Family card data compilation centre established
The Collector, G. Prakash, inaugurating the centre on Thursday.The Collector, G. Prakash, inaugurated the data compilation centre on the Collectorate premises on Thursday, which would put together all details to be printed in the family cards and send them to Chennai for printing in the shortest possible time.As all district administrations have to send every information to be printed in the family card to the Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu, Chennai, which is printing the cards, it consumed a great deal of time and resulted in inordinate delay in distributing the family cards to the beneficiaries. To put an end to this problem, the district administrations have now been empowered to compile all details, enter it in the computer and send to ELCOT, so that retrieving the data and printing the cards will be an easy and trouble-free task.Pursuant to this decision, a data compilation centre has been established at the Office of Revenue Divisional Officer, Tirunelveli on the Collectorate premises with ten computers, scanners and other hardware required for this exercise. Under the new arrangement, every application would be directly scrutinized by the Collector and the DSO and forwarded to the compilation centre, where the data would be entered in the computers to be dispatched to ELCOT. Based on the data they receive from the districts, family cards would be printed immediately, so that the delay in disbursing it to the applicants can be weeded out.
