Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s e-Abkari has bagged the gold medal in the Digital Initiatives for Ease of Doing Business category of the Digital India Awards 2022. The awards will be presented by President Droupadi Murmu at an event in New Delhi on Saturday to establishments that have created significant impact by reducing the time, costs and efforts in setting up, conducting and operating business activities.
The Government of India envisioned the Digital India Programme to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. Digital India Awards (https://digitalindiaawards.gov.in) encourage and honour innovative digital initiatives by government entities at all levels. The awards aim to inspire and motivate not only government entities but also start-ups and grassroots-level digital initiatives in fulfilling the Digital India vision.
Minister for Electronics & Information Technology, Communications and Railways, Ashwini Vaishnav, the Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Alkesh Kumar Sharma, and other dignitaries will attend the event at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi.
The event will commence on January 7, 2023, at 11:00 a.m. and will be telecast live on Doordarshan and live-streamed on NIC Social media platforms:
NIC Webcast- http://webcast.gov.in/digitalindiaawards
YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/nationalinformaticscentre
Twitter- https://twitter.com/NICMeity
Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/NICIndia
Digital India Awards are instituted under the aegis of the National Portal of India (https://india.gov.in), which provides single-window access to information & services being offered by Indian government entities at all levels. The national portal has been designed, developed, and maintained by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India.
The selection process for Digital India Awards includes nomination of digital initiatives by government entities through the Rashtriya Puraskar Portal (https://awards.gov.in) managed by the Director General, Awards at the Ministry of Home Affairs.
