Digital cheer for Nagaland’s Mon district
The Hindu
It gets silver for implementation of e-Governance initiatives in COVID-19 management
A digital initiative for managing COVID-19 in coordination with local NGOs has won a national e-Governance award for Nagaland’s Mon district a month after the killing of 14 civilians by the armed forces.
Mon was among 231 entries from districts across the country in the category of “Use of information and communication technology in the management of COVID-19”. The district’s project named “Technology in aid to administration” won silver while the “COVID call centre and management system” of Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar district won the gold.
The national awards were presented at the 24th National Conference on e-Governance in Hyderabad on January 7 and 8.

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