National Informatics Centre


                                 Project Proposal
                                         
                                       For 
                                         
                              Wired Village Project
                                         
                                        At
                                         
                            Warana Nagar, Maharashtra

                                  NIC(WR), Pune

                                  22nd June 1998

                Please Send your valued suggestion to the Email address :
                                    rjain@mah.nic.in


                              
                              C O N T E N T S



       1.   INTRODUCTION                                       1

            1.1  About Warana Nagar                            1

               1.1.1  Warana Sugar Administrative Building     2

               1.1.2  Warana Nagar Educational Foundation      3

               1.1.3  Warana Co-op Milk Produce Society        3

               1.1.4  Goods Processing Society(WAGPCOS)        4

               1.1.5  Warana Grahak Mandal (Warana Bazar)      4

               1.1.6  Mahatma Gandhi Medical Trust             4

               1.1.7  Warana Bhagini Mandal                    5

               1.1.8  Warana Co-operative Bank                 5

            1.2  About Wired Villages Project                  5

       2.   SCOPE OF WORK                                      7

       3.   EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE                            9

       4.   PROPOSED INFRASTRUCTURE                           10

            4.1  Sugar Administrative Building                10

            4.2  Engineering College                          11

            4.3  IT Centers                                   11

            4.4  Facilitation booth                           12

       5.   PROPOSAL FOR APPLICATIONS                         13

            5.1  Multipurpose Identification Number (MIN)     13

            5.2  Grievance Registration & Redressal           14


            5.3  Web-Based Applications                       15

            5.4  MIN-based Applications                       15

            5.5  Stand-alone Applications                     15

       6.   IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY                           17

       7.   PROJECT RESPONSIBILITIES                          21

            7.1  Responsibilities of NIC                      21

            7.2  Responsibilities of Govt. of Maharashtra     21

            7.3  Responsibilities of WSDUPL                   21


       8.   ANNEXURE                                          23

            8.1  Annexure-I                                   24

               8.1.1  Hardware and Software Requirement       24

            8.2  Annexure-II                                  26

               8.2.1  Schematic Network Diagrams              26

            8.3  Annexure-III                                 31

               8.3.1  MOU for the Wired Village Project       31


                                   INTRODUCTION

        
        1.1  About Warana Nagar
        
        The  Warana  Co-operative Complex has become famous as one
        of  the  forerunner   of   successful   integrated   rural
        development  resulting  from  Co-operative  movement.  The
        Warana Co-operative Sugar factory registered in 1955,  has
        led  this  movement  resulting  in  formation  of  over 25
        successful co-operative societies today, listed below :-
        
         1. Warana Co-operative Sugar Factory Ltd.
         2. Warana Co-operative Milk  Produce  Processing  Society
            Ltd.
         3. Warana Co-operative Bank
         4. Warana region Co-operative Grahak Mandal
         5. Warana Poultry Co-operative Society
         6. Sahyadri Co-operative Poultry Society
         7. Vishwanath Co-operative Poultry Society
         8. Warana Worker Vividh Working Co-operative Society
         9. Warana Agriculture Goods and Processing Society
        10. Warana Cooperative Industrial Colony
        11. Warana Women Cooperative Credit Society
        12. Savitri Women Co-operative Industrial Society
        13. Amrit Sevak Co-operative Society
        14. Satyavathi Co-operative House Construction Society
        15. Nivritti Co-operative Housing Society
        16. Educational Institute
                - Warana Vibhag Shikshan Mandal
                - Tatyasaheb  Kore  Institute  of  Engineering and
                  Technology
                - Yashwantrao Chavan Warana University
                - Tatyasaheb Kore Industrial Training Centre
                - Tatyasaheb Kore Training and Production Centre
                - Warana School
                - Warana Vidyamandir
                - Warana Nursery School
                - Warana Satkarya Savanrdak Mandal
        17. Warana Foods Private Ltd.
        18. Mahatma Gandhi Medical Trust
        19. Warana Bhagini Mandal
        20. Lijjat Pappad Centre
        21. Warana Sugar Worker's Society
        22. Warana Exercise Centre
        23. Warana Youth Centre
        24. Sharada Wachak Mandir
        25. Warana Printing Press
        
        Total turnover of all  these  societies  exceeds  Rs.  600
        Crores.  Most  of these societies are distributed within 4
        Km. radius with  clear  line  of  site.  The  complex  has
        established its own EPABX facility for voice communication
        between various centers and societies. This is in addition
        to the P&T lines provided by DOT. However this Exchange is
        not  connected  to  the  P&T  lines. Some of the important
        societies e.g.  sugar  and  dairy  already  have  computer
        hardware  installed  at their premises and few application
        software running for  their  routine  requirements.  These
        include  payroll, billing, MIS. The applications have benn
        developed by local private agencies.
        
        Following are the important  business  centers  at  Warana
        Nagar -
        
        1.1.1  Warana Sugar Administrative Building
        
        Situated  in  the  heart  of Warana Nagar is the 2 storied
        building housing the administrative staff  of  the  Sugar,
        Distillery and Paper Factory. The sugar factory is located
        at a distance of around 500 mtrs from this building. Sugar
        Cane which is the raw material for the factory is obtained
        from  70 odd villages located in the districts of Kolhapur
        and Sangli. The Distillery is located at a distance of 200
        mtrs from the sugar factory and the paper  mill  is  at  a
        distance of 200 mtrs from the distillery. A motorable road
        separates   the   distillery   and  the  Paper  Mill.  The
        administrative building has a flat roof from where most of
        the factories and  Institutes  fall  within  the  line  of
        sight. It is covered by a wide expanse of lush green trees
        forming  a  canopy  around  the  building.  The  roof top,
        however is clear and is ideal for installation of both the
        VSAT and Mast for omnidirectional antenna of the  wireless
        LAN.  Milk  at the Warana dairy is collected from 78 major
        villages located in 2 districts, viz Kolhapur and Sangali.
        Some of the villages produce both sugarcane and milk.
        
        The  Administrative  Office  has  around  25  stand  alone
        Computers  in various sections which may be connected in a
        LAN using structured cabling techniques. Presently data is
        collected from the factories on floppy  or  in  hard  copy
        form,  and  is  updated  on  these  computers  and reports
        generated for use by the Management. The Managing Director
        and Chairman of the Company have offices in this building.

        1.1.2  Warana Nagar Educational Foundation
        
        Situated  at  a  distance  of  around  750  mts  from  the
        Administrative  building is the campus for the Engineering
        College, Polytechnic and the College of Arts and  Science.
        The  Engineering  College  offers courses in 4 disciplines
        namely Mechanical,  Chemical,  Civil  and  Electronics.  A
        course  in Computer Science is proposed to be started from
        the next academic year.  The  Engineering  College  has  a
        strength  of  1000 students and has on its faculty eminent
        Professors.  The  Colleges  have  ample  space   for   the
        installation  of  a  VSAT  which  can be utilised by large
        number of users of the institute. The Engineering  College
        today boasts of 100 Pentium and 486 based computers out of
        which  around  50  systems  are  connected in LAN based on
        Novel Netware 4.11 (Intranetware). All the faculty members
        have shown keen interest in having  Internet  access.  The
        college  is  a 2 storied building and the campus is spread
        acros 500 sq metres of space. The college authorities have
        agreed to have a campus  LAN  based  on  fibar  optics  to
        facilitate faster and wider LAN, with their own funds.
        
        1.1.3  Warana Co-op Milk Produce Society
        
        The  factory  for  processing  Milk  related  products  is
        situated at a distance of approx  3  Kms  from  the  Sugar
        Administrative  building. The administrative office of the
        Milk Dairy is located at a distance of  approx.  500  mtrs
        from  the  Factory.  This office has stand alone computers
        for its own data processing. (Some of the  important  milk
        products  are Pasteurised Milk, Milk powder, Ghee, Butter,
        Sreekhand etc. Approximately 2 metric tonnes of  sreekhand
        is sold in Mumbai alone daily. The factory processes about
        2  lakhs litres of milk per day collected from surrounding
        176 villages  in  the  districts  of  Sangli,  Satara  and
        Kolhapur).  The factory management has shown keen interest
        in Computerisation and networking, but has  also  stressed
        on necessary training for the staff.
        
        This  society  has  a  branch  office in Mumbai from where
        daily information  is  required  to  be  obtained.  It  is
        recommended  to  have a Wireless LAN setup installed which
        could communicate with the central VSAT installed  on  the
        Sugar  Administrative office. The Management has indicated
        that  they  have  started  processing  for   Leased   Line
        Connectivity  between  the Sugar Administrative Office and
        the Dairy Office. This may not be necessary once the Radio
        LAN is set-up.
        
        1.1.4  Goods Processing Society(WAGPCOS)
        
        The Society is set up for the processing  of  agricultural
        goods  in  packaged  form.  The  raw  material for this is
        obtained from a large  number  of  villages  in  Kolhapur,
        Sangli  Satara  and  other  districts.  The  machinery  is
        totally  imported  and   the   installation   is   nearing
        completion.  This office is located at a distance of 3 kms
        from the Sugar Administrative building  and  falls  within
        the  line  of  sight.  This  office  is  already accessing
        Internet through a dial up line  obtained  from  VSNL  for
        exchanging  information  with their collaborators based in
        USA. This factory is at a distance of 1 km from the Dairy.
        The management has expressed their view  that  they  would
        benefit  hugely  from  the  Intranet/Internet connectivity
        being offered by NIC.
        
        1.1.5  Warana Grahak Mandal (Warana Bazar)
        
        This is  the  largest  bazar  in  Warana  with  an  annual
        turnover  of  Rs 31 Crores. This has 2 departmental stores
        in Warana Nagar and Wadgaon.  This  Bazar  has  29  retail
        outlets  in  the  78  villages  spread across Kolhapur and
        Sangli. The main departmental store  is  located  opposite
        the  Sugar  Administrative  building  at  a distance of 30
        mtrs. A motorable road bifurcates these two buildings. The
        Administrative office of the Grahak Mandal (Warana  Bazar)
        is  located  in  this  departmental  store. The management
        procures the goods directly  from  various  factories  and
        desires  to  have  a  strong communication network so that
        orders and follow up could be made through  E-mail.  Daily
        statistics  from  each of these retail outlets is obtained
        by the Management by either calling the official concerned
        from the outlet or by visisting these outlets.
        
        1.1.6  Mahatma Gandhi Medical Trust
        
        A multifarious hospital with  state-of-the-art  technology
        having  a  capacity  of more than 200 beds catering to the
        requirements of  the  common  farmers,  is  located  at  a
        distance of 10 Kms from the Sugar Administrative building.
        The  hospital  has  been  equipped  with modern and latest
        facilities available in medical field. The  unidirectional
        antenna  for  wireless LAN can be installed on the roof of
        the hospital and services like  Medlars  would  be  highly
        beneficial to the Doctors.

        1.1.7  Warana Bhagini Mandal
        
        This  Mandal is set up by the women folk and produce items
        like Lijjat Pappad etc. The factory and office is  located
        at   a   distance   of   200  mtrs  from  the  Main  Sugar
        Administrative Building. Warana Women Co-operative  credit
        Society,  Savitri  Women  Co-operative Industrial Society,
        Lijjat  Pappad  Kendra  are  the  organisation  under  its
        umbrella.  Some  of  the  factories  are also located at a
        distance of  1  km  from  the  main  sugar  administrative
        building.  The unidirectional antenna for the wireless LAN
        may be installed on the rooftop of the  main  building  of
        the mandal.
        
        1.1.8  Warana Co-operative Bank
        
        The  main  branch  of  the  bank is a two storied building
        located at a distance of about 1 Km. from the  Main  Sugar
        Administrative  Building.  It  has 20 branches in Kolhapur
        and Sangali districts. Most of these  are  within  30  Km.
        radius  from the main branch. Annual turnover of this bank
        is nearly Rs. 28 crores. The roof top of the  Main  branch
        can be used for installation of the unidirectional antenna
        for wireless LAN.
        
        1.2  About Wired Villages Project
        
        The   major  objectives  of  the  Wired  Villages  Project
        proposed for Warana Nagar are as follows :
        
                - To Bring Warana Nagar on NICNET
        
                - To increase the efficiency/ productivity of  the
                  existing  co-operative  societies  by  providing
                  state of the art computer communication  network
                  and latest database technology.
        
                - To  Provide  Computerised facilitation booths in
                  70 villages, which are linked up to the  central
                  computer network at Warana Nagar.
        
                - To  Create  database  of  villagers  on  various
                  socio-economic aspects
        
                - To Provide Tele-education to  both  Primary  and
                  Higher  Educational  Institutes by developing IT
                  centers at most populous points.

                        - Establish GIS of 70 Villages
        
                        - Greater Transparency
        
                        - Local Language Interface
        
                - The project is envisaged to  be  implemented  by
                  10th August 1998, with the help of the following
                  agencies :-
        
                        - National  Informatics  Centre,  Planning
                          Commission, Government of India (NIC)
        
                        - Directorate of  Information  Technology,
                          Government of Maharashtra (GoM)
        
                        - Warana  Sahakari  Dudh  Utpadan Prakriya
                          Limited,   Warana   Nagar,   Maharashtra
                          (WSDUPL)
        
                - Cost  of  the  project will be met 50 percent by
                  NIC  (Government  of  India),  40   percent   by
                  Government  of  Maharashtra,  and  10 percent by
                  WSDUPL. Cost of the project is  expected  to  be
                  recovered over next 3 years.
                                  SCOPE OF WORK 


        
                Following  is the overview of the scope of work to
        be undertaken by the agencies involved in the project.
        
                - Routine matters transacted at village level will
                  be computerised at 70 villages. For this purpose
                  a  computerised  facilitation  booth   will   be
                  installed  in  these villages, linked to central
                  computers at Warana Nagar
        
                - Wireless LAN to be provided in Warana  Nagar  at
                  following business centers :-
        
                        - Sugar factory
                        - Dairy
                        - WAGPCOS
                        - Warana Bazar
                        - Mahatma Gandhi Hospital
                        - Warana Bhagini Mandal
                        - Warana Co-operative Bank
        
                - EDP  facilities to be provided to all factories,
                  bank and all economic centers. The  current  EDP
                  facilities  to  be enhanced for taking advantage
                  of computer network to be established.
        
                - Information facilitation centre at each  village
                  will  have  one computer. These booths will have
                  dial-up facility for linking to the central  hub
                  located   at   sugar   administrative  building.
                  Facilities  such  as   remote   health   service
                  (tele-medicine), public grievances and redressal
                  will  be  provided  through this booth. Computer
                  installed in the facilitation  booth  will  have
                  multimedia facility, hand-held scanner, bar-code
                  reader and 132 column Printer.
        
                - Six   villages   (highly   populated)   will  be
                  identified for IT centre. These  villages  would
                  be  nearly  10 km from Warana Nagar. The idea is
                  to get Warana Nagar at  door  step  of  as  many
                  villages  as possible. These centers will have 8
                  to 10  computers,  and  will  be  provided  with
                  Receive  Only VSAT (DirecPC), along with dial-up
                  link. The computer will be installed in  a  room
                  of  20'x  20'. The centre will provide following
                  facilities :-
        
                                - Tele-education
                                - Computer based education.
                                - Open University access (IGNOU)
                                - Imaging (one of the centre)
        
                - The 70 villages  under  jurisdiction  of  Warana
                  sugar  factory  are being considered to be under
                  intranet. The population is 3.5 lakhs for  these
                  villages.
        
                - GIS for the area and subsequent projects thereof
        
                - Bonded  warehousing for export operations linked
                  on  a  Network   for   all   export   operation,
                  especially for WAGPCOS (100 percent EOU).
        
                - All  the  software  will be developed to support
                  local languages.
        
                - Land Record Computerisation
        
                - Studies and programs of leading Agricultural and
                  Rural Research Institutes will be made available
                  at every node of intranet.
        
                - Multiple  Utility  Card  to  be  issued  to  all
                  villagers.    This    will   assign   a   unique
                  identification number to  every  villager.  This
                  could   be  linked  to  databases  and  software
                  systems proposed to be  used  from  facilitation
                  booth.
        
                - The   project   need   to   be   completed   and
                  operationalised  by  10th  August  98.   It   is
                  scheduled to be inaugurated by 15th August 98.

                             EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE 


        
                Warana  Nagar  has Electronic Exchanges. Nearly 50
        villages have telephone lines from the Exchange. This will
        be  the  basis  for  dial-up  connectivity  from   village
        facilitation booth to the servers located at Warana Nagar.
        The  Sugar  Co-operative will have to release 10 telephone
        lines at  Sugar  Administration  building  available  from
        existing 20 lines for dial-up access.
        
                Engineering college has Novell Netware Server 4.11
        with 50 diskless nodes.
        
        Sugar Administrative building has 10 stand-alone computers
        on  MS-DOS. There is also a Novell Netware LAN with nearly
        10 disk-less nodes. The sugar factory  has  Novel  Netware
        Server  with  10  disk-less  nodes.  Most  of the existing
        applications are  running  on  Fox-pro  under  DOS.  Local
        language  support  is  through  GIST card installed in the
        nodes. Some of the important applications are  as  follows
        :-
        
                - Payroll
                - Cane billing
                - Cane transport
                - Inventory accounting (Store has 16,000 items)
                - Weight-bridge
                - Deposit system for members
                - Sugar cane register
                - Sugar building
                - Misc reports
        
        The  applications  are running on DOS clients connected to
        Netware server.

                             PROPOSED INFRASTRUCTURE


        
                It is proposed to set-up  an  intranet  in  Warana
        Nagar.  The  intranet  would form a closed user group over
        NICNET. This  will  also  facilitate  Internet  access  in
        Warana  Nagar.  In  order  to limit Internet access to key
        business centers, it is proposed  to  install  Fire-walls.
        The  networking  is  planned in such a way that high speed
        data transmission through wireless LAN be provided to  the
        main  factories  and  business  centers, where most of the
        servers would be installed. IT centers would have 'receive
        only' VSAT (DirecPC), in addition to dial-up facility  for
        fast  data  transfer  as  required  in tele-education, and
        other applications. The facilitation booths at 70 villages
        will be equipped with dial-up link.
        
        4.1  Sugar Administrative Building
        
                This will be the hub for intranet of Warana Nagar.
        A High speed IPA VSAT would be installed on  the  roof  of
        the  building which would be connected to a hub/switch for
        Internet access. All existing machines would be integrated
        in LAN environment, and a  proxy  server  installed  which
        will  act  as firewall to Internet. One Web-server and one
        email/DNS server will be installed. A bank of  10  dial-up
        lines  with modems will be interfaced through a LAN access
        server to provide SLIP/PPP  connectivity.  Email  accounts
        will  be  provided  to all facilitation booths, IT centers
        and business centers. A  mast  of  approximately  30  feet
        would  be  constructed  on  the  roof  of the building for
        installation of omnidirectional antenna for wireless  LAN.
        This  LAN  would have bandwidth of 2 Mbps. The radio modem
        of the wireless LAN would be connected to switch/hub.  The
        wireless   LAN   technology   will  help  to  set  up  the
        Intranet/Internet in least amount of time.  Following  are
        the  hardware  and  software  proposed  to be installed at
        administrative  building  in  addition  to  the   existing
        systems :-
        
                - Windows-NT as Web-server
                - Email server
                - Windows-NT as Application-server
                - 12 port 10/100-Base T Hub
                - Software Proxy server
                - 12 port LAN Access Server for dial-up modems
                - 10 Number of 33.6 Kbps data-modems
                - 10 Windows-95 multi-media clients
                - Omni-directional Antenna, radio equipment etc.
        
        Access  to the wireless LAN would be provided to following
        center by installing directional antenna on the rooftop.
        
                  - Sugar factory
                  - Dairy
                  - WAGPCOS
                  - Warana Bazar
                  - Mahatma Gandhi Hospital
                  - Warana Bhagini Mandal
                  - Warana Co-operative Bank
        
        Each of these centres will require following hardware  and
        software :-
        
                - 12 port 10/100-Base T Hub
                - Two Windows-95 multi-media clients
                - Radio equipment with directional Antenna
        
        4.2  Engineering College
        
                This   will   be  the  hub  for  intranet  of  all
        educational institutes. A High speed  IPA  VSAT  would  be
        installed  on  the  roof  of  the  building which would be
        connected  to  a  hub/switch  for  Internet  access.   All
        existing  machines would be integrated in LAN environment,
        and a proxy server installed which will act as firewall to
        Internet. The same server will also function as  email/DNS
        server.  Following  are the hardware and software proposed
        to be installed in addition to the existing systems :-
        
                - One Win-NT Server with proxy software
        
        4.3  IT Centers
        
                 Six villages (highly  populated)  are  identified
        for  IT centre. These centers will have 8 to 10 computers,
        and will be provided with  receive  only  VSAT  (DirecPC),
        along  with  dial-up  link.  The  operating  system on the
        computers would be Windows-95, and HTML browser  installed
        for  accessing  Web-server.  Eudora  email client would be
        installed for SMTP mail service.  The  computers  will  be
        installed  in  LAN  environment  using  structured cabling
        techniques.  Currently  following   villages   have   been
        identified for setting up IT centers :-
        

                - Mangale (West)
                - Pargaon (South)
                - Dhole (East)
                - Nagaon (North)
                - Satwe
                - Kodoli
        
        Following  are  the  hardware  and software proposed to be
        installed in addition to the existing systems :-
        
                - DirecPC VSAT
                - 12 port 10/100-Base T Hub
                - 9  Windows-95  Multimedia   systems   (one   for
                  DirecPC)
                - Two 132 column DMP
                - One 33.6 Kbps modem
                - One 2 KVA UPS with one hour battery backup
        
        4.4  Facilitation booth
        
                Facilitation   booths  are  to  be  set-up  in  70
        villages. This centre will have  one  multimedia  computer
        equipped  with a high speed modem (33.6 Kbps), for dial-up
        link. The protocol used would be SLIP/PPP.  The  operating
        system  on  the  computer  would  be  Windows-95, and HTML
        browser installed for accessing Web-server.  Eudora  email
        client would be installed for SMTP mail service.
        
        Following  are  the  hardware  and software proposed to be
        installed in addition to the existing systems :-
        
                - 1 Windows-95 Multimedia system
                - One 33.6 Kbps modem
                - One Hand-held Scanner
                - One 132 Column DMP
                - One Bar-Code reader
                - One 1 KVA UPS with 30 minutes battery backup

                            PROPOSAL FOR APPLICATIONS


        
                The various application software envisaged can  be
        classified in following three categories.
        
                 1. Web-based  :  This  covers  information  to be
                    accessed in HTML  format  for  retrieval  from
                    facilitation    booths,    e.g.   schemes   of
                    employments,  procedure  information,   public
                    grievance and redressal.
        
                 2. Multipurpose  Identification  Number  based  :
                    This covers applications and databases  linked
                    with Multipurpose Identification Number (MIN),
                    proposed  to  be  assigned  to  each  villager
                    through  health  card  scheme,   e.g.   Animal
                    husbandry,   Hospital  Management  Information
                    System (HMIS).
        
                 3. Stand-alone   :    These    are    specialised
                    applications   for  MIS,  EDP  requirement  of
                    individual business  centers,  e.g.  Inventory
                    Control.
        
        5.1  Multipurpose Identification Number (MIN)
        
        The system of assigning Multipurpose Identification Number
        (MIN)  to  each  villager need to be implemented. For this
        purpose it is proposed to issue every  villager  a  health
        card  from Mahatma Gandhi Hospital which is having current
        capacity of 150 beds. This will be multiple utility  card.
        This  card will have 14 digit identification number, which
        will be called Multipurpose Identification  Number  (MIN).
        These  14  digits  consist of state, district, village and
        person's serial number in the village. The card will  have
        a  hologram,  bar coded MIN. Necessary database need to be
        built up at hospital for each person having  health  card.
        For  maintaining  this  database  one high-end server will
        need to be installed in the hospital. This server will  be
        accessed  over  wireless  LAN  and  dial-up  through Sugar
        administrative building. The cards  will  be  prepared  at
        hospital over span of 2-3 months. The person would need to
        visit  hospital  for  this purpose. The card can be issued
        from facilitation booth of the corresponding village.  The
        cost  of  issuing this card may be decided by officials of
        the co-operatives. Initial information for the card can be
        collected at information booth, where  the  data  will  be
        entered. Appointment at the hospital for taking photo etc.
        can be given at this time. Following hardware and software
        is required for this system to be installed at hospital:
        
                - One Windows-NT Server (10 user licence)
                - Ten Windows-95 Clients
                - 12 port 10/100-Base T Hub
        
        Advantage and utility of the card include :
        
         1. If  blood  is  donated by person, the system will help
            him to get free blood when it is needed.
        
         2. A  villager  can  visit  the  facilitation  booth  for
            transacting  his  routine  business  with  the help of
            card, e.g. checking accounts with bank, sugar factory,
            dairy, registering grievance.
        
         3. Pathological Laboratory reports from the hospital  can
            be accessed from the facilitation booth.
        
         4. The credit facility at Warana Bazar can be facilitated
            through the card.
        
         5. The  database  of  20,000 members of Sugar factory and
            Dairy and their family  i.e.  nearby  1,00,000  people
            would be readily available on computer.
        
        5.2  Grievance Registration & Redressal
        
                The    chairman    of    co-operatives    receives
        approximately 300 grievances per day from  villagers.  The
        facilitation    counters,    would    provide    grievance
        registration facility at certain nominal cost. This  is  a
        Web-based  application  which  would record the grievances
        and redressals would be accessed using HTML  browser.  The
        system  will help villagers to get redressal at the booth,
        there by reducing travel. The health card number  will  be
        used  to  register  the  grievance. The same system can be
        used to register suggestions.
   
        5.3  Web-Based Applications 
        
                Following  applications   are   proposed   to   be
        web-based since the data is mostly static in nature :-
        
                 1. Crop Guide
                 2. Schemes of department of agriculture
                 3. Schemes of Employment
                 4. Procedure Information at collectorate
                 5. Village information
                 6. Vocational Guidance
                 7. Agriculture  Produce Market Information System
                    (APMIS).
        
                This information will be ported on the  web-server
        in sugar administrative building.
        
        5.4  MIN-based Applications
        
                These  are  applications and databases linked with
        Multipurpose Identification Number (MIN), proposed  to  be
        assigned  to  each  villager through health card scheme as
        follows :-
        
                 1. Registration of cane harvesting and cutting
                 2. Milk Collection Payment system
                 3. Banking software (Technical advice only)
                 4. EDI
                 5. Land Record
                 6. Villager's database at hospital and its access
                    at booths
                 7. Hospital Management Information System (HMIS)
        
        5.5  Stand-alone Applications
        
                These are specialised applications  for  MIS,  EDP
        requirement of individual business centers as follows :-
        
                 1. Store  inventory control for Sugar factory and
                    Warana Bazar
                 2. Author NIC (AUTNIC)
                 3. CAPES
                 4. Bar-coding of product/items in Warana Bazar
                 5. Inventory control for Warana Bazar
                 6. Geographical Information System (GIS)
        
                AUTNIC and CAPES will  be  ported  on  systems  at
        IT-Centre  for  tele-education  purpose.  This would be in
        addition  to  CBT  material  that  would  be   ported   on
        web-server.  The  question  bank and CBT material for this
        application would be obtained from educational  institutes
        at  Warana Nagar, or through suitable educational research
        institutes in Maharashtra.


                             IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY


        
        The project is proposed to be implemented by  10th  August
        1998, by the following agencies :-
        
                - National     Informatics     Centre,    Planning
                  Commission, Government of India (NIC)
        
                - Directorate    of    Information     Technology,
                  Government of Maharashtra (GoM)
        
                - Warana  Sahakari  Dudh Utpadan Prakriya Limited,
                  Warana Nagar, Maharashtra (WSDUPL)
        
        Implementation of the project would be as follows :-
        
                 1. All hardware as per  Annexure-I  required  for
                    the  project need to be made available by 10th
                    July 1998 at Warana  Nagar  at  the  following
                    address :-
        
                   Mr. G. D. Patil
                   Tatya Saheb Kore
                   Institute of Engineering & Technology,
                   C/o Warana Vibhag Sikshan Mandal,
                   Warana Nagar,
                   Kolhapur,
                   Maharashtra,
                   Pin - 416 113
        
                 2. Site   for   installation   of   computers  at
                    Facilitation  booths,  and  IT  centers   with
                    telephone  lines and electrical wiring need to
                    be completed by 10th July 1998.  Site  diagram
                    would  be  made  available by NIC by 30th June
                    1998.
        
                 3. Construction of a mast for Radio LAN at  sugar
                    administrative  building  need to be completed
                    by 15th July 1998. A team from NIC(HQ) need to
                    carry out necessary survey,  installation  and
                    commissioning of the radio equipment.
        
                 4. Installation  of network and computer hardware
                    at all locations need to be completed by  25th
                    July 1998.

                 5. GoM to make available Local language (Marathi)
                    support   including  dialectic  variations  on
                    Windows-95,  Windows-NT  and  fonts  for  HTML
                    browsers to NIC on priority.
        
                 6. Following  application  softwares  need  to be
                    ported on servers in Warana Nagar .
        
                - Crop Guide
                - Schemes of department of agriculture
                - Schemes of Employment
                - Information  on   multiferious   activities   at
                  Collectorate
                - Village information
                - Vocational Guidance
                - Agriculture  Produce  Market  Information System
                  (APMIS).
                - Land Record
                - Animal Husbandry
                - Store inventory control for sugar factory
                - Author NIC (AUTNIC)
                - CAPES
                - Hospital Management Information System(HMIS)
                - Grievance Registration & Redressal
        
                 7. The design and generation of the  Multipurpose
                    Identity  card and related database to be made
                    by Govt. of Maharashtra.
        
                 8. Necessary   Data   Entry   for    the    above
                    applications  need  to  be completed by Warana
                    Co. Op.
        
                 9. EDI, HMIS and Education CBT systems are to  be
                    customised  and  implemented  by the concerned
                    groups of NIC(HQ). Data on  Rural  technology,
                    IRDP schemes, Tele Education etc. will also be
                    made available by concerned groups of NIC(HQ).
        
                10. Software  for  Bank computerisation need to be
                    out-sourced  as  it  is  specialised  software
                    requiring  high level of security and software
                    delivery and implementation is very short.
        
                11. Following hardware and software will  be  used
                    by     NIC(WR),    Pune    for    development,
                    customisation and implementation :

                - Two Number of Windows NT server
                - 10 Multimedia Windows-95 Client
                - Proxy server Software
                - One GIS Software
                - One Laser Printer
                - Visual Foxpro 5.0 Professional  for  Windows  NT
                  with 10 user licence
                - One MS-Visual Studio Software
                - Five  sets  of  ISM  Fonts with Marathi S/W with
                  GIST SDK
                - One copy of UDB RDBMS Software
        
                12. Two qualified personnel  are  required  to  be
                    employed at Sugar Administrative Building, and
                    one  each  at Dairy, bank and hospital for the
                    following jobs
        
                - Web, DNS/Email Administration
                - Windows-NT, Solaris Administration
                - Database Administration
        
                13. Two qualified operators at IT Centre  and  one
                    at   each   facilitation   booth  need  to  be
                    recruited
        
                14. Selected   teaching   staff    members    from
                    engineering  college  to  be trained by GoM in
                    first week of July-1998.
        
                15. Project Co-ordination committee is set up  for
                    the project as follows :-
        
                - Chairman :
                        - Dr.   N.  Vijayaditya,  Deputy  Director
                          General, NIC
        
                - Members :
                        - Shri  D.  P.  Bobde,  Senior   Technical
                          Director, NIC
                        - Dr.   (Mrs.)   S.   S.  Dash,  Technical
                          Director, NIC
                        - Shri   R.   L.    Mopalwar,    Director,
                          Directorate  of  Informatics, Government
                          of Maharashtra
        
                - Member-Convener :
                        - Shri  Vinay  Kore,   Chairman,   WSDUPL,
                          Warana, Maharashtra
        
                16. Project  Implementation Committee is set up as
                    follows for the  timely  implementing  of  the
                    project :-
        
                - Chairman :
                        - District  Collector,  Kolhapur District,
                          Maharashtra : Chairman
        
                - Members :
                        - Shri  Amitav  Deb,  Technical  Director,
                          NIC(WR)
                        - Shri  R.  R.  Rane,  Technical Director,
                          NIC(WR)
                        - Shri Rajesh Kale, Business Co-ordinator,
                          WSDUPL
        
                - Member-Convener :
                        - District   Informatics   Officer,   NIC,
                          Kolhapur District Unit

                             PROJECT RESPONSIBILITIES


        
                Division   of   responsibilities   among   various
        agencies for implementation of  the  project  will  be  as
        follows :-
        
        7.1  Responsibilities of NIC
        
                 1. Supply of hardware, networking sub-systems and
                    associated software as per Annexure-I.
        
                 2. Installation of intranet and configuration
        
                 3. Providing site preparation guidelines
        
                 4. Developing,     porting    and    implementing
                    application softwares
        
                 5. User-level training on application softwares
        
        7.2  Responsibilities of Govt. of Maharashtra
        
                 1. Procure Hardware and  Software  items  as  per
                    Annexure-I.
        
                 2. Bar coding of product/items at Warana Bazar.
        
                 3. Design   and  Preparation  of  MIN  card  with
                    hologram, bar  code  and  creating  villager's
                    database
        
                 4. Purchase of GPSS system
        
        7.3  Responsibilities of WSDUPL
        
                 1. Procure  Hardware  and  Software  items as per
                    Annexure-I.
        
                 2. Providing site and site preparation
        
                 3. Provide   10   telephone   lines   at    Sugar
                    Administrative  building,  and  1  each  at IT
                    centre and Facilitation booth.
        
                 4. Data    coding,    entry,    validation    and
                    authentication for all applications

                 5. Recruiting technical manpower for managing all
                    centers
        
                 6. Providing  necessary infrastructure support to
                    the staff of NIC on tour to the sites.

  
        8.1  Annexure-I
        
        8.1.1  Hardware and Software Requirement
        
The following table shows total  quantity  of  each  hardware  and
software item required. Subsequent columns shows responsibility of
NIC, GoM, and WSDUPL to procure these items.


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 Seq            Item                             Qty. NIC GoM WSDUPL 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   1  IPA V-SAT                                    2   2             
   2  R. O. V-SAT/DirecPC                          6   6             
   3  Radio Hub with Omni Directional Antenna      1   1             
   4  Remote with Unidirectional Antenna           7   7             
   5  Win-NT Server(One with two Ethernet Cards)  10   10            
      one with higher configuration for GIS                          
   6  Multimedia Clients on Windows 95            150  40 110        
   7  33.6 Kbps Modem                             80   80            
   8  132 Column Dot Matrix Printer               75   75            
   9  Laser Printer                                1   1             
  10  Hand-held Scanner                           70            70   
  11  Bar Code Printer                             2             2   
  12  Hand-held Bar Code Reader                   76            76   
  13  DeskJet (Colour) Printer                     1             1   
  14  Digitiser (A0 size)                          1             1   
  15  Plotter (A0 size)                            1             1   
  16  Scanner (A4 size, colour)                    1             1   
  17  Procurement & Digitisation of Maps           1       1         
  18  1 KVA UPS with 30 minutes Backup            90       90        
  19  2 KVA UPS with 1 hour Backup                 9             9   
  20  GIS Software                                 2   2             
  21  Visual Studio-97                             3   3             
  22  Office-97                                   72   72            
  23  Proxy Server S/W on Win-NT                   2   2             
  24  Windows NT Server S/W                       10   10            
  25  ISM Fonts for Marathi S/W with GIST SDK     70   70            
  26  LEAP office/publishing suite with ISM        3   3             
  27  DB2 RDBMS S/W                                6   6             
  28  Front Page Software                          3   3             
  29  Visual Foxpro on Windows                     7       7         
  30  12 port 10/100-Base T Hub                    7             7   
  31  UTP CAT-5 Cable (Meter)                     200           200  
  32  Jack Panel                                   7             7   
  33  Information Out-lets                        60            60   
  34  12 port LAN Access Server                    1             1   
  35  Patch cords                                 120           120  
  36  Application Software From NIC                1   1             
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



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Institution Name Phone No. Contact Person
Engineering College 02328-24030 Mr G.D. Patil(Secretary)
Mr Phalle (Professor)
Mr Talange
Warna Bazar 02328-24088 Mr Sharath Mahajan
Mr Sopal
Sugar Industry  02328-24080
02328-24086
Mr. Chavan,
Mr Chilley(C.A.O)
Dairy  02328-24181
02328-24186
Mr. Gulve(MD)
Mr. Vale (Secretary)
Mr. Manurkar(C.A.O.)
Hospital - Dr. Vijay Kore(Chief director)
Bank - Mr Desai(MD)
Grievances 02328-24333 Mr. Viswas Jadhav (PA, Chairman)
Capes/AUTHNIC - Mr Phalle (Professor)
Mr Talange
Land Record - Mr Radkar