National Awards on e-Governance

To recognize and promote excellence in implementation of e-governance initiatives, the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances presents National Awards for e-Governance every year.

Purpose of the Award

The purpose of these awards is to:-

• Recognize achievements in the area of e-Governance.
• Disseminate knowledge on effective methods of designing and implementing sustainable e-Governance initiatives.
• Encourage horizontal transfer of successful e-Governance solutions.
• Promote and exchange experiences in solving problems, mitigating risks,resolving issues and planning for success.

Category of awards

• Excellence in Government Process Re-engineering: This award seeks to recognize the best-in-class projects that involved analysis and re-design of workflow and aimed at improvement in outcomes related to efficiency,effectiveness of process, cost, quality, service delivery or a combination of these.
  
• Exemplary Horizontal Transfer of ICT-based Best Practice: This award seeks to recognize the exemplary projects implemented at department or organization level that have been/ can be replicated to other departments or organizations with suitable modifications.
  
• Outstanding performance in Citizen-Centric Service Delivery: This award seeks to recognize the projects aimed at delivering enhanced value to its beneficiaries through effective use of ICT.
• Innovative Usage of Technology in e-Governance: This award seeks to recognize the projects demonstrating use of path-breaking ICT or innovative use of an existing ICT.
  
• Exemplary Usage of ICT by PSUs: This award seeks to recognize projects implemented in PSUs that demonstrate effective use of ICT focused at improving the process outcomes.
  
• Best Government Website: This award seeks to recognize the departments that have contributed most towards development of a content enriched and visually appealing website, enhancing public access and service delivery
  through use of ICT.
  
• Sectoral Award (Focus Sector for 2008-09 – Health#): This award seeks to recognize achievements in the focus sector for the year.

There will be three awards in each category, namely Gold, Silver and Bronze.

Who can nominate:

Central Ministries/Departments, States/ UTs, Districts, Local Bodies, PSUs, Civil Society Organisations and Industry.

Criteria for selection of Awards

All nominated projects must have been operational for a period of not less than one year (Excluding Pilot period).

How to Apply

All applicants must fill both the Main Application Form and Award Specific Form as per prescribed format for each of the projects being nominated.

Terms and Conditions

• Any project that has been awarded National Award for e-governance by DARPG (for any category) in the past cannot be nominated again.

• A project can be nominated for a maximum of two award categories only.

• At the time of submission of nominations for award, the type of the award category under which the submission is to be considered may be indicated. However, it would be the prerogative of the jury to decide the category to
  which a given submission can be treated for the purpose of selection for the award.

• All nominations MUST be sent online to awards@arpg.nic.in or egovawards@gmail.com on or before the last date. Hard Copies of the forms will NOT be accepted in any case.

• Details furnished would need to be comprehensive and cover the specified aspects of the initiative undertaken. Incomplete submissions not complying with the directions/guidelines detailed in this brief would not be considered.

• The intervention must relate to any of the areas of poverty reduction and economic development, social services, education, health, rural and community development, environmental management, transportation,housing, urban governance and regional planning, land use management/ GIS, disaster and risk management, trade practices, commerce, business development and such other domains of governance.

• Besides leveraging on ICT, the projects implemented would need to showcase effective use of infrastructure, partnership with the local community,leadership practices, simplification of processes, strategic architectures, best practices in the design, development, deployment of solutions using technology, innovative people centred approaches and such other effective interventions.

• Diligence in the design, development and implementation of solutions,persistent problem solving, efforts to create and sustain systemic changes,institutionalize best practices, gain community/stakeholder acceptance,discontinuance of inefficient administrative practices, ingenious people
  centred approaches would need to be clearly brought out.

• Verification of the ownership of all shortlisted projects shall be carried out before finalizing results. Supporting details shall be made available by the Project Incharge

Time Frames

Last date for submission of nominations has been extended to 25th October, 2008.

Results will be declared well before the XIIth National Conference on e-Governance.