under the guidance and
aegis of Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), Ministry of Commerce &
Industry, Government of India. The focus of eBiz is to improve the business environment in the
country by enabling fast and efficient access to Government-to-Business (G2B) services
through an online portal. This will help in reducing unnecessary delays in various regulatory
processes required to start and run businesses.
Website.https://www.ebiz.gov.in/home/

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 ECI EVM TRACKING
About.
It is a GPRS based mobile application for ECI Officials to scan barcode on EVM machines (BU
or CU or VVPAT), which is used in Polls.
Website.https://apps.mgov.gov.in/descp.do?appid=217
 eDISTRICT
About.
The e-District Mission Mode Project (MMP) is envisaged to strengthen the district administration
of the state by providing ICT support to the participating departments and district administration
in terms of providing centralized software application for selected category of citizen services
and training for staff of the departments with a view to improve delivery of the citizen services
being rendered by these departments. Services developed under e-District project would be
delivered through various delivery channels like:
· Direct access by Citizens through e-District portal as a registered user.
· Existing Atal Jana Snehi Kendra's / B1 / K1 service centres.
· Common Service Centres (To be established upto Grama Panchayat Level).
Website.https://edistrict.gov.in/
 eGREETINGS
About.
eGreetings portal aims to promote a contemporary and eco-friendly method of sharing greetings
by Government officials and agencies as well as citizens to colleagues and friends for National
Holidays and other national occasions. The portal allows users to select and send greetings
from multiple occasion-specific templates. Government Departments can also customize the
greetings by adding tag-lines and messages related to their programmes and schemes.
Website.https://egreetings.gov.in/
 eHOSPITAL
About.
e-Hospital@NIC(link sends e-mail) is an open source health information management system (
HMIS) which is configurable and easily customizable with multi-tenancy support. It is designed
to deploy in cloud infrastructure to manage multiple hospitals seamlessly. The generic
application addresses all major functional areas of a hospital. A workflow based HL7 complient
and ISO/IEC 9126 certified end-to-end solution Software for hospital management which covers
complete treatment cycle of OPD/IPD as well integrates clinical, administrative, and billing/
insurance activities.
Website.http://ehospital.nic.in/ehospital/
 ELECTRONIC DEVELOPMENT FUND (EDF)
About.
As part of the ‘Digital India’ agenda of the Government, and to develop the Electronics System
Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) sector in order to achieve ‘Net Zero Imports’ by 2020 and to
look at India as their next destination to cater to the domestic Indian demand as well as act as
an exports hub in the ESDM sector. It is with this objective that an Electronic Development Fund
(EDF) is set up as a "Fund of Funds" to participate in professionally managed "Daughter Funds"
which in turn will provide risk capital to companies developing new technologies in the area of
electronics, nano-electronics and Information Technology (IT).
Website.http://www.edfindia-canbankventure.com/

 eMSIPS
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 About.
The electronic MSIPS (e-MSIPS) Application System enables online submission and scrutiny of
applications submitted to the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY)
under the Modified Special Incentive Package Scheme (MSIPS) and Electronics Manufacturing
Cluster (EMC) schemes. All registered users can submit their applications in the system, using
the forms designed for the same. The system will enable online scrutiny of applications and
online generation of responses to the applicant. The applicants can view the response in the
system.
Website.
 eNAM
About.
National Agriculture Market (NAM) is a pan-India electronic trading portal which networks the
existing APMC (Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee) mandis to create a unified national
market for agricultural commodities. The NAM Portal provides a single window service for all
APMC related information and services. This includes commodity arrivals and prices, buy and
sell trade offers and provision to respond to trade offers, among other services. While material
flow (agriculture produce) continues to happen through mandis, an online market reduces
transaction costs and information asymmetry.
Website.http://www.enam.gov.in/NAM/home/index.html
 eOFFICE
About.
The eOffice product aims to support governance by ushering in more effective and transparent
inter and intra-government processes. The vision of e-Office is to achieve a simplified,
responsive, effective and transparent working of all government offices. The Open Architecture
on which eOffice has been built, makes it a reusable framework and a standard reusable
product amenable to replication across the governments, at the central, state and dis trict levels.
The product brings together the independent functions and systems under a single framework.
Website.https://eoffice.gov.in/
 ePATHSHALA
About.
Developed by NCERT, ePathshala for showcasing and disseminating all educational e-
resources including textbooks, audio, video, periodicals and a variety of other print and non-print
materials through website and mobile app. The platform addresses the dual challenge of
reaching out to a diverse clientele and bridging the digital divide (geographical, socio-cultural
and linguistic), offering comparable quality of e-contents. All the concerned stakeholders such
as students, teachers, educators and parents can access e-books through multiple technology
platforms i.e. mobile phones (android, iOS and Windows platforms), and tablets (as e-pub) and
on web through laptops and desktops (as flipbooks).
Website.http://epathshala.nic.in/
 EPFO WEB PORTAL & MOBILE APP
About.
The web portal for Employees' Provident Funds Ordinance allows employees to check their EPF
balance through an ePassbook which is an online version of their physical passbook. The
mobile app allows the members to activate their UAN accounts from the comfort of their mobile
phones and can also access their accounts for viewing their monthly credits through the
passbook as well view their details available with EPFO. Similarly the EPF pensioners have
been given the facility to access their pension disbursement details through this mobile app.
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 Website.http://epfindia.gov.in/site_en/
 ePRISON
About.
The Scope of this project is to computerize and integrate all the activities related to prison and
prisoner management in the jail. This application suite will provide the vital information about the
inmates, lodged in the prisons, in real time environment to the prison officials and other entities,
involved in Criminal Justice System. It will also facilitate online visit request and grievance
redressal. ePrisons application suite, developed by NIC, is cloud based product designed with
easy to use GUI and embedded with a comprehensive security features. It can be easily
adopted by any state prisons department with minimum customization efforts since all the
possible customization features are parameterized and can be configured by the users.
Website.http://eprisons.nic.in/NPIP/public/Home.aspx
 ePROCUREMENT PORTAL (CPP)
About.
The Central Public Procurement Portal of Government of India facilitates all the Central
Government Organizations to publish their Tender Enquiries, Corrigendum and Award of
Contract details. The primary objective of this portal is to provide a single p oint access to the
information on procurements made across various central government organization.
Website.https://eprocure.gov.in/eprocure/app
 eSAMPARK
About.
e-Sampark is a mechanism to connect the government directly with citizens across India by
running mailer, outbound dialing and SMS campaigns. The platform is used for sharing
informational and public service messages. The concept of e-Sampark has been introduced to
establish proactive communication by digitization of campaigns. The multi-faceted platform
facilitates not only seamless communication between the government and citizens, but also
maintains a database of contacts of the nodal officers, representatives and citizens. In addition,
users can also view the previous campaigns conducted.
Website.https://sampark.gov.in
 eSIGN
About.
eSign is an online electronic signature service which can be integrated with service delivery
applications via an open API to facilitate an Aadhaar holder to digitally sign a document. Using
authentication of the Aadhaar holder through Aadhaar e-KYC service, online electronic
signature service is facilitated
Website.http://cca.gov.in/
 ESSO-INDIAN NATIONAL CENTER FOR OCEAN INFORMATION
SERVICES
About.
ESSO-INCOIS was established as an autonomous body in 1999 under the Ministry of Earth
Sciences (MoES) and is a unit of the Earth System Science Organization (ESSO). ESSO-
INCOIS is mandated to provide the best possible ocean information and advisory services to
society, industry, government agencies and the scientific community through sustained ocean
observations and constant improvements through systematic and focussed research.

Website.http://www.incois.gov.in/portal/index.jsp

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 eTAAL
About.
eTaal is a web portal for dissemination of e-Transactions statistics of National and State level e-
Governance Projects including Mission Mode Projects. It receives transaction statistics from
web based applications periodically on near real time basis. eTaal presents quick analysis of
transaction counts in tabular and graphical form to give quick view of transactions done by
various e-Governance projects.
Website.
 eTRADE
About.
The Department of Commerce is pursuing the project eTRADE, the purpose of which is to
facilitate foreign trade in India by way of promoting effective and efficient delivery of services by
various regulatory / facilitating agencies involved in foreign trade so as to enable the trade to
avail services from these agencies in online environment.
Website.http://etrade.gov.in/project.aspx
 eVISA
About.
The Ministry of Tourism supported the initiative regarding the implementation of Tourist Visa on
Arrival enabled with Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) (renamed as e-Tourist Visa) strongly
and committed all support to Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of External Affairs and
Ministry of Civil Aviation for implementing this programme. The e-Tourist Visa enables the
prospective visitor to apply for an Indian Visa from his/her home country online without visiting
the Indian Mission and also pay the visa fee online.
Website.https://indianvisaonline.gov.in/visa/tvoa.html
 FARMER PORTAL
About.
It is envisaged to make available relevant information and services to the farming community
and private sector through the use of information and communication technologies, to
supplement the existing delivery channels provided for by the department. Farmers’ Portal is an
endeavour in this direction to create one stop shop for meeting all informational needs relating
to Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries sectors production, sale/storage of an Indian
farmer. With this Indian Farmer will not be required to sift through maze of websites created for
specific purposes.
Website.http://farmer.gov.in/
 FERTILISER MONITORING SYSTEM (FMS)
About.
The FMS software monitors movement of various fertilisers at various stages in their value
chain. The website provides information on fertiliser companies dealing with these fertilisers, the
rate of concession on each fertiliser, its MRPs and productwise / statewise details of despatch
and receipts of fertilisers at different destinations across the country.
Website.http://www.urvarak.co.in/
 GARV GRAMEEN VIDYUTIKARAN MOBILE APP
About.
The mobile application provides real-time updated data of ongoing electrification process to all
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 data. The app can also be used for sharing inspirational stories of differently-abled, who
achieved success despite all odds.
Website.http://garv.ddugjy.in/
 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS)
About.
Geographic Information System (GIS Software) is designed to store, retrieve, manage, display
and analyze different types of geographic and spatial data, which allows users to produce maps
and other graphic displays of geographic information for analysis and presentation and thus
serves as a valuable tool to visualize spatial data and/or to build decision support systems for
further use in any organization or research bodies. GIS stores data in geographical features and
their characteristics; these features are typically classified as points, lines or areas, or as raster
images. GIS stores information using spatial indices that make it possible to identify the features
located in any arbitrary region of a map.
Website.https://ncog.gov.in/
 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA (GSI)
About.
The Portal has been developed through the Online Core Business Integrated System Project
(OCBIS). The objective behind the Portal is to provide a single window access to the information
and services being provided by the GSI for the broad geoscientific community, citizens and
other stakeholders. An attempt has been made through this Portal to provide comprehensive,
accurate, reliable and single point source of information about GSI, its activities, achievements,
geoscientific information and its various facets.
Website.https://www.gsi.gov.in/
 GOODS AND SERVICE TAX NETWORK (GSTN)
About.
The GST System Project is a unique and complex IT initiative. It is unique as it seeks, for the
first time to establish a uniform interface for the tax payer and a common and shared IT
infrastructure between the Centre and States. The portal envisions becoming a trusted National
Information Utility (NIU) which provides reliable, efficient and robust IT Backbone for the smooth
functioning of the Goods & Services Tax regimen enabling economic agents to leverage the
entire nation as One Market with minimal Indirect Tax compliance cost.
Website.http://www.gstn.org/index.php
 GOVERNMENT eMARKETPLACE
About.
Government e-Marketplace (GeM) is single window solution for online procurement of common
use Goods & Services required by various Government Departments / Organizations / PSUs.
GeM aims to enhance transparency, efficiency and speed in public procurement. It also
provides the tools for direct purchase, e-bidding and reverse e-auction to facilitate the
government users to achieve the best value for the money. The portal offers online registration
facilities for all stakeholders namely Government Users, Product Sellers and Service Providers.
Website.https://gem.gov.in/
 HERITAGE CITY DEVELOPMENT AND AUGMENTATION YOJANA
(HRIDAY)
About.
The Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India, launched the National Heritage City
Development and Augmentation Yojana (HRIDAY) scheme on 21st January, 2015, with a focus
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 the heritage city to reflect the city’s unique character by encouraging aesthetically appealing,
accessible, informative & secured environment.
Website.http://hridayindia.in/
 HIMMAT APP
About.
Himmat is an initiative by Delhi police especially for women. Himmat is an emergency service,
comprised of an android emergency application, which can send a distress call or emergency
message to Delhi Police officials and specified contact or group in an emergency situation faced
by a woman. The Police personnel will get these SOS alerts and locations on a portal and as a
sms on their mobile phones as well.
Website.http://54.169.6.175/#
 ICDS SYSTEMS STRENGTHENING AND NUTRITION
IMPROVEMENT PROJECT (ISSNIP)
About.
SSNIP is World Bank's International Development Association (IDA) assisted project,
implemented by Ministry of Women Child Development in 162 high malnutrition burden districts
in 8 States viz. Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Madhya
Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. The objectives of the project is to support the
Government of India and participating States to (i) strengthen the ICDS policy framework,
systems and capacities, and facilitate community engagement, to ensure greater focus on
children below three years of age; and (ii) strengthen convergent actions for improved nutrition
outcomes.
Website.http://wcd.nic.in/issnip/home.htm
 INTEGRATED HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM (IHIP)
About.
An Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP) is being setup by the Ministry of Health and
Family Welfare (MoHFW). The primary objective of IHIP is to enable the creation of standards
compliant Electronic Health Records (EHRs) of the citizens on a pan-India basis along with the
integration and interoperability of the EHRs through a comprehensive Health Information
Exchange (HIE) as part of this centralized accessible platform.
Website.https://www.nhp.gov.in/
 IRCTC CONNECT
About.
In order to cater to the growing demand of passengers to make the ticketing application more
user-friendly and faster, IRCTC Connect was developed. The new app with several add-on
features is based on the next generation e-ticketing system. Synchronised with the ticketing
website, the app facilitates search and book train tickets, check existing reservations or cancel
them, and get upcoming journey alerts
Website.https://www.irctc.co.in/eticketing/loginHome.jsf
 JEEVAN PRAMAAN
About.
Jeevan Pramaan is a biometric enabled digital service for pensioners of Central Government,
State Government or any other Government organization. The new service aims to streamline
the process of issuing life certificate and make it a hassle-free experience for the pensioners.
With this initiative the pensioner’s requirement to physically present him/her in front of the
disbursing agency or the certification authority will become a thing of the past benefiting the
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 Website.https://jeevanpramaan.gov.in/
 KHOYA PAYA
About.
The Khoya Paya portal is a citizen-based website to exchange information on missing and
found children. It has been developed by the Ministry of Women and Child Development and the
Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY). The website is an enabling
platform, where citizens can report missing children, as well as sightings of their whereabouts
without wasting much time. The ‘Found’ children can also be reported on this web portal. The
reporting can be done through text, photographs, videos and other means of transmitting and
uploading information to the site.
Website.http://khoyapaya.gov.in/mpp/home
 KISAN SUVIDHA
About.
Kisan Suvidha is an omnibus mobile app developed to help farmers get relevant information
instantly. The app provide information on various details such as weather, market prices, seeds,
fertilizers, pesticides, agriculture machinery, dealers, agro advisories, plant protection and IPM
practices etc. Other unique features like extreme weather alerts, market prices of commodity in
nearest area and the maximum price in state as well as in India have been added to empower
farmers in the best possible manner.
Website.http://www.kisaansuvidha.com/
 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (KMS)
About.
Digital India Program envisions to ‘Transform India into a Digitally Empowered Society and
Knowledge Economy’. To spearhead this vision, Knowledge Management Portal has been
created to establish a culture where knowledge is captured, shared, created and reused. It
provides a platform to leverage the transformation of data to knowledge by systematically
aligning with the organizational goals and strategy.
Website.https://kms.negd.in
 LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LMS)
About.
Learning Management System (LMS) is a software application for the administration,
documentation, tracking, reporting and delivery of electronic courses (e-learning) and training
programs. As a capacity building tool, LMS facilitates efficient administration of e-learning and
training for various government officials both at centre and states/union territories. It has the
objective of enhancing knowledge and skills of users as per their roles envisaged in the e-
Governance Competency Framework (eGCF).
Website.https://lms.negd.in/
 MADAD APP
About.
Consular Services Management System (MADAD) has been setup for Indian Citizens to log and
track Grievances pertaining to the Consular Services offered by the Indian Embassies
(Missions/Posts) abroad. Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) with a view to provide mobile
enablement of MADAD, has launched MADAD Mobile Application on Android, iOS, and
Windows platforms.
Website.http://www.madad.gov.in/AppConsular/welcomeLink
 mASSET
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 mAsset is a mobile based tool that act as a supplement application to capture details such as
photo and Geo-coordinates of the Assets into National Asset Directory (NAD). Additionally, this
application is also used to capture the details of Asset (Category, sub-category, name of the
Asset, Photo & Geo-coordinates) which are not available in the NAD application. NAD is one of
the applications developed under Panchayat Enterprise Suite under e-Panchayat Mission Mode
Project.
Website.http://assetdirectory.gov.in/
 MCA21
About.
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), Government of India, has initiated the MCA21 project,
which enables easy and secure access to MCA services in an assisted manner for corporate
entities, professionals, and general public. The MCA21project is designed to fully automate all
processes related to enforcement and compliance of the legal requirements under the
Companies Act, 1956.
The project further seeks to achieve inter-operability with the National e-Governance Services
Delivery Gateway (NSDG), which will help extend MCA services to businesses via multiple
front-end delivery channels, and which will also help provide other value-added services over
and above the base services offered by MCA21.
Website.http://www.mca.gov.in
 mCESSATION
About.
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, in partnership with World Health Organisation and the
International Telecommunications Union, has started an initiative for utilising mobile technology
for tobacco cessation. WHO-ITU’s ‘Be Healthy Be Mobile’ initiative, aims to reach out to tobacco
users of all categories who want to quit tobacco use and support them towards successful
quitting through constant text messaging on mobile phones.
Website.http://www.nhp.gov.in/quit-tobacco
 MEGHRAJ
About.
In order to utilise and harness the benefits of Cloud Computing, Government of India has
embarked upon an ambitious initiative - "GI Cloud" which has been named as 'MeghRaj'. The
focus of this initiative is to accelerate delivery of e-services in the country while optimizing ICT
spending of the Government. This will ensure optimum utilization of the infrastructure and speed
up the development and deployment of eGov applications.
Website.https://cloud.gov.in/index.php
 mKAVACH
About.
MKavach is a comprehensive mobile device security solution with an emphasis and approach
on protecting mobile device resources rather than scanning for malwares signatures. The major
threats on mobile devices can be broadly categorized into data compromise, malicious
applications, physical thefts and mis-utilization of hardware resources. M-Kavach is designed to
provide protection against the above mentioned threats, through its features such as Secure
Storage, Application Manager, Anti-Theft, Call/SMS filter and authorized access to device
resources like WiFi, Bluetooth & Camera.
Website.https://cdac.in/index.aspx?id=cs_eps_mkavach
 mKISAN
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 mKisan SMS Portal has been conceptualised to give a quantum leap in coverage of farmers
and geographical area in a timely, specific, holistic and need based knowledge dissemination
among the farmers by leveraging the power of mobile telephony in such a way that all sectors
use this platform to not only reach out to the farmers but also to address their concerns and
queries.
Website.http://mkisan.gov.in/
 MOBILE SEVA APP STORE
About.
A mobile applications store (m-AppStore) has been created to facilitate the process of
development and deployment of suitable mobile applications for delivery of public services
through mobile devices. The m-AppStore store is integrated with the MSDG and it shall use the
MSDG infrastructure for deployment of such applications. The m-AppStore is based on service
oriented architecture and cloud based technologies using open standards as far as practicable.
Website.https://apps.mgov.gov.in/index.jsp
 MOTHER & CHILD TRACKING SYSTEM (MCTS)
About.
Mother and Child Tracking System (MCTS) is an initiative of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
to leverage information technology for ensuring delivery of full spectrum of healthcare and
immunization services to pregnant women and children up to 5 years of age. It facilitates and
monitors service delivery and also establishes a two way communication between the service
providers and beneficiaries.
Website.http://nrhm-mcts.nic.in/Home.aspx
 mRAKTKOSH
About.
The web-based mechanism interconnects all the Blood Banks of the State into a single network.
The Integrated Blood Bank MIS refers the acquisition, validation, storage and circulation of
various live data and information electronically regarding blood donation and transfusion
service. Such system is able to assemble heterogeneous data into legible reports to support
decision making from effective donor screening to optimal blood dissemination in the field.
Website.http://www.eraktkosh.in/
 MyGov
About.
MyGov platform is a unique path breaking initiative which was launched by the Hon’ble Prime
Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi. It is a unique first-of-its-kind participatory governance
initiative involving the common citizen at large. The idea of MyGov brings the government closer
to the common man by the use of online platform creating an interface for healthy exchange of
ideas and views involving the common citizen and experts with the ultimate goal to contribute to
the social and economic transformation of India.
Website.http://mygov.in
 NATIONAL CAREER SERVICE PORTAL
About.
A national ICT based portal has been developed, primarily to connect opportunities with the
aspirations of the youth. This portal facilitates registration of job seekers, job providers, skill
providers, career counsellors, etc. Additionally, it provides job matching services in a highly
transparent and user-friendly manner. These facilities along with career counselling will be
delivered by the portal through multiple channels like career centers, mobile devices, CSCs, etc.
Website.https://www.ncs.gov.in/

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 NATIONAL KNOWLEDGE NETWORK
About.
National Knowledge Network (NKN) project is aimed at establishing a strong and robust Indian
network which will be capable of providing secure and reliable connectivity. Globally, frontier
research and innovation are shifting towards multidisciplinary and collaborative paradigm and
require substantial communication and computational power. In India, NKN with its multi-gigabit
capability aims to connect all universities, research institutions, libraries, laboratories, healthcare
and agricultural institutions across the country to address such paradigm shift.
Website.http://nkn.gov.in/home
 NATIONAL MISSION ON EDUCATION USING ICT
About.
The National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology
(NMEICT) has been envisaged as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme to leverage the potential of
ICT, in teaching and learning process for the benefit of all the learners in Higher Education
Institutions in any time any where mode. It is a landmark initiative of the Ministry of Human
Resource Development to address all the education and learning related needs of students,
teachers and lifelong learners.
Website.http://www.nmeict.ac.in/#
 NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP PORTAL (NSP)
About.
NSP is a one-stop solution for end-to-end scholarship process right from the submission of
student application, verification, sanction and disbursal to end beneficiary for all the
scholarships provided by the Government of India. This initiative aims at providing a Simplified,
Mission-oriented, Accountable, Responsive & Transparent 'SMART' System for faster &
effective disposal of Scholarships applications and delivery of funds directly into beneficiaries
account without any leakages.
Website.http://scholarships.gov.in/
 NATIONAL SUPER COMPUTING MISSION (NSM)
About.
National Super Computing Mission has been envisaged to empower the national academic and
R&D institutions, spread across the country, by installing a vast supercomputing grid comprising
of more than 70 high-performance computing facilities. These supercomputers will also be
networked on the National Supercomputing grid over the National Knowledge Network (NKN).
Website.https://nsmindia.in
 NATIONAL UJALA DASHBOARD
About.
The initiative is part of the Government of India’s efforts to spread the message of energy
efficiency in the country. UJALA scheme aims to promote efficient use of energy at the
residential level; enhance the awareness of consumers about the efficacy of using energy
efficient appliances and aggregating demand to reduce the high initial costs thus facilitating
higher uptake of LED lights by residential users.
Website.http://www.ujala.gov.in/
 NATIONAL VOTERS SERVICE PORTAL (NVSP)
About.
The portal was developed with an aim to provide single window service electors. Through
NVSP, a user can avail and access various services such as access the electoral list, apply for
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 Constituency and Parliamentary constituency, and get the contact details of Booth Level officer,
Electoral Registration Officer, among other services.
Website.http://www.nvsp.in/
 NIKSHAY
About.
To monitor Revised National Tuberculosis Programme (RNTCP) effectively, a web enabled and
case based monitoring application called NIKSHAY has been developed by National Informatics
Centre (NIC). This is used by health functionaries at various levels across the country in
association with Central TB Division (CTD), Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. NIKSHAY
covers various aspects of controlling TB using technological innovations. Apart from web based
technology, SMS services have been used effectively for communication with patients and
monitoring the programme on day to day basis.
Website.http://nikshay.gov.in/User/Login.aspx
 NIRBHAYA APP
About.
Nirbhaya: Be Fearless© is an android emergency application, which can send a distress call or
emergency message to a specified contact or group in an emergency situation faced by a
woman or any other individual in general. Correct Location, Information and Communication,
with and from the app is dependent upon the basic hardware/software requirements, like -
Active Data plan, SMS plan, minimum talk time and active GPS functionality.
Website.https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smartcloud.nirbhaya&hl=en
 NORTH EAST BPO PROMOTION SCHEME (NEBPS)
About.
The North East BPO Promotion Scheme (NEBPS) has been approved under Digital India
Programme, to incentivize BPO/ITES Operations in North East Region (NER) for creation of
employment opportunities for the youths and growth of IT-ITES Industry. The objectives of
NEBPS are as under:
(i) Creation of employment opportunities for the local youth in NER, by promoting the IT/ITES
Industry particularly by setting up the BPO/ITES operations.
(ii) Promotion of investment in IT/ITES Sector in NER in order to expand the base of IT Industry
and secure balanced regional growth.
Website.http://meity.gov.in/nebps
 NREGA-SOFT
About.
NREGAsoft envisions implementing e-Governance across State, District and three tiers of
Panchayati Raj Institutions. It empowers the common man using the information technology as
a facilitator. NREGAsoft provides information to citizen in compliance with the right to
information Act (RTI Act). It makes available all the documents like Muster Rolls, registration
application register, job card/employment register/muster roll issue register, muster roll receipt
register which are hidden from public otherwise.
Website.http://www.nrega.net/ict/
 ONLINE LABS (OLABS)
About.
Online Labs (OLabs) for school lab experiments provides students with the ease and
convenience of conducting experiments over the internet. It has been developed to supplement
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 not only reduces the costs incurred for conducting experiments in real time but gives a student
the flexibility to explore and repeat experiments till they are thorough.
Website.http://www.olabs.edu.in/
 OPEN DATA
About.
Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India - data.gov.in - is a platform for supporting Open
Data initiative of Government of India. The portal is intended to be used by Government of India
Ministries/ Departments their organizations to publish datasets, documents, services, tools and
applications collected by them for public use. It intends to increase transparency in the
functioning of Government and also open avenues for many more innovative uses of
Government Data to give different perspective.
Website.https://data.gov.in/
 OPEN FORGE
About.
OpenForge is Government of India's platform for open collaborative development of e-
governance applications. Through this platform, the government wants to promote the use of
open source software and promote sharing and reuse of e-governance related source code.
OpenForge has the following objectives:
-To provide a platform for maintaining code repositories and version control for government
source code
-To promote a culture of open collaborative application development between public agencies
and private organizations, citizens and institutions
-To reduce development cycles and fasten the rollout of e-governance applications in the
country
-To deliver e-governance services and solutions of higher quality and security through increased
transparency and mass peer review
-To reduce e-governance project cost and bring down total cost of ownership through a system
of reuse, remixing and sharing
Website.https://openforge.gov.in/
 PAHAL (DBTL)
About.
The PAHAL (DBTL) aims to reduce diversion and eliminate duplicate or bogus LPG
connections. The scheme was earlier launched in 2013 and was modified in 2015. Under the
PaHaL scheme, LPG cylinders are sold at market rates and entitled consumers get the subsidy
directly into their bank accounts. This is done either through an Aadhaar linkage or a bank
account linkage.
Website.http://petroleum.nic.in/dbt/index.php
 PARIVAHAN PORTAL
About.
The portal was launched to improve the quality of service delivery to the citizen and the quality
of work environment of the RTOs. Its mission has been to automate all Vehicle Registration and
Driving License related activities in transport authorities of country with introduction of smart
card technology to handle issues like inter-state transport vehicle movement and to create state
and national level registers of vehicles/DL information. The latest initiative has been to
centralize both applications- VAHAN and SARATHI, for ensuring higher tranparency, security

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 and reliability of operations through a countrywide unified database and provision of a highly
citizen and trade centric web enabled environment.
Website.https://parivahan.gov.in/parivahan/
 PASSPORT SEVA PROJECT (PSP)
About.
Passport Seva enables simple, efficient and transparent processes for delivery of passport and
related services. Apart from creating a countrywide networked environment for Government
staff, it integrates with the State Police for physical verification of applicant's credentials and
with India Post for delivery of passports. The Passport Seva Project is transforming passport
and related services in India to provide a best-in-class experience to Indian citizens. PSP is
enabling MEA to deliver passport services in a reliable, convenient and transparent manner,
within defined service levels.
Website.http://www.passportindia.gov.in/
 PAYGOV INDIA
About.
A National Payment Service platform has been envisaged for a common e-Governance
infrastructure that will offer end-to-end transactional experience for a citizen which includes
accessing various services through internet with payment gateway interface for online
payments. Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology along with NSDL Database
Management Ltd (NDML) created a common infrastructure that can be used by
Center/States/Departments to offer various services through their National / State portals with a
facility to make online payment using net banking, credit cards and debit cards.
Website.http://paygovindia.gov.in/
 PRADHAN MANTRI GRAMIN DIGITAL SAKSHARTA ABHIYAAN
About.
Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyaan is the scheme to make six crore persons in
rural areas, across States/UTs, digitally literate, reaching to around 40% of rural households by
covering one member from every eligible household by 31st March, 2019. The Scheme aims to
bridge the digital divide, specifically targeting the rural population including the marginalised
sections of society like Scheduled Castes (SC) / Scheduled Tribes (ST), Minorities, Below
Poverty Line (BPL), women and differently-abled persons and minorities.
Website.https://www.pmgdisha.in/
 PRADHAN MANTRI JAN-DHAN YOJANA (PMJDY)
About.
PMJDY is a National Mission on Financial Inclusion encompassing an integrated approach to
bring about comprehensive financial inclusion of all the households in the country. The plan
envisages universal access to banking facilities at least one basic banking account in every
household, financial literacy, access to credit, insurance and pension facility. The initiative
envisages channeling all Government benefits (from Centre / State / Local Body) to the
beneficiaries’ accounts and pushing the Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT) scheme of the Union
Government.
Website.http://pmjdy.gov.in/
 PRADHAN MANTRI KAUSHAL VIKAS YOJANA (PMKVY)
About.
Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) is the flagship scheme of the Ministry of Skill
Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE). The objective of this Skill Certification Scheme is to
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 them in securing a better livelihood. Individuals with prior learning experience or skills will also
be assessed and certified under Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL).
Website.http://www.pmkvyofficial.org/Index.aspx
 PROJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (PMIS)
About.
Project Management and Information System (PMIS) has been developed in National
eGovernance Division (NeGD) for Mission Mode Projects under e-Kranti.
· PMIS is an integrated information system
· PMIS offers information on cost, time and performance parameters of a project
· PMIS is decision oriented
· PMIS is capable of providing exception reports
Website.http://pmis.negd.gov.in/
 PROJECT MONITORING WEBSITE FOR ECOURTS
About.
The website was planned to develop, deliver, install and implement automated decision-making
and decision support system in 700 courts of Delhi, Bombay, Kolkata & Chennai; 900 courts in
the 29 capital city courts of states and UTs and 13000 district and subordinate courts. The
objective of the project was to help judicial administrations of the courts in streamlining their
day-to-day activities.
Website.http://ecourts.nic.in/
 PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (PFMS)
About.
PFMS initially started as a Plan scheme named CPSMS of the Planning Commission in 2008-09
as a pilot in four States of Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Punjab and Mizoram for four Flagship
schemes e.g. MGNREGS, NRHM, SSA and PMGSY. After the initial phase of establishing a
network across Ministries / Departments, it has been decided to undertake National rollout of
CPSMS (PFMS) to link the financial networks of Central, State Governments and the agencies
of State Governments.
Website.https://cpsms.nic.in/
 PUSA KRISHI
About.
With the vision to take technology to the farm fields, Pusa Krishi application was developed. The
app helps the farmers to find easy solutions to problems in their farm fields and get information
about weather and accordingly take measures to save crops. It also offers information related to
new varieties of crops developed by Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), resource
conserving cultivation practices as well as farm machinery and its implementation will help in
increasing returns to farmers.
Website.http://agricoop.nic.in/recentinitiatives/mobile-apps-kisan-suvidha-and-pusa-krishi-
launched
 RAPID ASSESSMENT SYSTEM
About.
National e-Governance Division, a division of Ministry of Electronics and Information
Technology, has developed a Rapid Assessment System (RAS) for continuous feedback for e-
services delivered by Government of India and State Governments. This system has multiple
channels for receiving feedback and is backed by analytics. These analytics will help integrated
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 SARANSH
About.
A CBSE Initiative, Saransh is a tool for comprehensive self-review and analysis for CBSE
affiliated schools and parents. It enables them to analyze students' performance in order to take
remedial measures. Saransh brings schools, teachers and parents closer, so that they can
monitor the progress of students and help them improve their performance.
Website.http://saransh.nic.in/?language=en
 SHAALA DARPAN
About.
KV Shaala Darpan is an e-Governance platform for all Kendriya Vidyalayas in the country. It
aims to improve quality of learning, efficiency of school administration, governance of schools &
service delivery to key stakeholders namely, students, parents, teachers, community and
schools.
Website.https://darpan.kvs.gov.in/shaaladarpan/
 Shala Siddhi
About.
The National Programme on School Standards and Evaluation (NPSSE), known as Shaala
Sidhdhi is a comprehensive instrument for school evaluation leading to school improvement.
Developed by the National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), it
aims to enable schools to evaluate their performance in a more focused and strategic manner
and facilitate them to make professional judgments for improvement.
Website.http://shaalasiddhi.nuepa.org/
 SINGLE WINDOW INTERFACE FOR TRADE (SWIFT)
About.
As part of the “Ease of Doing Business” initiatives, the Central Board of Excise & Customs,
Government of India has taken up implementation of the Single Window Project to facilitate the
Trading Aross Borders in India. The 'India Customs Single Window' would allow importers and
exporters, the facility to lodge their clearance documents online at a single point only. Required
permissions, if any, from other regulatory agencies would be obtained online without the trader
having to approach these agencies. The Single Window Interface for Trade (SWIFT), would
reduce interface with Governmental agencies, dwell time and the cost of doing business.
Website.https://www.icegate.gov.in/SWIFT/
 SMART CITIES
About.
The Government of India launched the Smart Cities Mission in June 2015.Its objective is to
promote sustainable and inclusive cities that provide core infrastructure and give a decent
quality of life to its citizens, a clean and sustainable environment and application of ‘Smart’
Solutions.The focus is on sustainable and inclusive development and the idea is to look at
compact areas, create a replicable model which will act like a lighthouse to other aspiring cities.
The Smart Cities Mission is meant to set examples that can be replicated both within and
outside the Smart City, catalysing the creation of similar Smart Cities in various regions and
parts of the country.
Website.http://smartcities.gov.in/content/
 SMS-BASED MID-DAY MEAL MONITORING SCHEME
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 Mid-Day Meal mobile app is meant for effective monitoring of daily and monthly mid-day meal
data to be sent by the schools. The app provides additional data communicating mechanism for
the MDM in-charge/teacher who has to send the daily/monthly data using SMS. The app, once
installed on android device, does not need Internet to send MDM figures as user has option to
send the figure through SMS from the app. This simplifies the job of MDM in-charge, who even
does not have to remember the SMS formats. The higher authorities at Block, District and State
level have a very simple and effective mechanism in shape of this app on their mobile devices
for effective and efficient monitoring of daily as well as monthly data transmission by all the
MDM in-charge falling under their jurisdiction. The authorities can send SMS alerts to all
defaulters using single button available in the app.
Website.http://mdm.nic.in/
 SOIL HEALTH CARD
About.
It aims at promoting Integrated Nutrient Management (INM) through judicious use of chemical
fertilisers including secondary and micro nutrients in conjunction with organic manures and bio-
fertilisers for improving soil health and its productivity; strengthening of soil and fertiliser testing
facilities to provide soil test based recommendations to farmers for improving soil fertility;
ensuring quality control requirements of fertilisers, bio-fertilisers and organic fertilisers under
Fertiliser Control Order, 1985; upgradation of skill and knowledge of soil testing laboratory staff,
extension staff and farmers through training and demonstrations; promoting organic farming
practices etc.
Website.http://www.soilhealth.dac.gov.in/
 STARTUP INDIA PORTAL AND MOBILE APP
About.
Startup India is a flagship initiative of the Government of India, intended to build a strong eco-
system for nurturing innovation and Startups in the country that will drive sustainable economic
growth and generate large scale employment opportunities. The Government through this
initiative aims to empower Startups to grow through innovation and design.
Website.http://www.startupindia.gov.in/
 STATE WIDE AREA NETWORK
About.
The Government had approved the Scheme for establishing State Wide Area Networks
(SWANs) across the country, in March, 2005 to be expended by the Department under Grant-in-
Aid of Rs. 2,005 crore, over a period of five years. Under this Scheme, technical and financial
assistance are being provided to the States/UTs for establishing SWANs to connect all State/UT
Headquarters up to the Block level via District/ sub-Divisional Headquarters, in a vertical
hierarchical structure with a minimum bandwidth capacity of 2 Mbps per link.
Website.http://meity.gov.in/content/state-wide-area-network-swan
 SUGAMAYA PUSTAKALYA
About.
“Sugamaya Pustakalaya” is an online platform that makes accessible content available to print-
disabled people. The library houses publications across diverse subjects and languages and
multiple accessible formats. It has been created by Department of Empowerment of Persons
with Disabilities (Divyangjan), Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in collaboration with
member organizations of Daisy Forum of India and powered by TCS Access.
Website.https://library.daisyindia.org/NALP/welcomeLink.action
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 About.
The Swachhta Abhiyan has turned into a National Movement with citizens now becoming active
participants in cleanliness activities across the nation. The dream of a ‘Clean India’ once seen
by Mahatma Gandhi is being realized with millions of people across the country joining the
cleanliness initiatives of the government departments, NGOs and local community centres to
make India clean as a part of this ‘Jan Andolan’.
Website.https://swachhbharat.mygov.in/
 SWAYAM
About.
SWAYAM seeks to bridge the digital divide for students who have hitherto remained untouched
by the digital revolution and have not been able to join the mainstream of the knowledge
economy.This is done through an indigenous developed IT platform that facilitates hosting of all
the courses, taught in classrooms from 9th class till post-graduation to be accessed by anyone,
anywhere at any time.
Website.https://swayam.gov.in
 TARGETED PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM (TPDS)
About.
The Government of India launched the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) with focus
on the poor. Under the TPDS, states were required to formulate and implement foolproof
arrangements for the identification of the poor for delivery of foodgrains and for its distribution in
a transparent and accountable manner at the FPS level. The scheme, when introduced, was
intended to benefit about 6 crore poor families for whom a quantity of about 72 lakh tonnes of
food grains was earmarked annually.
Website.http://dfpd.nic.in/
 UDAAN
About.
Udaan is a special initiative to address the needs of the educated unemployed in Jammu &
Kashmir (J&K). It is focused on youth of the state, who are graduate, post graduate and three
year diploma engineers. The programme is designed to encourage corporates to travel to J&K
meet with the youth and hire aspiring youth in J&K who wish to explore the opportunity to work
with corporates. Udaan provides a framework of support to the youth to travel, undergo training
in firms and transit to work.
Website.http://nsdcudaan.com/
 UMANG
About.
UMANG (Unified Mobile Application for New-Age Governance) is one of the key initiatives under
the Digital India program to develop a common, unified platform and mobile app to facilitate a
single point of access to all government services. It is envisaged to act as a master application,
which will integrate 200 applications which will offer around 1,200 services of various
government departments of the Centre, states and local bodies, and even some important utility
services from the private sector. Its primary aim is to abridge inconvenience faced by users in
managing multiple mobile apps and facilitate a one-stop-solution to avail varied government
services.
Website.https://umang.gov.in
 UN-RESERVED TICKET THROUGH MOBILE APPLICATION (UTS
APP)
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 In order to promote paperless economy, Indian Railways has launched its new UTS on mobile
application. This official android mobile ticketing app enables booking unreserved paperless
journey ticket, issue/renew season ticket and platform ticket. The app has introduced two modes
of booking mobile tickets-Paper Ticket and Paperless Ticket.
Website.https://www.utsonmobile.indianrail.gov.in/RDS/
 VISVESVARAYA PHD SCHEME FOR ELECTRONICS AND IT
About.
One of the key goals of the Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme is to encourage working professionals
and non-PhD faculty members to pursue PhD in the ESDM & IT/ITES sectors as part-time
candidates. It is envisioned that having part-time PhD students is likely to encourage the
Industry-Academia interaction, help in the alignment of the R&D efforts between them and bring
value to the country.
Website.http://phd.medialabasia.in/

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