Question: consider the following statements about Digital India Awards:
a) Digital India Award (DIA) has been instituted under the ambit of National Portal Of India .
b) DIA awards are given to recognize the various initiative and innovation done by various government ministries, organizations and departments at all level- centre, state and across all India .
c) National Portal Of India is developed and run by NIC.
d) Bihar won the DIA award in Pandemic category in 2020.
Which of the above are correct?
i) a,b,c,d
ii) a,c,d
iii)a,b,d
iv) b,c,d
Answer: iii
Context
- President Ram Nath Kovind will confer Digital India Awards on 30 December 2020.
Facts
- The Chief Minister Secretariat of Bihar, National Informatics Centre and the Disaster Management Department have been jointly chosen as winners in “Pandemic Category” in Digital India Awards, 2020.
- Bihar won the award for its digital innovation for providing help to its people during the time of pandemic .Nearly 21 lakhs people-majority of them migrant-labourers, stranded outside the state were provided assistances and cash through digital platforms called-‘ Bihar Parvasi Sahayta Mobile App’.
- The Uttar Pradesh Food and Civil supplies department has been chosen winner in Digital India Awards 2020 under ‘Excellence in Digital Governance’ category. UP won the award for its e-POS (Points of Sale)-based food distribution, GPS tracking of vehicles transporting food grains and online billing and payment for the food grains purchased from farmers.
About Digital India Awards
- Digital India Awards are given every year to various government entities across all level – centre,state and across India , for their innovation and initiative in promoting digital governance.
- This year the entire process for DIA 2020 right from submitting nominations to screening of the entries to final conferring of the awards is being done completely online.
- This year awards are given in following categories:-
- INNOVATION IN PANDEMIC-To felicitate a Government Entity which has developed outstanding and innovative and digital solution during pandemic to ease the citizens’ hardship in taking activities like communication, health, education, travel etc. or to ensure continuity of government services.
- EXCELLENCE IN DIGITAL GOVERNANCE – MINISTRY/DEPARTMENT (CENTRAL,STATE AND DISTRICT)-To felicitate a Ministry or Department of the Government which has a comprehensive digital presence and displays a high level of Intra/Inter Department Integration in its digital initiatives. It is awarded to Ministries, States/Union Territories and to Districts separately.
- Open Data Champion: It acknowledges ministries and departments that release data sets in a timely and proactive way. It is also essential that the data released should be in compliance with the National Data sharing and Accessibility Policy.
- Exemplary Product: The Digital India Award honours those products that have made their mark in Digital Governance. The product should have proved its high degree of configurability, replicability, scalability.
- Digital India Award (DIA) has been instituted under the ambit of National Portal Of India which is a joint initiative of NIC and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India.
By – Kameshwar Shukla
Reference: https://digitalindiaawards.gov.in/