Initiative for functional improvement of through E Governance- A daylong Training & User Consultation Workshop on Management Information System (MIS) for monitoring of Centrally Sponsored Schemes, Flagship programmes and for Decentralized Planning Practices was held at Assam Administrative Staff College (AASC) Khanapara, Guwahati on September 27, 2010. The Planning & Development in association with NIC Assam State Unit has organized the workshop with a view to implement the government’s decision on E Governance initiatives for functional improvement, particularly for improvement of delivery of services to the citizens. ADCs in charge of District Development  and DIOs of various districts of the state attended the workshop.

Inaugurating the workshop, Kumar Sanjay Krishna, Principal Secretary, P & D emphasized on the necessity of visibility in performance and accountability keeping in view socio economic needs. He further stressed on the need to equip the government machinery with modern techniques to meet the challenges in the face of changed socio economic environment.

The workshop was conducted by the Secretary P & D Shri Shyam Jagannathan.  Discussions were held in detail on the software ‘PLANPLUS’ – which was introduced to facilitate decentralized planning process through (a) convergence of the flow of funds from different sources, (b) by integrating the rural and urban plans to generate the district plans, to bring about total transparency in the plan approval process. Demonstrations on the use of Management Information System for monitoring of Centrally Sponsored Schemes,  Bharat Nirman and Flagship Programmes were also held  for  online collection of information for monitoring of progress of Schemes at the district level. Other important topics discussed were progress of schemes under Non-Lapsable Central Pool of Resources (NLCPR) and twenty point programmes in the Districts.