Bihar has about 1.8 crore rural households and 20 lakh urban households. Current projects which our department has undertaken are E-Shakti, NREGASoft, CPSMS, AWAAS SOFT, Mobile Inspection System, ICT initiative by JEEViKA and Panchayat Enterprise Suites. In E-Shakti, biometric, multi-app smart card as portable & secure ID is given to villagers. A call centre for trackable grievance redressal has also been established. E-Shakti was the initiative of the state government in 2009. It was envisaged that each and every citizen would be provided an E-Shakti card. It was initiated in Patna district. Initially, five blocks were taken up. About 14 lakh cards have been distributed.
