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SNJB’s Late Sau. K. B. Jain College of Engineering

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INDEX

Sr. No. Ministry Problem Statement Page No.

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Students’ Innovations Problem Statements(s): 6

Software

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2 Hardware- Import Substitution (Reverse Import) 3 Hardware- Agriculture 4 Hardware- Automobiles 5 Hardware- Medical devices 6 Hardware- Security & Surveillance 7

AICTE Problem Statements(s): 6

Dashboard for all AICTE Initiatives & Schemes

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8 Smart editor: A tool for fetching and editing information from scanned document mainly image type

9 Mobile App for SansadAdarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY)

10 ZilaVikasManch (ZIVIMA) – District Development Portal

11 Dashboard for all MHRD Initiatives & schemes

12 Prediction of Admission & Jobs in Engineering & Technology with respect to demographic locations

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Department of Defence Production, Ministry of Defence

Problem Statements: 13

Digital Signature Verification in Local Area Network using ASP.Net & C#

9 14 Paper-Less Office 15 Creation of Mail Dashboard

16 Common Portal for information sharing among Defence Shipyard PSUs

10 17 Group Messaging Solution

18 Prototype/application for controlling wireless connectivity inside the premises

19 Prototype/application for white listing of USB devices in OFB which can be subsequently used on internet as well as on intranet 11

20 Design of cyber physical surveillance system for smart cars

21 Vision based algorithm for sensing of railway tracks.

12 22

Real-Time image processing and forensic verification of documents

23 Atmospheric Turbulence Mitigation In CCD/TI Videos

24 Tool for Transformation of Geodetic Datum’s (Coordinate Systems)

13 25

To detect anomaly in current ship trajectory based on historical data

26 Department of Food and Public

Distribution, Ministry of Consumer affairs, food and public distribution


E-Governance via online & offline server

14 27

Develop device to aggregate internet bandwidth of 2/3/4 G connectivity, alternate use of SIM’s from different service providers

28 Capture moister, temperature, fire and earth quake related information using sensors and send alerts using

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IoT technology 29 Integration with Moisture meter 15

30 Working on offline-online application and sync the data

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31 Department of Telecommunications. Ministry of Communication


To develop App and SMS based application which can measure the received mobile signal level at any location. 17

32 The present guidelines of DoT HQ do not allow more than nine mobile connections to an individual.

33

Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare


Technology to enable seamless marketing of agri commodities beyond the current geographic clusters

18 34 Translate weather information to very actionable advisory to farmers

35 Real time identification of crops, weeds, diseases and pest damage and nutrient deficiency symptoms

36 Identify quality index of the fruit/vegetable by non-destructive or with minimal destructive methods

19 37 Development of a multilingual Mobile App for deep sea fishermen

38 Marketing network for agricultural commodities for the benefit of producer and consumer

39 Forewarning system for disease/pest attack for different commodities in different agro-climatic zones

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Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology(MeitY)


Retrofitting of existing vehicles for converting to Electric Vehicle (EV) 21

41 Automatic Information Collection System (AICS)

42 Computerized Application for Paper-less Examination Screening (CAPES) system for recruitment

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43 Development of a vulnerability scanner

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For online Job Applications received by NIELIT, the credentials of Candidates (if available on Digital Locker or any other repository) should be verified instantly online

45

Accounting and Payment release process of ESDM Scheme being manual and time consuming as steps involving multiple stakeholders and high number of touch points

46 Create an app that can run on a Windows/Linux based desktop to aid the disabled persons to perform day to day tasks

47 Masking user details on the mobile while transacting And Establishing if a cardholder is shopping from a recognized payment device

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48 Ministry of Road Transport and

Highways


Identification of Accident Prone Spots by the Road Users and their reporting to the concerned Highway Authority

26 49 Meal on Wheels

50 Enablement of Drive-Mode application for Road Safety

51 Games on Road Safety


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52 E-Toll System 27

53 Applications to locate Skilled Labourer for Highway Construction works.

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Ministry of Railways


Public address system

28

55 Machine reading of content of customer feed back 56 Involving Passengers in Upkeep of Railway Stations

57 Management of Railway Rest Houses & Holiday Homes

58 Passenger Security 59 Telecom Connectivity

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60 Maintenance of Coaches & Wagons

61 Drone/Robot based system for cleaning between tracks

62 Development of onboard digital fuel gauge for power cars for fuel monitoring

63

Ministry of Urban development


Posting/ transfers at the level of JE/AE/EE in CPWD 30

64 The impact of GST can vary from sector to sector and depends on whether the project is under execution

65 Inclusive governance and service delivery

31

66 Stakeholder Engagement for Urban Planning and Management

67 Waste Management 68 Urban Mobility 69 Common Mobility App 70 Common Platform for Vehicle Registration 71 e-Measurement Book (eMB) 32 72

Ministry of Women and Child Development


National Creche Portal/App 33 73 Portal for Child Care Institutions 34 74 Grievance Redressal through App and IVR in ICDS 35

75 C2C crowd-sourcing platform for projects on women’s empowerment

36

76 App for training of Elected Women Representatives in Panchayat Raj Institutions

37

77 App with Government Services for women 38

78 Case Management Software for Women Helpline 79 Case Management Software for one stop center (OSC) 39 80

Ministry of Power


Monitoring of electricity at household level 41 81 Efficient, Easy and Integrated Billing System

42 82

Non-availability of the literature related to Geological surprises encountered in completed hydropower projects

83 Integrated Automatic Floor Warning and Alert System using IoT

43

84 Power Customer Interaction 44

85 Prediction of Load demand and Power Availability

86 Government of Maharashtra


Disruption In Teacher Training & Capacity Building

45 87 Mapping and Digitization of Road using Mobile Application for PWD Staff

88 Online DPR Management System


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89 Online PMAY Training modules for ULBs and Citizens

46 90

Online Dashboard for Real Time Monitoring of Projects Status of CSMC approved Projects

91 Power / Water consumption in the offices, schools, hostels and facilities

47 92 Caste Validity Certification System 93 Atrocity Case Management 94 Connected Officers Directory & Calendar 95 Quality of service and Security of kids in the hostel

48 96

Application to map disabled-friendly Locations across Maharashtra

97 Department of Commerce, Ministry

of Commerce & Industry Problem Statements: 3

Chronicle – stories of India’s international trade

49 98

Exim traffic map- Live Logistic congestion indicator & logistic planning tool

99 Devise a model to capture the components of cost for export – “Cost to export” index

100

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)


Visual Inspection of concrete structures by application of Image processing tools

50 101

An app that will give GPS-based Dengue Risk Index. A GPS-enabled Smartphone owner can find the susceptibility to dengue infection at the location where he is. This will be of great use to all sections

102 Anti pilferage and anti adulteration system for fuel road tankers 51

103 Air and Water Quality Care System

104 Risk assessment of fire hazard in coal mines using data analysis 52

105 Smart domestic electric energy management system

106

Cost effective On-Cloud (Privately owned by government) solution for Zero-Day Attack Protection for advanced Persistent Threat/ Advance threat prevention for Government sectors 53

107 Web based Data Analytics software/framework for performing technology impact assessment of any CSIR technologies

108

Smartphone App (Android) for providing agro advisories for medicinal and aromatic growers, entrepreneurs and industries on plant disease/nutrient management, buyer/seller corner and market intelligent

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109 Computational approaches to understand corrosion mechanism under extreme conditions

55 110

Mechanism for prescribing drug in hospitals and its or its substitute availability in the medical shops of the area/ city

111 Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Ministry of

Social Justice & Empowerment Problem Statements: 8

Tracking parking designated for PwDs in external environment

57 112

Mobile app/database on employment opportunities for PwDs in the country.


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113 Digital solution for effective learning of persons with specific learning disabilities

114 Separate banking software for persons with intellectual disabilities including better access to avail ATM services

115 Picture exchange communication software for better understating of persons with intellectual disabilities.

58 116

Development of customized keyboard for use of persons with intellectual disabilities

117 Mobile app for assessment of reading skill, arithmetic skills etc.

118 Online system for skill training and employment including management of database of skilled PwDs

119

Department of Post, Ministry of State(IC) of Communications


DOP network has approximately 30,000 locations across India and divided into Circle. The problem is SLA reporting, SLA calculations, payment processing and payment projection for future.

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120 Devising methodology and a system for tackling the flow of data related to mail operations under low bandwidth/failure of network. 60

121 Mechanization of parcel sorting at parcel processing centers (parcel hubs)

122 Design and demonstrate a digital addressing system as an extension of the existing PIN code

61 123 Design of parcel drop off kiosk and integration with the present Departmental software ecosystem which is offline as well as the proposed online ecosystem

124 Cost calculation system for products which have to travel across multiple offices

125 End to End mapping of Network to arrive at the expected time of delivery

62 126

Digital Addressee System with Unique address for each addressee location

127 Load management for transport planning 128 Important Links 63


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Problem Statement in Various Research Domains

Students’ Innovations

PROBLEM STATEMENTS: 6

1. Software Sector: Technology Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 106 #SIC6

2. Hardware- Import Substitution (Reverse Import) Sector: Infrastructure Category: hardware Priority: high Total Submissions: 12 #SIC5

3. Hardware- Agriculture Sector: Farmer Welfare Category: hardware Priority: high Total Submissions: 50 #SIC4

4. Hardware- Automobiles Sector: Infrastructure Category: hardware Priority: high Total Submissions: 41 #SIC3

5. Hardware- Medical devices Sector: Health & Social Welfare

Category: hardware Priority: high Total Submissions: 20 #SIC2

6. Hardware- Security & Surveillance Sector: Infrastructure Category: hardware Priority: high Total Submissions: 67 #SIC1


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Ministry: AICTE

Problem Statements(s): 6

1. Dashboard for all AICTE Initiatives & Schemes:

Sector: Education & Skills Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 54 #AICTE6

AICTE has come out with many initiatives and also running number of schemes for its stake holders. In order to

display the status of all Initiatives and Schemes on single window a Dashboard is required.

2. Smart editor: A tool for fetching and editing information from scanned document mainly image type. Sector: Education & Skills Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 32 #AICTE5

A tool for fetching and editing information from scanned document mainly image type.

3. Mobile App for SansadAdarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) Sector: Education & Skills Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 37 #AICTE4

Under SansadAdarsh Gram Yojana, the Hon’ble Members of Parliament are adopting villages for their overall

development. The mobile app should be able display notifications, details of villages adopted, details of Hon’ble

M.Ps, details of the institutions associated with the adopted villages, details of Program conducted & developmental

activities initiated under SAGY.

4. ZilaVikasManch (ZIVIMA) – District Development Portal Sector: Education & Skills Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 33 #AICTE3

A portal needs to be developed to facilitate district collector to upload the district specific problems, projects etc.

The portal should be accessible to all the institutes so that the students can select the problems as their project work

and submit solution in the form of report. The portal should have a provision for online interaction between district

Authorities (respective department officials) and the concerned student group/Institute.

5. Dashboard for all MHRD Initiatives & schemes Sector: Education & Skills Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 7 #AICTE2

MHRD has come out with many initiatives and also running number of schemes for different type of stake holders.

In order to display the status of all Initiatives and Schemes on single window a Dashboard is required.

6. Prediction of Admission & Jobs in Engineering & Technology with respect to demographic locations Sector: Education & Skills Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 15 #AICTE1

Application Software to estimate/forecast employment potential of Graduates/Post Graduates in different

branches/courses (for short term and long term basis) by correlating data from various sources.


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Ministry: Department of Defence Production, Ministry of Defence


1. Digital Signature Verification in Local Area Network using ASP.Net & C#

Sector: Technology Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 17 #MOD13

The objective is to develop a digital signature program for authentication and signing of documents for

internal use of the organization. Problem scenario – I : Each user will be given his/her own eToken

containing a digital signature corresponding to the user. The application should have the following

feature: 1. The application will have to authenticate the user using the public key of the user stored in the

server. Java Applet or any other code segment which has browser dependability issue cannot be used in

the client side, the developer can make use of JavaScript for Client Side Code. 2. The server side code to

be written exclusively in C#. 3. The application should make use of the private key stored in the eToken

and there should be some encryption through the private key and decryption through the public key

happening to authenticate the user. 4. The application should show a False if the logged in user and the

inserted eToken DO NOT MATCH and the result to be True if the inserted eToken and the Logged In

user is a MATCH. Problem scenario – II : A word/pdf/excel document to be uploaded to the server should

get signed on the fly whenever eToken is plugged in. 1. The application has to apply the user’s digital

signature on the document being uploaded and the fly. In the server the signed document will only reside.

2. Java Applet or any other code segment which has browser dependability issue cannot be used in the

client side, the developer can make use of JavaScript for Client Side Code. 3. The server side code to be

written exclusively in C#. 4. The document should be signed using the user’s private key residing in the

eToken. The signature on the document to be verified using the users public key residing on the server.2

Users of this system : The users would be Employees of the organisation for digitally signing documents.

The IT department of the organisation can deploy the Digital signature module in their applications.

Technology that can help address the issue : Digital Signature APIs available in ASP.NET. Desired

Solution : a)Authentication of the user using public – private key pair b)Digitally signing the document

using private key

2. Paper-Less Office Sector: Governance Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 11 #MOD12

Even if Intranet and Internet application available in PSU computer users, but the usability and success

rate is very less and resistive. Please forward 10 most effective ways to motivate users to use online

applications for better digital India. Please also mention how to overcome resistance by different legal

departments who always ask for ink signed hard copies. Users of this system : All officers and computer

users of our organization Technology that can help address the issue : All forms of digitization and

computer technology to be used. Desired Solution : Paper-Less Office

3. Creation of Mail Dashboard Sector: Technology Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 6 #MOD11

Outgoing Mails & Incoming mails to a particular Mail Id. Within this, segregation should be made

between internal domain & external domain. Day/Week/Month/Year Wise reports should be available.


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Top 10 Mail Id’s by No. Of Mail received / sent, Size of mail Boxes, Total size of Attachments sent /

received should be made available. Inbound & Outbound Mail Analytics to be gathered and shown Users

of this system: : HOD (IT), Mail Administrator Technology that can help address the issue: A JAVA

based in-house Portal can be made with a MYSQL database to store Mail Data. Desired Solution : Better

Management of Mail Boxes. Proactive monitoring.Detecting any suspicious activity.

4. Common Portal for information sharing among Defence Shipyard PSUs Sector: Governance Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 4 #MOD10

The Finished Products as well as input materials of a group of organizations are more or less similar in

nature. The resources, facilities, specialized skills are also common across the sector. Can we build up a

common portal showing spare Resources, Facilities, and Workmen with specialized Skills, Materials with

their detailed description, specifications, spare quantity, /unit Rate, and availability so that all Shipyards

can go through that and instead of going for a new Purchase through a new tendering process, can order it

from another shipyard. Collaboration on sharing Inventory levels for excess items, Specialized Resources

which can be shared in temporary manner among all relevant organisations. Users of this system: A

Single Nodal Officer and HODs of an organisation can access the portal. Nodal officer can upload the

Data. HODs can access the data and determine their requirements. Technology that can help address the

issue: A portal which can be hosted on parent portal site and can be accessed by nominated Officers.

Desired Solution : Better utilization of idle inventory lying at different organizations , Better utilization of

Skilled manpower.

5. Group Messaging Solution Sector: Technology Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 12 #MOD9

Evaluation of a group messaging solution between senior executives of a group of organizations and

concerned ministry’s workforce. The solution should be secure and only encrypted messages should be

allowed, with no uploading of any file. The solution should support Group conference. Development of a

shared & secure messaging solution between Top Management of a group of organisations. Important

discussions, plans can be discussed. Messages to be encrypted while sending & retrieving. The Messaging

server can be kept in ministry. The Messaging client can be installed on Top Management’s Laptops.

Users of this system: Top management of relevant organizations and ministry’s executives. Technology

that can help address the issue: A solution on the template of Google hangouts which can support group

messaging between two executives as well as group messaging. Desired Solution : A safe and secure

professional communication between two people or a group of people when needed.

6. Prototype/application for controlling wireless connectivity inside the premises Sector: Technology Category: hardware Priority: high Total Submissions: 9 #MOD8

Wireless connectivity can be detected by devices that support Wi-Fi connectivity such as laptops, smart

phones, handheld devices etc. from within organizational premises. If password is hacked/known

unsolicited user(s) can access Wi-Fi from within the organizational premises. Mechanism for blocking of

wireless connectivity is not known. Users of this system: Every individual connected to the cyberspace in

O. F. organization which consists of i. User’s who directly access the PCs of the organization. ii. Server

administrators. Technology that can help address the issue: Stationary hi power sensor(s) that detect(s)


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Wi-Fi connectivity inside the premises and debar access is suggested. The system running on the

hardware device/sensor can be developed through java or any other API (Application Programming

Interface). Desired Solution: Stationary hi power sensor(s) that detect(s) Wi-Fi connectivity inside the

premises and debar access is suggested. A prototype is required to be developed for this purpose. This

will ensure full assurance regarding implementation of MoD guideline of not permitting Wi-Fi within

organizational premises.

7. Prototype/application for whitelisting of USB devices in OFB which can be subsequently used on internet as well as on intranet

Sector: Technology Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 2 #MOD7

USB white listing becomes essential for demarcation of pendrives/ external hard drives issued by

organization and fit for use to handle official data. USB white listing can be done in such a manner so that

same USB storage device can be accessed from any PC, server and laptop issued by the organization,

irrespective of their connectivity to the internet or to the intranet. It may also be ensured that the

encryption mechanism remains standard and uniform throughout the organization. Outside systems

should not be able to access such encrypted storage devices. Users of this system: Users using pen drive

to transfer data from Intranet to Internet & vice-versa. Technology that can help address the issue: An

integrated system that will provide MAC addressing based bulk whitelisting of storage media. It can be

developed through java or any other API (Application Programming Interface). Desired Solution: A

prototype/application of national system for media access that will encompass standard

policies/guidelines for media/USB device access control policy and data recovery can be deployed,

preferably open source. There will be improvement in internal efficiency saving of time and effort as well

as improved user experience.

8. Design of cyber physical surveillance system for smart cars Sector: Technology Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 2 #MOD6

Algorithm to be developed for maintaining secure communication for smart cars.Algorithm for situational

awareness. Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are integrations of computation, networking, and physical

processes. Embedded computers and networks monitor and control the physical processes, with feedback

loops where physical processes affect computations and vice versa. The economic and societal potential

of such systems is vastly greater than what has been realized, and major investments are being made

worldwide to develop the technology. The technology builds on the older (but still very young) discipline

of embedded systems, computers and software embedded in devices whose principle mission is not

computation, such as cars, toys, medical devices, and scientific instruments. CPS integrates the dynamics

of the physical processes with those of the software and networking, providing abstractions and modeling,

design, and analysis techniques for the integrated whole. These days the development of smart cars is on

the rise. Self-driving cars equipped with sensors is in high demand in the research field. Users of this

system: The solution will be used for in vehicle communication and vehicle tracking application

Technology that can help address the issue: Sensor integration / Cloud computing Desired Solution : The

solution is to be developed for secure communications between sensors in the car as well as the secure

communication between smart cars to prevent cyber-attacks on smart cars.


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9. Vision based algorithm for sensing of railway tracks. Sector: Technology Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 22 #MOD2

These days the sabotaging of railway tracks has been causing immense accidents and loss of lives.

Algorithm to be developed with the help of computer vision and Internet of Things based methods to

detect any anomaly on the railway tracks. The solution should comprise of sensors which can keep tab on

the railway tracks and the consolidated picture can be seen at a local and global surveillance shelter.

Besides sensor based surveillance the solution should also be camera based and video based surveillance

systems to monitor the railway tracks and detect anomalies within a buffer area of the railway tracks. This

solution should be able to identify/track railway tracks health index and any deterioration must be

accompanied by alerts and alarms and the geo location of the tracks. Sensors needs to be installed on the

tracks and internet based surveillance of tracks shall be developed. Users of this system: The solution will

be used in sensing the railway tracks. Technology that can help address the issue: Sensor integration /

Cloud computing Desired Solution : The solution should be able to identify/track railway tracks health

index and any deterioration must be accompanied by alerts and alarms and the geo location of the tracks.

10. Real-Time image processing and forensic verification of documents Sector: Governance Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 8 #MOD5

The recent advance in the use of image processing applications has benefitted many areas including the

forensic and digital verification techniques in cybercrime detection. At the same time the features of

image processing techniques are used for producing digital evidence in criminal activities. Image

processing tools have been associated with a variety of crimes, including counterfeiting of currency notes,

cheques, as well as manipulation of important government documents, wills, financial deeds or

educational certificates. Users of this system: The solution will help the document verifier/examiner find

out and differentiate a fabricated document with an original one. Technology that can help address the

issue: Open source image processing libraries like OpenCV, AI techniques can be used. Desired Solution

: The solution should focus on the use of image processing tools for the examination of computer-

manipulated documents. The altered documents once examined using a suite of currently available image

processing tools should be capable of detecting computer-based manipulations of written documents.

11. Atmospheric Turbulence Mitigation In CCD/TI Videos Sector: Governance Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 1 #MOD4

Atmospheric turbulence can severely degrade the quality of images (video sequences) produced by long

range observation systems, rendering the images unsuitable for vision applications such as surveillance or

scene inspection. The degradation arises from the complicated, random fluctuations in the refractive index

of the air, caused by the fluctuations in temperature. Sample Data will be provided during

implementation. Users of this system: The tool will be used in video surveillance solution. Technology

that can help address the issue: Open source image processing libraries like OpenCV can be used. Desired

Solution : Restoring a scene distorted by atmospheric turbulence is the scope of the Project / Problem

statement.


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12. Tool for Transformation of Geodetic Datum’s (Coordinate Systems). Sector: Governance Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 0 #MOD3

Geographic Information System (GIS) is used to store, retrieve and render the Earth-relative spatial data.

GIS deals with flat map projections. Geodetic datum uniquely defines each location on Earth’s surface

with coordinates in latitude and longitude. Notable geodetic datum’s are NAD27, NAD83, Everest datum

and WGS84. The coordinates for each point on Earth in one geodetic datum is different from other

geodetic datum. For example, the latitude and longitude of a location in a Everest datum differs from

NAD83 or WGS84. The transformation of one datum to other geodetic datum is known as a datum shift.

GIS applications demand the support for more than one geodetic datum’s for both vector and raster maps,

hence the datum transformations or datum shift are often necessary. Users of this system: The solution

will help Geographic Information System (GIS) based applications which requires different geodetic

datum. Technology that can help address the issue: Any high level Program language, Map data handling

techniques. Desired Solution : The geodetic datum’s transformation tool should have a provision for input

to take map data of one geodetic datum and convert into other geodetic datum for each NAD27, NAD83,

Everest datum and WGS84.

13. To detect anomaly in current ship trajectory based on historical data. Sector: Governance Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 20 #MOD1

The maritime anomaly detection is very crucial in ensuring coastal security of any nation. The ships in sea

follow a common route for a particular source and destination pair. The solution should detect anomaly, if

a ship follows unusual trajectory which is different from the normal route followed by majority of ships.

Sample Data will be provided during implementation. Users of this system: The tool will be used in Ship

Navigation and Guidance solution. Technology that can help address the issue: machine learning / Neural

Networks Desired Solution : A machine learning algorithm is to be designed to extract the normal route

from the historical ship movement data and to predict the class i.e. Normal or anomalous of any given

trajectory.


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Ministry: Department of Food and Public Distribution, Ministry of Consumer affairs, food and public distribution


1. E-Governance via online & offline server

Sector: Governance Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 9 #DFP5

Problem Statement: E-Governance is the need of the hour and many citizen centric services are either online or going to be online. Any citizen to take benefit of these online eGovernance services need to have an access of any computer/mobile and a good internet connection. But citizens are not able to take full benefits of these citizen centrice-Governance services because of Internet connectivity issue. Even at some locations there is no internet connection at some times. As most of the citizen services portals are using text for communication and can a service be developed in the form of mobile app which can have an easy to use GUI and in the background it normally uses internet services and in case the services are not available then automatically it can use encrypted SMSes to request data from server and the server should be able to send the data to the user mobile app via encrypted SMSes which the app can decrypt and provide on the GUI of mobile app. Sample Data Required: No

2. Develop device to aggregate internet bandwidth of 2/3/4 G connectivity, alternate use of SIM’s from different service providers

Sector: Infrastructure Category: hardware Priority: high Total Submissions: 0 #DFP4

Explaining the general problem statement in simple terms: 1. CWC operates warehouses for scientific storage of 400 plus commodities across PAN INDIA. Many of the warehouses are located at remote places across PAN India. 2. The internet connectivity provided either through leased line or MPLS or Broadband or 2/3/4G. 3. This type of connectivity comes at high cost or at some places the connectivity is not feasible or weak or fluctuates, which results in non usage

of software application at these remote places. Expected deliverables : 1. Low cost IT solution preferably around software controlled devices having capability to host multiple SIMs of different service providers of 2/3/4G Internet service providers. 2. The device considers the 2/3/4G connectivity of one or more SIMs of different service provider, in case their signal strength is adequate. And accordingly provide the uninterrupted internet connectivity to the users at these remote warehouses. 3. Additionally, the device can aggregate the 2/3/4G internet bandwidth of multiple SIMs of different Telecom companies for usage of more software users. Sample data: Can visit warehouses for sampling.


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3. Capture moister, temperature, fire and earth quake related information using sensors and send alerts using IoT technology

Sector: Health & Social Welfare Category: hardware Priority: high Total Submissions: 79 #DFP3

Explaining the general problem statement in simple terms: 1. Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC) is into scientific storage and handling services for more than 400 commodities include Agricultural produce, Industrial raw-materials, finished goods and variety of hygroscopic and perishable items. 2. Storage loss of food grains and perishables goods are being controlled through quality control practices including periodic chemical treatment , recording of moisture and other parameters, proper documentation , regular inspection , age analysis , sanitation , physical condition of warehouse. 3. Further storage loss due to atmospheric moisture beyond threshold results in infestation etc and hence damages the food grains/perishables. Expected deliverables: 1. Low cost IT solution preferably around Internet of the things (IoT) sensor and IoT data integration to existing application software. The sensor is expected to auto capture the atmospheric moisture and temperature inside the warehouse. 2. Based on moisture and temperature data so captured, the software should do appropriate data analytics and send timely alert to concern officials of CWC for mitigation and remedial actions arising due to moisture and temperature inside the warehouse. 3. Additionally, IoT sensor can also capture fire, earthquake etc and can alert the respective nearest authority like Fire Station, Hospital, and Police besides alerting CWC officials for mitigation. Sample data: Data to either simulated participants or can visit warehouses for sampling. Some of the quality controls practices documents are available at its website, www.cewacor.nic.in under Documents/Circulars-Guidelines/Technical tab.

4. Integration with Moisture meter Sector: Health & Social Welfare Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 7 #DFP2

Explaining the general problem statement in simple terms: i) Moisture plays a very vital role in the daily operations of FCI. With a change in moisture value, computation of storage loss/ gain

in food grains gets affected. Hence capturing the moisture value is very essential. ii) Food Corporation of India uses moisture meter (a hardware device) developed by different manufacturers. iii) The readings of the moisture meter are noted manually and are fed into DOS (Depot Online System) iv) Since there is a human intervention, there could be chances that the readings noted are erroneous. v) FCI is looking for a solution where the readings of the moisture meter are captured directly from the moisture meter into DOS or any other software application what FCI is using. vi) The manufacture has to provide the necessary APIs so that they can be integrated with less effort Technology that can address this issue partially: i) Technology to help in identifying the format of the API so that all manufacturers provide the API in the same format so that integration becomes less tedious.


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5. Working on offline-online application and sync the data Sector: Health & Social Welfare Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 4 #DFP1

Explaining the general problem statement in simple terms: i) Food Corporation of India (FCI) has envisaged to automate all the depot operations. ii) All the automated operations of the depot can be monitored at District office, Regional office, Zonal office and at HQ on a real time basis iii) To achieve the above, FCI has developed Depot Online System (DOS) as a centralized role based web application which is hosted at a centralized location. iv) Using the URL, all the depot users can login and perform their respective activities. v) Few activities that happen at the depot are sequential in manner. It means activity A has to be completed before starting Activity B. Also, some activities can be parallel activities. For example, a token has to be generated at the depot gate before issuing a gate pass. Generation of gate pass is a must before sending the truck to the weighbridge. Similarly, once a truck after having weighed at the weighbridge, enters the depot, dumps the commodity on the dumping platform, the truck can leave the depot after taking the out weight at the weighbridge. Quality related processes of the dumped commodity can happen in parallel. vi) For all the above activities, a token number will be generated based on the type of operation. This token number will be the reference for any subsequent sequential activity or the parallel activities. The completion of the activity or the complete operation can tracked by the token by number. vii) Using the centralized web application, all the above mentioned sequential and parallel processes are achieved when the network strength and access is good viii) When the network strength is bad or no network or centralized application is down, the automated operations at the depot end are to be performed without any hindrance. ix) There needs to be a cost effective and efficient solution where all the sequential and parallel depot operations are captured locally without any loss of data. x) Once the network strength is good or network is restored or centralized application is up, all the locally captured data needs to be synced with the centralized data. xi) The locally hosted application should be intelligent enough to either capture the data locally in case there is no network and should capture the data centrally when the network goes up. xii) In the current implementation, the offline (no network scenario) is captured through excel sheets provided in a prescribed format and these excel sheets gets uploaded to the centralized application once the network is up. This is not a foolproof mechanism and the data entered into the excel sheet could be erroneous. This causes uncertainty and difficulty in getting the real time data. xiii) The solution is required particularly for depot level role users and on an average there will be 6 personnel per depot who will be doing the transactions. Solution should be scalable to all the FCI depots Technology that can address this issue partially: i) Alocalhost application which captures the data locally and transfers the captured information to the subsequent operations seamlessly. ii) A cost effective solution preferably using open source technologies.


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Ministry: Department of Telecommunications. Ministry of Communication


1. To develop App and SMS based application which can measure the received mobile

signal level at any location. Sector: Infrastructure Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 16 #DOT3

and present the same in pictorial format to the user so as to assess the Quality of service in that location (i)Pushing and aggregation of the information collected as above to a central location so as to get a meaningful coverage quality measurement for different TSPs and will generate a feedback regarding mobile network QoS. (ii)The app shall have feature of functioning in offline mode and data shall be pushed to server when the coverage is available. Expected Outcome: Licensor/ Regulator and finally the TSP’s can take proactive measure for network quality improvement based on the feedback of common man.

2. The present guidelines of DoT HQ do not allow more than nine mobile connections to an individual.

Sector: Infrastructure Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 7 #DOT1

Thus, it implies that even the connections have been obtained from different Telecom Service Providers (TSPs), the cumulative count should not exceed nine. Since there is no connectivity among the different TSPs’ subscriber databases therefore the TSPs are bound to limit the query within their own database to ensure that the new connection which is going to be activated does not cross the above count. There is no mechanism with TSP to check the no. of connections working for that individual with other TSPs. Expected Outcome An app and web application may be developed through which anyone can query the combined mobile subscriber databases of all the TSPs in a Licensed Service Area (LSA) so that- (i)Any citizen can know the list of mobile connections working against her/ his Aadhaar number in an LSA. This information should be provided in an authentic manner only to actual Aadhaarallottee. (ii) DoT can know the list of mobile connections working against a particular Aadhaar number in an LSA. The application should also be capable of generating the list of those mobile connections, count of which are more than a specific number for a particular Aadhaar number. Additional Information DoT requires each TSP to provide mobile subscriber data in a predefined format at regular intervals. Thus, solution to this problem should consider merging data from all the TSPs


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Ministry: Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare


1. Technology to enable seamless marketing of agri commodities beyond the current

geographic clusters Sector: Farmer Welfare Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 11 #MAF7

1 Technology to enable seamless marketing of agri commodities beyond the current geographic clusters. GOI aimed to achieve this through the eNAM but most trades on eNAM are only intra mandi trades. Grading and fulfilment are critical if marketing of agriculture trades has to start happening between mandis that are far apart. In this context, models like Kalgudi which offer a model of gratification/accreditation (which is common on most e-marketplaces like Amazon, Uber, etc) can be a pathbreaking alternative. 2 Technology backed solutions to deliver a more engaged and learning based capacity building programs to extension workers and farmers. A lot of private sector research is happening in MOOCs to improve learning outcomes for primary school students. Farmer and Extension worker specific effective learning programs should be developed.

2. Translate weather information to very actionable advisory to farmers Sector: Farmer Welfare Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 17 #MAF6

1. Solutions to translate weather information (LT forecast, Weather outlook and 7-day weather forecast) to very actionable advisory to farmers. This can really play a major role in building climate resilience of farmers. 2. Technology solutions to improve traceability in both Agri input supply chains (especially for seeds) and for Agriculture outputs. Technologies like block chains can really help make this a reality 3. Technology solutions that can help crop insurance achieve faster claims processing and settlement. As of today, GOI still uses CCEs to assess crop damage and trigger settlements. There are plenty of moral hazards with CCEs and there is no incentive for farmer to put in good efforts. Can there be a technology based workflow solution that incentivizes good behavior and also can trigger on-demand scalable assessments of crop damage (Possibly drones could be a good technology).

3. Real time identification of crops, weeds, diseases and pest damage and nutrient deficiency symptoms

Sector: Farmer Welfare Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 41 #MAF5

Development of an app for identification of crops, weeds, diseases and pest damage and nutrient deficiency symptoms. The app should have user selection features such that: Item to identify – Crop, Weed, Pest damage, disease damage, nutrient deficiency. The app should have access to the devise’s camera. The developers should have an extensive database of photos of Crops, weeds, other plants, trees, symptoms in the leaves that has been caused by pests, diseases and


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also typical examples of major and minor nutrient deficiency symptoms. The app should have the algorithms for object detection, and image classification Pattern recognition algorithms should be developed to provide a close match for all possible inputs and further get the most likely matching of the inputs. There can also be a pattern matching algorithms, to look for exact matches in the input with pre-existing patterns.

4. Identify quality index of the fruit/vegetable by non-destructive or with minimal destructive methods

Sector: Farmer Welfare Category: hardware Priority: high Total Submissions: 10 #MAF4

The fruits and vegetables are the perishable products. It is important that the consumers know about the quality status of the product they are buying from the market. The seller should also know the status of product quality to avoid selling of the bad quality product to the consumer. So, a device can be developed with appropriate sensors that can show the quality index of the fruit/vegetable by non-destructive or with minimal destructive methods.

5. Development of a multilingual Mobile App for deep sea fishermen Sector: Farmer Welfare Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 9 #MAF3

A mobile App MKrishi@fishereis has been developed by the ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi to aid marine fishermen of the country. The App provides multilingual information on Potential Fishing Zone (PFZ), sea surface temperature, weather and also helps the fishermen in knowing the wind speed and direction and wave heights. However, this Mobile App has some limitations as it can be used only up to a range of 30 km radius from the shore line and the deep sea fishermen who normally venture farther into the ocean are unable to get real time information during fishing operations in the deeper waters of Indian EEZ. This Mobile App can be further enhanced by increasing the range of operation so that it can be made use of by the deep sea fishermen of the country who venture into deeper and farther areas from the coast. The Mob App should also include additional information like Global Positioning System (GPS) indicating real time position, movement and distance covered by the vessel and should provide a means of communication so that the fishermen are able to have regular contact with other boats and shore for their safety.

6. Marketing network for agricultural commodities for the benefit of producer and consumer


Usually the agricultural produce is purchased from the farmers at a low price and sold to the consumers at relatively very high price because of a large number of middlemen involved. Direct contact between the farmer and retail seller or wholesaler can reduce the number of middlemen involved in the marketing chain. A mobile based App that can facilitate the direct contact


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between producer (farmer) and buyer may reduce this wide price gap or a real time interactive system for communication between farmers and Mandis.

7. Forewarning system for disease/pest attack for different commodities in different agro-climatic zones


Farmers generally face problem with disease/pest attack on different varieties. Over the period of time, the severity has increased and resulted in losses of crop. An intelligent system can be attempted with modern analytical tools to support in timely forewarning and remedial measures for the same. System should issue advisory with sms alert in local languages. System should have provision for real time expert advise as an when required in some interactive manner.


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Ministry: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)


1. Retrofitting of existing vehicles for converting to Electric Vehicle (EV)

Sector: Infrastructure Category: hardware Priority: high Total Submissions: 38 #MTY23

Driven by the enormous challenge of reducing oil dependence in India for transportation and also curbing environmental pollution from vehicle emissions in metropolitan cities, rapid adoption of alternate green technologies for vehicles on road is now seen as inevitable. The government’s vision for complete conversion to electric vehicles (EV) by 2030 has provided entrepreneurship opportunities to innovate affordable ways for converting existing petrol and diesel cars into electric cars. The conversion of old vehicles into electric vehicles through retrofitting has already been allowed by the Central Government through official notification. Since an EV has no internal combustion engine, the conversion process involves removal of majority of the vehicle parts related to the fuel combustion system and installing suitable electric powertrain and other systems for better efficiency and reduced travel cost. The challenge is to develop intellectual property (software and hardware) and off the shelf components to create high performance and high efficiency retro-fit kits for existing vehicle models on Indian roads. Advancements in systems integration engineering, controls, battery, electric motor and power electronics technologies have created an opportunity for small and medium scale technology companies and start-ups to design solutions to these problems. With cost of technology, batteries and renewable energy coming down, the solutions can become viable for even mini- and mid-segment car owners. Affordable retro-fit solutions along with their low maintenance costs could trigger mass adoption by both private and commercial vehicle owners in the country.

2. Automatic Information Collection System (AICS) Sector: Technology Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 13 #MTY22

It has been observed that critical piece of information desired by leadership is scattered across various Groups /Divisions /Organisation of MeitY. Manual collection, compilation and consolidation are time consuming exercise. As the above process is manual and it requires huge amount of man hours for mechanical tasks such as circulation, follow-ups & reminders, compilation, consolidation, submission for approvals, and responding back to outside Ministry. These huge man hours could have been utilised for better productivity. In view of above, it is felt that an automated system for Information Collection may be designed to address the above challenge. i. Coordination Division of Ministry looks after the task of collecting, consolidating, and responding the critical piece of scattered information lies with various Groups/Divisions/Organisation of MeitY solicited by other Ministries/State Government. In order to ensure smooth flow and availability of information, Coordination Division ensures synergy and coordination among various Groups/Divisions/Organisations of MeitY. ii. The existing process is more of manual process which requires a letter to be circulated to all concerned either through email or through hardcopy seeking information available with them


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w.r.t. their functions. Based on the responses received from various Divisions, Coordination Division consolidates information, submit for approval and communicate back to external Ministry/Department who sought information. iii. As the above process is manual and it requires huge amount of man hours for mechanical tasks such as circulation, follow-ups & reminders, compilation, consolidation, submission for approvals, and responding back to outside Ministry. This huge man hours could have been utilised for better productivity. iv. Details of AICS is given as under – 3. Why AICS (forms)? i. The need for speed – In the recent cases it has been observed that critical piece of information desired by leadership is scattered across various Groups/Divisions/Organisation of MeitY. Manual collection, compilation and consolidation are usually a time consuming exercise. ii. Increasing Productivity – Having a process in place will help in increasing productivity and with existing manpower. iii. Reduced paper work – Forms help in eliminating the emails and the mess of files and provide secure storage, access, track, and share of information quickly and easily within organisation. iv. Forms can exchange data within organisation, which allows for merging the data with an existing record or using the data to create a new record and automatically alert you to what needs to be captured for all users. v. Forms can be traced. The current state of a form that is being processed can be determined and accordingly reminders to expedite can be sent quickly. vi. By utilizing forms, PUCs, scanned documents and electronic documents will automatically route to the appropriate Groups for review and approval. This accelerates processing, improves visibility and accountability and streamlines manual and time consuming process. vii. Information pertaining to MeitY can be effectively managed in forms repository within the system where it can be accessed securely at various level of top leadership for strategic use. System Architecture 4. Forms 4.1 Admin (Coordination Division) Forms i. Dynamic forms may be created based on the nature of information (could be a table, a text write-up, pptetc) solicited from different Groups/Divisions/Organisations ii. Admin (Coordination Division) should have facility to design the form in the specific format in which information is sought. Possibly in word, excel or in paragraphs with predetermined document structure. iii. Admin should have facility to upload the letter/PUC (PUC – Paper under consideration) online. A text box to write the context of the information. iv. System should be capable of generating unique form no and shooting emails to officers concerned of MeitY upon submission of the form by Admin. Email ids can be pre-loaded/modified/updated. v. Admin should have facility to accept/send back the inputs received from various Groups/Divisions/Organisations 4.2 User (Groups/Divisions of MeitY) Forms i. User should be able to log into forms based on the Form No. which was sent to them through a notification email by Admin. ii. Users are allowed to fill the information as per the prescribed format designed by Admin. iii. Users should also be given option to upload (based on the design of form by Admin.) iv. User should be given facility to send NIL information also with one click. v. Users should be able to modify their inputs later on before the due date (as specified by Admin) vi. Users should be submitting their forms to their respective Authroity, separate access controls will be provided to GCs and HoDs of every Group and Divisions. vii. Authority (GCs) to approve the forms and the same will be reflected to Admin (Coordination Division) 5. Workflow i. Admin to upload the form based on the nature and quantum of information sought from users. ii. Upon receiving email alert from system, user will need to fill the information in the form generated from Admin. iii. Upon completion of form, user should submit the form to


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Admin. Further, Admin to accept/send back, generate report and submit for further approval to approving authority. iv. The system should send alerts at all levels including user, admin and approving authority, eliminating the need for any reminders and follow-up with personal meetings. v. The completed e-forms once approved are then stored in the form repository in the system for retrieval when necessary. 6. Access Control 6.1 Admin i. Admin should be able to create new forms based on the requirements. ii. Admin access may be designed for Coordination Division who will have rights to upload, and download the consolidated information from specific forms.

3. Computerized Application for Paper-less Examination Screening (CAPES) system for recruitment

Sector: Technology Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 21 #MTY21

i. A large number of Job Seekers have to apply for various posts and appear for examinations at specified locations on a particular date and time. ii. Job Seekers have to spend considerable funds, time and efforts to reach the examination centers and personally appear in examinations. iii. Many a times, job seekers are not in position to travel due to various reasons like non-availability of railway tickets, examination centers are far off or are not able to afford the expanses towards appearing in exam. iv. Due to socio-political situations like Bandhs, Strikes, Road block or riots etcs, the job seeker is unable to reach the examination centers Uses Of Proposed system are Many Fold : i. Looking at various difficulties faced by Job Seekers and availability of Internet connectivity a web based centrally controlled SW solution with a mobile app can provide a better, cost effective and easy solution to both job seekers as well as recruiting

agencies. ii. Similarly, the recruiting departments have to spend lot of money and efforts to process large number of applications, arrangement examination centers, supervisors, invigilators and so-on to carry out the activity. By having web based solution lot of time, efforts and money can be saved. Technology To Be Used: i. Open Source Technology can be used to create a web portal wherein the job seekers can apply for a particular Job and a application Id is assigned to the applicant with on-line verification carried out using Aadhar number and registered mobile

number. ii. Various alerts and e-mails are sent to applicant by system based on activity performed. iii. Smart Phone based mobile app be created where the applicant registers with assigned id as well as Aadhar Number for the purpose of authentication. ICT Based Solution: i. A strong MCQ ( Multiple- Choice Questions) data bank related to proposed job is created on central data base by experts and answers are also stored in data base tables in encrypted format. Each MCQ should be stored in matrix with defined time to solve each question. ii. During the period of examination the mobile app should be connected to central data base. iii. Android base app should be developed to enable job seekers appear in examination from anywhere and any time (During the period lines are open). iv. Number of users , no of web pages and transactions volumes can be assessed and scaled based on type of job and expected number of applicants. v. A well-defined, configurable application can help in fully ICT based solution and productize the same.


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4. Development of a vulnerability scanner Sector: Technology Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 6 #MTY20

The vulnerability scanner should automatically parse through the APIs to identify which ones may be exposing the system to danger. A vulnerability database is the list of known vulnerabilities the scanner will use to spot potential problems the more information the scanner has, the more accurate its performance. Once a team has a report of the vulnerabilities, developers can use penetration testing as a means to see where the weaknesses are, so the problem can be fixed and future mistakes can be avoided. When employing frequent and consistent scanning, one will start to see common threads between the vulnerabilities for a better understanding of the full system.

5. For online Job Applications received by NIELIT, the credentials of Candidates (if available on Digital Locker or any other repository) should be verified instantly online.


While applying for different recruitments through online application softcopy uploading of documents like educational qualification, D.O.B proof, category certificate etc. of candidate is required. This result in unnecessary utilization of server space as each application requires approx. 2MB storage space and thousands of applications are received. If credentials are verified then & there at the time of application receiving (uploading), it will be beneficial for all stakeholders. Integration solution with generic interface is needed.

6. Accounting and Payment release process of ESDM Scheme being manual and time consuming as steps involving multiple stakeholders and high number of touch points


After successful completion of ESDM examination, training partner raises bills in physical claim format along with hardcopy SC/ST/EWS certificate and also hardcopy ESDM certificates. All these hardcopy documents are manually scrutinized and verified by consultants and a file is prepared for payment which is highly time-taking and cumbersome process. This payment file passes through different touch-points for verification which ultimately delays payment process. Need process reengineering, followed by automation of workflow.

7. Create an app that can run on a Windows/Linux based desktop to aid the disabled persons to perform day to day tasks


General Problem Statement : The disabled (blind) persons currently need support to start the PC , login their user id and passwords and then the access to certain browsers to do browsing. We must try to resolve this problem. Users: Disabled (Blind) persons for reading / browsing / performing word documentation. Technical Solution : Create the service in windows that listens to the finger print sensors and if the sensors match to the PC owner, allow the person to login and immediately start listening to commands as the blind person will not be able to see the next


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window / or won’t be able to open something. Desired Solution : i. The app must begin as a service that shall run in the background. Allow to register the disabled person with one time help from non-disabled person. ii. The service must be integrated with figerprint sensors and must be able to validate the fingerprint of the disabled person and allow the access of this person to the app. iii. The service upon successful logon immediately allows you to start sending the commands that allow the blind person to perform web browsing iv. The service must allow to start accepting the commands to perform ms-word document. v. The service must be generic to accept new interfaces like using read out loud feature in pdf to open and read a pdf and integrate / operate the other windows applications

8. Masking user details on the mobile while transacting And Establishing if a cardholder is shopping from a recognised payment device


The primary concern from a corporate governance perspective is that personnel conducting work in these non-production environments are not always security cleared to operate with the information contained in the production data. This practice represents a security hole where data can be copied by unauthorised personnel and security measures associated with standard production level controls can be easily bypassed. This represents an access point for a data security breach. To protect data that is classified as personal identifiable data, personal sensitive data or commercially sensitive data, however the data must remain usable for the purposes of undertaking valid test cycles. It must also look real and appear consistent.


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Ministry: Ministry of Road Transport and Highways


1. Identification of Accident Prone Spots by the Road Users and their reporting to the

concerned Highway Authority Sector: Technology Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 58 #MRT6

Accident Prone Spots need to be identified so that preventive measure may be taken up. This application will enable Road Users to send an SMS alert in regard to location of Accident Spot/ Bad Condition of Roads/ Unauthorized Median Cut etc. to the Highway Maintenance Authority where details alongwith mobile number of Office In-charge shall be available NH-wise. The Application shall also ensure the communication to the Road User about the Action Taken by the

Highway Maintenance Authority. As long as the concern remain unaddressed by Highway Maintenance Authority, the states shall remain ‘Action not Taken’ against the sent SMS alert for information of General Public.

2. Meal on Wheels Sector: Technology Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 23 #MRT5

This application shall aim to create a database of the Eating Joints falling with the Origin and Destination Points of the journey and placing the orders as per the available Menu at particular Eating Joint with time of Service.

3. Enablement of Drive-Mode application for Road Safety Sector: Technology Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 26 #MRT4

To minimize the risks of accidents while attending mobile phone during driving. This application would send the SMS about caller details and not the ringtone if the geo coordinates show the mobile shifting of the driver beyond 20 km/hr, say. Before start of the journey, the Application shall make the Drivers mode enable.

4. Games on Road Safety Sector: Education & Skills Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 30 #MRT3

To create awareness and make the user more aware about the various rules of Roads & Safety. This initiative will help making first time driver license applicants more responsive towards driving. The Game Application can be made one of the qualifying parameter for Learner’s License.


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5. E-Toll System Sector: Infrastructure Category: hardware Priority: high Total Submissions: 85 #MRT2

Traffic congestion at Toll Plazas is creating huge economical loss in terms of fuel wastage apart from adding to environmental pollution. An application may be developed to have QR equipped Payment Receipt for long distance vehicles which can be scanned at the QR readers installed at unmanned toll lanes for passing through the toll gates.

6. Applications to locate Skilled Labourer for Highway Construction works. Sector: Infrastructure Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 6 #MRT1

During any construction it’s very challenging to procure skilled/ semi-skilled resource for the various construction activates under Highway Sector. The application will register the details of Placement Agencies dealing with various categories of skilled/ semi-skilled manpower in the highway sector. Having awarded the work, the highway contractors can access these agencies and make the necessary manpower procurement.


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Ministry: Ministry of Railways


1. Public address system

Sector: Technology Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 51 #MOR11

It is observed that the announcements from public address systems at railway satations are at times not audible. It may be due to train noise, crowding at the station, technical defects in the public address system etc. A solution needs to be evolved so that the passengers can listen to such announcements clearly on their personal devices like mobile etc.

2. Machine reading of content of customer feed back Sector: Technology Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 21 #MOR10

Indian Railways has online system of customer feedback in suggestion. Customers can give their feedback on website, mobile application as well as through social media. Since the number of feedback is large, machine reading of the content and classification among various departments, zonal and regional offices can help in quick transfer of such feedback to the concerned officials for immediate redressal. A solution need to be developed for such a utility.

3. Involving Passengers in Upkeep of Railway Stations Sector: India & the World Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 6 #MOR9

Railway stations are used by two categories of passengers – daily commuters and occasional travelers. Involving passengers in station upkeep through education and active participation can help in finding a lasting solution. Software to keep people engaged about the need to maintain the railway stations is required.

4. Management of Railway Rest Houses & Holiday Homes Sector: India & the World Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 16 #MOR4

At present, the allocation of accommodation in Railway Rest Houses, Holidays Homes is done manually. The request is to be given in writing and there is no mechanism to advise the applicant about status of booking of rooms. This causes uncertainty and difficulty in planning one’s programme. An online system of submitting request and allocation of rooms is required.

5. Passenger Security Sector: India & the World Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 43 #MOR2

Security of passengers and their belongings is of paramount importance for Indian Railways. In case of any untoward incident or incident of crime against passengers and their belongings


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matter can be reported to Government Railway Police at Railway stations and on trains and also through given security helpline telephone number 182. A software solution needs to be provided for online registration of FIR over entire network of Indian Railway for speedy initiation of action by GRP.

6. Telecom Connectivity Sector: Technology Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 2 #MOR8

Indian Railways have telecom connectivity through RailTel OFC network, BSNL etc., for reserved ticketing counters, Unreserved ticketing counters, freight operations information system terminals etc., across the country. The uptime of telecom channels is monitored through network management system. A software solution to monitor the telecom channels, analyze the status or performance of various channels and prevent failures can help in improving performance.

7. Maintenance of Coaches & Wagons Sector: Infrastructure Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 7 #MOR7

Coaches and Wagons are maintained as per schedule in nominated depots. The availability of complete profile of each coach and wagon at a centralized data base and its analysis can help in generating useful information about the causes of breakdowns, likely failures in future in specific coach or wagons and thereby enabling planning for maintenance.

8. Drone/Robot based system for cleaning between tracks Sector: Infrastructure Category: hardware Priority: high Total Submissions: 56 #MOR6

It is seen that waste is strewn in station yards and along the tracks particularly in populated areas. Picking up the waste manually is time consuming and also poses safety risk. A Drone/Robot based system for cleaning between tracks needs to be developed.

9. Development of onboard digital fuel gauge for power cars for fuel monitoring Sector: Technology Category: hardware Priority: high Total Submissions: 19 #MOR5

At present, analogue type of fuel gauge of high least count is provided on the fuel tank in under frame which needs to be improved upon for close monitoring of fuel consumption. It requires development of digital fuel gauge for accuracy of measurement while train is on the line.


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Ministry: Ministry of Urban development


1. Posting/ transfers at the level of JE/AE/EE in CPWD

Sector: Infrastructure Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 2 #MUD9

A software could be devised taking into account the existing posting/ transfer guidelines in CPWD and based on various criteria for transfer (minimum residency, hard/ NE posting Spouse posting, HQ field, preference etc.). The software can automatically throw up suggestions for transfer of officers based on their profile. This will be a very useful input for the transfer/ posting Committee for taking a final view.

2. The impact of GST can vary from sector to sector and depends on whether the project is under execution

Sector: Infrastructure Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 1 #MUD8

The impact of GST can vary from sector to sector and depends on whether the project is under execution. The potential savings in the project cost can also vary according to cost structure inherent to each project. There are various goods and services which have different rates prescribed by GST, which impact their cost. Overall, Construction sector is likely to benefit under GST regime due to provision of availability of input tax credit. As under the current tax regime the benefit of input tax paid is not fully available, the benefits arising out of input tax credit on the raw-materials available under the GST regime would result in an overall neutral tax incidence for construction services. The measurement of tax incidence also holds lot of importance. It was claimed that implementation of GST will lead to removal of the cascading tax effect. This cascading tax effect has led to inflationary prices due to the fact that load of tax on tax has to be borne by consumer. However, the comparative information of final cost/price of Goods & services in the urban development sector before introduction of GST and post GST is not available. Technology that can address this partially An online programme can be developed which will apply the prescribed GST rates to all the inputs generally required in construction/ real estate sector and clearly bring out the difference it make in the final cost of housing, construction and infrastructure projects. This programme can be hosted on the current MoHUA website or only an external link can be provided on MoHUA website. This program can be designed to identify the tax rate applicable to particular input and amount of tax required to be paid for that input calculated in INR. This tax amount in INR can be arrived by feeding in amount spend on particular input (say cement) and program will apply the GST rate and provide tax liability. Once all figures are filled in, the program should provide total cost for pre-GST and post GST period. The total GST paid can also be calculated and can be compared with pre-GST period tax period. For calculating tax for post-GST period, notified GST rate structure for goods and services by CBEC to calculate the amount of tax applicable to the inputs used and for pre- GST period, applicable VAT, CENVAT and excise rates etc. can be used. Desired Outcome: It will allow comparative analysis of prices of various Goods & services used in the urban


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development sector and ascertaining the impact of GST on the final costing and subsequently reflected in the prices of the housing units and infrastructure projects.

3. Inclusive governance and service delivery Sector: Infrastructure Category: hardware Priority: high Total Submissions: 1 #MUD7

Differently abled citizens often face difficulties in accessing essential services (including government services), which require mandatory physical visits (Eg. Passport Applications). Can we create smart solutions to facilitate efficient service delivery to such citizen groups?

4. Stakeholder Engagement for Urban Planning and Management Sector: Infrastructure Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 0 #MUD6

Indian cities require private sector investments for improvement of infrastructure and services. Can we provide a matchmaking platform for connecting, investors, PPP partners, CSR funds, Technology provider, Research Institutions, Multilateral and Bilateral financing agencies with cities?

5. Waste Management Sector: Infrastructure Category: hardware Priority: high Total Submissions: 48 #MUD5

Can we deploy sensor based technology solutions which can detect the nature of waste (organic, inorganic, inert wastes) and enable automated segregation?

6. Urban Mobility Sector: Infrastructure Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 17 #MUD4 Can we develop smart solutions to reduce traffic congestion in cities?

7. Common Mobility App Sector: Infrastructure Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 11 #MUD3

The thought process behind this mobile application is that information is the key. Delivering right information at the right time can boost usage of public transport system. This will help government to understand people’s mobility needs, public transport usage & adaptability. This app should have a journey planner for the commuter adopting the concept of multi-modality in its approach &developments, i.e. travel from one destination / direction to another using all possible modes having lower emission goals / standards.

8. Common Platform for Vehicle Registration Sector: Infrastructure Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 14 #MUD2

Another major concern of governance is the availability of valid data on vehicle registration from an authentic source. This helps in decision making, data exchange and decide scale of output from governance side. For example, registration of vehicles done by the RTO at city level can be shared on a common platform. This data can be provided to national / State level body, since


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vehicles travel across states, to curb or understand the growth of vehicle population, analyse accidental data, evaluate the pollution level, fuel consumption, etc. A software or web portal can help in collecting & evaluating the data. This can be replicated for collecting information about services like road inventory, ITS implementation and other urban transport projects.

9. e-Measurement Book (eMB) Sector: Infrastructure Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 0 #MUD1

Objective: to improve reliability and accuracy in taking measurement in Engineering Projects Problem: DDA has achieved transformation from “hard-bound-measurement-book” to “electronic Measurement Book. DDA faces problems related to reliability and accuracy in taking measurements in Engineering Projects Solution: Design and development of a “handheld electronic device “to meet the objective as above Benefits: DDA: Improved Monitoring of engineering projects thereby timely execution of projects Enhanced transparency Increased

Accountability Public: Quick clearance of Bills for Contractors and also increased accountability for Contractors


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Ministry: Ministry of Women and Child Development


1. National Creche Portal/App

Sector: Health & Social Welfare Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 13 #MWC3

Under the National Crèche Scheme and the erstwhile Rajiv Gandhi National Crèche Scheme, a number of crèches have been functioning across the country. These are mainly NGOs under the ambit of two mother NGOs. When the verification of these crèches was done, a large number were found to be non-functional on the ground. Also there is no proper database of the children that come to these crèches and the staff that is working there. A database can hugely help in monitoring the scheme. General problem statement: i) At present, the crèches self report the number of children availing their services. However there is no record of the identities of the children. ii) This can lead to manipulation/wrong reporting of data. iii) The verification of the crèches showed that a large number of the crèches are non-existent on the ground. System users: i) Crèche workers: for entering the data of children and staff ii) Parents: to locate nearest crèches iii) NGO managing the crèches including the mother NGO: for looking at the number of children, attendance etc. iv) District Administration: Should be able to access crèche-wise details. It is necessary for the purpose of inspections and monitoring v) State Government: Should be able to access district-wise crèche-wise details. It is necessary for the purpose of monitoring. vi) Central Government: Should be able to access pan-India data for the purpose of monitoring. Technology that can address this issue partially: i) Geo-tagging the crèches so as to know their precise location. The app should be able to give the location of the nearest crèche in case a parent wants to find the nearest crèche to his/her home. ii) Each geo-tagged crèche should be able to real time fetch the number of children availing of its services, the number of staff working in it. iii) In convergence with the other services such as immunisation, health-checkups under RBSK, regular health checkups etc. there should be entries of the same in the database. If a particular service has not been updated for a long time beyond some time duration, e.g. immunisation for a particular child has been missed, the database should generate alerts for necessary intervention. iv) The database of children and staff should contain all the necessary details. These details can be captured with the help of Aadhar as well, hence the need for that functionality. v) Thereafter each day with the help of biometric, the attendance of the children and staff in the institution should be taken. This number should be displayed in the dashboard. The attendance could be taken by the help of a phone – as soon as the child enters the crèche, a photo is taken and an auto generated receipt is also sent to the parent (that the child is in the crèche). At the time when the children leaves the crèche, a similar photo should be taken with the parent and a receipt generated. Desired Outcome: i) A Mobile Application which will help citizens find their nearest crèche. ii) A monitoring system for authorities to ensure proper implementation of the scheme. iii) The monitoring of Dashboard by higher level officer directly will ensure timely redressal of the grievances.


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2. Portal for Child Care Institutions Sector: Health & Social Welfare Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 19 #MWC8

The Child Care Insitutions (CCIs) and Child Welfare Committees (CWCs) are integral institutions in achieving the objectives of the Juvenile Justice Act. The Child Care Institutions can be categorised into children’s homes, open shelters, observation home, special home, place of safety and SAAs. There is felt a need to have a database for the children and the staff staying or working in these institutions. This database can then be used to monitor the attendance and other related services of the children and staff. Also the performance of Child Welfare Committees needs to be ascertained by monitoring it electronically. Both these objectives can be addressed in a portal. General problem statement: i) At present, the child care institutions self report the number of children staying in their institution. While the number of children is tracked, the identities are not captured, except for OAS (orphaned, abandoned and surrendered) children in the CARINGs website. ii) The demand for funds is made by these CCIs under

Integrated Child Protection Scheme. The release of funds is contingent on the number of children staying in these institutions and the number of staff in these institutions. This can lead to manipulation/wrong reporting of data by the CCIs. iii) The Child Welfare Committee is mandated under the Juvenile Justice Act for completing its proceedings in a certain fixed time period. For instance except for OAS children, this time period is four months. For OAS children under two years of age, it is two months and for OAS children above two years of age, this is four months. However it is seen that there are considerable delays in the completion of proceedings by the CWC. System users: i) Officials of Child Care institutions: for entering the

data of children and staff. They will be able to know the progress of the case, next hearing for preparing necessary documentation. ii) Parents who are searching for their children: They can login into a particular CCI database to search for their missing children iii) Child Welfare Committee members: It will be able to tell them of the pendency list and the case-wise details for necessary action at their end. iv) District Child Protection Unit: Since the Probation Officer is the nodal officer in the district, he/she can monitor the work of CWC. He/she can use the data on the database for the purpose of inspections anytime or to monitor the attendance of staff. v) District Magistrate: The DM is mandated under the Juvenile Justice Act to review the functioning of CWCs. This dashboard can enable him/her to do so and take necessary action. He/she can use the data on the database for the purpose of inspections anytime or to monitor the attendance of staff. vi) States: For having a state-wide view and being able to review the performance of various districts. vii) Centre: For monitoring the country-wide performance. Technology that can address this issue partially: i) Having a database of children and staff. ii) This database should contain the following fields For children: a. Name b. Date of birth c. Address d. Photo e. Name of parents/guardians f. When found. By whom. His/her contact details g. Date of entry in the institution h. Date of leaving the institution For staff: a. Name b. DoB c. Address d. Photo e. Date of appointment iii) There will be additions and deletions to the database as and when the children enter the institution. iv) The above information can also be captured by having Aadhar registration of the children and staff. v) Thereafter, each day with the help of biometric, the attendance of the children and staff in the institution should be taken. This number should be displayed on the dashboard. vi) The functionality of the database can be improved by having


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other services on it. For instance the medical condition of the child, the details of last vaccination, the details of last medical check-up, the details of the school he is going to, the educational standard. There should be provision for regular updation of these fields and if there is no regular update, it should give an alert thereby signifying that the vaccination or medical-checkup is not being done. vii) There needs to be developed a dashboard for case monitoring in the above portal. viii) For each case that comes up before the Child Welfare Committee, the details of the case are keyed in into the system. ix) The dashboard should then be able to show the number of cases that are in various time periods like between 0-15 days, 15-30 days and so on and should also show the mandated time period. Based on the two, a defaulter case list should be created. x) There should be built-in alerts into the system. As a particular case is nearing its mandated time period there should be alerts to the CWC members, DCPU and the CCI. xi) Each sitting of the CWC should also be entered into the system along with the number of the members that attend it. The cases that are taken up on those sittings and the consequent decision on them should also be fed into the system Desired Outcome: i) A dashboard which helps multiple users track the cases of children in Child Care Institutions and cases pending before the Child Welfare Committee ii) The monitoring of dashboard by higher level officer directly will ensure timely action.

3. Grievance Redressal through App and IVR in ICDS Sector: Health & Social Welfare Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 8 #MWC7

Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) scheme is being implemented all over the nation

through 14 lakh Anganwadicentres. There are over 8 crore beneficiaries. The beneficiaries include children between the age group of 6 months – 6 years, pregnant women & lactating mothers. An online complaint filing and real time monitoring of the actions taken over the complaints are necessary to improve the conditions of Anganwadicentres. A Mobile Application as well as IVR system can be developed through which anybody can complain about the issues in Anganwadi Services. General problem statement: i) Mobile application to file complaints with

regard to the different services provided by the Anganwadicentres. The application should have an option to upload pictures and to give details about the Anganwadicentre’s location. ii) As most of the beneficiaries are illiterate, an IVR system can be developed to ensure accessibility of the services to all. For which a call center kind of set up can be established at the centre level. The employees of the call centre will enter the complaints received through IVR into the online portal. iii) The complaints should be automatically forwarded to the corresponding field functionaries i.e. CDPOs/DPOs on entry into the portal through SMS and notifications in the mobile application. iv) A dashboard to be developed to monitor the action taken over the complaints received both through App and IVR system. v) The application and IVR system can be used to create awareness about the scheme. vi) This application should be developed in such as way to integrate other Schemes of the Ministry in future. System users: i) Citizens will be the main users this services as they are the beneficiaries of the ICDS schemes. ii) Administration to address complaints and monitor redressal iii) Government will get benefitted as it would act as a feedback of their service delivery mechanism at field level. This would further help us to further


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refine the scheme and ensure proper delivery of services to the beneficiaries Technology that can address this issue partially: i) An application to take the grievenceredressal mechanism nearer to the ICDS beneficiaries with respect to the services received. ii) An IVR number to call and file the complaint by simply pressing numbers. iii) This app should be loosely coupled so that it can integrate with the ICDS-CAS in future. Any system in operation to ingest data for various schemes.iv) The app should also support screen reader so that all citizens can click on the voice button and listen to the complete audio on the screen in an interactive manner. v) A dashboard to monitor the action taken over the complaints. Desired Outcome: i) A mobile application and IVR system which will help the citizens to file their grievances without revealing their identity. ii) A grievance redressal mechanism which can be extended to schemes other than ICDS scheme of the ministry in future. iii) The monitoring of dashboard by higher level officer directly will ensure timely redressal of the grievances.

4. C2C crowd-sourcing platform for projects on women’s empowerment Sector: Health & Social Welfare Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 4 #MWC1

While there are a large number of individuals and organizations working for the cause of women’s empowerment, many struggle to find support in terms of finance as well as the right kind of human resources. On the other hand, there are also many individuals and companies that are willing to provide their time and support to these causes/projects. A platform which connects these two sets of people can encourage many initiatives for gender equality, which would otherwise not be able to get off the ground. An online platform may be developed to facilitate

this interaction, while maintaining a level of security for the users. The operations and maintenance of the platform may be given to an in-house or outsourced team. General problem statement: i) At present, private platforms such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Crowdera and Freelancer help connect projects to financial and human resources ii) There is no platform catering to both profit and non-profit ventures specifically for women empowerment iii) There is also no platform which allows exchange of skills as well finances in one place iv) A government-

run C2C crowd-sourcing platform will fill this gap and allow individuals and organizations looking for funding and other support to connect with others who can provide this support to them. System users: i) The individuals or organizations that are seeking support ii) The individuals or organizations that want to offer support iii) Administrators to verify and monitor transaction of funds and services Technology that can address this issue partially: i) An online portal which allows registration of users through automated KYC verification followed by a level of offline verification by a team. ii) The creative use of technology should be explored to create the best possible protection against fraud, fake identities, money laundering etc. iii) The portal should have the option of a payment gateway so people may choose to pay directly iv) The system should create profiles for different types of users while also allowing both public and private interactions between them v) There should be a system of public reviews and ratings for all types of users Desired Outcome: i) An online portal where users can post about their projects and requirements, which can be met by users offering their services and support ii) A system of automatic verification to help avoid fraud iii) An online payment gateway to allow direct transfer


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of funds between users iv) A method for administrators to block profiles of users in case of fraud or inappropriate content v) The platform will be focused on projects for the cause of women’s empowerment including but not restricted to advocacy campaigns, research projects, technological solutions, art, films, social enterprises, NGO projects etc.

5. App for training of Elected Women Representatives in Panchayat Raj Institutions Sector: Health & Social Welfare Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 5 #MWC2

In order to empower women representatives elected at panchayat levels across the country, MWCD has initiated a massive training program across the country. The objective is to build their capacities around the issues related to village level management, basic knowledge of government schemes, social issues and their resolution, management of panchayat finances, village infrastructure etc. A training module has been developed for this, which is to be converted to an App version for interesting and interactive usage by Elected Women Representatives and trainers. General problem statement: i) At present Elected Women Representatives (EWR) don’t have the sources to know about the schemes of the government ii) Women face a lot of social pressure or patriarchal pressure from the society and have no means to gather information iii) Government conducts training workshop for EWR’s but are unable to train the women due to various issues listed above iv) The training workshops are far away from the villages and women have no means of travelling to the destination v) It’s hard to find proficient trainers that can conduct training in remote towns or village vi) The lack of automation to provide support and train EWR’s can become a huge obstacle developing the status of women

in society vii) The need is to empower these EWR’s with an interactive app to help them get the information within seconds at the Panchayat Raj Institutions (PRI) viii) The basic premise of this exercise is the idea that informed and well trained EWR’s and leaders will be equipped to handle their roles and responsibilities independently and will be in a better position to participate effectively in panchayat affairs The users of this system are mainly one: i) Women are the main users of this app, they need this app to help them get information about government schemes,

social issues and their resolution, management of panchayat finances, village infrastructure etc. ii) Government administration that want to disseminate knowledge to these EWR’s, so that they can be equipped to handle their roles and responsibilities independently and will be in a better position to participate effectively in panchayat affairs. Technology that can address this issue partially. i) A Web Responsive app to educate women of the various schemes of the government, major social issues & their resolution, provide information on management of panchayat finances, village infrastructure etc. ii) Sample data would be provided so that relevant information can be categorized and utilized to create the app. iii) This app should be loosely coupled so that it can integrate with any system in operation to ingest data for various schemes iv) The app should also support screen reader so that all EWR’s can click on the voice button and listen to the complete audio on the screen in an interactive manner Desired Outcome: i) A app which will help the EWR’s get the required information in the least amount of time ii) The app will help all the EWR’s run their panchayats in an effective manner and take help from the latest schemes of the government to further improve the state of their village


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6. App with Government Services for women Sector: Health & Social Welfare Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 24 #MWC6

MWCD is in the process of launching a web portal with extensive information on schemes for women implemented by various Ministries, Departments, States& UTs. This also has information on areas concerning women such as health check ups, nutrition tips, hygiene methods, how to apply for basic documentation, bank transactions, investments, interview tips etc. A corresponding app may be developed to provide the same information in an interactive manner on a smart phone. General problem statement: i) At present all the services for women in the areas of employment, health, education, violence, legal support, social security, housing & infrastructure etc. are provided on the web site & are only accessible to people with internet. ii) The citizens do not have the facility to call in and check about the different schemes of the government for women. iii) Government tries to provide all the information on their websites, but due to lack of awareness the information does not get disseminated. iv) The actual need of

the hour is to use as many avenues possible to spread knowledge about schemes and increase demand and usage of schemes. System users: i) Citizens are the main users of this app, as they need maximum information about different schemes and initiatives for women by the government ii) The administration wants to provide maximum modes of transmission of the information Technology that can address this issue partially. i) An application to educate citizens (mainly women) of the various schemes of the government, for the empowerment and welfare of women ii) Sample data would be provided so that relevant information can be categorized and utilized to create the app. iii) This app should be loosely coupled so that it can integrate with any

system in operation to ingest data for various schemes iv) The app should also support screen reader so that all citizens can click on the voice button and listen to the complete audio on the screen in an interactive manner Desired Outcome: i) A app which will help the citizens get the required information in the least amount of time and information at their finger tips ii) This app will help the citizens get the maximum information

7. Case Management Software for Women Helpline Sector: Health & Social Welfare Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 19 #MWC5

181 Women Helpline is currently functional in 23 States/UTs. This will be scaled up to cover all States/UTs in the near future to make it a universal number for women. 181 provides 24 hours emergency response to women in distress through referral (linking with appropriate authority such as police, one stop centre, hospital etc.) as well as information about women related government schemes. 181 numbers across the country receive a large number of calls a day. User friendly case management software is required for staff to maintain details of all incoming cases. Such software will further help in easier reporting through auto-populated tables. It should lend itself to integration with OSC and other software at a later date. General problem statement: i) At present the complaints or requests reported by women are manually entered by WHL staff and no software is there to log and track the complaint ii) Cases are thus tedious to track at the WHL level iii) Hard copy of case details have to be sent outside the WHL when a case is referred to a lawyer, doctor, One Stop Centre etc. iv) As the Nirbhaya dashboard for central level monitoring


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is implemented, each WHL will have to manually input total numbers of registered, resolved and pending cases v) This also leads to lack of transparency within the system which reduces the accountability of the administration vi) 23 states has set up helplines, with all to be covered soon. System users: i) The women that register for help. They can be given a case ID no. ii) The WHL staff who register the complaint/query. A summary of the case should be downloadable for easy forwarding outside the OSC via email. iii) At a later stage, if a State or National level monitoring system is implemented, this software should be able to integrate with it Technology that can address this issue partially. i) An online portal or an app for case management or process management to track the status of complaints of women. ii) The data sets should be generated to make them look real iii) This system should be loosely coupled so that it can integrate with any system in operation iv) This system should also support dashboarding and analytics to generate reports or tables instantly v) This system should be able to send in alerts (SMS/ Emails) whenever a case is logged to the required official or referral Desired Outcome: i) A transparent system that will track the complaint status of women with case specific details that can be viewed by OSC staff through log in. ii) This system will help track all the complaints of women and would make it affective tool to provide help to affected women. iii) This system will help in improving transparency, increase accountability, help in providing right care in time. iv) This system will also serve with analytics for the state or the country once integrated and can populate various reports & dashboards at National/ State/ UT level.

8. Case Management Software for one stop center (OSC) Sector: Health & Social Welfare Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 7 #MWC4

There are currently 141 One Stop Centres (OSCs) across 30 States/UTs providing access to an integrated range of services including police, medical, legal and psychological support to women affected by violence. Additional OSCs are envisaged to be set up in the upcoming phases. A large number of women are using the services of the OSCs. User friendly case management software would help OSC staff keep better track of cases and aid in monitoring through auto-

populated tables. Total figures of cases registered, resolved and pending should automatically reflect on the Nirbhaya dashboard (in the process of development). The software should be able to integrate with Women Helpline and other software at a later date. General problem statement: i) At present the complaints reported by women are mostly entered manual at the OSC level ii) Cases are thus tedious to track at the OSC level iii) Hard copy of case details have to be sent outside the OSC when a case is referred to a lawyer, doctor etc. iv) As the Nirbhaya dashboard for central level monitoring is implemented, each OSC will have to manually input total numbers of registered, resolved and pending cases v) This also leads to lack of transparency within the system which reduces the accountability of the administration System users: i) The women that register for help. They can be given a case ID no. ii) The OSC administrator who register the complaint. A summary of the case should be downloadable for easy forwarding outside the OSC via email. iii) At a later stage, if a State or National level monitoring system is implemented, this software should be able to integrate with it Technology that can address this issue partially: i) An online portal or an app for case management or process management to track the status of


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complaints of women. ii) The data sets should be generated to make them look real iii) This system should have API’s built into them to consume data from other sources iv) This system should also support dashboarding and analytics to generate reports or tables instantly Desired Outcome: i) A transparent system that will track the complaint status of women with case specific details that can be viewed by OSC staff through log in. ii) This system will help track all the complaints of women and would make it affective tool to provide help to affected women. iii) This system will help in improving transparency, increase accountability, help in providing right care in time. iv) This system will also serve with analytics for the state or the country once integrated and can populate various reports & dashboards at National/ State/ UT level.


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Ministry: Ministry of Power


1. Monitoring of electricity at household level

Sector: Infrastructure Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 23 #MOP12

The Government is planning to deliver 24*7 electricity to all the consumers from 2019. In this regards developments in Generation, Transmission and Distribution needs to be monitored for effective implementation. • At present, no monitoring of electricity at household level is done. Feeder level monitoring has just started and AT&C losses are captured at Feeder level. • Analysing the Electricity availability in real time at household/ individual level can aid in bringing transparency and accountability and help analyse reliability parameters such as SAIDI and SAIFI. Users of the System: • The data needs to be collected from anyone and everyone possible so as to remove the problems of biases and sampling error. This means that the solution must cater to both digitally empowered citizens and also to people without internet. • The users can be anyone from the citizens to the discoms who can access the data for monitoring field level realities. It can also be used by policy makers and even small scale businessmen who will want to know about the power situation in an area over time before setting up businesses. Solution Required • A lightweight app with a very simple and intuitive UI/UX with a dedicated button to report absence of power. The app must have access to the location and the device ID among other requirements to uniquely identify the consumer. • Any other mechanism for people with no internet access or without any smartphone to access this reporting system. ( missed call for example) Work till Now. Back End The following functionalities must be present 1) Data collation: Discom wise and State Wise 2) Messaging: 1 hr 4 hrs 12 and 24( issue escalation to various authorities as per seniority. For example, if no Power for more than 1 but less than 4 hrs then an automatic message can be sent to the concerned JE. This message details can be logged to pull up the people at fault) 3) Electricity Map: Country wide ( A GIS map which can be accessed by authorities and once it stabilises can be made public. This map will show historical availability of electricity in every state by using colour coding etc) 4) Feeder level: Variation if any 5) Flash Reasons: If any ( the app should be able to communicate and let users know about the reason for the power cut, if necessary) 6) Power Users ( Trusted Users, using algorithm to match and verify their response with users in the neighbourhood/ same DT/ same Feeder. The app can have customer ID and AADHAR integrated with it) 7) Auto Detection of Location and Asset Mapping on GIS The Eventual aim is to build a repository of data on the presence/ absence of electricity across the country at a granular level( household) in real time. The data must be presented in an easily understandable manner.


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2. Efficient, Easy and Integrated Billing System Sector: Infrastructure Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 24 #MOP11

• One of the main reasons for inefficiency in DISCOMs today is regular meter reading, bill generation and bill collection. This is one of the major contributor to AT&C losses facing the DISCOMs. • At present different Discoms (as of now there are 92 distribution companies in India) follow different process of bill collection. It involves there sub steps: Metering and meter reading Bill Generation Bill Collection • At present because of the inefficiency in the process there is huge revenue loss to the Discoms. • Today there is no mechanism that integrates all these and provides easy, hassle free and efficient way of bill collection. Users of the System: • Utilities/Discoms who are distributing electricity are the billers • The consumers of the electricity – domestic, industrial and commercial are the bill payers in the system. As we can see that it all encompassing and covers the entire populace and citizenry of the country. • It is also pertinent to note that domestic consumers are from varied regions and sections of the society. That include

people from rural and remote areas of the nation who have difficulty in access to internet. So the solution should be able to cover them also. Desired Outcome: • An efficient and integrated meter reading, bill generation and bill payment mechanism that can provide end to end solution. • At one hand it should reduce to hassle and increase the comfort for the bill payers and on the other hand it should increase the revenue collection for the Discoms and reduce the cost of collection. Hence a win – win solution for all.

3. Non-availability of the literature related to Geological surprises encountered in completed hydropower projects

Sector: Infrastructure Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 0 #MOP10

Geological and Geo-technical plays an important role in hydropower sector. The survey and investigation plays the critical role for successful completion of the hydropower projects. Even with adequate survey and investigation during construction of the hydropower projects, geological surprises are often encountered which leads to delay in the commission of the project and hence resulted into cost overrun. In India and abroad number of hydropower projects has been commissioned and running successfully, out of many project have faced geological surprises. At present there is no such source country wise where the geological and geotechnical problems encountered by the projects have been placed in a digital place. If these literature is put in a common place in a digital media then the knowledge and experiences gained can be implemented to future projects, so that the project can be commissioned in scheduled time without any cost overrun. The user of this System • The person who will maintain and update the library time to time. • The geologist who will access this library and apply the knowledge to the upcoming hydropower projects. Technology that can address these issues. • An open access online library to access this literature from anywhere and anytime. Desire outcome. • Geologist can gain knowledge of different geological challenges faced in hydropower projects • Knowledge can be applied to the future upcoming projects • It will decrease the time and cost overruns of the projects • Country will be benefited.


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4. Integrated Automatic Floor Warning and Alert System using IoT Sector: Infrastructure Category: hardware Priority: high Total Submissions: 18 #MOP9

1. There have been a few unfortunate incidents in the recent past where tourists/locals in the catchment area of a river were caught unware of an impending flash flood/release of water from dams of Hydro Projects upstream. This led to unfortunate and unnecessary loss of valuable human lives. 2. Presently, individual Hydra Projects are spreading awareness about impending release of water in the catchment area to locals in that specific area through SMS. 3. District administration has cordoned off access to the river catchment and Public Announcement vans are deployed in the local area before release of water from dams. 4. Announcement and early warning needs to be automated and without manual intervention to make it more effective. 5. This shall also make the hydro-sector more people friendly and caring for local lives and resources and shall increase acceptability of the future hydro projects simultaneously improve perception of Hydro sector. Possible approach to solve the problem: 1. There could be a central

database connecting all hydro power stations (HPS) in the country, where information before release of water from dams of all projects would be consolidated. The HPS would need to enter data about release of water well in advance to this central database/repository. 2. Telecom solutions may be developed to send warning SMS to all mobile phone users in the area/river basin of HPS which going to release water and downstream in the river basis, based on real time information collected from telecom operators as to the number of users being served by mobile towers located in the area. 3. The warning SMS should be sent to all users identified above, overriding the DND registries. 4. All-weather Public-Announcement systems may be

used/developed based on Internet of Things (IoT) and placed above electricity poles/other such infrastructure near the river basin. They may be connected through OPGW (optical fibre composite overhead ground wire) cables wherever available or may work on wireless systems to be more efficient. 5. The PA systems should be connected with the central database and start warning announcements automatically without manual intervention. 6. Any other novel approach to solve the problem is also welcome. Possible scalability and uses ink the future: 1. An IoT for all buoys measuring river measuring river discharge data may be created and linked together. On sudden increase in water discharge in any of the buoys, warning signals may be relayed to all PA systems downstream to prevent loss of life and infrastructure during flash floods /cloudbursts. Such information could also be gathered through satellite/space technology. 2. This system may also be expanded to irrigation projects and flood warning of all kinds. 3. The system must be scalable for use with advanced space technology and satellite data along with physical scalability of deploying increasing number of buoys and PA systems. 4. The IoT of buoys may also be used to collect all sorts of hydrological/ discharge data for recording and forecasting.


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5. Power Customer Interaction Sector: Infrastructure Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 21 #MOP8

The realization of the power consumed dawns up on the customer only when they see the bill for the month. Through AMI/Smart grid the customer pattern to be sent to the customer so that he is aware of his consumption pattern and would take appropriate measures to reduce unwanted energy consumption. • System to be simulated by participants Desired Outcome: Software which will generate customer usage pattern.

6. Prediction of Load demand and Power Availability Sector: Infrastructure Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 11 #MOP7

To develop an application to predict hourly load demand and availability state wise for the next seven days including current day. The application will update the demand and availability data every hour. This will help the generator to plan their generation optimally which will lead to low cost power generation. It will also help discoms to plan their activities to ensure uninterrupted power supply. This will also help maintain a healthy grid. Sample Data : Necessary inputs to be arranged from CEA, RLDC, Discoms, meteorology dept and any other source found required.


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Ministry: Government of Maharashtra


1. Disruption In Teacher Training & Capacity Building

Sector: India & the World Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 0 #GMH17

One of the important aspects governing quality of education in schools is the quality of teachers. Teachers are in general subjected to various trainings that are related to matters related to subjects they are teaching. However, there is a lot of apathy shown by teachers in terms of attending these trainings. In the changing times and advent of various technologies that are being utilized by schools to a large extent, there has been a vast shift in the training needs of teachers.

Reach of technology has also made it easier for public in general to access online content related to subject matter or otherwise. However, there is very little motivation for teachers to make use of these contents due to various reasons. There are a few exceptions wherein technologically oriented teachers are making use of technology for not only dissemination of content but also creating content. These initiatives in silos have shown promise in terms of rise in interest levels of teachers and thus a resultant improvement in learning levels. What has also been observed through a few experiments is that teachers tend to make use of content and subject matter developed by peers with a lot of interest. But there are almost no means for these teachers to share content which would encourage a collaborative environment amongst the teaching

fraternity. The Government believes that if such an elaborate platform is created for collaboration and creation of content that would also cater to the training needs of the teachers with help of technology, the quality of learning issue can be resolved to a great extent.

2. Mapping and Digitization of Road using Mobile Application for PWD Staff Sector: India & the World Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 0 #GMH16

Under this PWD engineer shall point road chainage along with Latitude and Longitude and upload physical features of Road and Buildings. This will pinpoint the locations on STATE DATA MAP available with Department. The Location of Bridges will also be uploaded with photos on the map Other important objects like Petrol Pump,Hospitals,Toilets, nearby Villages, Police Stations,info and Tourist place information will also be uploaded

3. Online DPR Management System Sector: India & the World Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 0 #GMH15

a. Develop an online application to fill, submit and track the Detailed Project Report (DPR). b. Develop an application with predefined templates of DPR of all the three verticals of PMAY. c. Implementing agency who wish to submit the DPR to Nodal Agency, should have authorised credentials to access these templates. System should have provision for this. Using those


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credentials, agency shall login and fill the DPR of respective PMAY Vertical. It should also have a facility to upload supporting documents as necessary. d. Once the DPR is submitted, respective stakeholders should get a notification of the same. The online scrutiny of the DPR shall start and the nodal agency should be able to comment or give feedback on the same. e. The respective feedback should be visible to implementation agency. Agency shall make the required compliance and re-submit the same. f. Above process shall repeat at each level of approval. i.e at SLAC, SLSMC and CSMC. A dashboard with status of all the DPRs to be displayed

4. Online PMAY Training modules for ULBs and Citizens Sector: India & the World Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 0 #GMH14

a. Develop an e-learning application for capacity building of Urban Local Bodies in Maharashtra and create awareness among the citizens on Pradhan mantra AwasYojana (Urban). b. The application shall have 2 sections separately. One being for Urban Local Body and other for General Citizens. User should get to select either of the option on visiting the homepage. c. The section for Urban Local Bodies will be accessed by login credentials. The system should have provision to create such users. Post login, various topics related to PMAY with their detailed description can be accessed. At the end each topic should have quiz. d. The section for general citizens having the scheme information can be accessed without any restrictions. e. Deployment of content management system for both the sections enabling department to update content from time to time. The content could be of text, images or video. f. e-Learning Module needs to be developed Bilingual i.e. Marathi and English. By default, the webpage should open in Marathi language.

5. Online Dashboard for Real Time Monitoring of Projects Status of CSMC approved Projects

Sector: India & the World Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 3 #GMH13

a. Create a Real Time Monitoring Application (Website and Mobile app) for PradhanMantriAwasYojana (Urban) projects in Maharashtra approved by Central Sanctioning Monitoring Committee (CSMC). It should allow the following functionalities. a. Enable to add / update project details of all the project approved by CSMC. b. The respective implementation agency shall be responsible for real time status update of the Project. Implementation Agency shall have a separate user account to update the status with a facility to upload images / video of the site and respective details regarding the project. c. Display of all the projects details in a structured manner with an option to sort the projects by selected parameter like status, ULB name, expected completion date etc. d. Restricted access to add / update any field related to project to selected users. e. Use of colour code to quickly gaze the project status. f. Notification / alert to respective stakeholders in case of project schedule slippage


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6. Power / Water consumption in the offices, schools, hostels and facilities Sector: India & the World Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 2 #GMH10

The Department have various offices, schools, hostels and other facilities spread across the state of Maharashtra. To run these facilities the department spends huge amount of money for power and water consumption. It becomes difficult for the department to keep a close watch on the power and water consumption manually due to which the department faces a huge loss directly which they can utilize in making the life of underprivileged better. Ideas may be sought wherein the technological solution can be identified to stop unnecessary power and water consumption due to manned errors. This will help the department in saving huge amount of expenses and help the department in spending the taxpayer’s money in the right direction and for the right/needy people.

7. Caste Validity Certification System Sector: India & the World Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 2 #GMH8

• Integrating CVC with Caste certificate application – The applicants for caste certificate issuance should also an option to opt for caste validity certificate at the same time by filling a relevant form, attaching scanned documents and paying any processing fee online. The trigger to begin the process of caste validation can be the successful grant of caste certificate. This will reduce the time and effort required by the applicant • Issuance of Family Caste Validity certificates – Typically, in case an elder of a family has a valid caste certificate, then the process of obtaining a caste validity certificate of his/her off-springs should be simplified even further. Family caste validity certificates can be issued in such cases

8. Atrocity Case Management Sector: Governance Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 1 #GMH9

In case of an FIR registered under Atrocity Act, the information has to physically flow between the Police Dept. and SJSA at every stage of compensation. This consumes precious time and resource. A system should be built wherein the case is automatically forwarded to the concerned authorities at SJSA, as soon as a case is lodges at a police station. The same should happen at every stage of compensation disbursement in accordance with GR.

9. Connected Officers Directory & Calendar Sector: Health & Social Welfare Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 3 #GMH12

Department is an umbrella organisation under which directorates, corporations, commissionerate and other a. Department finds it difficult to keep track on meetings attended by its officials, meeting updates, key decisions taken and actionable for department. b. The application shall include corporate directory having name, designation, Official email ID, phone numbers and Mobile number c. The Department, allied office hierarchy shall be configurable


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10. Quality of service and Security of kids in the hostel Sector: Health & Social Welfare Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 0 #GMH7

The Department of Social Justice and Special Assistance runs various hostels to help the underprivileged who come out of their village to attain good quality of education without the fear of high expenses or security, however it has been noticed in the recent past that there has been instances of nuisances, poor quality of food or molestation cases have occurred in the hostel. The department has installed biometric attendance and does make frequent visit to keep a check on the quality of services and security provided to the student and even after keeping a close watch on the hostel some incidents do happen which a problem area for the students is residing in the hostel. There are hostel where the security camera and security personal is provided to the hostel but such facilities are unable to keep a tight watch on harassment or molestation cases in the hostel premise. Ideas may be sought wherein the technological solution can be provided to keep a close watch on the quality of food served in the hostel which can track rodents in the kitchen, rotten items or poor sanitation of the kitchen. To overcome the security part of the hostel, a technology can be identified which can keep a watch on the thermal image of the student residing in the hostel, which in case of harassment or molestation can check the increase in the temperature in the body of the residents and after a threshold can trigger an alarm to alert the warden as well as the residents of the hostel.

11. Application to map disabled-friendly Locations across Maharashtra Sector: India & the World Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 1 #GMH2

Maharashtra has 3 million disability population. Disability makes simpler task difficult. Enabling any platform that makes their live bit comfortable can be a great services to the noble cause. New regulations enforces public institutions to setup any new infrastructure disability compliant. Following shall be envisaged for disable friendly applications a. The application shall populate geo-tagged places with photograph, category, and type of disable friendly facility b. Data population mechanism shall be through crowd source mechanism with moderation for photograph and place population c. The application shall listen to and provide voice navigation to user with visually challenged. d. The application will aid find out places near the person which are having disable friendly infrastructures. (Ex: Special toilets for disables, ramp for wheel chair, Brail letters on lift buttons, Disable schools etc, with categories like, banks, schools, railway stations, bus stations, ATM, Hospitals, Malls etc)


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Ministry: Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce & Industry


1. Chronicle – stories of India’s international trade

Sector: India & the World Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 7

#DOC5

History has been modulated by trade significantly- both as the means and also as end of human efforts. Trade was the medium of transmission of cultural influence, best practices, language and also introduction of new species- plants, animals fashion and technology across world. Stories related to international trade – have been documented through books. An online effort to document stories, historical facts and anecdotes of India’s international trade, will boost interest in trade.

2. Exim traffic map- Live Logistic congestion indicator & logistic planning tool


#DOC4

The time taken for export adds to cost of export, lowers clients’ satisfaction and can be a major risk factor in poor export performance. Live information is not available regarding time being taken at various logistic sectors and routes. Logistic components are serially connected e.g. ICD to railways to port with transit points & transaction functions in between. Congestion and delay at one point has a spiral effect on the chain. Model need to develop to give live information regarding the Exim traffic live and possibly also map cargo routes like the Google traffic map including expected transit time for the cargo via various modes and routes.

3. Devise a model to capture the components of cost for export – “Cost to export”

index


#DOC3

While cost of product is the key component, many costs add to the cost of exported goods. Cost is the most measurable method to gauge impact of economic factor conditions. A model needs to be devised to capture key elements that add to cost of export – post production. Categorization and selection of standardized products from key locations to key ports will enable development of a cost to export index which over a period of time could develop as a barometer index to gauge and plan policy interventions.


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Ministry: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)


1. Visual Inspection of concrete structures by application of Image processing tools

Sector: Technology Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 23

#CSIR11

Visual Examination of concrete structures is the first step of NDE. Visual Inspection of structures are constrained due to inaccessibility, visibility, height, illumination etc. Drones can be deployed with onboard camera ( visual / thermal ) and lighting to capture pictures from difficult locations. The scope of the work will be to develop software tools to extract features from the acquired images and reveal information such as surface condition, crack pattern mapping , voids, delamination / spalling, sizing dimension measurement, etc. The methodology developed will help in carrying out rapid visual assessment of the structure. 3. Sample Data Required, if yes, please describe: Images from concrete structures with cracks/defects can be used to test the developed image processing methodology, image stitching capability, dimensional accuracy, etc. 4. Name of CSIR Lab CSIR- Structural Engineering Research Centre, Chennai 5. Nodal Person and Contact Details: Dr. P.Srinivasan Senior Principal Scientist, ACTEL, 9444076872 , [email protected] Dr. S.G.N.Murthy, Senior Principal Scientist, ICT, 9445179858, [email protected]

2. An app that will give GPS-based Dengue Risk Index.A GPS-enabled smartphone

owner can find the susceptibility to dengue infection at the location where he is. This

will be of great use to all sections


#CSIR10

Dengue is endemic in tropical and sub-tropical climate zones. Transmitted to humans by the Aedas Aegyti mosquito, the dengue burden in India is increasing at an alarming rate. The contributions of increased mobility, both of vector and human populations, urbanization and climate change are some of the most important variables to explain the recent increase in dengue outbreaks. The Need • Providing near real-time information about where and when to expect dengue epidemics is a need of the hour. This requires surveillance data, mobility patterns, spatial information from GIS and population and vector density data. Challenges Availability of surveillance data and data on vector density. Desired Outcome • The software can be customized to generate risk maps and location-specific predictions. • Forecasting dengue hotspots and making fast predictions on its direction of spread. • State-of-art mobile apps showing current dengue local hotspots in an area. 3. Sample Data Required, if yes, please describe: Surveillance data, GPS, mobility data (depends on the area) and population density data. 4. Name of CSIR


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Lab CSIR- National Institute For Interdisciplinary Science and Technology 5. Nodal Person and Contact Details: Dr. Elizabeth Jacob, Chief Scientist, [email protected] 04712515264, 9495124564

3. Anti pilferage and anti adulteration system for fuel road tankers

Sector: Technology Category: hardware Priority: high Total Submissions: 17

#CSIR6

Pilferage and adulteration of gasoline, diesel and kerosene on fuel tankers en-route from terminals to retail outlets pose a major problem in downstream petroleum product handling. The tankers can be provided with fuel filling and drain valves/lids which are monitored online for the instant/location and duration of their openings. Driver is not supposed to open these valves/lids and should be opened only in case of emergency situation. The online monitoring system with GPS shall reveal whether tanker has been pilferaged or adulterated en-route from terminal to retail outlets. 3. Sample Data Required, if yes, please describe: Pilot project can be taken up before mass implementation. 4. Name of CSIR Lab : CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun (To be carried out with collaboration from software developers, electronic laboratories and industries having expertise in on-line GPS based monitoring) 5. Nodal Person and Contact Details (Name, Designation, Mobile No. and Email): Wittison Kamei, Sr. Scientist, Mobile: 8126048681, E-mail: [email protected]

4. Air and Water Quality Care System


#CSIR9

Real time data of various air/water quality parameters in the selected urban and rural area and the river flow (major Indian rivers) information will be extracted through web/cloud based tools. Based on the expertise developed by CSIR (CSIR-IITR) over four decades on air and water quality monitoring and assessment, data analytical methods will be developed to quantify source apportionment to protect human health and environmental pollution/quality. A smart support system will be developed by collecting and comparing available past years data for those localities to provide preventive solutions. 3. Sample Data Required, if yes, please describe: Yes, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and State Pollution Control Board, Ministry of Environment and Forest, Central/State water commission, and available air/water monitoring reports 4. Name of CSIR Lab : CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow 5. Nodal Person and Contact Details (Name, Designation, Mobile No. and Email) Er. A.H. Khan, Senior Principal Scientist, 9451307490, [email protected] Dr. K.C. Khulbe, Senior Principal Scientist, 9453309900, [email protected] Dr R Parthasarathi, Scientist Fellow, 07704994437, [email protected]


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5. Risk assessment of fire hazard in coal mines using data analysis


#CSIR8

The energy derived from coal in India is about twice that of energy derived from oil. As coal is mined, there is always a risk of fire hazard at these coal mining sites. Hydraulic fluids are widely used in mining machineries. These hydraulic fluids are combustible and are used to transmit power and motion. Pressurized hydraulic fluids present a considerable fire hazard where ignition source is present. Mixing of hydraulic fluid with coal increases the risk of fire hazard in the mines. In view of the above, fire resistant characteristics of hydraulic fluids (Flame propagation, Spray Ignition, Auto-ignition Temperature etc.) needs to be experimentally studied under the simulated conditions. Data of experimental studies needs to be analyzed theoretically to assess the fire risk and to suggest preventive actions. 3. Sample Data Required, if yes, please describe: Experimental data on the fire resistant characteristics of different types of commercially available hydraulic fluids will be required for the theoretical risk assessment. 4. Name of CSIR Lab CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum 5. Nodal Person and Contact Details (Name, Designation, Mobile No. and Email): Mr. Pankaj Kumar Arya Scientist Mob: 7060081020 E-mail: [email protected]

6. Smart domestic electric energy management system


#CSIR7

Every house has energy meter installed, however there is no mechanism or technology available for a programmable system which monitors and controls the energy usage pattern/trend for a house/building. Therefore, a smart energy management system which would enable the user to pre-program switching ON/OFF of electrical lamps and appliances based on user’s requirement on daily/weekly/seasonal basis. A predictive feature in terms of energy-economy saving may also be added. 3. Sample Data Required, if yes, please describe: Not required 4. Name of CSIR Lab.: CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun 5. Nodal Person and Contact Details (Name, Designation, Mobile No. and Email): Robindro Lairenlakpam, Sr.Scientist, 9634272407, [email protected]


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7. Cost effective On-Cloud (Privately owned by government) solution for Zero-Day

Attack Protection for advanced Persistent Threat/ Advance threat prevention for

Government sectors


#CSIR5

Govt Offices and Research Institute networks are at continuous risk of target base cyber attacks, such as phishing, dangerous exploits, advanced Threats like sophisticated malware and zero-day threats. Such attacks are risk to organisation for their privacy and integrity of data and knowledge base To combat these Zero day attack or Advance Threat many security vendors have solutions such as Advance threat prevention/protection such as sandboxing which scans the files coming to network combines hardware-level inspection and OS-level sandboxing to prevent infection from the most exploits, malwares, zero-day and targeted attacks entering the networks These solutions are mostly based on Cloud-based Service or highly expensive On-premise appliances based solution. It’s not the best practice to scan Government data for Zero day attack or Advance Threat on a third party cloud as files are uploaded and downloaded back and forth to vendors cloud for sandboxing .This raise the issues of data privacy and integrity as we are using cloud services of private vendors Therefore a Cost effective On-Cloud (Privately owned by government) solution for Zero-Day Attack Protection for advanced Persistent Threat/ Advance threat prevention must be designed so the government data can be sandboxed on government owned private cloud itself for data as well as network security and can be widely used among different government sectors. 3. Sample Data Required, if yes, please describe:No 4. Name of CSIR Lab: CSIR- Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine 5. Nodal Person and Contact Details (Name, Designation, Mobile No. and Email): Name: Shaghaf Ansari Designation : Scientist, IT Divison Email Id: [email protected] Phone no: 0191-2569223

8. Web based Data Analytics software/framework for performing technology impact

assessment of any CSIR technologies


#CSIR4

More often research problems in Indian R&D institutions are initiated based on top down instructions/directions that may or may not has relevance in terms of science, demand, resource availability as because technology developer and the actors associated with the life cycle works independently. The evolutionary model should ensure the marriage of Techno-Social System (Technology plus actors association) and technological regime (scientific rule sets plus resource constraints). In order to do such assessments for any new technologies developed in CSIR institutions, for that matter in all R&D institutions, does not have in-house trained resources. Preparation of new technology related plans, data collection, data representation, mapping to the socio-economical policies and regularities considering all kinds of effects, including second


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order effects, needs a software tools with certain degree of customization. The proposed software should be web enabled, data could be collected, represented, analyzed online and results could be shared among all the actors in technology/product life cycle so that product/technology development and deployment shall be assessed and managed in accordance with social aims and expectations. 3. Sample Data Required, if yes, please describe: Students may be allowed prepare some sample data that could be imagined for a specific product as a case study. Alternatively, if sample data of such study performed for any technology may be shared for the development of software purpose. 4. Name of CSIR Lab CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur 5. Nodal Person and Contact Details (Name, Designation, Mobile No. and Email): Dr. Nagahanumaiah Sr. Principal Scientist Head, Planning and Performance Division Email: [email protected] [email protected] Mobile: 9434181360

9. Smartphone App (Android) for providing agro advisories for medicinal and

aromatic growers, enterprenuers and industries on plant disease/nutrient

management, buyer/seller corner and market intelligenc


#CSIR3

The cultivation of medicinal and aromatic crops can help in doubling the farm income. However, the growth of this agriculture sector requires intensive knowledge dissemination and hand holding of the farmers at various stages. CSIR – CIMAP is a premier research laboratory of CSIR, which is involved in multidisciplinary high quality research in agricultural, biological and chemical sciences and extending technologies and services to the farmers, entrepreneurs and industries of medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs). This smartphone app developed should aim to bridge the knowledge GAP between the farmers, entrepreneurs, industries and scientific fraternity in the areas of agriculture, processing and market availability for fuelling the growth of medicinal and aroma industry and rural employment. This app should enable the user to capture the geo coded medicinal and aromatic plant related data to be uploaded in the central server, which, in turn can be used by the subject matter specialist (scientist) to provide suitable advisory on near real time basis. The app should also provide a buyer/seller corner with a moderator to provide a virtual platform for the buyers and sellers. It would help in removing the intermediaries and in turn increase the profitability to the farmer and industry. The app should have feature to use the market intelligence data from the database, APIs of the market data available (open source or subscription based) on medicinal and aromatic crops to be made available to the farmers, entrepreneurs and industries. 3. Sample Data Required, if yes, please describe: Test data can be provided 4. Name of CSIR Lab : CSIR – Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Lucknow 5. Nodal Person and Contact Details (Name, Designation, Mobile No. and Email): Name: Er Manoj Semwal Designation: Senior Scientist Mobile No: 09453049049 Email : [email protected]


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10. Computational approaches to understand corrosion mechanism under extreme

conditions


#CSIR2

Corrosion is a worldwide problem which causes billions of dollar damage every year. Progress in corrosion sciences has helped in development of new materials and coatings which can withstand corrosion for years. However, corrosion mechanisms under extreme conditions (such as high/low temperature and pressure) are yet to be understood due to limitation of experimental procedures under extreme conditions. Nuclear, aerospace, gas/oil, and chemical industries are major areas affected by such type of corrosion. Computational methods can be really helpful for this kind of problem. Using computational procedures, one can simulate various types of extreme conditions, for example, high/low temperature and pressure. A combination of quantum chemical and molecular dynamic methods can give full insight of corrosion mechanism at atomistic level and rate of growth of corrosion under extreme conditions. The work plan is divided as follow: 1) Determining mechanism of corrosion under extreme conditions 2) Investigation of growth of corrosion nuclei 3) Finding the factors affecting corrosion rate 4) Suggesting methods to reduce corrosion 3. Sample Data Required, if yes, please describe: Yes. Data is required to validate findings. This data can be collected from available literature. 4. Name of CSIR Lab: CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute 5. Nodal Person and Contact Details (Name, Designation, Mobile No. and Email): Dr. Shekhar Hansda Scientist, Corrosion and Materials

Protection Division CSIR-Central Electro Chemical Research Institute Karaikudi-630003, Tamil Nadu, India Phone: +91-7988616578, +91-8901709446 Email: [email protected]

11. Mechanism for prescribing drug in hospitals and its or its substitute availability in

the medical shops of the area/ city


#CSIR1

Every citizen of the country visit a doctor or hospital in his lifetime for different health-related reasons In order to treat the patient doctors prescribes drug which may be generic or unique which is purchased from a medical shop. It is often seen that patient has to visit several medical shops to fetch the prescribed medicine as he is unaware of different options for a drug salt available to him. Therefore an application can developed wherein the prescription from a doctor/hospital is digitalized and directly transferred to patient or caretaker who may have an app to assess the options and availability of the drug in the vicinity/ city. This may require linking all brand names for a drug/ or it salt in a database which may be available to the doctor and the user. Simultaneously this database may be linked with availability of such drugs at different medical shops (based on the licenses issued by drug controller) which can be identified by a map. Due to large volume of data, initially a sample size can be determined and taken to calculate the match


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Sample Data Required, if yes, please describe: Yes Name of CSIR Lab : CSIR – Central Drug Research Institute Nodal Person and Contact Details (Name, Designation, Mobile No. and Email): Dr Sanjay Batra, Senior Principal Scientist, Medicinal Chemistry, CSIR-CDRI, Lucknow; E-mail: [email protected]; Mobile: 9450906193


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Ministry: Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment


1. Tracking parking designated for PwDs in external environment

Sector: Health & Social Welfare Category: software Priority: high Total Submissions: 4

#DEPD8

Tracking parking designated for PwDs in external environment

2. Mobile appp/database on employment opportunities for PwDs in the country.

Sector : Health & Social Welfare Category : software Priority : high Total Submissions : 17

#DEPD7

Mobile app/database on employment opportunities for PwDs in the country.

3. Digital solution for effective learning of persons with specific learning disabilities


#DEPD6

Digital solution for effective learning of persons with specific learning disabilities

4. Separate banking software for persons with intellectual disabilities including better

access to avail ATM services.


#DEPD5

Separate banking software for persons with intellectual disabilities including better access to avail ATM services.


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5. Picture exchange communication software for better understating of persons with

intellectual disabilities.


#DEPD4

Picture exchange communication software for better understating of persons with intellectual disabilities.

6. Development of customized keyboard for use of persons with intellectual disabilities

Sector: Health & Social Welfare Category: hardware Priority: high Total Submissions: 13

#DEPD3

Development of customized keyboard for use of persons with intellectual disabilities

7. Mobile app for assessment of reading skill, arithmetic skills etc.


#DEPD2

Mobile app for assessment of reading skill, arithmetic skills etc.

8. Online system for skill training and employment including management of database

of skilled PwDs


#DEPD1

Online system for skill training and employment including management of database of skilled PwDs


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Ministry: Department of Post, Ministry of State(IC) of Communications Problem Statements: 9

1. DOP network has approximately 30,000 locations across India and divided into Circle.

The problem is SLA reporting, SLA calculations, payment processing and payment

projection for future.


#DOP10

Current Scenario: 1. DOP has network integrator and his responsibility is to maintain the network. NI vendor responsibility includes: a. Primary network service provider (NSP1) – currently BSNL b. Secondary network service provider (NSP2) – currently Sify c. There may be more NSPs in future d. Managed services to maintain link, network devices 2. There are multiple types of bandwidth a. MPLS, b. Broadband c. Dongle d. There may be other types also. 3. There are different types of offices depending upon number of users. Offices are classified into a. Class A – Very big offices having MPLS connectivity b. Class B – Big Offices having MPLS connectivity c. Class C – Small Offices having MPLS connectivity d. Class D – double hand office having 2 persons with Broadband connectivity e. Class E – Single hand office having 1 person with Broadband connectivity f. Class F – VSAT connectivity where no other means of connectivity is possible. 4. Different bandwidths like 2 Mbps MPLS, 512 Kbps MPLS, 512 Kbps broadband is provisioned depending upon class of offices mentioned at point 3. 5. The SLA reporting frequency is monthly and payment is quarterly to each NSPs and managed services. 6. The SLA reports come from NMS tool and each DOP offices has one unique code. 7. The SLA is different for each NSPs. E.g. a. For NSP1 i. >95% uptime – no penalty, ii. 95% – 90% uptime – 10% of payment deduction. iii. 90% – 80% uptime – 20% of payment deduction. b. Similarly different SLA for NSP2 and calculations would different. 8. The Managed services penalty is applicable if office is isolated means both NSPs are down simultaneously or router is faulty. There may be some other scenarios where DOP location is showing is not operating due to DOP reasons like power, local holidays force majeure etc. 9. The managed services charges are bandwidth-wise and different for each year. 10. The bandwidth of DOP locations are upgraded / downgraded as per requirement and accordingly charges changes from date of commissioning. 11. The SLA and uptime starts from the date of commissioning of DOP location. 12. The bandwidth rate of each NSPs is different for each year. Expected Scenario: a. Which is fully flexible / configurable which can give the expenses till now, , current quarter payment. quarterly projection, yearly projection. b. The software should be role based login: i. So that network integrator can upload the office-wise SLA for each NSPs, managed services. ii. DOP verifier can verify and accept or reject. If accepted it should go to DOP approver and if rejected it will go back network integrator. iii. DOP approver can accept or reject. If accepted then generate MIS report and if rejected then go back to DOP verifier. iv. Reporting and MIS. v. Suitable checks needs to be in place so that users can not amend, delete, add the data. vi. The data should be imported or exported to xls, csv etc. vii. Application should be enterprise level.


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2. Devising methodology and a system for tackling the flow of data related to mail

operations under low bandwidth/failure of network.


#DOP9

Current Scenario: The mail operations right from booking to delivery presently work in an offline mode. The nodes communicate with the central server through a client for exchange of data. The IT modernisation project aims to make all mail operations online. Expected Scenario: The present mail operations of the Department rides on an offline solution, whereby the data resides on local servers and data exchange happens with the central server on a set frequency. The ongoing IT Modernisation project intends to integrate the entire mail operations right from booking to delivery into an online process. Since the entire system rides on a sturdy network and given a situation when the network fails, the communication of data (various scans of articles viz. booking, dispatch, receipt, bagging etc) may not get communicated. The Department needs a light IT solution whereby key functionalities of the IT system are run on a mobile or tablet , so that the same may be used to carry out the work as an interim and push the data into the central server using low bandwidth. Alternatively, a system may be developed to capture the data in an offline mode and push the same into the servers as an when the internet connectivity resumes.

3. Mechanization of parcel sorting at parcel processing centres (parcel hubs)


#DOP7

Current Scenario: The Departmental sorting facilities have traditionally been aligned to handling documents and small packets. The existing parcel sorting happens manually either on floor area or on conveyer belts at select locations. The entire parcel processing does not have any Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) which brings down the sorting efficiency. Expected Scenario: The Department is in the process of mechanising the sorting of parcels at its sorting facilities. Mechanisation has commenced with use of conveyor belts, pin code based primary sorting (through backend integration with barcode) and DWMS (Dimension and Weight Measuring System). At the primary sort level, articles are sorted into groups of range of PIN codes to be sorted further (secondary sort) and bagged for destination hubs. The secondary sort requires a skilled sorter to find the correct destination bag. Can the secondary sorter is guided by the system itself as to which bag the article has to be dropped? Can the article be scanned and a light over the appropriate bag come on using PTL (Put to Light) solution? A prototype solution may be provided which should be scalable for number of sorts that may range from 30-90 destinations.


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4. Design and demonstrate a digital addressing system as an extension of the existing PIN

code


#DOP6

Current Scenario: The existing limited address database has merely the physical addresses. The data base lacks geo-spatial information and any standardised format of addressing. Expected Scenario: The Department is in the process of developing a digital address database for the entire country. A digital address database means that the physical address of any location is to be complemented by its geo-coordinates, both of which have to be mapped together. The digital address may be an alpha-numeric code or otherwise, and shall have to be an extension of the existing PIN code system which defines the delivery jurisdiction of a post office. Latest GIS technology, along with data analytics need to come together to develop the digital address database. The database format, manner of data collection of physical addresses and layering it with geo coordinates etc. need to be decided.

5. Design of parcel drop off kiosk and integration with the present Departmental software

ecosystem which is offline as well as the proposed online ecosystem


#DOP5

Current Scenario: Customers have to book their articles (Speed Post, Registered Post, and Parcels- Express & Business) at the Post Office counters. The bulk customers and e-commerce players book their articles/parcels either at the Business Post Centres operating at select post offices or at dedicated parcel booking centres. Expected Scenario: The Department is soon going to make its web portal transactional to enable web based booking of retail and bulk articles such as Speed Post, Registered Post etc. Once booked, the article has to either be picked up or dropped off at identified locations to be physically inducted into the system for processing. At the time of induction, the weight of the article has to be validated to prevent any leakage of revenue. For the customer, the process of dropping-off should be as hassle-free and take minimal time. A kiosk with necessary IT support to enable the above and allowing for making payment (in case of additional tariff to be paid) or having the amount credited (in case of higher tariff paid) is required.

6. Cost calculation system for products which have to travel across multiple offices


#DOP4

Current Scenario: The existing cost calculation is based on some random / sample assessments/studies done very long back. There is significant change in the product portfolio of


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the Department since then. As different products are handled by the same operator/office, there is no cost segregation for each service/product. Expected Scenario: Arriving at the cost of the product/service where the stakeholders are from different offices spread across the length and breadth of the country

7. End to End mapping of Network to arrive at the expected time of delivery


#DOP3

Current Scenario: Currently there is no mapping available in the system. However, based on the geographical areas like metro cities/state capitals etc and also based on the Circle boundaries, time limits are prescribed in Citizen Charter for delivery of articles. Due to non availability of accurate mapping of entire network and routing channel, there are no standard delivery norms between one post office to another post office Expected Scenario: To map entire chain of Post Offices and Sorting hubs so as estimate the probable date of delivery at the time of booking itself.

8. Digital Addressee System with Unique address for each addressee location


#DOP2

Current Scenario: No such database now. However, while booking mail articles/money orders etc., complete address of the addressee/payee is captured and stored in the database. But this data is not used for any purpose once the article/money order is delivered/paid. Building a digital addressee system based on the above data could not be materialized. Expected Scenario: Post Office should be able to build its own digital addressee system. Building a preliminary digital addressee system based on the data available with various government agencies and then enhancing /updating the same from the addressee data being captured (as mentioned in above para)

9. Load management for transport planning


#DOP1

Current Scenario: There is no Transport management system in place. Therefore, the proposed load to be handled in ensuing 2-3 days could not be foreseen till the same is received at Sorting Office/Post Office. This results in poor resource management which ultimately increases costs due to last minute planning and significantly lowers the efficiency. Expected Scenario: 1) Smart planning for low costs by combining the shipments, based on the carrier’s capacity 2) Advance Information of the load across the supply chain


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