National reconstruction information management system

National Reconstruction Information Management System (NARIMS) is a revolutionary concept designed and developed by the National Reconstruction Bureau, Government of Pakistan, to work as an aid in support of the Local Governments under the Devolution Plan. The system has been developed to address the issues and problems related to Local Government. The system helps the stakeholders in policy making decisions on topics such as basic infrastructure development, assets planning, financial management and administrative functioning. The system not only caters to the District / Tehsil level issues but addresses issues related to the grass-roots level, i.e. Union Council and Revenue Estate. In short, the system caters for solutions and practices of electronic governance, and succeeds in effectively communicating its findings to different audiences.

NARIMS is a complete software based system having an open-ended database with spatial representation. It consists of software, hardware, data and users elements, designed to meet specific planning and organizational goals. The data can be populated with attribute information pertaining to each local government department, thus creating an intelligent database related to a particular geographic area. Once the model is developed, it can be used by all applications that work with this object. Changes made to the model are automatically reflected in the applications, without any need to change application code. This makes the entire system more flexible and adaptable to changing business conditions and new technologies. Access to this type of information is extremely benificial to state, province, district, municipal agencies, researchers and general public. In addition, it can provide answers to questions that relate to economic growth, resource management, and public service delivery.