BHEL awarded with National e-Governance Gold award

BHOPAL: BHEL has been conferred with the prestigious National e-Governance Gold award by the Union government for 2014-15 at a function held at Gandhinagar on Friday. The award was given in the category - 'Innovative use of ICT by Central Government PSUs', for the project 'SAMPARK - Online Integrated Employee Centric services Portal', developed by Information Services and Technology department (ITS), BHEL, Bhopal.The Gold award carries prize money of Rs 2 lakh, a trophy and certificate.
Chief Minister of Gujarat, Anandiben Patel, presented the awards, in the presence of D J Pandian, Chief Secretary, Government of Gujarat, Alok Rawat, Secretary, DARPG-GoI, R S Sharma, Secretary, DeitY-GoI and R Chandrashekar, President, NASSSOM.
On behalf of BHEL, the award was received by Rajiv Garg, ED (CS&IT), Dr. Mukesh Arora (AGM-IT), Shri N P Sanodia (Sr.DGM-IT), Vivek Pathak (Sr. Manager-IT) and Rajneesh Rai (Sr. Engineer-IT) from BHEL, Bhopal.
The initiative provides an integrated platform to on-roll as well as retired employees to access various employee related services online anytime from anywhere. Recently launched mobile application m-Portal also got widespread appreciation from employees, which enables them to access the services over mobile & handheld devices.
The project was selected for the gold award after detailed evaluation, audit, field visit and presentations from numerous nominations submitted by various departments/institutions and PSUs across the country. The initiative has already won the prestigious "CSI National Award for Excellence in IT 2013".
To recognize and promote excellence in implementation of e-Governance initiatives, the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, Government of India, presents National Awards for e-Governance every year.