v Internet facility for the villagers.

v Computer training to the students.

v Facility of online registration in I-Kisan portal to

farmer brothers and sisters along with

information of various farming, animal

husbandry, horticulture related various

schemes.

v Facilities of online form submission to the

youth.

Available facilities at the Cyber Kitley

Cyber Kitley-Village Cyber Cafe

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Spirit of Village Facili�es of City

Rural Livelihood

Perfect address of Hon. Prime Minister's Digital India dream as well as Hon. Chief Minister's women

empowerment dream synonyms with Cyber Café - Village Cyber Kitley at Medhasan village of Modasa Taluka

of Aravalli district. Seeds of this project are connected with other Wi-Fi equipped villages. Basic objective of

this project is to make technological facilities available to citizens of the village and add quality to their

lifestyle so it can match the modern time.

Medhasan village has become Wi-Fi equipped village on 18-12-2014 under Digital Project. Along with

this, Elam Mangalam Sakhi Mandal of the village was connected to realize the “Spirit of Village and Facilities

of a City” mantra. For that, District Rural Development agency involved Sarpanch, Sakhi Mandal and youth of

the village and prepared Cyber Kitley Village project which was inaugurated by Hon. Chief Minister at the

time of Modasa Krushi Kalyan Mela. Hon. Chief Minister inaugurated first ever Cyber Kitley of Sabarkantha

district at Aatar Sumba during the Polo Festival on 17-02-15.

Youth can enjoy the internet facility at this cyber café at a fixed rate and can avail the benefits of online

admission, online job application as well as surfing other best websites such as khan academy, Coursera etc

and face the world confidently with support of online education they received.

Cyber Cafe of

Cyber Kitley Village

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Rural Livelihood

Procedure of directly crediting payments under education and ICDS branches into bank accounts

of the beneficiaries has been implemented by District Development Officer at primary level in Modasa

and Aravalli districts with intention of covering Sabarkantha as well as Arvalli districts under financial

inclusion by Sabarkantha District Panchayat.

v Before these scholarships as well as other benefits were paid in cash to the beneficiaries in which

a lot of time was wasted and help was not reaching to the needful beneficiaries.

v Bank accounts of more than 48,000 students of all primary schools of Khedbrahma Taluka were

opened with help of ICICI Bank. From which scholarship amount has been paid into account of

35,000 students.

v Bank accounts of children of all primary schools of entire Sabarkantha districts have been opened

and their scholarship amount is credited in that account.

Financial Inclusion

Kit for opening student scholarship accounts were inaugurated by Hon. Minister Mr. Bhupendra Singh Chudasama at Khedbrahma on 15-08-2013.

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As per MoU with ICICI Bank, a bank service

counter is opened in each village panchayat.

All transactions like opening an account,

financial transactions etc are done in that at

village level.

v Accounts of beneficiaries are opened

through bio-metric and money can be

received quickly at village panchayat

level as transactions are done via this

machine.

v Bank Accounts of beneficiaries are

opened with zero balance facility.

v Various government schemes grants

and scholarship money can also be

credited in this account.

MoU with ICICI bank

www.sabarkanthadp.org

Financial Inclusion

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Green Mini Data Center project is a Model to achieve The goal of “Digital India”. It works as a backbone for Informa�on and Communica�on and Technology (ICT) ini�a�ves of the government in Rural Development. Under this project Green Mini data centre has been established in new building of Sabarkantha District. This is a first Data Centre placed at District level in India. Data centre has been equipped with latest equipments like Firewall, Network Area Storage (NAS), In built AC/UPS rack(2 Numbers), L3 Switch, 5 servers. Storage Area Network has been installed with 19.2 TB hard disk to improve performance and capacity of data centre. Total 9 Virtual Machines (VMs) have been created each of 120 GB hard disk and 4 GB RAM for hos�ng of mobile and web applica�on. Data centre consumes less electricity as compared to conven�onal data centre. So it is called Green Mini Data Centre. Bandwidth for Digital Setu (High Speed Internet for Rural Area is dropped in Firewall of data centre. Using Cloud Core Router internet service is provided. to the network in villages megdoot Opensource Cloud compu�ng technology is used to manage the data centre, which is provided by CDAC,Chennai. In the data centre web and mobile applica�ons like Mobile Inspec�on System for Rural Development Works, Swasthya Samvedana Sena (Domain Health), Mata Yashoda(Domain-Anganwadi), PubCare(Domain-Health), SSRMS, Radius and Log server( For Internet services), Toilet Portal are hosted. We have also hosted ODK collect a free source android applica�on for various surveys undertaken in the district. We provide E-Governance applica�on in a So�ware is a Service (SaaS) mode to other districts. future plans include Value Added Service (VAS) through intranet to our ci�zens. Online coaching classes, remote health consul�ng and video conferencing services are planned to be given through this own data centre.

Green MiniData Center

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Green Mini Data Center

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Key beneficiaries of the Project:l Ci�zens of district.l Government officesl Health Facili�es, Gram Panchayat, Schools and Anganwadi Centres.l Other districts are also provided services.

· First data center in the country at district level.· Rural Development applica�ons are made available on SaaS mode.

· Cloud so�ware for flexible management of resources as per demand.

· Servers can be scaled up as per need.

SKOCH AWARD

District Development Officer Mr. Nagarajan M (IAS) implemented first ever Mobile Inspection of Rural

Development Works project of India to achieve the objective of implementation and monitoring of District

Panchayat and rural development works. Which won the Prestigious SKOCH platinum award. This Skoch award was

given with a special applause in presence of Union Labor Minister Mr. Narendra Singh Tomar at New Delhi. Only

300 projects were awarded Order of Merit from more than 10,000 nationwide nominations and from that India's

best 20 projects were selected for the Platinum Category award.

DIGITAL CHAMPION AWARD

Mr. Osama Manzar of Digital Empowerment Foundation awarded Digital Champion Award to the District Development Officer Mr. Nagarajan M IAS for technology equipped development vision and achievements.

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At a function in New Delhi, District Development Officer Mr. Nagarajan M IAS and

District Rural Development Agency Director Ms. Bhargavi Dave representing the

District Panchayat and District Rural Development Agency with the Manthan

Award by Hon. Education Minister of Sri Lanka, Mr. Badula Gunavardhana for

mobile inspection of various rural development works .

F.I.P.S. AWARD

District Development Officer

Mr. Nagarajan M (IAS) was honored

with Financial Inclusion Planning

System award by the Government of

India for making thumb impression

device facility available for purpose of

payment of scholarship to children of

primary schools under financial

inclusion project in tribal areas.

Manthan Award

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StartUp Sabarkantha is a pla�orm for Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Incubators, Venture Funds,

Government agencies and all Impactpreneurs to come together and explore opportuni�es for

Innova�on and Impact.

The StartUp Policy of Gujarat unveiled recently aims to support innova�on and increase

entrepreneurship quo�ent of the youth of Gujarat. India is poised to become the youngest country in

2020 with a median age of 29 years accoun�ng for 28% of Workforce.

Objec�ves:

1. Connect Non Metro entrepreneurs to the StartUp ecosystem of Gujarat

2. Create enabling ecosystem in Sabarkantha for future start-ups

3. Showcase opportunity for all stakeholders viz. Entrepreneurs, Incubators, Venture Funds etc.

4. Promote the culture of entrepreneurship and innova�on with focus on impact

5. Create and nurture Sabarkantha as an emerging innova�on hub with the support of District

administra�on.

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Expected Outcomes:

StartUp Sabarkantha aims to catalyse the following:

1. Enable crea�on of StartUp hubs in each district and connect them with the broader ecosystem.

2. Connect most pressing problems of development and challenges to willing and capable

entrepreneurial minds.

3. Engage with StartUps of Sabarkantha district and enable them under the StartUp Policy of

Government of Gujarat.

4. Showcase opportuni�es for innova�on in the crea�on of the vision of Digital Sabarkantha and

Digital Gujarat.

With the support of Sabarkantha District Administra�on Startup Sabarkantha Conference, expo and

award for the best innova�ve projects was organized at Swaminarayan Temple, Himatnagar on 5.8.2015.

Students from the engineering & management colleges, start-ups, entrepreneurs and professors

par�cipated in the event. guided and answered Expert like....Name of all panellist and speakers.....

ques�ons of start-ups. Also startup policy was discussed by Mr.Ja�n Chaudhary (eChai) with students

and entrepreneurs. Mr.Amit Panchal from allevents.in told the journey of the life in building global

startup from ahmedabad. Different 23 projects were given cer�ficate for their good startup. All the

par�cipants were given cer�ficate of par�cipa�on. More than 525 par�cipants took part in the event.

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Ms.Bhargavi Dave, IAS District Development Officer, Ahmedabad

Mr. Amit Singh Gohil, Execu�ve Director, TIE

Ms. Priyanka, CIIE, IIMA, Ahmedabad.

Mr.Naresh Jadeja, Deputy Director, GTU & Moderator

Mr. Vijay Shah, Chairman, CSI Ahmedabad

Mr. Hiranmay Mahanta, GTU Innova�on Council

Prof.U.N.Pa�ani Principal Government Polytechnic College

Mr.Ja�n Chaudhary – Founder eChai

Mr. Amit Panchal, Allevents.in

Jaydatsinh R. Puwar, Campus Dirtector Tatva Eng. Collage

Speakers

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E-Governance NationalConference

th Students of various colleges had visited the exhibition held in 18 National e-Governance

Conference and also visited every stall with keen interests. The officers from various organizations,

government and companies of the corporate-world had exhibited the information at different stalls.

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th A two-day long 18 National e-Governance Conference was organized at Mahatma Mandir –

Gandhinagar on January 30 and 31. A stall was set up showcasing the various public services which

included Digital-Setu, Mobile-Inspection, e-Teacher and emotional health service corps being

provided by the only district panchayat of the state. The stalls were visited by the high-level officials

of the state and central governments and lauded the best efforts of the district officials.

Mr. Rajesh Agarwal, IAS, Joint Secretary, Financial Inclusion, Government of India, had visited the stall and collected the information

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E-Governance NationalConference

Gov 2.0 Symposium

Representatives of NIC, UNICEF consultants, Deputy collector, deputy mamlatdar, taluka

health officers, taluka development officers, all branch officials of district panchayat, vendors were

invited at Gov 2.0 Symposium held on “Digital Governance in Development” subject. Female Health

workers as well as Anganwadi workers spends most of the time on reporting the work. For that

purpose if information data of these two departments can integrated, exchange of information

between these two departments can be done easily. By following this system data of all branches of

the administration can be integrated and by implementing core standard based reporting system for

preparing speedy and accurate information. Real working employees such as Anganwadi Workers,

Female Health Workers, Medical officers as well as all high ranking officials of the district remained

present in this workshop. They all remained present and shared their opinions regarding how to make

all work easy by smartly using technology, what can be done to make exchange of statistical

information an easy task etc with officials present in the workshop. Issue of how to reach maximum

people in the field and provide maximum services to each and every person was also discussed in the

symposium via a questionnaire.

District Development Officer provided necessary guidance to all who remained present

regarding how to make our task very easy by using digital technology. Officials of various departments

also provided their subject related guidance about their work profile.

Presentation was given on different subjects for how to make use of advanced technology at

the workshop and then after group discussion was held.

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· Officers of the Sabarkantha District Panchayat discussed on use of latest technology by

other departments.

· Group discussion on what can be done between government officer and vendor for data

integration. Findings are listed below.

(1) Creating village based reporting system. Standardization of Data. For this purpose,

census code, revenue code, pin code etc can be used.

(2) For data integration, use of Indicator Based Model was suggested by UNICEF.

Initially Health, Education and DRDA and other departments will be covered under

the programme. Standardization of reporting chart and data

entry form for Data Integration has been decided.

(3) With a view to secure important data, creation of Mini Data Centre was

recommended to District Panchayat.

Feedback from all stake holders was received and consolidated.

Results of Gov 2.0 Symposium

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The District Developement Officer and Team Sabarkantha are taking a swchhta pledge at the taluka panchayat office, Himatnagar

The Swachh Sabarkantha Safai Abhiyaan Programme

was organized under the chairmanship of minister of state

for home, Mr. Rajnikant Patel at Growmore Vidhya Sankool,

Himmatnagar on December 23, 2014.

Swachhta AbhiyaanGuinness WorldRecord

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Swacchta Abhiyaan As many as 2,41,402 citizens took

'Swacchta' pledge in the 'Maha Swacchta

Abhiyaan' organized on December 23, 2014. It was

recorded as a world record by the Guinness Book

of World Records and it awarded a certification to

the Sabarkantha District Administration. During

the Polo Festival, it was given away by Hon. Chief

Minister Smt. Anandiben Patel to District Collector,

Mr. Banchhanidhi Pani ( IAS) and District

Development Officer, Mr. Nagrajan M. (IAS).

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Digital Media Training

A special digital media training was organized at Sabarkantha District Panchayat for purpose of

accomplishing dream of Digital India. Honorable Home Minister of State arced the occasion and

congratulated District Development Officer for organizing this training. topics covered include

��v How a search engine can be used for getting information and what 'Key-word' to write and how to

write a 'Key-word' so that only related information can be found easily in Digital Media Training

and Digital literacy training.

v Types of social media and how it can be used.

v How we can use the social media to create public awareness about development works/ schemes in

relation with the District Panchayat.

v Training was given about how the questions asked by people/ offices/ officials-employees of the

district can be answered as well as which language and short sentences can be used.

v Public can be provided information as well as trustfully informed while using the social media.

v Use of technology can bring transparency in the administration, paperless work can be done and

information can be shared at the upper level very easily.

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Skotch Platinum Award - 2014

Manthan Award - 2014 C.S.I.Nihilent - E Governance AwardsYear - 2013-14

Financial Inclusion And payment systems - September - 2014 Digital Setu - September - 2013

The Na�onal Awards won by the sabarkantha District Panchayat for Successful Implementa�on of the development works

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