The official web portal of Haryana government, http://haryana.nic.in, which has been developed, hosted and being maintained by a team headed by Sh. Pardeep Kaushal, NIC Haryana was awarded “Merit Citation” under “Exemplary Website” category at the 7th National E-Governance Conference held at Chennai during Nov. 13-15,2003, organised jointly by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, Government of India and Government of Tamil Nadu. In addition , a paper entitled “e-Food.Net – A Web Based Decision Support System for Food Department & Related Agencies” was also awarded “Merit Citation” under “Best technical papers”.
The e-Food.Net Software has been developed & being implemented under technical guidance of NIC Haryana and the paper submitted by Sh. Baljit Singh, Computer in-charge Haryana Food & Supplies Department & Sh. S S Duggal from NIC Haryana. These two Merit Citations were received by Mr. G S Bansal, SIO-Haryana from Sh. L.K. Advani, Hon’ble Dy. Prime Minister of India. During the Conference, the LokMitra Project of Himachal Pradesh Government was conferred with the “Exemplary EGovernance Initiative-Bronze Award”. The LokMitra Project has been designed, developed and being maintained by NIC Himachal Pradesh and the nomination paper was also prepared by NIC Himachal Pradesh for the Conference as a concept paper on behalf of the HP Government. The LokMitra Pilot Project has been implemented in the Hamirpur district with the objective of providing IT enabled Government to Citizen Services to the rural masses. The Project was listed as one of the 20 Hot E-Governance Projects of the Country by Dataquest September 15, 2003 issue.