Design and Development of Web based Information System for Results Framework Document in ICAR

Abstract

Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) is one of the largest national agricultural system in the world with 101 institutes and 71 agricultural universities spread across the country. Following the guidelines of Government of India, ICAR was given responsibility to all the ICAR institutes to develop Results Framework Documents (RFDs) in their institutes. But, there is no web based information system available in ICAR for preparing and reporting the RFDs to the respective subject matter divisions (SMD) and for preparing consolidated reports and evaluating overall performance of the institutes by the ICAR headquarters. Thus, ICARIASRI developed a web based Results Framework Document Management System (RFDMS) in ICAR to manage RFD activities in ICAR which replaces the existing manual handling of RFD documents. The system consists of 6 input options viz., Section 1 to Section 6 of RFD and each of these sections further constitutes different options that help the user to enter various components of RFD. The RFDMS facilitates institutes to prepare, submit targets and achievements and consolidated reports online and also provides access to officials for effective monitoring and decision making. It is a centralized, automated and uniform reporting tool across ICAR institutes resulting into improved targets monitoring and decision making. This system leads to IT empowerment and improved information management of RFD in ICAR.