Chhattisgarh on Monday bagged the ‘Best Performing State Award’ from the Centre for its outstanding performance during the “Digital India Week”.
The State was selected for digitalising services at lok Seva Kendras and Common Service Centres during the 'Digital India Week 2015' organised from July 1 to 7, 2015. The second and third positions went to Himachal Pradesh and Meghalaya, respectively, officials stated.
Deputy Secretary IT and CEO CHiPS Saurabh Kumar and SIO, NIC M K Mishra received the award from Union Minister for Communication and Information Technology, Ravi Shankar Prasad at a function held here to celebrate Good Governance Day.
In the district category, three districts of Chhattisgarh - Kondagaon, Korea and Gariaband occupied the first, second and third position, respectively.
Collector Kondagaon Shikha Rajput Tiwari, Collector Gariaband Niranjan Das and Koriya DIO Ziya Ur Rehman received the awards from the Union Minister.
The State was selected for providing free-of-cost high speed internet facility to citizens and students under wifi hotspot expansion programme, digitalizing six pension services of Revenue Department and five pension services of Public Welfare Department and for digitalised services provide at lok Seva Kendra and Common Service Centres in villages.
Chief Minister Raman Singh had launched 16 major digital services during the Digital India Week such as Mobile app, e-district services, Chhattisgarh campus connect portal etc. The Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), under the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India, had organised the Week to encourage States to get associated with the Digital India initiative.