Skoch Awards

KSRTC has introduced Electronic Ticketing Machines (ETMs) in place of conventional pre-printed tickets which has helped to make the bus ticketing system easy, accurate, transparent, paperless and IT enabled. It has also reduced the stress on conductors and saves time. It tackles pilferage of traffic revenue and is a widely recognized cost saving tool on printing, stationery and manpower. ETMs are used aiding traffic operations and as a part of the green initiative.

ICT Tools for Education of Scheduled Caste Children - West Bengal

Initial pilot covering 65 schools was launched in the year 2007-2008 to leverage the power of ICT to enhance teaching & learning in classrooms, by which the classroom interactions may be enriched through the digital medium not only for computer education but proceed a step further towards Technology Aided Education. An extensive training of existing school teachers is carried out to make the entire effort sustainable beyond the project period.

Online Scholarship Management System - Andhra Pradesh State Minorities Finance Commission

OSMS is a total automation solution to bring in transparency, efficiency and effectiveness. Processes have reduced from 24 to 6 while 900 man-days time has reduced to merely 9. The system has disbursed over 300 crore rupees to over 6 lakh students online across the state. The minorities students can now make enquiries about release of scholarships online including tracking of their application. Students additionally can select and apply to the University, affiliated college and course of their choice online.

E- Pos -t National Informatics Centre

e-Post is a service under which printed or even handwritten messages of customers are scanned and transmitted as e-mail through internet. At the destination offices, these messages are printed, enveloped and delivered through postmen like other letters at the postal addresses. For this purpose, e-Post centres have been set up in the Post Offices, covering all the districts and major towns. These e-Post centres are equipped with internet connection, computers, printers and other necessary equipment. The e-Post service can be availed from any Post Office. e-Post reaches the recipient within 24 hours.

Cash Card Project- ITZ Cash Card Limited

The major benefits reaped through the use of the cash card were automation of cash collection, reduction of time during toll payment, which has now come down to 10-12 seconds per transaction compared to an earlier delay of around 12 minutes per transaction on an average. Also the project has helped in avoiding de-duplication of cards, card validation and card authentication. It has also been used in Property Tax and Water Bill payment and payment via Online and SMS modes through pre-paid cash card. This has enabled citizens to pay anytime from anywhere. Payment facility at ItzCash World outlets has reduced queues at the MCGM Ward offices.

Depository System National Securities Depository Limited

NSDL’s depository system has eliminated paper from all transactions in the securities market. It has facilitated immediate transfer of securities, elimination or risks associated with physical securities, reduction in transaction cost, convenient methods of consolidation of folios / accounts, holding investments in different instruments in a single demat account and automatic credit to the investor’s account. It has also cut the transaction time dramatically to make Indian securities market one of the best in the world.

Enterprise Resource Planning - Marico Limited

The migration of Marico’s mission critical SAP applications to Red Hat Enterprise Linux was completed in one month, and has allowed Marico to lower its IT costs by 50 percent, simplify its management, reduce systems maintenance, and increase scalability and performance with SAP Business Suite. A large portion of Marico’s cost savings resulted from the elimination of software licensing fees that are standard with proprietary vendors and the hardware cost due to the usage of RISC based architecture.

Government e-Procurement System of National Informatics Centre (GePNIC) - National Informatics Centre

The National Informatics Centre (NIC), has developed its own e-Procurement software solution namely GePNIC to cater to the procurement/tendering requirements of the government departments and organizations to establish transparency in the tendering process, savings of time and money, and the shortening of procurement cycle. The system has been designed taking into account of the tender transparency rules of state governments such as Tamil Nadu, Orissa, West Bengal, and Haryana. The system also follows the guidelines of Central Vigilance Commission, Asian Development Bank and the IT Act 2000.

Integrated Train Enquiry System - Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited

The system allows IRCTC to reach out to a large pool of customers and also react to their queries faster. Also by standardizing the services it can be accessed by larger number of customers without any geographical restrictions. IRCTC could save handsomely in its IT costs due to usage of open source software in cost of acquisition (both software and hardware) and cost of support. The new mail server can handle a large volume of inbound queries from customers and prospects and the Integrated Train Enquiry System also standardizes the whole process of train enquiries for the passengers thereby massively improving the service.

Online Integrated Public Grievances and Redressal - Chennai Municipal Corporation

Chennai Municipal Corporation implemented the online integrated Public Grievance and Redressal application through which citizens are able to register their complaints with the corporation, either through the Internet, phone, or a paper-form, which has helped improve the quality and timeliness of the service. Interaction and intimacy of the public with the Chennai Corporation has been given a facelift. The MIS Reports of the have provided useful insight and data for better planning and readiness in rendering better services.