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Gujarat is the best e-governed state : CSI

CSI announces e-governance awards

Samir Sachdeva | November 24, 2010

Gujarat has been adjudged the best e-governed state in the CSI - Nihilent e-governance awards for 2009-10. Gujarat has won this award for the third time. In past it was awarded in the year 2006-7 and 2005-06 (jointly with Karnataka). It had also won the award for best e-governed state in citizen facilitation in 2004-05. In 2008-09 Madhya Pradesh was the winner of the award and in 2007-08 Chattisgarh got the award.

The awards have been instituted by the Computer Society of India (CSI) for recognizing the contributions made in the field of e-Governance in the country. These awards have been sponsored by Nihilent Technologies Pvt. Ltd. This year the awards are given for recognizing the efforts made in e-governance area at the state, department, district and project level. The awards will be given during CSI Annual Convention at Mumbai ( CSI-2010) on 26 Nov 2010. Over 150 Nominations were recieved by CSI this year and out of them 44 were shortlisted. The list of awardees is as below:

Winners of CSI-Nihilent e-Governance Awards 2009-10

State Category    :    Gujarat State

Department Category    :    Directorate of Settlement & Land Records, Government of Goa

District Category    :    Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar District, Punjab & Jhansi District, UP

Project Category G2C   :    MP Online, Government of Madhya Pradesh

Project Category G2G :    Integrated Financial & Forestry Works Management, Government of Madhya Pradesh

Project Category G2B :    e-Tax Administration Programme, Government of Kerala


Appreciation Awards

Department Category    :    Department of Sales Tax, Government of Maharashtra

District Category    :    Gwalior District, Government of Madhya Pradesh

Project Category G2C :   CHOICE , Government of Chhattisgarh

Special Jury Awards
Department Category    :    Prisons Department, Government of Goa

Project Category - G2G:    National Center for Antarctic and Ocean Research,    Ministry of Earth Sciences, Goa


Special Recognition

Public Distribution    :    Department of Food & Civil Supplies, Government of Uttar Pradesh

Law & Judiciary    :    Police Department, Government of Himachal Pradesh

Environment        :    Gujarat Pollution Control Board, Government of Gujarat

Research        :    Council for Scientific & Industrial Research, Government of India

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