Award: Chief Minister’s Award for Excellence in Public Ad-ministration Categ: New Initiative/ an Innovative Step of Efficient and Transparent Execution of Schemes/ Programmes of State/ Centre State: Assam The Assam Secretariat e-Pass Application, a G2C service is smart initiative of Secretariat Administrative Department (SAD), which has been successfully implemented in the Assam Secretariat, with the support of SeMT. This application enables efficient and con-venient way of issuing various passes to visitors of the Assam Secretariat. With its implementation, various reports are also provided to the Administration such as daily count of visitors, most visited departments and the district from where the highest number of citizens has visited the Secretariat. The validity of the passes is ensured by the system thus curbing counterfeit passes. Quick capturing of the barcode data using the barcode scanner also reduces the long queues at the Security gate. A citizen can apply for online pass 5 days prior to his/ her visit and the pass can be collected from the security gate itself.