Kiphire, August 13 (MExN): Taking another step forward in providing effective e-Governance facilities to the common man, district administration Kiphire has launched its revamped website, kiphire.nic.in, which will be accessible to visually impaired people.
The website was launched by Minister for Soil & Water Conservation & Chairman, District Planning Development Board (DPDB) Kiphire, V. Kashiho Sangtam on August 13.
Following the directions of Government of India, NIC Kiphire has done migration of its website, https://kiphire.nic.in on the S3WAAS platform.
While informing about this new initiative, DIO Kiphire, Deepak Kumar, informed the house that S3WAAS (Secure, Scalable and Sugamya Website as a Service) provides the facilities like GIGW Compliance, Generic Search, Responsive Design etc. Kumar also said, “The website can now be accessed even by visually impaired people by using the speaking software which is easily installable on any system. The colour blindness problem has also been addressed by this website and provides the feature of changing the contrast to enable colour blind people access this website.”
Deputy Commissioner Kiphire appreciated the efforts made by DIO, NIC Kiphire and his team along with Sub-Divisional Officer (Civil) for achieving this migration and making Kiphire the third district in the State to achieve this target. DC also informed to the house that the data on the website will be regularly updated and new features will be added in the future to provide effective Governance to Citizen Services to the common man of the District.
Telling further about the website, District Informatics Officer, NIC Kiphire, Deepak Kumar told that a lot many new features have been incorporated in this new version which includes Information about DC Office, STD Codes, PIN Codes and Telephone Directory, Tourism Information, Schemes etc.
On this occasion, all administrative officers and Head of the Departments of the district and other staff members of National Informatics Centre, Kiphire were also present.
