The Hindu 01.02.2014
Thrissur wins national e-governance award
District-level initiative in citizen-centric service delivery
The prestigious national e-Governance awards for 2013-14 were declared at the 17th national conference on e-Governance that got under way here on Thursday.
The Thrissur district administration has won gold in the best district-level initiatives in citizen-centric service delivery through Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for its System for Attumanal Neutral Distribution.
The awards were declared in 11 categories. The Union government’s Centre for Railway Information System won gold in the category of excellence in government process re-engineering for its Control Office Application.
Food, Civil Supplies, and Consumer Affairs of the Gujarat government won the silver for bar-coded ration card and biometric food coupon.
The Department of Information and Technology of the Andhra Pradesh government won the gold in the category of outstanding performance in citizen-centric service delivery for its Meeseva Portal. Karnataka government’s Department of Administration Reform won the silver for its Sakala portal. The Urban Administration and Development Department of Madhya Pradesh won the gold for its automated building plan approval system in the category of innovative use of technology in e-Governance. Directorate of Sports and Youth Welfare from the same State won the silver for its ICT application for excellence in sports.
The Revenue Department of Karnataka government won the gold in the category of innovation in existing project for its electronics integration of Bhoomi with stakeholders while the Haryana government’s Revenue Department’s integration of property registration and land records won the silver. The District Collector’s office of Kolhapur in Maharashtra won silver for the web-based Collector’s information system.
The Union government’s Department of IT won the gold in the innovative use of GIS technology in e-Governance for the Delhi State Spatial Data Infrastructure Project.
The Gujarat government’s Industrial Extension Bureau of Industries and Mines Department won the silver for its Investors Support System software.
