Mobile e-Governance Initiative of Bihar Bags "Award of Excellence" in CSI-Nihilent e-Governance Awards

Bihar has won "Award of Excellence" in CSI Nihilent e-Governance Awards 2014-15 for Mobile e-Governance Project "Mobile based Digital Asset Register". The award was presented on Thursday, 3rd December 2015 at New Delhi as part of Computer Society of India 50th Golden Jubilee Annual Convention (CSI 2015).  
The Project is a joint initiative of Information Technology Department, Govt. of Bihar and National Informatics Centre, Bihar. The project allows capturing geo-tagged time stamped photograph along with physical and financial progress details from work-site. The m-Governance framework of Government of Bihar aims to utilize the massive reach of mobile phones and harness the potential of mobile applications to enable easy and round-the-clock access to public services, especially in the rural area.
This project has been conceived to establish mobile framework for monitoring of the building projects, road projects, plantations, nursery, health facilities, electricity network, to strengthen asset management, project management and other related functions for improved planning & execution mechanism. It has been envisaged deploying a software solution using I-pad/ tablet/ Mobile phones so that requisite information / photos / videos from work site can be captured and populated in the centralized system as well as the existing MIS software.
The MIS reporting solution envisages a centralized computer/ server system, which is capable to be used for collection of various data from field units either through the use of web application or using the medium of mobile SMS/GPRS/ 3G.  
The application is capable of generating the compiled MIS reports with detailed analytics.  It provides Analytical Dashboards with various types of graphs, charts & diagrams from the real time data, display of vital information in the form of Tickers on the portal for top management.  Senior officers’ can view summary daily/ weekly/ monthly reports, State-wise/ Project-wise/ Location wise reports etc. on their desktop or mobile phone.  
The project has been completed under active guidance of Dr. S. Siddharth, IAS, Secretary, Information Technology, Govt. of Bihar and  NIC team involving Sh. Rajesh Kumar Singh, State Informatics Officer and Sh. Shailesh Kumar Shrivastava, Technical Director & Project Co-ordinator & team members.