Sunday, October 31, 2010

Orissa RTI website bags best India eGov Award

Orissadiary.com;
Bhubaneswar: The RTI website of the State has been awarded as the best user-friendly website in the Country. A high profile event for choosing best website in the country conducted by India eGov 2.0 in New Delhi on October 28 choose States RTI Central Mechanism (RTI CMM) as the best user-friendly website and conferred India eGov 2.0 Awards-2010.
The States RTI website is now connecting as many as 1800 offices and providing information to the people tirelessly.
Speaking to the mediapersons here, Information and Public Relation Minister Prafulla Samal informed that the State’s RTI CMM was selected by a grand jury consisting of eminent persons and headed by senior Director of IT of Ministry of Communication and IT Ashis Sanyal as the best from among 128 websites used by Government and public sector orgnisations.
The Nodal Officer of RTI and Secretary of Department SN Tripathy said the State RTI Portal www.rtiorissa.gov.in presently serves the need of over 1800 offices. The website access the system ensuring compliance of the RTI Act, 2005. It also has public feedback as well as interactive mechanism to enable citizen to post online RTI applications and appeals to any public authority.
The award was received by Dirctor, I and PR, BP Mohanty at the event ceremony held in New Delhi.