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The CSI-Nihilent e-Governance award
2006-07 for the best e-Governed Department category has been jointly
awarded to Department of Electricity, Lakshadweep and Department of
Health and family welfare, Government of Gujarat for the
achievements they had in implementing e-Governance applications in
their respective Departments.
Computer Society of India with
support from Nihilent has initiated these awards to encourage
e-Governance initiatives in the country. The Computer Society of
India (CSI) is the largest association of information technology
professionals in India, with over 30,000 members comprising software
developers, scientists, academicians, project managers, CIO's, CTO's
and IT vendors, among others and Nihilent is an ISO 9001:2000 and
SEISM CMMI® Level 5 certified global business consulting and
solutions integration company with presence in India, USA, UK and
South Africa.
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Presentation by Hon’ble Administrator
The Hon. Administrator Sri. B. V. Selvaraj, IAS made a crisp and
interesting presentation of the Project to the IT professionals and
Secretaries of various state governments in a packed gallery. During
the presentation the Hon. Administrator said “the Administration
along with all the political representatives viz. Member of
Parliament, members of the District and Village (Dweep) Panchayats
has been working towards effective administrative reforms through
aggressive e-governance. We are going to have a basket of
e-governance projects and compete for the best e-administered State/
UT of the country shortly.” He recalled that recently Lakshadweep
was awarded the Manthan Award for the Total digitization of
employment services, first in the whole country.
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He also
shared that In spite of the remoteness, isolation from the mainland
and between the islands the Administration has done a commendable
job in totally integrating the services to the electricity
consumers. This has the following components.
1. Web-enabled
consumer Management and Energy Billing System
2. Web-enabled
Materials Management System
3. Web-enabled
personnel Management System
4. Web-enabled
Pay-roll Management System
5. Intranet for
the department
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It was applauded with cheer when he informed that “Lakshadweep is
the first Union Territory/State in the whole country to have
‘universally electrified’ every household in the territory and in
every island, large as well as small. And “every house is lighted”.
Lakshadweep is the first Union Territory/State to have introduced
self assessment of electricity consumer charges. Because of the
efficient materials management and transportation of fuel and
effective maintenance of the power houses there has been no instance
of any load shedding in the last one year which was also very widely
applauded.
Intensive
evaluation done by CSI of Lakshadweep project
The CSI through the Awards committee comprising Sri S. P. Singh, Sr.
Director, DIT, Sri. Piyush Gupta, General manager, National
Institute of Smart Governance(NISG) and other experts from
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad has
made intensive and scientific evaluation of the project after
screening and short listing various entries and their field testing
of the systems. It has been finally decided to give the award to
Lakshadweep Administration. The third party evaluation was
recognition par excellence of the good work done by the Dept of
Electricity and NIC. It is notable that the integrated software for
the various services was designed and developed by National
informatics Centre (NIC) Lakshadweep U T Unit. It is another feather
in the cap of NIC, Lakshadweep.
Release of
Brochure “Winds of Change in Lakshadweep”
A colourful and beautiful booklet “Winds of Change in Lakshadweep”
aptly published on the occasion was formally released by the
convener of CSI e-Governance group Dr. Ashok Aggarwal by giving the
first copy to Major General(Rtd) Dr. R.K. Bagga, Adviser,
International institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad and to
Sri. Piyush Gupta, General Manager, NISG.
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In the afternoon, the delegation of Lakshadweep Administration and
NIC led by Hon’ble Administrator Sri. B. V. Selvaraj, I.A.S. and
comprising of Sri. Ajith Brahamanandan, Techncial Director & SIO,
NIC, Lakshadweep, Sri.M.Hassan, Executive Engineer, Sri.M. Koya,
Assistant Engineer, Sri. K. Anver Hussain, Junior Engineer received
the award and citation. The following were present on the occasion.
Sri. K.K. Aggarwal, President, CSI and Vice chancellor, Guru Gobin
Sing Indraprasta University, Sri. Kailash Vijayvergiya, Madhya
Pradesh Minister for IT, Principal Secretary, Health and Family
Welfare, Government of Gujarat, Sri. S.P. Singh, Senior Director,
Department of Information Technology, Government of India, IT
Secretaries of Gujarat, Goa, Jharkand, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala and
various other Senior government officials and IT professionals from
all over the country.
The presence of Hon Administrator, Shri. B V Selvaraj,I.A.S, as head
of the Administration through the entire session was appreciated by
the organizers and the entire presentation and the turn-out of the
delegation left a positive impression among the most discerning
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