Two NIC Himachal Pradesh projects, HimBhoomi-Integrated Land Records Computerisation and HimKosh-Integrated Finance Management System, have won the CSI Nihilent eGovernance 2015 Awards. These awards were presented by the President of the Computer Society of India, Prof. Bipin V. Mehta during the 50th Golden Jubilee Annual CSI Convention at New Delhi on 3rd December 2015. Sh. D.D. Sharma, IAS and Special Secretary (Finance, Revenue)-cum-Director Treasuries represented the Government of Himachal Pradesh during the Awards presentation ceremony.
The NIC Himachal Pradesh team was represented by Sh. Ajay Singh Chahal, State Informatics Officer, Sh. Lalit Kapoor, Technical Director, Sh. Sandeep Sood, Principal Systems Analyst, Sh. Vijay Kumar Gupta, PSA, Sh. Sanjay Kumar, PSA and Sh. Daljeet Singh Rana, Senior Systems Analyst.
The HimBhoomi project started with the computerisation of Land Records in Himachal Pradesh being the true replica of existing Record of Rights (RoR) and it got integrated with the Registration process and thereafter, a number of Process Changes (reforms) have been affected in the recent years
The objective of HimKosh has been to provide an online Integrated Financial Management System by inter-linking receipt and expenditure data generated at treasuries and release of allocated fund by FD, HODs to their field functionaries with the basic objective of improving the Financial Reporting System.
Both these software have been designed and developed by the National Informatics Centre, Himachal Pradesh and value additions done over the years. A number of new citizen and employee centric features have been added as per requirements and technology availability over the years.