State pension portal of Madhya Pradesh has been given national e-governance excellence Award of the Central Government for excellent work in e-governance. Union Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu gave this award in the 20th national e-governance conference held in Vishakhapatnam of Andhra Pradesh recently.
This award was given after scrutiny in more than 400 e-governance projects nominated by different states at many levels and carrying out field visit.
State Pension Portal is an online portal in which 11 different government pension schemes have been made online.
Through the portal, payment of pension amount has been ensured to be paid in saving accounts of 34 lakh pensioners by fifth of every month from treasury system.
Earlier, payment under social security pension to eligible beneficiaries used to be delayed.
Facilities related with number of beneficiaries and their current status has been given on pension portal.
Technical director of NIC Sunil Jain and joint director social justice Geeta Kamthe received the award.