Himachal Pradesh Government, India

Himachal Pradesh wins 3 Web Ratna Gold Icon Awards

In order to promote more and more innovative e-governance initiatives and to give due recognition to the exemplary efforts in this direction, the Web Ratna Awards have been instituted under the ambit of the National Portal of India, http://www.india.gov.in.

The awards aim not only to recognise the noteworthy and sustainable initiatives in the realm of e-Governance but also to disseminate information about such initiatives for others to customise and replicate the successful solutions.

The Himachal Pradesh Government projects have won three Web-Ratna Gold Icon Awards under different categories. All the three awards are for NIC initiatives for the State Government in the field of Information Technology.

These awards were conferred by Thiru A. Raja, the Hon'ble Union Minister of Communications & Information Technology, in the presence of Shri Sachin Pilot, the Hon'ble Minister of State for Communications & Information Technology at an exclusive award presentation ceremony held on 19th April 2010 at Hall No. 6, Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi at 4:00 PM.

Web Ratna Awards information is available at http://webratna.india.gov.in
(Previous Awards Won by Himachal Pradesh)

Himachal Pradesh has been conferred these Awards under the following categories:

Category 1-Citizen Centric Service Delivery
Himachal Pradesh Police Portal at http://hppolice.nic.in

HP Police Portal Award Team From HP Police, Sh. O.C. Thakur, IPS, IG CID, Sh. Ashok Sharma, IPS, IG Southern Range From NIC Sh. Rajesh Bahadur, State Informatics Officer, Sh. Praveen Sharma, Asst Prog.

Category 6-Comprehensive Web Presence-State
Himachal Pradesh Government Web-Portal at http://himachal.nic.in

Award being conferred by Hon’ble Union Minister of Communications & IT to the Team, namely, Sh. B.K. Aggarwal, IAS, the then Principal Secretary (IT) to HP Government & Team from NIC Himachal Pradesh, Sh. Rajesh Bahadur, State Informatics Officer, Sh. Ajay Singh Chahal, Technical Director, Sh. Vijay Gupta, Principal Systems Analyst, Sh. Sanjay Sharma, Principal Systems Analyst

Category 8-NIC Coordinator for National Portal
Sh. Ajay Singh Chahal, Technical Director NIC Himachal Pradesh

Award being conferred by Hon’ble Union Minister of Communications & Information Technology in the presence of Hon’ble Minister of State of Communications & IT, Sh. Sachin Pilot, to Sh. Ajay Singh Chahal, Technical Director, NIC Himachal Pradesh