Madhya Pradesh has emerged as leading State in the country for delivering e-services and doing e-transactions. This is evident with the national e-governance awards, the State has been receiving since 2007.
Madhya Pradesh has been receiving e-Governance Awards for innovations since 2007 to become India’s first state for constantly receiving these awards.
Madhya Pradesh is promoting innovative use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The department of Energy is credited to have received two awards for innovative application of ICT. Madhya Pradesh has bagged 15 e-Governance Awards from 2007 to 2015. However, Gujarat is on top with 24 and Karnataka with 18.
It is worth noticing here that all Government payments are being done through e-transactions. The Electronic Transaction Aggregation and Analyzer layer, which evaluates performance of states in e-transactions, placed Madhya Pradesh on second position.
Another mentionable fact is that the number of e-services has gone crossed the figure of 204. As many as 72 services are online under Public Service Delivery Guarantee Act. Gujarat is on top in respect of E-governance and but Madhya Pradesh states first in respect of e-services.
Madhya Pradesh also excelled in issuing digital caste certificates. As many as 1.03 crore digital caste certificates have been issued. Information about amendments in legislation can be obtained online on a click.
In course of digital empowerment, which is aggressively going on in the state, it has won many awards and recognition in and outside the country. Madhya Pradesh is contributing significantly to country’s ambition Digital India programme launched by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.