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6th Edition of Digital India awards 2020

January 3 , 2021 1346 days 986 0
  • The event is conducted by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), an agency of the IT Ministry.
  • The Digital India Awards (DIA) was instituted under the aegis of the National Portal of India.
  • Its purpose is to encourage “digital transformation of government service delivery”.
  • Only the central and state government entities, and ‘Indian Missions Abroad’ are eligible to win these awards.
  • Two new categories have been introduced in this year’s edition namely
    • Innovation in Pandemic Category and
    • Exemplary Product category awards.
  • Haryana has been given the first position among the states and union territories for its e-governance efforts at the Digital India Award, 2020.
  • Tamil Nadu came second for its e-governance efforts, followed by UP and Bengal.
  • Tamil Nadu has won a gold award under the category of Excellence in Digital Governance in the State/U.T.
  • The Department of Post won the Gold award and the E-Committee-Supreme court of India under the department of Justice won the platinum award in the category of Excellence in Digital Governance Ministry/Department (Central).
  • Haryana won the ‘platinum award’ and Uttar Pradesh won Silver award in the category for ‘Excellence in Digital Governance’.
  • Bihar won the silver medal in the Innovation in Pandemic category.

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