Centre for e-Governance Inaugurated

Shri Pramod Mahajan, Hon’ble Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Information Technology and Shri Arun Shourie, Hon’ble Minister of State of Disinvestment and Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances inaugurated the Centre for e-Governance at Electronics Niketan, Department of Information Technology recently.

Promoted by the Department of Information Technology and managed by C-DAC, the Center aims at showcasing the best practices in the area of e-Governance, conduct programmes to create awareness amongst decision makers in the Central and State Governments, demonstrate the feasibility of the concept of e-Governance and assist the Central and State Governments in defining and implementing policy and process changes.
On the occasion, Shri Prabhat Kumar, Cabinet Secretary released the brochure outlining the activities of the Centre. Shri B. B. Tandon, Secretary, Dept. of Personnel and Training, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pension, also released a multimedia CD installed at a kiosk at the Centre describing the activities of the Centre.

e-Governance Solutions for Maharashtra
Government from C-DAC

His Excellency, Dr. P.C. Alexander, Governor of Maharashtra inaugurated the computerization project of the Registration Department at the Sub-Registrar Haveli 1 Office, at Pune with the implementation of the SARITA software.

As a turnkey solution provider for the State Government of Maharashtra, C-DAC has been entrusted with the task of developing specific e-Governance solutions for the Public Works Department, Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation, Legislative Assembly and Council and the Department of Archives and Registration. One of the e-Governance solutions developed by C-DAC is for stamp registration computerization for the State and includes a software package called Stamp and Registration with Information Technology and Administration (SARITA). The SARITA software is presently being installed at the different offices of the Inspector General of Registration in the state.

C-DAC has also offered to computerise registration operations in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat.

PARAM 10000 installed at IISc Bangalore and IIT, Guwahati

An 8 Node PARAM 10000 was installed at the Supercomputering Education and Research Centre at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and IIT Guwahati recently.

A Workshop was also conducted by C-DAC at these institutions to initiate close interaction with researchers in the Institutes and to familiarize them with the optimal usage of PARAM 10000.

The processing nodes of PARAM 10000 are UltraSPARC II and are connected using the PARAMNet. The system will be used by different Applications Depar-tments like Atmospheric Sciences, Mechanical, Structural, Aerospace, Computer Science as well as Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics.

Atmaram Puraskar for Prof. Suraj Bhan Singh

Prof. Suraj Bhan Singh, Advisor in C-DAC, has received the Atmaram Award from the Hon’ble President of India Shri. K.R. Narayanan for his Outstanding Contribution to Language Technology and Technical Writing in Indian Languages on 19th May 2000 at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi. An eminent computational linguist and educationist of national and international repute, Prof. Singh has been closely associated with the C-DAC’s Applied Artificial Intelligence Group in various projects like MANTRA (Machine assisted Translation Tool) and LILA (Learn Indian Languages through Artificial Intelligence) Hindi tutoring software series, and various other computational linguistic programmes.

‘High Performance Computing Applications In Bioinformatics’

‘Having missed the opportunity to contribute to the first draft of the Human Genome that was announced recently, India should now concentrate on preparing a Gene Plan and participate in the research for tracking the disease causing genes.’ observed Dr. J R Arora, Advisor, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, New Delhi. He was delivering the inaugural address at the workshop on ‘High Performance Computing Applications In Bioinformatics’ organized by C-DAC in Pune recently.

Elaborating further, Dr. Arora emphasized on the role of C-DAC in addressing the problems and issues in the areas of Data Warehousing, Sequencing applications, Computing Engine for Genomic Sequences and Data mining for Bioinformatics.

Dr P B Vidyasagar, Director, Bioinformatics Centre of the University of Pune in his Presidential address expressed the need for C-DAC and the Bioinformatics Center with the Pune University to come together to set up an institute of Bioinformatics, which could conduct courses and train students in this specialized field.

Speaking on the occasion, Shri R K Arora, Executive Director, C-DAC, elaborated on the role of C-DAC in the field of Bioinformatics and the High Performance Computing applications developed on PARAM for this purpose.

Advanced Techniques In Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

The workshop organised by C-DAC, from August 07 10, 2000, covered a range of subjects discussed through classroom and practical sessions, such as Map projections, GIS data models and structures, Data capture into GIS, Visualization of spatial data, Query, Analysis, Modeling in GIS, GIS and Data Warehousing, Web GIS, Digital cartography, Customized GIS and Introduction to Remote Sensing and Image Processing.

Solaris System Administration

A Solaris System Administration workshop was conducted by C-DAC from August 22 to 25, 2000. Professional System Administrators representing software development firms, Internet Solution Providers, academic and third party Service Providers participated in the workshop. The workshop conducted hands on sessions covering hardware like Solaris Machines including Sun Enterprise - 450, Sun Enterprise - 250, Sun Ultra - 10, Sun Super Sparc - 20 & Intel platforms.

GIST bags export order for LIPS

C-DAC’s GIST bagged its first export order for the supply of the LIPS Advanced Creation station from an organisation in the UK for the installation of the system in Mauritius.