Chief Minister Raman Singh on Wednesday extended hearty congratulations to officials, employees and students of Indira Gandhi Agriculture University (IGAU), Raipur for bagging ‘Best e-Governance Model of Education and Research Institute’ award.
Additional Chief Secretary of Agriculture Department Ajay Singh and IGAU Vice-Chancellor SK Patil had paid courtesy call on Chief Minister at Mantralaya and told Chief Minister about this award conferred on the University by Central Government.
They informed the Chief Minister that Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology PP Choudhary gave away the award in the 20th National Conference on e-Governance Seminar held in Vishakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) recently.
It was also informed that the Central Government’s Administrative Reform and Public Grievance Department had shortlisted 20 models of e-Governance in various sectors under Digital India Campaign.
The IGAU was the only university in country to be nominated under education and research institutes category for the innovative efforts, officials informed.
Also, University’s Institute of Global Management and Information System (IGMIS) has been awarded with Silver Award of e-Governance at the national-level.
IGAU Vice-Chancellor Dr SK Patil informed that agriculture education, research and expansion works have been digitised to develop various apps for dissemination of information regarding studies, timely admission, evaluation, results and degrees to the students.
likewise, various administrative works such as research, expansion, finances and general administration have been made systematic through digitisation, he informed. Moreover, several types of apps have been created to communicate the research results to farmers quickly and efficiently. This entire system has been termed as IGMIS, Dr Patil stated.