By NNN-APP
Islamabad : Ministry of Information Technology (MOIT) is in process of providing e-services for Ministry of Population Welfare to eliminate the redundant steps of collecting the information from the districts and provincial offices of the Ministry.
Under the project which is expected to be completed by October this year, an online integrated web-based MIS is being developed, sources at Electronic Government Directorate, MoIT said here Saturday.
The sources said all the offices of the Ministry at district, federal and provincial level would use the MIS to update the relevant set of data. They said 12 regional training institutes across the country, two population welfare training institutes, one central warehouse and supplies, Karachi and two research institutes will also be automated to share the relevant data with federal offices of the Ministry at Islamabad.
Training of online MIS will be provided to concerned officials of districts, provincial and federal offices, they added.Talking about the other objectives, the sources said it also aims at establishing Local Area Network (LAN) of 340 nodes with provision of 126 computers at provincial welfare departments (Punjab, Sindh, NWFP and Balochistan) and district offices.
Some model districts have been chosen for the project, they added.
Giving overview of the project, the sources said there are three reporting tiers of the Ministry which are district population welfare offices, provincial welfare departments and Ministry of Population Welfare, Islamabad.
They said grass roots level information is collected in districts offices which gather information from respective talukas. Similarly, the provincial offices collect and compile the information from respective districts and submit at federal office, the sources said and added finally the data is analyzed at federal ministry of population welfare, Islamabad.