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Inauguration of Nagaland Videoconferencing Network by Hon'ble Chief Minister - 24th November 2004
Inauguration of Videoconferencing facility in the State of Jammu & Kashmir - 3rd November 2004
Other Videoconferencing sessions held during September 2004
Inauguration
of Videoconferencing facility in all Districts of
Chattisgarh - 15th August 2004
Justice Verma (Retd.) for E-Governance in Justice Delivery System - 22nd July 2004
Hon'ble Home Minister Shri Shivraj Patil's Videoconference - 10th July 2004
Post Budget Press Conference held at PIB - 8th July 2004
Multipoint conference by Dept. of Education, State Govt. of Orissa - 6th July 2004
Other Videoconferencing Sessions held during June 2004
Hon'ble Chief Minister of Jharkhand Videoconferencing - 3rd June & 29th June 2004
Tele-Education for North Eastern Region & Lakshadweep - 11th June and 30th June 2004
Hon'ble President's Videoconferencing with Bangalore - 25th June 2004
Videoconferencing Support to Doordarshan during Election 2004
RLTAP Programme Videoconferencing by State Government of Orissa - 24.5.2004
Initiatives of State Government of Uttaranchal over Videoconferencing - May 2004
Other Videoconferencing Sessions held during April 2004
Post-budget 2004
Videoconferencing from PIB
Internet Support at XII SAARC Summit 2004
Address by Honourable President of India during International Conference on Cryptology over Videoconferencing - 20th December 2004
Honourable President of India Shri A.P.J.Abdul Kalam addressed a gathering of around 150 participants during INDOCRYPT-04, an International Conference on Cryptology being organised by Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the Society of Electronics Transaction and Security on 20th December 2004 over videoconferencing.
Honourable President Shri Kalam said the theme — `Cryptology and its application to secure network communications' — was "very important since we are moving into the era of e-business, e-marketing, e-commerce and e-banking." He said the conference should come up with authenticated and assured mechanisms of evolving cryptos with provable security of Indian genesis. Read the full script of Honourable President of India’s address at
http://presidentofindia.nic.in
National Informatics Centre provided the Videoconferencing facility by linking Rashtrapati Bhavan and Institute of Mathematical Sciences over NICNET at a high speed of 512 Kbps. The conference was well appreciated by the delegates attending the conference at the remote end who could interact with the president of India face-to-face over videoconferencing.
Launch of Software for monitoring works under Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme by Shri Oscar Fernandes, Hon'ble Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation - 30th November 2004
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation under the leadership of Shri Oscar Fernandes, Hon’ble Minister of State (Independent Charge), Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation launched a Software for monitoring of works under Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme, designed and developed by MPI Informatics Division, National Informatics Centre on 30.11.2004 at the Main Auditorium, SCOPE Building, CGO Complex, Lodi Road, New Delhi.
Shri Somnath Chatterjee, Hon’ble Speaker launched the software and Smt Shiela Dixit Hon’ble Chief Minister of Delhi released the Manual of the Software. Shri Dayanidhi Maran, Hon’ble Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology presided over the function. Shri Charanjit Singh Atwal, Hon’ble Deputy Speaker, Lok Sabha, Shri K. Rahman Khan, Hon’ble Deputy Chairman, Rajya Sabha and Shri Prasana Acharya, Chairman, Committee on MPLADS, LokSabha graced the function. Shri J. Hari Narayan, Secretay MoS & PI appreciated the efforts of NIC team.
This event was also covered by NIC video conferencing. The Ministers spoke to the Ministers/Officers of Hyderabad (AP), Guwahati (Assam), Bhuwaneshwar (Orissa) and Chandigarh (Punjab) through
videoconferencing.
Dr. B.K.Gairola, DDG (NIC) graced the occasion and encouraged the NIC team for efforts and endeavors in developing this software.
This software will be implemented in all districts of the country for works monitoring under MPLADS. It would facilitate the districts to enter detailed information about each of the works undertaken under this MPLAD scheme, since the inception of the scheme in 1993. District authorities may enter the data in the offline mode using this software and the data will be uploaded into the web-enabled application available at URL http://www.mplads.nic.in. Data can be entered directly through this web-enabled application. General public can generate some predefined reports. Hon’ble MPs can also view the status of the works recommended by them.
Inauguration of Nagaland Videoconferencing Network by Hon'ble Chief Minister - 24th November 2004
Shri Nipheu Rio, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Nagaland today inaugurated the Video Conferencing facility for the State of Nagaland set up at 13 sites (11 Districts, Chief Minister’s Office at Kohima and Resident Commissioner’s Office at New Delhi). The Video Conferencing Network has been setup with funding support from DIT and Govt. of Nagaland.
During the inaugural function, DG(NIC), DDG(YKS), JS(Shri Pankaj Agrawala), Sr.TD(Dr. Shefali Dash), Sr.TD(Shri Rajesh Gera), TD(Shri IPS Sethi) were present at NIC VC Studio. Hon’ble Chief Minister interacted with NIC/DIT officials at NIC VC studio; Finance Minister of Nagaland, OSD to Union Home Minister Shri V.N.Gaur, Dy. RC at RC Office, New Delhi site; DCs/SPs/Senior Officials of Kohima, Dimapur, Phek, Mon, Tuensang, Mokokchung, Zunheboto, Kiphre districts present at their respective district sites.
In his inaugural address, Hon’ble Chief Minister mentioned that:
“Today is indeed a landmark day for the state of Nagaland, and it is with great happiness and sense of pride and satisfaction that I am inaugurating this State-wide Video-conferencing network, linking length and breadth of the state as well as New Delhi.
“The transformation of the IT vision of our State into reality has been made possible
thanks to the active support and assistance provided by the Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India and the Delhi, Kohima and District Offices of the National Informatics Centre”
Shri Yitachu, Hon’ble Parliamentary Secretary for Information Technology and Technical Education chaired the function and Shri Rajiv Bansal, Commissioner & Secretary, IT & Technical Education conducted the session. Ministers of Nagaland Cabinet, Departmental Heads were present at Chief Minister’s Office during the function.
Chief Minister also discussed law and order situation in the districts and got reports on Municipal/Town Council Elections. He also desired regular usage of such a facility for day to day monitoring of various activities.
Inauguration
of Five Remote Projects by Hon’ble Chief Minister of Jharkhand
on the 4th State Day of the State over Videoconferencing – 15th
November 2004
Presiding
over the fourth State Day function at the Morhabadi ground Hon’ble Chief
Minister of Jharkhand Shri Arjun Munda inaugurated 5 Projects over
Videoconferencing on 15th November 2004.
The
following projects were inaugurated -
a.
Water Treatment Plant,Kanke Road, Ranchi
b. Sewer Treatment Plant,Kanke Road, Ranchi
c. High Tech. Dairy at Ormanjhi, Ranchi
d. Modern Fishery Laboratory, near HEC, Dhurwa
e. Sidhu Kanhu Park, Ranchi
NIC,
Jharkhand State Unit provided the Videoconferencing support from the
Morhabadi Ground by connecting all the five locations over ISDN Network.
Hon'ble Chief Minister addressed the authorities present at each site and
successfully inaugurated the projects by unveiling the curtain at
respective locations. A gathering of around 1 Lakh people witnessed the
videoconferencing inauguration, which was projected live on big large
screen projection systems.
Inauguration of Videoconferencing facility in the State of Jammu & Kashmir - 3rd November 2004
In
a ceremonious atmosphere the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
Jenab Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has inaugurated, at 11 AM on the 3rd
of November 2004, the “NIC Videoconferencing Centre” of District
Kupwara state of Jammu and Kashmir. With this District Kupwara is now
connected through VC with the State Civil Secretariat at Jammu and
Srinagar. Kupwara is the second District of the state, after Leh, to be
connected with the State Civil Secretariat.
The
Hon’ble Chief Minister inaugurated the VC Centre by cutting the ribbon
at the VC entrance and later with the inauguration address. He talked
online with Hon’ble Minister for IT from District Leh, Commissioner/
Secretary IT, Resident Commissioner and Director General NIC from NIC VC
studio New Delhi.
The
Hon’ble Chief Minister appreciated the efforts and emphasized for
optimum utilization of this facility. He also emphasized that all the
districts of J&K should be connected through Video Conferencing.
During the discussion CM enquired about the implementation of Community
Information Centres in J&K and issued the instructions for early
providing of Citizen Oriented Services through each CIC.
Congratulating National Informatics Centre (NIC) for covering various districts with Videoconferencing facility, the Chief Minister said it would help promote efficiency in administration besides being of significant use in difficult situations. He said this would facilitate monitoring of development programmes in districts and ensure greater accountability. He said the facility would connect remote districts of the state with countrywide network and in case of location constraints patients who cannot be moved to Srinagar or Jammu for urgent medical attention could receive expert medical opinion through the facility.
Address by Hon'ble President of India at 6th Annual Convention of South Asian Society for ATHEROSCLEROSIS and THROMBOSIS through Videoconferencing - 30th October 2004
Hon'ble President of India
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam addressed at 6th Annual Convention of SOUTH ASIAN Society for ATHEROSCLEROSIS and THROMBOSIS being
held at Hotel Fortune Katriya, Raj Bhavan Road, Hyderabad on 30th October,
2004 through Videoconferencing.
Videoconferencing link was established between Rashtrapati Bhavan and Hotel Fortune Katriya, Hyderabad at
a speed of 768 kbps using VSAT of NIC and at the speed of 512 Kbps using leased line link of MTNL. The VSAT
was kept as primary link and leased line link was kept as backup. The videoconferencing session lasted for more than an hour.
Hon'ble President interacted with several delegates of the Seminar.
Hon'ble President appreciated the efforts done by NIC.
Inauguration of Rajasthan High Court Videoconferencing Network between its Jaipur and jodhpur Bench - 8th October 2004
Hon’ble Shri Anil Dev Singh, Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court on 8th October 2004, inaugurated Videoconferencing facility between Principal seat and Jaipur bench of Rajasthan High Court.
The
videoconferencing facility is first of its kind in the country linking two
courts in the State of Rajasthan. Hon’ble Chief Justice Mr. Justice Anil
Dev Singh along with his colleagues Justice Mr. Y. R. Meena and Justice
Mr. S. K. Keshote interacted with the Hon’ble judges of principal seat
located at Jodhpur Hon’ble Mr. Rajesh Balia and Hon’ble Mr. N. N.
Mathur. There were eleven Hon’ble Judges present at Principal seat;
Jodhpur and Fourteen Hon’ble Judges were present at bench, Jaipur during
the inaugural function. The objective of setting up this facility is to
save time and cost involved in holding full court meetings, which was
earlier being held at any one of the locations.
Hon’ble Chief Justice Shri Anil Dev Singh also interacted with Dr. N.Vijayaditya, Director General, National Informatics Centre over videoconferencing as well appreciating the efforts put in by NIC/NICSI in setting up the videoconferencing facility at such a short notice. The inauguration took place over ISDN lines.
Other Videoconferencing sessions held during September 2004
a. 3/9/2004 - Meeting of Additional Chief Secretary (Relating Bal Vikas Parishad) with all Uttaranchal Districts
b. 3/9/2004 - Video Conferencing between Ministry of Power and Tehri Project Site - Secretary, Power interacted with District Administration of Tehri Garhwal.
c. 1/9/2004 - Joint Secretary, Ministry of Animal Husbandry with State Officials
d. 4/9/2004 - Finance-Meeting of Secretary/Director/SIO with NIC DIOs /Treasury Officers All Uttaranchal Districts
e. 16/9/2004 - Red Cross Conference with all Districts of Jharkhand
f. 20/9/2004 - Chief Secretary UP VC with all Commissionery District (17) and 53 Districts in Broadcast mode.
g. 21/9/2004 - Director, (Small Savings and State Lottery ) videoconferencing with Commissioners of Bhopal Mantralaya, Rewa, Ujjain, Morena, Hoshangabad
Videoconferencing held by Department of Coal, Ministry of Coal and Mines, Government of India - 14th September 2004
Department
of Coal conducted its first videoconferencing session amongst its Coal
PSU’s on 14th September 2004. Shri P. C. Parakh, Secretary,
Department of Coal, Ministry of Coal and Mines chaired over the
videoconferencing session from the Department and interacted with CMDs of
the Coal Companies to review their performance using the state-of-the-art
technology of video conferencing.
The
sites participated were Department of Coal, New Delhi, Coal India Limited,
Kolkata (WB), Eastern Coalfields Limited, Sanctoria (WB), Bharat Coking
Coal Limited, Dhanbad (Jharkhand), Central Coalfields Limited, Ranchi
(Jharkhand), Northern Coalfields Limited, Singrauli (Madhya Pradesh),
Western Coalfields Limited, Nagpur (Maharashtra), South Eastern Coalfields
Limited, Bilaspur (Chattisgarh) and Mahanadi Coalfields Limited, Sambalpur
(Orissa).
At
all the above locations SCPC DAMA VSAT based video conferencing and data
communication has been commissioned under the COALNET plan of the
Department by NIC/NICSI.
On
the occasion, Secretary, Department of Coal advised the officers of the
Department to make use of video conferencing facility for holding various
review meetings with the coal companies. He declared that henceforth he
would have a monthly performance review meeting with the CMDs of the all
coal companies using the Video Conferencing on 15th of every month.
Dr. R. P. Saxena, DDG and Shri Piyush Goyal, TD from NIC were also present on the occassion.
Inauguration
of Madhya Pradesh Videoconferencing Network by Hon'ble Chief Minister Shri
Babulal Gaur - 3rd September 2004
From NIC-Bhopal
Hon’ble Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Shri Babulal Gaur dedicated the Videoconferencing facility from District informatics Centre, Rewa to the State and people by conferring over the VC facilities with 8 Divisional Commissioners/Collectors and Mantralaya on 3rd September 2004.
At the outset , Director General ( NIC ) welcomed the Honourable Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh from NICHQ, New Delhi through VC and briefed him about VC facility being set-up in M.P. and various applications it is being put to for smart governance.
Hon’ble Chief Minister and officials accompanying the Chief Minister which included several ministers of State cabinet, Chief Secretary, Director General of Police, Additional Chief Secretary (Home), Principle Secretary to CM, Principal Secretary ( Revenue), Principal Secretary ( Urban Administration ), Mayor Rewa, Commissioner, Rewa and Collector Rewa interacted with senior functionaries at Mantralaya besides the Divisional Commissioners and District Collectors at Bhopal, Indore, Jabalpur, Sagar, Morena and Hoshangabad. Shri. Babulal Gaur. Hon’ble Chief Minister appreciated the efforts put in by all concerned in commissioning the state of the art Videoconferencing network across the State by National Informatics Centre.
The event has been widely reported in the media.
INAUGURATION OF PUNJAB
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY'S E-GOVERNANCE PROGRAMME BY HON'BLE PRESIDENT OF
INDIA OVER VIDEOCONFERENCING - 25th AUGUST 2004
From
Hon'ble President of India Shri A.P.J.Abdul Kalam Azad inaugurated Punjab Technical University's first e-governance program over videoconferencing by interacting with students at Patiala and Jalandhar respectively. Hon'ble Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab participated in the inaugural function from Patiala and Jalandhar respectively.
The President delivered a lecture on the IT revolution and its wide ranging ramifications for the evolution of society, revamping agriculture and industry and for providing education in a vast and poor nation.
While Punjab Chief Minister Shri Amarinder Singh welcomed the President from a centre in Patiala, an overwhelmed Deputy Chief Minister Rajinder Kaur Bhattal said, "A marvel of science and technology was witnessed today."
National Informatics Centre has provided Videoconferencing support at Rashtrapati Bhavan and the two remote locations at Patiala and Jalandhar respectively. The conference took place at 384 Kbps using ISDN network connectivity.
Full text of Hon’ble President’s speech can be read at http://presidentofindia.nic.in
INAUGURATION OF VIDEOCONFERENCING
FACILITY IN ALL DISTRICTS OF CHATTISGARH - 15th AUGUST 2004
From NIC-
In
a ceremonious atmosphere the Hon'ble Chief Minister of Chattisgarh
Dr. Raman Singh inaugurated, at 12 noon on the 15th
August 2004, the ‘NIC videoconferencing centres’ of all the
districts of the state. With this all the sixteen districts of the
state are now connected through Videoconferencing with the State
Secretariat at Raipur.
The inauguration ceremony has concluded on a grand note in the presence of leading public representatives, administrative officers, technocrats and press officials who interacted on VC from New Delhi, Raipur and all the sixteen district VC centres. Prominent among them are Dr. Raman Singh, C.M. (Chattisgarh) at VC Centre Raipur along with Mr. Ramesh Bais, MP(Raipur); Mr. A.K. Vijayvargiya, Chief Secretary (Chattisgarh); Mr. K.K. Jaswal, Secretary DIT (Govt. of India) sitting along with Dr. N.Vijayaditya, DG(NIC), at New Delhi; Mr. Prem Prakash Pandey, Speaker Chattisgarh Vidhan Sabha at VC Centre Durg, Mr. Brij Mohan Agrawal, Home Minister at VC Centre Bastar, Mr. Amar Agrawal, Finance Minister at VC centre Bilaspur, Mr. Ajay Chandrakar, Minister of RD & Higher Education at VC centre Dhamtari. Other cabinet and state ministers also interacted with the Chief Minister from other district VC centres.
The
Chief Minister inaugurated the VC centres by pressing a button on the
remote-control bringing himself online with the Secretary (DIT) and DG
(NIC) whom he wished on the occasion of the independence day and thanked
them for their contribution towards development
of the State by bringing the
latest in technology to the public
of Chattisgarh. He expressed confidence that with this VC facility his
Government would now be able to serve the poor and remote with
considerable ease and expressed his desire to make effective use of
technology for all round development of the State.
The Member of Parliament Mr. Ramesh Bais also congratulated every
one for this great achievement. The
Secretary (DIT) too wished, all a happy and peaceful Independence day and
congratulated the Chief Minister for his successful efforts to realize the
best with the help of the latest Technology.
In
his one and a half hour long VC session the Chief Minister interacted with
his ministers, one by one, present at all other fifteen VC centres
spending 5 to 10 minutes with each. During his interaction he took stock
of rainfall and status of free distribution of iodized salt under
“Chhattisgarh Amrit Namak Yojana”. Besides sanctioning funds for
various development activities, he declared immediate sanction of monitory
help from CM relief fund as per the demand from various locations for the
aid of patients suffering from cancer, heart and kidney diseases.
Earlier
when the State Informatics Officer of Chattisgarh Mr. M.K.Mishra informed
the Secretary (DIT) that the
successful establishment of the VC centres in very short period was the
collective effort of NIC HQ and the DIOs of all districts who worked day
and night to achieve the target, Secretary (DIT) acknowledged, “ It
is not unusual with NIC ”. To the fact that all the districts of
the state have been provided VC facility he remarked “commendable”.
Dr. D.R. Shukla, Head LR Division & State Coordinator had a brief discussion with the Member of Parliament and
former Union Minister Mr. Ramesh Bais regarding the significance of
Videoconferencing.
Dedication
of Videoconferencing Network of Rajasthan by Hon'ble Chief Minister Smt.
Vasundhara Raje - 9th August 2004
From NIC-Jaipur
Hon’ble
Chief Minister of Rajasthan Smt. Vasundhara Raje dedicated the
Videoconferencing facility to the State and People by conferring over the
VC facilities with all 32 district Collectors on 9th August
2004.
Hon’ble
Chief Minister interacted with 10 sites namely, Jhalawar,
Udaipur, Jodhpur, Ajmer, Bikaner, Jaipur, Hanumangarh, Bharatpur
and Dholpur. All the
Divisional Commissioners and District Collectors, SPs, IGs Police, DIGs
police posted at divisional headquarters were present during the
conference. Chief Secretary, Principle Secretary, Finance and many
other Senior Secretaries of the State Govt were accompanying Hon’ble
Chief Minister Smt. Vasundhara Raje.
Hon’ble
Chief Minister appreciated the efforts put in by National Informatics
Centre in commissioning the state of the art Videoconferencing network
across the State at such a short span of time.
Hon’ble
CM Smt Vasundhara Raje recorded her comments during the dedication
ceremony of the VC network in the state -
"I
am actually very pleased to see that NIC has done such a fast job.
Congratulations! I am sure this is just the first of our initiatives and
there are going to be many others which we are going to do in
Rajasthan."
"This
is the right step in the right direction".
Hon’ble
CM recorded in the guest book -
"This was a long awaited experience, some fine tuning needs to be done. I am sure that we carry on using the systems, there will not only be improvement but also will be most useful for the State".
The
Chief Secretary Rajasthan commented -
"It was a commendable performance and I believe the fastest job ever done by the NIC"
INAUGURATION OF SEMINAR ON INDIAN AVIATION ON THE GLOBAL HORIZON by Honourable President of India over Videoconferencing - 31st July 2004
Honorable President of India Shri A P J Abdul Kalam addressed a function on the Birth Anniversary
Celebrations of Sh J R D Tata through videoconferencing facility which was
arranged by National Informatics Centre on 31st July 2004.
Hon'ble President participated over Videoconferencing from Rashtrapati Bhavan. The
videoconferencing was conducted at a very short notice using ISDN lines between
Rashtrapati Bhavan and Taj Hotel, Mumbai. NIC-Mumbai facilitated the Videoconferencing set up at the venue of the function in Mumbai.
Hon'ble President spoke about the role of Indian Aviation on the Global Horizon. Detailed speech of
Hon'ble President can be read at http://presidentofindia.nic.in
Justice
Verma (Retd.) for E-Governance in Justice Delivery System - 22nd July 2004
From NIC-Chandigarh
The Punjab Governor and Administrator, Union Territory, Chandigarh, Justice OP Verma (Retd.), today underlined the need for using e-governance facility in Justice Delivery System to make it speedy and effective.
Speaking
after inaugurating the Network and Data Centre for e-governance facility
set up in Chandigarh, Justice Verma said that National Informatics Centre
(NIC) should explore the possibility of using video conferencing
facilities in the trial Courts for recording the evidence of under trials
especially hardened criminals. He said that bringing the under trials to
the Court involves lot of manpower of Police Department and there had been
numerous cases where under trials had escaped while being transferred to
the Court. He said that Video conferring was the effective tool to speedy
conclude the evidence of such cases. Ms Neeta Verma, Senior Technical
Director of NIC, New Delhi who had specially come to the Chandigarh for
the function informed the Administrator that NIC had already submitted the
proposal of National Judicial Commission to allow the recording of
witnesses by Video Conferencing especially those witnesses who are staying
abroad.
Earlier, Justice Verma inaugurated Network & Data Centre (NDC) for e-governance applications setup by National Informatics Centre. NDC is first of its kind in Northern States of India. Administrator UT also inaugurated Video Conferencing Services from UT Secretariat and interacted with Dr. N. Vijayaditya, Director General, National Informatics Centre in New Delhi. Home Secretary, Mr. R. S. Gujral, Finance Secretary, Mr. Karan A. Singh were also present on the occasion.
The
NDC shall have state of art infrastructure to facilitate e-governance
initiatives of Chandigarh Administration as well as to cater to wide
variety of computing and networking requirements of the government.
NIC has provided 4 Mbps Internet Connectivity over leaded lines backed up by satellite based equipment (SCPC VSAT). A state of art high capacity, storage area network (SAN) is also set up in NDC to provide consolidated storage infrastructure for Intranet Applications, Citizens Services, Databases, E-mail and other internet services. It shall be operational on 25*7*365 basis. Chandigarh Administration has also connected all the major buildings to the NDC through high speed Fibre Optics backbone. Upcoming SAMPARK centers being set up by Department of Information Technology, Chandigarh Administration and other Cash Collection Centres shall also be connected to the Data Centre through 2 mbps leased lines.
Video Conferencing facility at UT Secretariat established by NIC is based on a high-speed satellite system (DAMA VSAT), installed for the purpose. Eight sites can conference with each other at one time. The equipment is also capable of conducting Video Conferencing over ISDN. It provides an effective way of delivering cost efficient interaction/training to individuals without the need to constantly travel to central locations.
WTO meeting with Australia, Brazil, US, and EU through NIC’s Video Conferencing by Shri Kamal Nath, Minister of Commerce and Industry - 19th July 2004
Shri Kamal Nath, Minister of Commerce and Industry
participated in a meeting between Ministers of Trade and Commerce from
Australia, Brazil, US, and EU on 19th July, 2004 through NIC’s Video
Conferencing to discuss the draft framework for the trade negotiations at
World Trade Organisation (WTO). Shri Dipak Chatterjee, Commerce Secretary
and Shri S.N. Menon, Special Secretary also participated. The meeting was
facilitated through Video Conferencing at National Informatics Centre
(NIC) Head Quarter, New Delhi.
Later the Hon'ble Minister visited the Integrated Network Operation Centre
(I-NOC), Integrated Data Centre (IDC) and Certifying Authority (CA) office
of NIC and appreciated the role of NIC in the development of Information
and Communication Technology in the country.
Hon’ble Minister’s remark in the visitors’ book reads -"a state
of the art setup run efficiently".
Hon'ble Home Minister Shri Shivraj Patil's Videoconference - 10th July 2004
A videoconference was organized by NIC for Hon'ble Home Minister, Shri Shivraj V. Patil at his residence on 10th July 2004 between New Delhi and Singapore.
Hon'ble Minister interacted with delegates at Asia Pacific Business Summit, being organized by the Indian Merchants Chamber in Singapore.
NIC assisted the Indian Merchants Chamber, New Delhi chapter is successfully organizing the conference over ISDN lines. The conference lasted for an hour and the video link was connected using ISDN lines at 256K.
Post Budget Press Conference held at PIB - 8th July 2004
The publicity exercise of Press Information Bureau for the Railway Budget, Economic Survey, General Budget and Post Budget Video Press Conf. of PIB Hqs. has been successfully supported by NIC. PIO and other officers of PIB have expressed appreciation for NIC's support.
During the Post Budget Video Press Conference, a panel comprising Finance Secy, Revenue Secy, Expenditure Secy, Chairman CBDT, Chairman CBEC interacted with the media assembled in seven Studios of NIC at Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Guwahati, Hyderabad and Lucknow between 1600 hrs and 1800 hrs on 8th July 2004.
The Video Press Conference was successful. The panel thanked NIC for this facilitation.
Multipoint conference by Dept. of Education, State Govt. of Orissa - 6th July 2004
The VC session held on 6th-July, 2004 through Multi-Point basis with Kalahandi, Koraput, Berhampur, Balangir sites with CMO, Bhubaneswar was quite successful.
The Members present in the session were as follows :
1. Chief Secy., Orissa (Chair person)
2. Vice Chancellor, IGNOU
3. Reg. Dir.,IGNOU, Orissa
4. 3 Secy.(s) of Higher Edn., School & Mass Edn. & Sc/ST Dev.Deptt.
5. Spl. Secy.-Planning & Co-ordination.
Other Videoconferencing Sessions held during June 2004
a. Dr. Sanjeev Chopra, Finance Secretary, Government of Uttaranchal Videoconferencing with all districts - 7th June 2004.
b. Dr. R.S.Tolia, Chief Secretary, Govt. of Uttaranchal Videoconferencing with all districts - 9th & 29th June 2004
c. Secretary, Basic Education, Govt. of Uttar Pradesh Videoconferencing with all districts - 18th June 2004
Hon'ble Chief Minister of Jharkhand Videoconferencing - 3rd June & 29th June 2004
Hon'ble Chief Minister of Jharkhand Shri Arjun Munda conducted a series of videoconferencing on 3rd & 29th June respectively and interacted with District Administration of all districts of Jharkhand to review Law and order situation and monitoring the progress of various Government Programmes. The meeting was held in groups of 4 sites at any point of time and was highly appreciated by Hon'ble Chief Minister.
Tele-Education for North Eastern Region & Lakshadweep - 11th June and 30th June 2004
NIC conducted Tele-Education in the filed of Medicines by holding two separate conference on 11th june and 30th June for doctors of North Eastern region and Lakshadweep respectively. The lectures were taken by Prof. A.K.Baronia and Prof. Kumudani Sharma from Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute, Lucknow over Videoconferencing. The lectures were broadcasted to all the blocks of CIC as well.
Hon'ble President's Videoconferencing with Bangalore - 25th June 2004
Hon'ble President of India Dr.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, delivered a Lecture on 'Future Developments on Space Science' during a concluding plenary session of a Seminar in connection with the India-US Conference on Space Science being held at Hotel Ashoka, Bangalore on 25th June 2004.
Videoconferencing link was established between between Rashtrapati Bhavan and Hotel Ashoka-Bangalore. The VSAT link was provided by ISRO and the videoconferencing facility was provided by NIC. During the videoconferencing session which lasted for more than an hour, Honb'le President interacted with several delegates of the Seminar through videoconference.
Hon'ble President was appreciated the usage of the videoconferencing technology by commenting "Now I need not travel to different places and instead use this facility to interact with the remote people".
Videoconferencing Support to Doordarshan during Election 2004
Videoconferencing Division provided support to CPC, Doordarshan during Elections 2004 held recently. Under this programme the field officer of Doordarshan from selected districts were able to share and transfer the Video footage of elections and other important activities related to election to CPC, New Delhi over videoconferencing.
RLTAP Programme Videoconferencing by State Government of Orissa - 24.5.2004
The VC Session on RLTAP programme held with collectors of Balangir,
Kalahandi, Koraput & Berhampur districts of Orissa on 24th May 2004.
Members present from CMO end were.
1. Chief Secy., Orissa
2. Secy. Water Resources
3. Secy. Rural Dev.
4. Secy. Agriculture
5. Secy. Food Supply & Cons. Welfare
6. Secy. SC & ST Dev.
7. Dir. & Dy. Dir. Watershed Mission.
Initiatives of State Government of Uttaranchal over Videoconferencing - May 2004
a. Videoconferencing Session by Principal Secretary (Social Welfare) -
19.5.2004
b. Videoconferencing Session by Urban Development Secretary - 18.5.2004
c. Videoconferencing Session by PWD Secretary - 15.5.2004
d. Videoconferencing Session by Principal Secretary of Energy - 24.5.2004
e. Videoconferencing Session by Secretary, Trade Tax & Excise - 28.5.2004
f. Videoconferencing Session by Chief Electoral Officer - 10.5.2004
g. Videoconferencing Session by Prinicipal Secretary (Revenue and Transport - 21.5.2004
h. Videoconferencing Session by Secretary, Industry - 21.5.2004
i. Videoconferencing Session by Chief Secretary - 27.5.2004
Other Videoconferencing Sessions held during April 2004
1. Videoconferencing held by Chief Secretary, Government of Uttaranchal with all Districts to discuss various developmental programmes and Election arrangements.
2. CIC Review meeting with IT Secretaries of all North Eastern States was conducted on 6th April 2004. The meeting was chaired by Shri K.K.Jaiswal, Secretary, DIT, MCIT from Delhi.
3. Shri. Jayant Dasgupta, Joint Secy, Department of Commerce participated in a Videoconferencing with MERCOSUR counterparts in Argentina on 23/4/2004 from NIC.
4. Secretary, Department of Horticulture, State Government of Uttar Pradesh conducted multipoint conference with 17 district Commissionerates.
Honourable President Shri A.P.J.Abdul Kalam's Videoconferencing with BEL, Bangalore - 21st April 2004
Honourable President of India Shri A.P.J.Abdul
Kalam participated in the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Bharat
Electronics Limited (BEL), Bangalore through Videoconferencing from New
Delhi on 21st April 2004. The event was witnessed by around 10,000 people
present at BEL's Bangalore complex. A question and answer session followed
after the speech of Hon'ble President where he answered few selected
questions posed by the audience present at Bangalore.
Hon'ble President said -
"I am delighted to participate in the Golden Jubilee celebrations of
Bharat Electronics Ltd. (BEL), a premier defense public sector undertaking
of the Government of India. I greet the visionaries, distinguished guests,
the Board of Management, the officers, the staff and the support personnel
of BEL for creating, maintaining and growing this institution into one of
the Mini-Ratnas of the nation...."
Full text of Hon'ble President's Speech can be read at http://presidentofindia.nic.in
NIC provided the Videoconferencing link between Rashtrapati Bhavan, New
Delhi and BEL, Bangalore using its Mobile VSAT over NICNET at a high speed
of 768 Kbps.
Launching of South Asian Medical Journal over Videoconferencing between Delhi and Karachi - 2nd April 2004
A videoconferencing was organised between Karachi and Delhi on 2nd April 2004 on occasion of release of South Asian Medical Journal. Senior Doctors from Sir Gangaram Hospital participated in the conference from Delhi end. The conference was well received by all the participants present at both the ends especially Karachi since this was the first time such a type of conference was being held.
Feedback received from Gangaram Hospital is given below -
"Thank you very much for organising the videoconference. The function was well received here by the media and went off quite smoothly.
Dr.Anuj Sharma, Sir Gangaram Hospital, Consultant Clinical Microbiologist"
Inauguration of Power Projects of NTPC, NHPC & PGCIL by Hon’ble Prime Minister of India – 9th February 2004
Honourable Prime Minister Shri A.B.Vajpayee dedicated three major power projects to the nation on 9th February 2004. Presiding over the programme from Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi Hon'ble Prime Minister dedicated the 1000 MW Simhadri Thermal Power Station of NTPC, 300 MW Chamera Hydroelectric Power Station of NHPC and Associated Transmission and the North Eastern Region Unified Load Dispatch and Communication System of PGCIL to the nation.
NIC had set up Mobile VSAT at all the three locations and Vigyan Bhavan where Hon'ble Prime Minister along with Hon'ble Union Minister of Power Shri Anant Geete and Minister of State Power were present. Hon'ble Prime Minister unveiled a Plaque for each of the three locations.
Post-budget 2004 Videoconferencing from PIB - 3rd February 2004
Press Information Bureau conducted Post Budget Press Conference over videoconference on 3rd February 2004. NIC provided Videoconferencing support to PIB by installing Mobile VSAT at Shashtri Bhavan. Local press people from Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkatta, Guwahati and Bangalore participated in the press conference.
Internet Support at XII SAARC Summit 2004
NIC
had setup the VSAT based Internet Connection as desired by MEA & PMO
at two locations at Islamabad-Pakistan i.e. P.M. Camp Office (Hotel
Serena) and Indian Media Centre (Hotel Holiday Inn) during the recently
held XIIth SAARC Summit at Islamabad, Pakistan.
A
team of six members from NIC New Delhi went to Islamabad on 2nd
January, 2004 along with portable VSATs and necessary equipments for
providing the data link. After reaching Islamabad, these VSATS were
installed and high-speed data link was provided at both the locations. The
VSAT was installed on SCPC mode and was oriented towards PANAMSAT-10
Satellite Transponder and Internet was provided through NIC’s Gateway
(NICNET). The Data Link at both the locations was provided at a downlink
bandwidth of 1920 Kbps and uplink at 128 Kbps.
At the Indian Media Centre, high-speed internet connection (2Mbps DSL) on a LAN having about 50 PC’s was already operational prior to the installation of NIC’s setup. After discussing with the officers at the Control Room of the Indian Media Centre, it was decided that NIC’s setup would be used as back up for the existing connection. In addition to this, NIC had also setup a videoconferencing and voice link between P.M. Camp Office, Indian Media Centre and NIC-New Delhi.
At
Hotel Serena, apart from providing Internet connection at P.M. Camp
office, NIC had also provided Internet connections for P.S. to P.M.,
Control Room – Indian High Commission.
The
team members from NIC who had gone for this job are:
- Mr.
Saprative Sen – PSA
- Mr.
Dayanand Saha – PSA
- Mr.
K.P.Sharan – SSA
- Mr.
Subhendu Dey Choudhury – SSA
- Mr.
Kuldeep Singh – SA
- Mr. Joginder Lal Ahuja – Technical Support Staff
Keep checking this portion for announcements
- Videoconferencing News for the year 2003
- Videoconferencing News for the year 2002
- Videoconferencing News for the year 2001
- Videoconferencing News for the year 2000
- Videoconferencing News for the year 1999
