Bihar's e-governance initiatives to be felicitated at the CSI event

The Computer Society of India (CSI) which awards individuals and organizations for the excellence in IT sector, has decided to select Bihar for Nilihent Award (2011-12) for the e-governance initiatives taken up by the State Government of Bihar.

The award will be given at the CSI annual convention which will be held at Kolkata on December 2. The Bihar state government has implemented a lot of e-governance initiatives and through this award ceremony, the state government will be acknowledged for the efforts made by the Department of IT towards the initiatives taken by the government.

In addition, Bihar has also been shortlisted for Web Ratna award, 2012, by the department of electronics and IT, GOI, for acknowledging exemplary initiatives/practices in the realm of e-governance for dissemination of information and services and the award ceremony would be held on December 10, 2012 in New Delhi.

Arun Kumar Singh, Principal Secretary, IT said, "This year, the state IT department had submitted proposals for award under two categories -- project category and award of excellence. Under the project category, the state government's flagship initiative of GIS mapping of infrastructural resources, named as 'iBhuGoal', was submitted for consideration."

The IT department has sent its web enabled public grievance redressal system proposal for the Web Ratna Award. The public redressal system has been developed by the state government to receive, handle and redress grievances of those citizens who urge for an action to the head of the department concerned.