Community Information Centres

The Community Information Centre Project is a Government of India Scheme for “Setting-up of the State-of-art Computer Communications Infrastructure at each Block in the State”, which is a combination of PC based Citizen Kiosk with content enabling citizen centric services, e-governance, e-learning and e-commerce. It enables access to database containing wide range of information regarding agriculture marketing, disaster management, employment opportunities, public health etc. 

  • Prime Ministers’ scheme for development of IT at block level
  • A non-commercial venture except for levy of very nominal charges as are considered to be essentially required to make the project economically viable and otherwise self-sustaining in public interest
  • One Centre in each of 135 Blocks of J&K
  • Ministry of Communication & Information Technology (MCIT) is the implementing agency
  • Multi-agency Project
  • Scheme sanctioned for 135 blocks
    • 60 Blocks in Phase-I
    • 75 Blocks in Phase-II
  • Citizen centric Services through IT interface
  • Government to Government Interface using high speed network
 
Objectives
  • Creation of ICT Infrastructure at each block
  • Web-Access and Internet Services such as e-mail etc
  • Market Access and e-Commerce
  • Access to Socio-Economic databases
  • IT Awareness among local People
  • Computer Training Programmes
  • Citizen Centric Services
  • Tender Notifications
  • E-employment Notifications
  • Electronic Delivery of Newspaper at Remote Locations
  • Grievances Redressal etc

 

CIC Infrastructure

  • Under CIC Project, the following infrastructure has been provided
  • Sever – 1
  • Client Machines – 5
  • VSAT –1
  • UPS –2
  • Web Camera –1
  • Scanner –1
  • Dot Matrix Printer –1
  • Laser Printer – 1
  • CD Writer –1
  • Local Area Network
  • Modem

CIC Stakeholders

  • Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Government of India
  • National Informatics Centre – (NIC- HQ & NIC-J&K State Centre)
  • NIC Services Incorporated – NICSI
  • Information Technology Department, Government of Jammu & Kashmir
  • District Development Commissioners of J&K State
  • District Informatics Officers (NIC-J&K State)
  • Rural Development Department/Block Development Officers (BDOs)
  • CIC Operators
  • Government Departments/Boards/ Corporations
  • General Public, the users of CICs

CIC - Status

      As on date 132 CIC's out of 135 CIC's has been made functional

      Each CIC is having its own website with the

URL: http://jk-<Blockname>.nic.in.

This website will act as Block Community Portal.

 
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