State: Bihar Award/s Received: National Award for e-Governance 2014-15, Gold Award in Special Sector Category - “Skill Development and employability” Description: SAMVIDA, popularly known as online contractual recruitment/volunteer services portal, uses ICT and web-based resources for finding, training, assessing, interviewing and hiring new candidates/personnel under various schemes of State and Central Government. SAMVIDA portal is being used by various departments for selection of candidates for surveys, contractual appointments, short term appointments etc.