Dataquest e-Gov Champion 2006

Dataquest recently felicitated the e-governance champions
with the Dataquest e-Gov Regional Champion Awards in a regional format-East,
West, North and South-across all departments and states. The award is first of
its kind in India, which emphasizes the importance of e-governance in a
comprehensive manner. From West India there were three winners - Neeta Shah,
Director-e-governance, Gujarat Informatics Ltd for harnessing the power of IT to
benefit the masses through apt policy framework and strategies in the rural
sector; Amit A Shirodkar, Sarpanch-Shiroda-Ponda, Goa for providing domain
expertise in customization of Infogram project at the Panchayat level; and Dilip
Band, Commissioner-Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation, Pune for redefining
government processes at the municipal level through ICT intervention and
integrated framework approach.

(Left) FC Kohli, former CMD, TCS, awards beaming Dr Neeta Shah as the e-Gov Champion at the Mumbai Summit		(Right) MN Rao, Director IT, Goa accepting the award on behalf of Amit A Shirodkar from Lalit Yagnik, Senior Executive, Solution Architecture, IBM India
Dilip Band, Commissioner, Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation, Pune