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"Out of the 215 nominations this year, one of the eight prestigious Public Service Awards is being given to India -- to the Bhagidari Cell, at the Office of the Chief Minister of the National Capital Territory of Delhi," UN information officer Oisika Chakrabarti told IANS.

Goa, Jharkhand, Kerala were declared as joint winners of the `Progressive e-Governed State' at the award function organised by the CSI to recognise the best e-governance initiatives in the country, especially in the government sector.

Department of Electricity of Lakshadweep, and Department of Health and Family Welfare, Gujarat were declared joint winners under the `Best e-governed Department' category.

This year, the CSI-Nihilent Best e-Governed State Award has been clinched by Gujarat for the implementation and development of indigenously developed practices and software in the area of e-governance that benefit the common citizen. The Department of Health & Family Welfare, Gujarat and Department of Electricity, Lakshadweep were declared joint winners of the Best e-Governed Department Award, a new category introduced this year to recognise government departments that have shown great promise in delivering best results of e-governance.

The award proves that technology models adopted by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) for its smooth and transparent functioning can be adopted by cities in the rest of the country. The award is being jointly instituted by the department of administrative reforms & public grievances and department of information technology, Government of India every year.

The Gujarat government’s e-governance project has won laurels for it by winning five national awards in 2008-09. The Union government had received 262 entries from different states for these awards.

Haryana Chief Secretary Promilla Issar today said the Haryana was one of the front-runner states in implementing State Wide Area Network and Common Service Centres (e-DISHA) projects.

Himachal Pradesh has been declared as the second best state in the country in e-governance. Speaker of Lok Sabha Somnath Chatterjee will give away the award during the 10th International Summit and Expo Power - 2008 to be held on November 8, in Mumbai. An assessment in this regard has been done by India Tech Foundation, Mumbai, on application of information technology (IT) and its use in government institutions.

The Centre’s National e-Governance Plan has instituted these awards to recognise, foster and promote excellence in implementation of e-Governance initiatives, and is presented by Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances. The awards are given in seven category under which Gold, Silver & Bronze icons are presented.

Talking to Kerala IT News, Cherian Philip, Chairman, KTDC said, “As the official host to God’s own country, this website is a great asset for us. We have realised that online booking is our greatest weapon for tourism promotion. The award is recognition of our efforts to adopt the latest technology to boost our business.”

According to an official Press release the Manthan Award for E-Governance has been instituted by the Digital Empowerment Foundation, New Delhi.

Union Minister of state for IT Sachin Pilot presented the awards at New Delhi the other day.

According to an official Press release the Computer Society of India, (C.S.I.), Coordinator Piyush Gupta informed the department about the award by e-mail.

The MP forest department, in cooperation with the N.I.C. had developed the software on forest finance management system. GOS and GPS system was used while developing the software.

According to the information received by the MPPOST names of winners of 7 categories of the National Award for e-Governance have been announced. The forest department would get silver medal for using of technology in management of information regarding forest fire. The East Area Vidyut Vitran Company would get silver medal for use of information communiction technology in automated metering scheme.

It's a matter of pride for Gujarat that its State Portal (www.gujaratindia.com) too won an award in the same event for the ‘Most user friendly portal'.

The awards were constituted by the Centre’s Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances in association with the Department of Information Technology for recognising and promoting excellence in implementation of egovernance initiatives. The State Government’s IT projects - Sulekha, Higher Secondary Centralised Allotment Processing and Sevenahelped the state win the most prestigious awards of the Indian Government for e-Governance initiatives.

The national awards for e-governance for 2007-08 were announced by the Central Government. Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology A Raja will give away the awards during the 11th National Conference on e-Governance to be held at Panchkula, Haryana on February 7-8.

Gandhinagar, Surat and Rajkot also awarded in different categories

Gujarat has been adjudged with five prestigious “India Today- Best City Awards-2013” in different categories at a function held here. While Vadodara bagged the award for overall best emerging city, Gandhinagar and Surat ranked best cities in category of Crime & Safety, Rajkot for Housing & Transport and Vadodara again for Public Services. All the five awards were received by Shri I.P. Gautam, Principal Secretary (Urban Development) of Gujarat Government from Union Minister for Urban Development Shri Kamal Nath here.