Immigration, Visa, Foreigners registration and Tracking (IVFRT) system was launched for Tamil Nadu districts at Coimbatore on 22nd April 2013. It is a Mission Mode National e-Governance project of Govt. of India to facilitate high level of integrated Visa and Immigration services for foreigners visiting to India and the Immigration services for citizen of India travelling abroad. With a brief note on IVFRT the welcome address was presented by Sh. R. Kuppusami, PSA, NIC-IVFRT, Chennai, in which he mentioned the initiative, continuous efforts and contribution of Sh. P.K. Bhardwaj, IPS, JD(I), MHA, New Delhi, Dr. B. N. Shetty, DDG, NIC-IVFRT, New Delhi and Dr. N. Kannan, IPS, FRRO, Chennai along with welcoming the Sh. Karunakaran, IAS, District Collector, Sh. Davitson, IPS, IG, SZ, Sh. Ganeshmurthi, IPS, DIG, CBE range, other senior IPS officials and dignitaries present in the inaugural session. The launching program was started with lighting of lamp by the dignitaries.
Inaugural address was presented by Sh. P. K. Bhardwaj, IPS, JD(I), MHA, New Delhi wherein he mentioned his long association with Immigration services for the country and its practical issues along with how IVFRT system is being providing unified solutions for the visiting foreigners to India. He had also urged the Foreigners Registration Officers for their initiative and contribution for successful implementations of the IVFRT system in the country.
Theme address on IVFRT project was delivered by Dr. B. N. Shetty, DDG, NIC-IVFRT, New Delhi in which he explained to the participants about the vision and mission of the IVFRT project and how its computerised solutions are being delivered. He had also narrated how different sub systems of IVFRT are capturing the information about the visiting foreigners, and integration of these systems facilitating the Indian Mission to process the C-Visa as well as the Immigration services in the country by MHA/ FRRO/ FRO.
Dr. N. Kannan, IPS, FRRO, Chennai presented in depth analytical lecture on Immigration services and emphasised the need of the active contributions of FRO on IVFRT system to provide composite solutions for the visiting foreigners and in turn enhancing foreign exchange and helping in monitoring the security aspects of the country. He had also presented detailed users perspective presentation on IVFRT sub systems like C-Form, H-Form, S-Form, UCF, APIS and C-FRO etc.
Sh. Balasubramaniam, SBCID (II), Chennai expressed his happiness on his long time association with NIC as a user, and its service delivery benefits which ease the administrative roles and responsibilities. He has also distributed the new systems to the districts users for implementing the c-FRO.
The C-FRO system was successfully implemented at Coimbatore (Rural and Urban) and at Trichirapalli (Rural and Urban) simultaneously during the course of launching function of IVFRT program at Coimbatore. The task was carried out by NIC IVFRT team members of Tamil Nadu under the guidance of Sh. V. Suresh, Technical Director and State Coordinator for NIC-IVFRT project.
The inaugural function ended with Vote of thanks by Sh. N. Tapliyal, RRO, Coimbatore.
