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eGov Products & Services

• Direct Benefit Transfer through PFMS
41 Lakh+ 30 500 • ePayment configuration
Thousand+ • Define triggers to send SMS notification

Key Benefits
• Improves government service delivery

Registered Farmers Registered Groups Registered Institutions • Improves government interactions with farmers
• Citizen empowerment through access to
Fig 8.1.: AIMS at glance information
• ReLIS for verification of land Records • Creates digital record for all farmer interactions
Technologies Used • Increased efficiency transparency in
Key technologies used for the development of • India Meteorgical Department for weather administration
AIMS portal are forecast and crop advisory
• Framework : Symfony • PM-KISAN for building national database
• Language : PHP • Jan Parichay for single-sign on IMS is an Integrated MIS developed
• Database : PostgreSQL Innovations Applied Afor the Department to provide de-
partmental services efficiently to farm-
• Caching Server : Redis AIMS Platform facilitates on-boarding of ers with the help of Information Tech-
• Version Controller : GIT services seamlessly based on the individual nology. It is expected to be the most
reliable and established platform which
• Project Management : Redmine service requirements by defining accommodates almost all the activities
•
of the Department in a most user-friend-
• Media Storage : NAS • Service-wise activities and actions ly and effective mode. It has such an ar-
chitecture that will
Dynamic interface design
AIMS is integrated with various applications • Eligibility Engine to define eligibility conditions tions and address-
Integration satisfy the expecta-
using APIs. Some of the prominent applications • Rule Engine for subsidy / assistance calculation es the complexities
are • and practical dif-
• Treasury Information System for processing management ficulties to a great
Workflow Engine - service wise work flow
extent.
DBT claims and disbursement of payments •
• NICDSign for digital signing declarations, guidelines wise Instructions,
Service
user
and
• eTreasury for ePayment • Service calendar to make services available for
• NIC SMS for SMS gateway selected Krishi bhavans for selected period K. S. Anju, IAS
• Service and Payroll Administrative Repository • Centralized and de-centralized DBT System Director, Department of Agriculture
for Kerala (SPARK) for office onboarding integrated with Treasury Development & Farmers’ Welfare

Fig 8.2: AIMS Application Stack So far AIMS has processed more than 43 Lakhs
applications and around Rs. 224 crores has been
Applications Micro Sites External Applications
disbursed to the farmers through DBT system.
Scheme Management ASHA
Way Forward
KB Block District Directorate State
Crop Information System AGMARKNET AIMS has a provision of Digital Media Library
Agriculture Land for the department to store and share multimedia
Information System PMKISAN content related to agricultural practices. This
Newsfeeds Weather feeds Self
Disease Reporting & Pest Registration Fertilizer content will be available to the public and officials
Management Management
for the Subhiksha Keralam project. The system
Agriculture Disaster Information Market Trends Information Declaration of SHC
& Management feeds Land will have a 24/7 streaming facility for training
Seed, Pesticide & Fertilizer UNNATHI and managing traffic. The library will be easily
Management System Certi cate Farmer Declaration of
Alerts
Services Crops accessible and searchable with minimal delay for
Production & Marketing SMS downloading and navigating offline content.
Management
Application
Grievances & Complaints Scheme Based Information Submission BIMS
Monitoring & Redressal
Knowledge Management DBT Contact for more details
M. Asir Edwin
Training Management eNAM Dy. Director General
Analytics Meta Data Media Service Knowledge Integration
Database Services NIC, CDAC Building
Smart Card Issuance eTAAL
Centralized Direct Bene ciary Transfer Vellayambalam PO
Meeting Management PRICE Trivandrum, Kerala - 695003
Email: asiredwin.m@nic.in, Phone: 0471- 2729894
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