Awards are attributed mainly to two important aspects; appreciation for the achievers and encouragement for the aspiring. These gestures of rewarding have a substantial impact on the general wellbeing of a society. Governments across the world consider awards to have an impact in improving public services. Indian Government has always been ahead in acknowledging those who provide or support public service with passion and commitment. One of the prime focuses of our Government today is ensuring the success of Digital India, which depends largely on the efforts of the people working behind the scenes. The Digital India Awards ceremony concluded recently, convened by National Informatics Centre, is one of the key initiatives honouring the champion achievers who enable better eGovernance facilitating improvements in the lives of the citizens. The feedbacks being received on the tremendous success of the event are ‘Awards’ for the organizers and thus NIC is committed to keeping this legacy alive. In this Issue, we present a tableau of Digital India Awards 2016. We look at Chhattisgarh as one of the leading states in ICT implementation in the “From the States” section. In the “District Informatics”, we feature two districts; East Godavari district, which serves as one of the 43 pilot districts for the DBT Scheme of the Government of India and Gurugram district, where one of the gram panchayats has been selected for development as one of the 10 Model e-Panchayats in the country. We look at some of the innovative Apps that have been developed by the various centres of NIC like the DND App developed for TRAI and the Employee Online App for the Department of Personnel and Training among many others. In the ‘Technology Update’ section, we cover JavaHelp System, an online server based help viewer. Our usual features like “In the News” and “International e-Gov Updates” are here as always. I hope you are enjoying a splendid festive season and wish you great New Year ahead. Happy Reading! Editor