A small hilly state of Himachal Pradesh has got Natational Award for e-governance award for 2008-09 for its electronic gazette (e-gazette) and Himachal Prdesh Police Web Portal (HIMPOL). HIMPOL has also been awarded under the catagory of 'oustanding performance in citizen centric service delivery'.
A so called backward state of Bihar has won national Award for e-governance for 'Jankari', its project to empower people with information under Right To Information (RTI) over telephone.Bihar is the first state to start such a project, envisioned by chief minister Nitish Kumar, which enable people living in remote places of state under RTI through just a telephone call. The operators receiving the calls in call centers draft the application under RTI and send it to public authorities for providing the requisite information to applicants. State government is making efforts through its Public Relations department to make people aware of the programme and the public telephone utility BSNL is making efforts to widen its network. In the two years of it soperation the call centre received nearly 22,600 calls of which about 700 were for submitting applications, about 3000 for filing first appeal and about 1400 for filing second appeal. Now the 400 blocks fo t eh state will be connected with state secetariate through Bihar State Wide Area Network to provide quicker information to and from block headquarters. Efforts are on for conveting information on treasury, VAT, transport applications and e-tendering.
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