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Pune, August 19, 2004
Centre for Development
of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
has been selected for the Maharashtra IT Award as a meritorious
IT enterprise in the Category IT R&D by the Government
of Maharashtra. The Award will be presented by Shri.
Sushil Kumar Shinde, Hon'ble Chief Minister of Maharashtra
on August 20, 2004. Shri. S.
Ramakrishnan, Former Director General,
C-DAC will receive the award.
C-DAC has been conferred
the award for its initiatives towards IT enabling the various
organizations/departments in the state of Maharashtra, which
includes the Maharashtra Legislature Secretariat (MLS),
Public Works Department (PWD), Department
of Stamps and Registration (IGR), Maharashtra Industrial
Development Corporation (MIDC),
Maharashtra State
Seeds Corporation Limited (MSSCL), Department
of Archives, Maharashtra State Agricultural Marketing
Board (MSAMB)
and so on. These initiatives have also generated a number
of employment opportunities in the state through the deployment
of the solutions in a Public-Private-Partnership mode. C-DAC
was selected by a distinguished jury headed by Maharashtra
Bhushan and Padmashri, Dr.Vijay Bhatkar.
The day also marks the
celebration of the Maharashtra IT Day as per
the Government of Maharashtra's IT and IT Enabled Services
(ITES) Policy 2003.
The Maharashtra IT Awards
have been constituted by the Government of Maharashtra to
recognize innovative IT and ITES companies from Maharashtra,
who have made the state proud, based on their performance
in the financial years 2001-2004. The Awards aim at promoting
entrepreneurship in the IT Industry within the State and
recognizing and appreciating outstanding performance in
IT activities. It also seeks to encourage rapid spread of
the use of IT in society and as a means of
generating employment opportunities. Besides the IT R&D
category, the Maharashtra IT Awards has constituted five
more categories for the awards, namely IT Hardware, IT Software,
IT Enabled Services, IT Human Resource Development and IT
Infrastructure. Applications had been invited from IT and
ITES companies from all across the state of Maharashtra
for the
above categories.
Established in March 1988,
as a Scientific Society of the Ministry
of Communications and Information Technology (formerly
the Department of Electronics), Government of India, C-DAC,
is primarily an R&D institution involved in the design,
development and deployment of electronics and advanced Information
Technology (IT) products and solutions.
C-DAC as a specialized
institution of Research and Development in electronics and
Information Technology stands at the helm of the eGovernance revolution in the country. The thrust of C-DACs efforts
in the area of eGovernance has resulted in improved transparency,
speedy information dissemination, higher administrative
efficiency and improved public services in sectors including
transportation, education, power, health, water, security
and the state administration and municipal services. C-DACs
revenue systems for the state of Maharashtra (SARITA)
and Karnataka (KAVERI) have been the recipients of the Gold
Icon and Gold Medal at the 7th and 8th National eGovernance
Conference respectively.
The development efforts
of C-DAC also hold a unique perspective for the nation in
terms of its reach via the enabling of local language access
to systems.
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