The Collector received the National Platinum Award from the hands of the President
Raipur, 7 January 2023
The website of Bilaspur district administration of Chhattisgarh has been honored with the National Platinum Award by President Smt. Draupadi Murmu for innovation in New Delhi today. The award was received by the District Collector of Bilaspur Mr. Saurabh Kumar in a program organized at Vigyan Bhawan.
The innovation done by Bilaspur district administration has been appreciated at the national level. The website of the district administration has been awarded the National Platinum Award by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India. The website of Bilaspur District Administration has been given this award under the category of Best Web and Mobile Initiative Compliant with GIGW and SCability Guidelines.
The website of Bilaspur district has made innovation in the implementation of Central Government’s flagship scheme Digital India. In addition to uploading information about Central and State Government schemes in the website prepared by NIC (National Informatics Center), special facilities have also been provided for the differently-abled. Visually impaired can also listen to the information given in this website through software. Wherever the mouse cursor will go, the written information will be converted into voice. However, this facility is currently available in English only. In the coming days, this facility will also be given in Hindi. For this the technical experts of NIC have started working. The special thing is that a special type of software has also been uploaded in the website for the visually impaired. It can be used for free. No extra amount will have to be paid for this.
NIC Bilaspur’s DIO Arvind Yadav and Assistant DIO Manoj Kumar Singh were also present on this occasion.
