CIC at Blocks

CIC : “ COMMUNITY INFORMATION CENTER ”

Inauguration CIC Units of Jaintia Hills Manpower Purpose Objective Impact Pictures Stories Local Comments

The web links to all the CIC's in Jaintia Hills District

http://Amlarem.nic.in http://Khliehriat.nic.in

http://Laskein.nic.in http://Thadlaskein.nic.in

The Formal inauguration was held on the 17^thAugust, 2002 at 11:00 AM.

The inaugural session was telecasted live from Guwahati for the entire North Eastern States of India.

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CIC Unit in Jaintia Hills District

Ø Laskein Block Office

Ø Thadlaskein Block Office

Ø Khliehriat Block Office

Ø Amlarem Block Office (SDO Office).

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Manpower

Two Operators for each CIC Unit were appointed to assist and render Technical Support to the Block Offices where the CIC’s are located.

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Purpose

A vital need has been felt to extend the reach of Modern day technology to the area in order to enable rapid social economic development and bring the area closer to the national main stream.

With this objective in mind, the Prime Minister announced a Plan for the establishment of IT facilities at the Block level in the North Eastern Region in February 2000. In April 2000, the then Ministry of Information Technology launched a Project to establish Community Information Centre (CICs) in all Blocks in North Eastern States. Under this Project CICs are in the process of being setup in all 487 Blocks of the North Eastern States. The Pilot Project covering 30 Blocks in these states was inaugurated on 12^th August 2000 by Hon’ble Minister for information.

The Establishment of the CICs constitutes a tremendously challenging task in view of the remoteness of the area and the difficult mountainous terrain in a region where good communication is lacking, satellite base links to the work outside will usher in a revolution in socio-economic development.

Project launched by: Dept of Information Technology, MCIT, Government of India

Project Implemented by: National Informatics Center (NIC) and National Informatics Center Services Incorporation (NICSI).

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Objective

	To create IT Awareness amongst the local populace
	To provide Internet Services such as E-mail and Web access
	To conduct computer based training Programs
	To provide Citizen Centric Services
	To provide access to Socio-Economic database
	To facilitate distance education
	To use IT tool for sustainable regional Development

The CICs will not only facilitate the region to avail the benefits of global connectivity through Internet, but will also bring the region closer, emotional, to the national main stream by enabling more efficient and faster Information flow amongst the people, other states Govt. and the Central Govt. The IT infrastructure set up at CICs will assist the concerned state Governments to plan IT base Citizen Centric applications making Government services available through the CICs.

Establishment of CICs will help bridge the digital divide. Local language interfaces are expected to be provided for Citizen Centric Services. These services will entail and IT-enabled interface for public dealings of the government. Some examples are Birth and Death, Marriage registration, Schemes for the under privileged, local Market Information and so on. There will be an increased awareness of IT especially among the Block level . the Project will lead to skill enhancement in school children. Internet access will tremendous.

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Impact

The experience from the Pilot Project has been very encouraging. Many of the CICs received over a 100 visitors every week who used e-mail facilities, word processing Applications, Browse the Web, attend training sessions and generally improve their familiarity with computer and awareness of it. The public and state Governments have appreciated the CIC concept. Most of the CICs are able to generate modest revenue by charging nominally for these services. The CICs are eventually expected to be come self-sustaining.

One of the Pilot CICs is in the Raha Block of Assam. The CIC is providing path- breaking services to the local community through Web access, e-mail, word processing etc. A user received Information over the Net from the Neurological Research Institute, Guwahati for treatment of his father’s illness. Another used the Internet to order medicine from Apollo Hospitals Chennai. A third accessed the Web to obtain a comparative price List of computer in order to purchase one. A Bank Officer received the result of his correspondence course in Banking. A film – maker planning to register his entry for the film festival, received the entry rule from the Web.

Tourists seeking direction for traveling from Imphal to Mandalay in Myanmar, visited a CIC in Manipur and got details on their route for traveling by bus to their destination on the Indo-Burma Road. The CIC operator downloaded the Information from the Internet. The CIC, Khowai, Tripura has organized special training program for student from various local schools and colleges. This effort has been undertaken in many other CICs as well.

Earlier this year, the school Board result were disseminated over the Web and could be accessed by user at the CICs in the state of Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur and Nagaland. In addition, the all India Entrance Examination Results for various Engineering and Medical Colleges were accessed at the CICs. State Bank recruitment Results were also searched at several CICs. In Meghalaya itself the CIC's were being used for the BPL census entry and compilation which was a major success. See Local Comments

The CICs constitute a unique opportunity for the North Eastern Region of India to avail the cutting-edge Information Technology for the better development of their regions.

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CIC : “ COMMUNITY INFORMATION CENTER ”

The Formal inauguration was held on the 17thAugust, 2002 at 11:00 AM.

The inaugural session was telecasted live from Guwahati for the entire North Eastern States of India.

The Formal inauguration was held on the 17^thAugust, 2002 at 11:00 AM.