State: Maharashtra Award/s Received: Elets Knowledge Exchange GOA Awards – 2015 in the e-Governance category, Chief Minister Appreciation for various e-Governance Projects implemented at District Akola, Maharashtra. Description: Concrete and Effective e-Governance Framework is regarding the implementation of basic concept of governance to get “Minimum Government Maximum Governance”. Under the guidance of Shri Moiz Hussain Ali, Scientist G & SIO, Maharashtra, National Informatics Centre, District Unit, Akola designed and implemented e-Governance framework with Free and Open source Software (FOSS), Virtualization, Server Consolidation, Leverage of shared resources, software hardware portability with effortless deployments, backup and disaster recovery and overcame challenges with improved service delivery, increased throughput and cost effective solution for concrete and effective e-Governance.