Madhya Pradesh Migrant Workers and Employment Bridge Portal conferred Silver Award for ‘Innovation in Epidemic’

Madhya Pradesh Overseas Workers and Employment Bridge Portal conferred Silver Award for ‘Innovation in Epidemic’ Platinum Award for ‘Excellence in Digital Governance for Khargone District’ distributed by President Shri Ram Nath Kovind in Online Program Digital India Award 2020 Bhopal: Wednesday , December 30, 2020, 21:03 IST The video conferencing was organized by the President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, in New Delhi at this time for excellence within the class ‘Innovations in Epidemic’ to the migrant labor and employment bridge portals operated by the Department of Labor, Government of Madhya Pradesh. Silver Award was conferred on the Digital India Awards 2020 organized by way of the medium. These portals have been awarded for facilitating identification, registration, abilities and employment of migrant and different employees in the course of the COVID-19 epidemic. District Khargone has been awarded the Platinum Award for the class ‘Excellence in Digital Governance – District’ for the district’s web site. Union Minister of Law and Justice, Communications, Electronics and Information Technology, Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad, Secretary (MEITY) Mr. Ajay Sahni and different dignitaries attended the award ceremony from Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi and Bhopal, Kolkata, Chennai and numerous locations. This is an expression of the imaginative and prescient of Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chauhan and Madhya Pradesh has change into the primary state within the nation to implement such a scheme in the course of the COVID-19 epidemic. The ‘Innovation in Epidemic’ class of Digital India Awards honors a authorities establishment that has developed wonderful, revolutionary and digital options to allow residents to simply perform numerous actions throughout epidemics in areas comparable to communication, well being, training, journey Have carried out or have ensured the continuity of presidency providers. The Madhya Pradesh Pravasi Shramik Portal and Shramik Seva Mobile App helped within the identification and registration of migrant employees and their relations in the course of the COVID-19 epidemic. The built-in database of migrant employees created by this portal is being utilized by authorities departments and district administration for the rehabilitation and welfare of migrant employees. Through the Rojgar Setu portal, efforts are being made to supply employment to migrant and different employees in their very own village and metropolis primarily based on their abilities and prior expertise. Those of the district administration within the award class ‘Excellence in Digital Governance – District’ Achievements are awarded which have exemplary give attention to offering complete data in regional language to the residents. Khargone’s district web site has been awarded the Platinum Award for being an genuine and dependable single window data dissemination system in assembly citizen-centric aspirations. The web site, whereas being handicap-friendly, showcases entry to necessary features of the district comparable to tourism, artwork, tradition, handicrafts and utilities. Information on this web site is offered in each English and Hindi languages. In the six classes, Madhya Pradesh’s account, the Digital India Award is an initiative of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to honor exemplary initiatives and practices in digital-governance. The sixth Digital India Awards 2020 has been introduced in six classes – innovation in epidemics; Excellence in Digital Governance – Central Ministries / Departments; Excellence in Digital Governance – State / UT; Excellence in Digital Governance – District; Open Data Champion; And exemplary merchandise. The strategy of on-line nominations for these awards started on October 23 and continued for a month. During this time 402 nominations have been obtained. The shortlisting and rating of nominations was carried out by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. The on-line shows of the shortlisted nominations in every class have been introduced to a high-level jury constituted below the chairmanship of the Ministry Secretary, adopted by the ultimate winner. Sunita Dubey