Ceremony of the much popular SKOCH 2021 Awards for excellence in eGovernance in the country was held in a virtual ceremony on 20th March 2021. A The Ministry of Tribal Affairs was conferred with SKOCH Challenger Award for their various initiatives for better e-Governance in India. The award was received by the Hon’ble Minister for Tribal Affairs, Shri Arjun Munda. The awarded initiatives include portals for various schemes of the Ministry developed by Tribal Affairs Informatics Division of NIC B The SKOCH Gold Award in Technology category was conferred to the ‘Performance Dashboard’ developed and implemented by the Centre of Excellence for Data Analytics (CEDA) and Tribal Affairs Informatics Division. The Dashboard portrays Analytics of sixteen schemes of the Ministry on a single platform. C The SKOCH Gold Award for the Swasth Bharat category was given away for the’Tribal Health and Nutrition Portal’ developed and implemented by Piramal Swasthaya, and hosted by Tribal Affairs Informatics division of NIC. D The SKOCH Award for the Environment and Sustainability category went to the “Water Management of Tribal Villages using Ice-Stupa“ implemented by the Ministry in Ladakh Region