The Computer Society of India (CSI), India’s premier body of IT professionals, and Nihilent Technologies had jointly constituted the annual CSI-Nihilent e-governance awards in the year 2000 for exemplary e-governance projects. For the year 2003-04, Haryana has received two e-Governance Awards of CSI-Nihilent: 1. Winner in the Best e-Governed State - Young category [Project name - e-governance initiatives taken in Haryana] 2. Second Runner-up in the Best e-Governance Project category (Ekal Sewa Kendra - at Kaithal). The awards were presented by Dr. R. A. Mashelkar, DG-CSIR at a special function on 14th June 2004 at Pune to Sh G.S Bansal, SIO Haryana.