The Chhattisgarh InfoTech and Biotech Promotion Society (CHIPS), established for promoting e-governance services in the State, received two awards continuously.
Secretary, Information Technology department, Aman Singh said that CHIPS got national e-governance award at Vishakhapattanam in Andhra Pradesh for its e-procurement project. A jury of specialists in the field of industry, education, and information technology, formed by the Computer Society of India, working in the information technology sector for the last 60 years, has selected the e-procurement project of CHIPS for this award.
Secretary, Electronic and Information Technology department of the Central Government, J Satyanarayan presented the award to CHIPS on December 14. Joint chief executive officer Hemant Jain and system administrator Sarojesh Kumar received the award on behalf of CHIPS.
Aman Singh said that Nescom Data Security Council of India has declared CHIPS joint second-winner with Passport Service, for excellent work in the security area in e-governance service. Adhar Card Service got the first prize in this category. This award was presented to the CHIPS officials by former union home secretary GK Pillai, at a function organised in New Delhi on December 11.
CHIPS CEO AM Pariyal, giving information about e-procurement project, said that this project was started to bring transparency in the works of government purchase and sale in the State.
So far, through this project, 30 Government departments have done tender-related works worth `68,113 crore. Under this project, total 35,226 tenders have been issued so far. This project was implemented in Chhattisgarh in the year 2007.
The Computer Society of India gives awards for excellent works under e-governance in all the States of the country.Earlier also, e-procurement project had received many national awards, including best project award in 2008 and Azinformation award in 2011.