The Manthan Award is an Indian initiative by Digital Empowerment Foundation, India as the national initiative of World Summit Award, to select and promote the best practices in e-Content and Creativity in India. It involves representatives from each state and union territory of India and visualizes the bridging of digital divide and narrowing of the content gap as its overall goal.
The ‘Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute OPD on Video Conferencing’ Project by NIC Pilibhit (Uttar Pradesh) has been chosen as “India’s best e-content” in the category e-health from 25 states by the Manthan AIF (American India Foundation) Grand Jury 2006. The Video Conferencing health care project is to facilitate people of districts of Uttar Pradesh to consult SG PGI Lucknow for their ailments irrespective of distances through the NIC VC Setup. The project is facilitating the needy and poor people who are not able to bear the expenses incurred in transport and boarding at Lucknow to treat their serious ailments at SG PGI. The project has resulted in a very high level medical consultancy of reputed SGPGI doctors by the poor people at their own place at very low cost.