Dated June 15, 2004
The Hindu: Business Line

"Making technology work is important but making technology work for the poor is the challenge" is how Dr. R.A. Mashelkar, Director-General, CSIR, likes to put it, while handing over the CSI-Nihilent eGovernance Award 2003-04 on Monday.

Maharashtra was adjudged the best eGoverned State (Advanced) and Haryana the best eGoverned State (Young).

The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) was declared the best technical company in eGovernance. The best eGovernance Project award went to the CARD project in Haryana while the Voice project Vijayawada and the Ekal Sewa Kendra (Haryana) were the first and second runner-ups respectively.