The Panchayati Raj functions as a system of governance in which Gram Panchayats are
the basic unit of local administration. The system has three levels - Gram Panchayat (Village
level) Block Samiti or Panchayat Samiti (Block level) Zila Parishad (District
level).
In the ambit of the Digital India regime it has now become essential that government
functionaries should have a close interact & approach with all elected representatives
of Gram Sabha for the sustainable growth of rural India.
Procedural Reforms by Inclusion of ICT in PRI-2016 Elections Haryana
In the Panchayati Raj Election (PRI) 2016 the National Informatics Centre (NIC),
Haryana State Centre (HRSC), Chandigarh in joint coordination with the State Election
Commission (SEC), Haryana decided that during the election process since nominations
to the result declaration all the process should be ICT enabled for such purposes
the National Informatics Centre (NIC), District Hisar (Haryana) developed and launched
three e-Dashboards (Nominations, Poll Process Monitoring and Election Result) across
the state of Haryana by enabling best practices and information technology &
communication tools.
All the three e-dashboards were a single point of monitoring for whole of the poll
process up to booth levels under different variants during the filing of nomination
and poll process like party reached & booth established, Poll started, Voter’s
turn out, voter’s in queue after poll time, poll ended, EVM deposited at respective
booths, covering the input of winning Sarpanches for different Gram Panchayats (GPs)
after the completion of poll process on the same day of poll and also during the
counting of member Zila Parishad and member Block Samities the result e-dashboard
used to disseminate live results. All the e-Dashboard were also only the source
of dissemination of information to the Government functionaries, public and to media.
The e-Dashboard was populating directly under the supervision of respective Returning
officers (Panchayat Samities) from the office of Block Development Panchayat Officers
(BDPOs), and the sector officers /duty magistrates are the main source of carrier
of communication directly from the booths.
Data structure of nominating candidates compatible to Area profiler of (e-Panchayats)
resultantly the data of winning candidates may be ported to e-Panchayat.
“Mahari Panchayat” Composite Dashboard for elected representative
PRI-Haryana
After completion of counting and result declaration for all the post of PRI a composite
web portal entitled “Mahari Panchayat” developed and by using the portal
one may able to get all the details of PRI elected representatives with all statistical
and graphical analysis. The details of all elected Members Zila Parishad, Members
Block Samities, Sarpanches and Panches made available to the public under the same
URL http://priharyana.nic.in
OR http://prielections.nic.in
and the link shall also be made available on State Election Commission, Haryana
(http://secharyana.nic.in)
Merits of launching dashboard (Mahari Panchayat)
- Know your PRI representatives by searching option
- Depicting Statistical and value added Graphical analysis on various variants for
all Districts and for complete state Haryana
- All the Panchayats of Haryana are mapped under GIS tagging the details of winning
Sarpanches
- Composite portal of getting the details of elected representatives under Panchayati
Raj Institution -2016 (Haryana) with mobile number
- Data repository at single place and live portal may be used for various government
development work
- Android base Mobile App entitled “Mahari Panchayat” developed by National
Informatics Centre, District Centre, Hisar shall also be made available and shall
be downloadable from Android App Store at free of cost.