Gujarat gets one-fourth of the central e-governance awards

The Gujarat government seems to be on a roll these days. Following the urban development ministry asking other states to follow Gujarat models for urban infrastructure projects, the BJP-ruled state has now bagged four of the 16 national awards for e-governance initiatives. No other state got more than two.

One of the awards for Gujarat was for its Online Voting System(OVS), implemented successfully in the state local body polls, showing others how such a system can be useful in getting people to vote in the internet age.

Incidentally, 11 of the 16 awards announced by the ministry of personnel went to non-UPA ruled states with Madhya Pradesh and Odisha getting two awards each.

Other states that got awards include Andhra Pradesh (2) and Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Rajasthan and Jammu & Kashmir (one each).

These awards are given every year by the administrative reforms wing of the ministry of personnel to states and central departments for their e-governance efforts. As against 16 awards to states, only one central department was awarded this year -- the 'mail network optimization project' of the department of posts.

Congress-ruled Rajasthan was selected under the 'best government portal' category for Rajasthan Public Service Commission, Ajmer.

Besides its OVS system, Gujarat was awarded for "XLN-Xtended Licensing & Laboratory Node of Sales" of its food and drugs department, MAGIC - Mineral Administration and Governance Using ICT, and iMINE of the state mineral development corporation limited.

The other categories of awards included government process re-engineering, outstanding performance in citizen-centric service delivery, innovative use of technology in e-governance and specific social sector programmes.

While Madhya Pradesh was awarded for its special project for assistance, rehabilitation and strengthening of handicapped (SPARSH) under 'social sector programmes' category, Biharwas awarded for its iBhuGoal project under the 'innovative use of technology...

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