E-District project of Ranchi on Tuesday bagged e-INDIA 2013 award in the usage of ICT in Rural Development category during the e-INDIA Governance Summit at Hyderabad. The e-district project presently, being headed by the Principal Secretary (IT) cum CEO JAP-IT and Ranchi Deputy Commissioner Vinay Kumar Chowbey.
Though e-District is being run in several districts all over the country, it has been widely acknowledged that e-District in Ranchi is the only application which is presently providing services at the grass root level through an extensive network of Pragya Kendras and Panchayat Bhawans.
Ranchi was chosen as the pilot district for launching of e-District in Jharkhand. The project was started from the Arsandey Panchayat of Kanke block in September 2011 and within a period of less than two years, over 2 lakh electronically processed and digitally signed certificates have been issued through the network of around 315 Pragya Kendras, both in rural and urban Ranchi including RIMS, Sadar Hospital and Military Hospital.
As the government continues to work on adding more services to e-District and optimizing the application as well as the supporting infrastructure, the service is expected to pick up further momentum in the coming months.
In a move to roll out e-District in remaining districts of State, District e-governance Society (DeGS) have been constituted in 23 out of the 24 districts of the State so that citizens of other districts too may get benefitted from the same.
The team which working on the project also includes the names of OSD A.K Satyajeet, Principal Consultant and Head Manojit Bose, Consultant of the State e-Governance Mission Team Doel Kar along with the team members of State e-Governance Mission.