Awards Won by NIC Himachal Pradesh in Year 2020 - 21
Digital India Gold Icon Award for COVID-19 Sample Collection Management System
The COVID-19 Sample Collection Management System awarded Digital India Gold Icon Award 2020 under Innovation in Pandemic category. The Award was presented by Honourable President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind on 30th December 2020 at Rashtrpati Bhawan in New Delhi through ceremony held in online mode. Honourable Union Minister for Electronics & Information Technology and Law & Justice, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad also graced the ceremony in virtual online mode.
Shri Ajay Singh Chahal, Deputy Director General and State Informatics Officer, Himachal Pradesh received the award through virtual online mode at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi along with Ms. Rachna Srivastava, Deputy Director General and Shri Sandeep Sood, Scientist-F and Shri Sanjay Kumar, Scientist-F along with 2 officers of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). Sh. Ajay Sawhney IAS, Secretary MeitY and Dr. Neeta Verma, Director General NIC were also present on the occasion.
COVID-19 Sample Collection Management System, National level initiative has been designed, developed and implemented by NIC Himachal Pradesh team, led by Shri Ajay Singh Chahal, Deputy Director General and State Informatics Officer, Himachal Pradesh under the guidance of Dr. Neeta Verma, Director General NIC. The software system consists of a web portal and two mobile apps RT-PCR and RATI for collection, management and reporting, analysis of Covid-19 tests all over the country. 31 States and Union Territories are using the software system since mid of April 2020.
District Governance Mobile Challenge (DGMC) Gold Award for overall performance to NIC Himachal Pradesh
Dr. Neeta Verma, Director General, National Informatics Centre, MeitY, GoI presented the District Governance Mobile Challenge (DGMC) to the short-listed winners of the Mobile Application Challenge open to all District Centres of NIC in India, on 28-May-2021. All NIC officers at NIC Headquarters, States and Districts were present during the virtual award ceremony.
In the overall performance, the NIC Himachal Pradesh was conferred Gold Award. All NIC Districts Centres of Himachal Pradesh developed Mobile Apps for respective District Administrations and submitted their nominations in the DGMC. And 2 districts, Shimla and Solan were short listed in first 20 positions. Shri Ajay Singh Chahal, Deputy Director General and State Informatics Officer Himachal Pradesh along with team members received the award.
District Governance Mobile Challenge (DGMC) Bronze Award for ePermission Mobile-App of NIC District Centre Shimla
The ePermissions mobile app, developed by NIC District Centre, Shimla has been conferred the Bronze Award. The App enables citizens to apply online for various kinds of services in both Hindi and English. It has interface for District Administration to process and forward these applications to other Users of the system through the Mobile App.
Dr. Neeta Verma, Director General, National Informatics Centre, MeitY, GoI presented the District Governance Mobile Challenge (DGMC) Award to the team on 28-May-2021 in a virtual award ceremony. Ms. Prabha Rajeev HPAS, Additional District Magistrate and Shri Pankaj Gupta, DIO and Shri Deepak Kumar ADIO received the award.
District Governance Mobile Challenge (DGMC) Certificate of Appreciation for eKalyan Mobile-App of NIC District Centre Solan
The eKalyan mobile app, developed by NIC District Centre, Solan has got the Certificate of Appreciation. The App enables welfare pensioners of Old age, Widows, Differently Abled to view their quarterly pension details in systematic manner in the App. Besides, the Departmental officials can monitor the status of timely disbursement of pension in all districts of the State. It has back-end integration with the eKalyan software implemented in the State of Himachal Pradesh.
Dr. Neeta Verma, Director General, National Informatics Centre, MeitY, GoI presented the District Governance Mobile Challenge (DGMC) Certificate of Appreciation to the team on 28-May-2021 in a virtual award ceremony. Shri Sanjeev Kumar, DIO and Shri Swetansh Shatak ADIO were present and received the certificate.
CSI Award of Recognition in 18th CSI SIG eGovernance Awards 2020 for COVID-19 Sample Collection Management System
CSI Award of Recognition in 18th CSI SIG eGovernance Awards 2020 for COVID-19 Sample Collection Management System (RT-PCR/RATI mobile apps and https://Covid19cc.nic.in Portal for Real Time Tracking and Record of every RT-PCR, Rapid Antigen and Antibody Test being conducted in India) The COVID-19 Sample Collection Management System conferred Award of Recognition in 18th CSI SIG eGovernance Awards ceremony under Project Category – State Government Entity at Hotel Taj Mahal, Lucknow on Friday, February 12, 2021.
Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Shri Yogi Adityanath presided the award function and Shri Ravinder Jaiswal, Hon’ble Minister of Stamp & Registration, Uttar Pradesh conferred the Award. COVID-19 Sample Collection Management System has been designed, developed and implemented by NIC Himachal Pradesh team, led by Shri Ajay Singh Chahal, Deputy Director General and State Informatics Officer, Himachal Pradesh. The team was headed by Shri Sandeep Sood, Scientist-F and Shri Sanjay Kumar, Scientist-F. The software system hosted centrally and being used by 31 States and Union Territories of the country.
Skoch Award 2020 for COVID-19 Sample Collection Management System
The COVID-19 Sample Collection Management System has been awarded the Skoch Silver Award 2020 in Response to Covid category. The Award has been conferred on 20th March 2021 at New Delhi through online virtual ceremony. These Awards were received by NIC Himachal Pradesh team. The COVID-19 Sample Collection Management System consists of web portal https://covid19cc.nic.in and RT-PCR and RATI mobile apps for collecting and managing Covid-19 tests all over India in 31 States/UTs and has been developed by NIC Himachal Pradesh team.
Gems of Digital India Award 2020 for COVID-19 Sample Collection Management System
The COVID-19 Sample Collection Management System has been awarded the Gems of Digital India Award 2020, Analyst’s Choice for excellence in eGovernance. The award was given on 16th March 2021 at online virtual ceremony and received by NIC Himachal Pradesh team. The COVID-19 Sample Collection Management System has been designed and developed by NIC Himachal Pradesh team and consists of web portal https://covid19cc.nic.in and RT-PCR and RATI mobile apps for collecting and managing Covid-19 tests all over India in 31 States/UTs.
Him Pragati and Cooperation MIS Projects of NIC HP Win CSI-SIG eGovernance Awards
Two ICT Projects of NIC Himachal Pradesh have won the prestigious Computer Society of India-Special Interest Group-eGovernance Awards 2019. The Him Pragati project for the Chief Minister Office has been awarded the Award of Excellence and the Cooperation MIS Project has won the Award of Recognition.
The Awards wase received by Sh. D.C. Rana, Special Secretary to Hon’ble Chief Minster, Himachal Pradesh along with Sh. Sandeep Sood, Senior Technical Director and Sh. Sanjay Kumar, Technical Director from NIC HP in the annual CSI Convention at Bhubaneswar, Odisha on 17th January 2020.
The NIC HP Team has won a number of awards over the years for their best ICT initiatives and this has been possible with the active involvement of all NIC Himachal Pradesh officers at all levels.
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