Just like Census, Dept. of Rural Development does identification of
households living below poverty line at an interval of every 5 years. The
process is known as BPL census. The dept. had to survey all rural households,
which turned out to be more than 92 lacs for the state of Rajasthan. And details
of over 4 crore rural citizens was to be captured. With the advent of new
technology like Web app, this could be implemented easily, but with a lower
penetration of ICT in rural areas especially in Rajasthan, it was not an easy
task. So Govt. of Rajasthan with NIC decided to capture the details of each
family using OMR/OCR technology
A form was designed to capture the details of a family in one A4 duplex
sheet. Each form had a unique serial number so that each family could be
identified with a unique serial number. This also enabled identification of each
citizen with a unique number, ie combination of the family's serial no. and of
the family member. A portal (bpl2002.raj.nic.in) for project mgmt was setup
which later on turned into a single window for BPL-related tasks. Also a Web app
was built to capture online updates and through this it was possible to capture
audit trail of each and every operation on the database. It carries two level
authentications and provided numerous MIS reports for all tiers of
administration.
Project Specs |
Project Head: Prashant Kumar Mittal
Team Size: 37 Tech Used: SAN Storage solution, MS Expected life: NA Implementation |