e-Services Manipur bags Digital India Awards 2022
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, January 07 2023: President Droupadi Murmu conferred Digital India Awards 2022 under the category Public Digital Platforms � States to e-Services Manipur in a function held at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on Saturday.

The team of e-Services Manipur includes Information Technology (IT) director Nambam Deben as initiative lead with joint director (IT) Gurumayum Robert Sharma, informatics officer Lupesh Khaidem and SeMT (PM/TM) consultant Thounaojam Munikanta Singh as members.

It may be mentioned that Digital India Awards instituted in 2009 are one of a kind in India for honouring the efforts of different government entities in the digital realm.

These are conducted by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) under the Union Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology.

e-Services Manipur bags Digital India Awards 2022

e-Services Manipur, a Mission Mode Project with 35 end-to-end online services for nine departments under government of Manipur, was launched during 2016 covering original nine districts of the state where citizens can avail services like birth certificate, ST/SC/OBC certificate, domicile certificate, income certificate, registration certificate for employment exchange, etc., without having to go physically to the offices concerned.

Further, with the creation of seven new districts in the state, the e-District Project has been augmented for the process flow with respect to seven new districts and the same has been operational for all 35 services in all 16 districts.

e-Services Manipur application has immensely benefited citizens who get the much-needed services transparently with minimum cost and reduced turnaround time eliminating the need for multiple visits to government offices and frustrating follow-ups.

The success of the project is evident from the number of transactions (18,51,601) clocked till November 22, 2022 .

Citizens now have easy access to government services with minimum procedural formalities through authorised service centres like Common Service Centre thereby reducing the usage of own vehicle or public transport ensuring less pollution/emission leading to reduction of carbon footprint.

e-District has helped in ensuring social distancing and less physical contact during the Pandemic.

The proposal for e-Services Manipur 2.0 is under preparation and it is envisaged to add 35-plus more online services from different line departments leveraging emerging technologies and data driven platform.

This platform is planned to act as a single digital platform of government of Manipur for availing all the government services, (G2C, G2G, G2B) .