Odisha State Centre

Shri Rajiv Rathi, Deputy Director General and HoG (NeVA), NIC, New Delhi visited Odisha Legislative Assembly (OLA) on 20th March to review the progress of NeVA implementation in Odisha.

Shri Rathi visited the Digital House, Neva Cell and Neva Seva Kendra of the OLA and assessed the progress of the work. He inspected the newly installed i-Pads in the House for the Honourable Members and the networking system to implement Digital house.

The appraisal meeting was held at NeVA Seva Kendra in the presence of Shri Dasarathi Satpathy,I.A.S, Secretary, Shri Satish Kumar Meshra, Joint Secretary, Odisha Legislative Assembly, technical team of NeVA project and other officials. Shri Ashok Rout, Joint Director (IT) gave a brief presentation on the implementation and informed that Odisha is the 1st State to present Odisha Budget completely in Digital Mode on NeVA.

Discussing on NeVA building blocks Joint Secretary highlighted on networking of 380+ nodes, wi-fi connectivity, dedicated Video Conferencing Studio, 1 GBps NICNET connectivity, SWAN integration etc.

Shri Rathi expressing his satisfaction on the progress and stressed upon having redundant internet backbone availability and advised to complete all dry runs (testing) during next two months’ time as there is no business day in House now.   He asked to focus on continuous capacity building of Honourable Members, their PS / PAs, and technical support staff.

Secretary acknowledged the effort of NIC not only for implementing NeVA modules but also for developing applications to fulfil in-house needs and assured that within a fortnight the House would be ready to go Digital.

eDAR(Electronic Detailed Accident Report) is an extension of iRAD (Integrated Road Accident Database) and can process the Accident claims of the victims in a transparent and hassle free manner by the different stakeholders for Motor Accident Compensation Claim. To kick-off the implementation of e-DAR, in Odisha, a state level workshop was organized by State Transport Authority (STA),Odisha on 16th Dec 2023 at District Culture Office Auditorium, Puri. 

Shri Sunil Kumar Bansal, IPS, Director General of Police, Odisha inaugurated the state level workshop on eDAR in presence of all DIOs, DRMs and RTOs along with other senior officers from NHAI, R&B, Police, Transport and other stakeholders of Road Safety cell.

Senior Dignitaries present in the workshop included Shri Amitabh Thakur, IPS, Transport Commissioner, Shri Shefeen Ahamed, IPS, IG of Police (CID-CB), Shri Lal Mohan Sethy, Addl. Commissioner (Road Safety), Dr. Kenwar Bansal Singh, IPS, SP,Puri, Dr. Ashok Kumar Hota, DDG & SIO, Dr. Rama Krushna Das, DDG & ASIO, NIC, Shri P.K.Mohanty, Joint Commissioner (Road Safety), Shri Prasanta Kumar Nayak, Sr. Director (IT) and State Transport Coordinator, NIC, Odisha.

Shri Pawan Gupta, Project Manager, iRAD,NICSI, New Delhi explained how e-DAR will be used by different stakeholders and the requisite forms are to be filled up so that it can be helpful to the beneficiary.

It was planned to identify Nodal Officers / Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for states / UTs & Nodal Officers for MACT, LSA, Insurance, CWC etc. Authentication over demo site would be shared for practice and stakeholders can share their feedback.

The event was successfully coordinated by Shri Rabin Patnaik, RTO, Puri. The workshop ended with the Vote of thanks by Shri P.K. Mohanty, Joint Commissioner Road Safety, STA Odisha.