Adding another feather in its cap, the Information and Technology Department of Government of Jharkhand received Gold Award for Technology by Skoch Group on Saturday in an award function celebrating excellence in banking, financial Services and Insurance known as Financial Inclusion & Deepening Award held at India Habitat Centre in New Delhi.
The award given by Chairperson, NDMC Meenakshi lekhi and Former CAG Vinod Rai was received on behalf of the State Government was received by N N Sinha, Principal Secretary, Department of Information Technology. Notably, the award was given for the second time in a row to the Department of Information Technology . last year too, the award was given to it for emerging IT State.
This award was given for launching a near CBS system in association with India Post and UIDAI for automating the manual processes at their Sub and Branch Post Offices due to which of MNREGA wages, old age pensions, and scholarship was getting delayed. The payment system is Aadhaar enabled but as a backup also employs One Time PIN (OTP) technology through mobile for authentication purposes. Although initially available at 9 Branch Post Offices and 150 Sub Post Offices, it will be provided to over 450 sub Post Offices and about 2,600 Branch Post Offices. The beauty of the system is that it can be deployed on all type of hardware viz. Tablet, Point of Service (POS) and Desktop devices and across different operating Systems. This will enable easy access to easy banking facilities to over 85% pf MNREGA beneficiaries and similarly large number of old age pensioners and scholarship holders having their accounts in postal offices.
NN Sinha expressed his happiness over receiving this award and thanked Secretary, IT, Govt. of India RS Sharma, CPMG AS Prasad and his team members, UIDAI Team at RO, Ranchi, UID Team at Department of IT and others.