MULTITUDE OF ICT INITIATIVES800…80…8

Farmers’ Portal

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

Dial *491*105*2# from a Registered Mobile

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)

e-Taal Transactions – Agriculture Numero Uno

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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

12 clusters of services under NeGP-A

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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

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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