Abstract
NSAP (National Social Assistance Programme) comprises mainly three schemes as Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme (IGNOAPS), Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension Scheme (IGNWPS) and Indira Gandhi National Disabled Pension Scheme (IGNDPS). Under these three schemes, monthly pension are being disbursed by all 28 Province and 7 UT's. Ministry of Rural development provides central assistance as ACA as central contribution to Province and Province further sum with their Province contribution. State contribution amount under a scheme varies from Province to Province.
NIC in collaboration with Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India has developed eGov solution, a work flow based model capturing legacy pensioners data, submission of application, verification and sanction of new application online using eGov solution. Sanction letters are generated and provided to applicants and Pension pay order is prepared for inclusion of pensioners name in pensioners scroll list from the date of pension effective date. Pension payment are presently made using Banks, Post Offices and through Cash from respective Sub district office level or by village secretaries.
eGov solution is workflow based application available online. It uses Postgres database with JBOSS as application server.