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Champion Awards 2007: Winners all the Way

DQI Bureau

27 Mar 2007 00:00 IST

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CENTRAL INDIA
Dr Shefali S Dash, DDG, NIC, New Delhi Credited for her role in creating a Village Planning Information System (VPIS), a Web-based retrieval system enabling retrieval of analytical information relating to demography and nine types of amenities available in 638,439 inhabited villages as per Census 2001. Credited also for her role in District Planning Information System (DPIS), also a Web-based retrieval system enabling retrieval of analytical information relating to demography and nine types of amenities available as per Census 2001. Known for her role in Non-Government Organization (NGO) Database, a step towards e-Governance; for role in MIS on Flagship Program including Bharat Nirman Project, a step towards e-Governance.

INNOVATION
	Dr Amarjit Singh, commissioner, Health and Family Welfare Department, Gujarat Credited for his role in Integrated Diseases Surveillance Project, a project that wishes to minimize the impact once an epidemic outbreaks, a truly innovative project intended to be backbone of public health delivery system in the Gujarat state. Credited also for his role in creating a Hospital Management Information System (HMIS) as a paperless, Web-based application being implemented at all the civil hospitals across Gujarat state. < Dr Amarjit Singh (right) receiving the award along with his colleague (centre) from Meera Shenoy, director, Employment Generation & Marketing Mission (left) >

Dr A Ravi Shankar, superintendent of Police, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Credited for his role in creating a Control Room Tracker: A Hawk's Eye, an e-Governance based police application for tracking incidents, crime and criminals using GIS, GPS and wireless remote applications. Credited also for his role in creating an automatic vehicle locator (AVL) system, another GPS based vehicle tracking system that offer numerous benefits to law enforcement agencies of all types. Known for his role in critical incident mapping, management, and documentation for critical incidents to assist with incident management. < Dr A Ravi Shankar (right) receiving the award from Satish Kaushal, country manager - Government (SWG), IBM (left) as Meera Shenoy, director, Employment Generation & Marketing Mission (centre) looks on >

	Dr BN Shetty, senior technical director, NIC & HOD, External Affairs Informatics Division Credited for his role in creating a Passport Issuance System which is used to issue passports to Indian Nationals at 31 Indian Passport offices; for creating a Visa and Consular services at Indian Missions Abroad. Credited also for his role in creating a Central Passport Repository system as a composite repository of Indian Passport applicants throughout the globe. Known for his role in creating the Kuwait Compensation Claim Project which proposed and implemented for facilitating Indian citizens who were victims of Kuwait war. < Dr BN Shetty (right) receiving the award from Sunil Kapoor, director - Central Buying, Fortis Healthcare >

EAST
Aman Kumar Singh, CEO, CHiPS and joint secretary, Information Technology, Chhattisgarh Credited for his role in implementing various citizen centric projects like Chhattisgarh Online Information System for Citizen Empowerment, Geographical Information System, e-Classroom, e-Gram Suraj, Digitization of Land Records, Customs EDI Project, Central Excise EDI. Some of the projects were first-of-the-kind in the country. An extremely innovative man, he used emerging ICT tools for people's empowerment in number of projects. < Aman Kumar (right) receiving the award from Kiran Karnik, president, NASSCOM >

	Abhishek Singh, deputy commissioner, Mokokchung, Nagaland Credited with the implementation of the much-talked about Janchetna project in district Hardoi of Uttar Pradesh in 2005 during his tenure as a district magistrate. Janchetna is an effective e-Governance tool to enable G2C interface, bringing administration and government closer to the citizens by forging effective public-private partnerships with kiosks run by private entrepreneurs. Credited also for his role in implementing eModop project to provide the citizens of Nagaland all G2C services and information with regard to schemes and programs of departments and agencies of central, state and local governments in an efficient, reliable, transparent and integrated manner through easy access to integrated citizen service centers, kiosks, mobile phones and the Internet by the end of 2007. < Abhishek Singh (right) receiving the award from Kiran Karnik, president, NASSCOM >

Shahid Ahamad, SIO and TD, National Informatics Center, Jharkhand Credited for his role in setting up of the entire gamut of e-Governance paraphernalia in the newly created state of Jharkhand. Credited also for his role in networking, videoconferencing, district transport Softwares such as Vahan, Sarathi, smart card introduction, treasury computerization, Web-based MIS, GPF and CPF computerization, etc. You name it and he has done it. Brought IT to Jharkhand. < Shahid Ahamad (right) receiving the award from Kiran Karnik, president, NASSCOM >

WEST
	Subhash Patil, system manager, Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation, Thane District, Maharashtra Credited for his role in putting some sense into a huge urban municipality like KDMC by his unique initiatives like Citizen Facilitation Centers, WAN, Disaster Management Solutions, Payment Gateway Solution, Security Policy, etc. He has also put KDMC on road to total e-readiness. < Subhash Patil (right) receiving the award from Ajai Singh, director general, Income Tax Investigations (Bihar & Jharkhand) >

Mona Khandar, joint secretary, Health and Family Welfare Department, Gujarat Credited for her role for various projects like e-Gramdhara, e-Gram, e-Panchayat, e-Registry during the course of her service period. Credited also for enabling Hospital Management Information System and e-procurement of medicine and equipments of Central Medical Stores Organization in the state. < Mona Khandar (right) receiving the award from Ajai Singh, director general, Income Tax Investigations (Bihar & Jharkhand) >

	Anita Karwal, secretary, Administrative Reforms and Training Division, GAD and DG, Sardar Patel Institute of Public Administration, Gujarat Acknowledged for the pioneering tasks like Janseva Kendra, tele-fariyad plus helpline for voters of Ahmedabad. Known for her zeal to initiate unique projects to put the administration at par with any one in the country. Credited for her highly innovative approach. < Mona Khandar joint secretary, Health and Family Welfare Department, Gujarat (right) receiving the award on behalf of Anita Karwal (inset) from Ajai Singh, director general, Income Tax Investigations (Bihar & Jharkhand) as Satish Kaushal, Country Manager - Government (SWG), IBM >

NORTH
	Amarendra Sinha, secretary, Urban Development, Planning and Externally Assisted Programs, Uttarakhand Credited for his role in creating Uttara portal, agriculture portal, ChaarDham portal, education initiatives, urban e-Governance in ULBs. Known for his role in implementing some of the major projects to put Uttarakhand government just a click awayv for the common citizens. < Amarendra Sinha (right) receiving the award from Pradeep Gupta, CMD, CyberMedia >

NS Kalsi, director-cum-secretary, Information, DIT, Punjab Credited for his role in using information and communication technology as an engine of economic growth and embracing the upcoming knowledge society. Credited also for his role in implementing SUWIDHA (Single User-friendly Window Disposal and Helpline for Applicants) for transport facilitation projects like SAARTHI and VAHAN. Known for his role in Punjab State Wide Area Network (PAWAN) to act as an IT backbone in the state. < NS Kalsi (right) receiving the award from Pradeep Gupta, CMD, CyberMedia >

	Prakash Kumar, joint secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt of India Successfully headed the team which handled the integrated application software for Sales Tax Department of Delhi government consisting of 14 modules being used by more than 150,000 taxpayers and 1,600 tax authorities and their staff. Started Web-based delivery of services including online filing of applications in Delhi, and designed parameters for web portal of the government, which connects 94 websites of departments and makes the web portal one-stop shop for citizens. Conceptualized and started web based tender system for all departments of the government, which is being used by more than 250 tender issuing authorities besides other e-Gov interventions. < Prakash Kumar (right) receiving the award from Pradeep Gupta, CMD, CyberMedia as Sunil Kapoor, director - Central Buying, Fortis Healthcare looks on >

SOUTH
Sanjay Jaju, commissioner, Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad Widely credited for his role in initiating the citizen centric e-seva project as a tool to bridge the digital divide in the rural areas; for his role in 'Saukaryam', another project to improve delivery of the civic services given by the Municipal Corporation and has become a flagship project providing immense benefits to citizens. As a commissioner, known for his role as an important cog in the wheel which puts the tech-city of Hyderabad what it is absolutely the best in India. < Sanjay Jaju (right) receiving the award from Aniruddha Prabhakar, COO, South Asia, 3i Infotech >

	Kaveti Vijayanand, district collector, Nalgonda Credited for his role in GPF — ZP, online Zilla Parishad Teachers GPF accounts to facilitate the user to access the information online from anywhere. Credited also for creating a dynamic District Official; for his role in design, development and implementation of entire election processes to counting of votes using the electronic voting machines since 1991. Known for his role in LRMIS in par with BHOOMI of Karnataka; for implementing AGMARKNET, a project to disseminate the daily prices of essential commodities in the district and state. < Arif Ali, DIO, Nalgonda and Year 2006 DQ e-Gov champion from Southern region (right) receiving the award on behalf of Kaveti Vijayanand from Meera Shenoy, director, Employment Generation & Marketing Mission as Aniruddha Prabhakar, COO, South Asia, 3i Infotech looks on >

Raghunathan VS, SIO-NIC, Kerala Credited for his role in offering services exporters for southern region offices (eight offices); for first time introduction of computerization in the export department. Credited also for his role in implementation of G2G, G2C services in all seven EPZs; for his role in Open source GIS and implementation for Census in Tamil Nadu; and for his role in CPWD Project monitoring.

e-GOV JURY

Standing from left: Ibrahim Ahmad, editor—Dataquest; Osama Manzar, director DEF, and Shubhendu Parth, executive editor—Dataquest (extreme right) with jury members PK Gopalakrishnan, VP, Government and Defense Vertical, Wipro; Tanmoy Chakrabarty, VP & head, Global Government Industry Group, TCS; Satish Kaushal, country manager —Government (SWG), IBM Sitting from Left: Dinesh Tyagi, CEO-CSC, IL&FS LC Singh, president & CEO, Nihilent Technologies; Bibek Debroy, contributing editor, Indian Express & former director, Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies (Chairperson of Jury); N Vijyaditya, former DG, NIC; Shyam Malhotra, editor-in chief, Dataquest; Sunil Kapoor, director-Central Buying, Fortis Healthcare Not in Picture Jurors: Prof Anil Gupta (IIM-A), executive vice-chairman, National Innovation Foundation; Meera Shenoy, director, Employment Generation & Marketing Mission; Prof Subhash Bhatnagar (IIM-A), advisor (e-Gov), World Bank; Laveesh Bhandari, technology consultant; Frederick Noronha, journalist; Vijay Shekhar, country manager-Systems Engineering, Govt & Defence, Cisco; Hemant Adarkar, chief economist, Indicus Analytics

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