Ravi Shankar Prasad, the Minister of Communications & IT, has presented the 2014 Web Ratna awards at a ceremony held at Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. The objective of this award is to promote and uphold the use of World Wide Web (WWW) for enhancing the efficiency as well as the transparency of Government Mechanism and encouraging its speedy transition towards Digital India.
The awards were given for 6 categories, which include Citizen Centric Service, Open Data Champion, Outstanding Content, Innovative Use of Technology, Comprehensive Web Presence –Ministry and Comprehensive Web Presence‐ State/UT.
List of Award and Awardees
Citizen Centric Service Category
• Platinum Award: Passport Seva Project
• Gold Award: National Safai Karmchari Finance Development Corporation
• Silver Award: National Institute of Open Schooling
Open Data Champion category
• Platinum Award: Office of Registrar General & Census Commissioner
• Gold Award: Planning Commission and Union Ministry of Statistics & Program Implementation
• Silver Award: Union Ministry of Water Resources
Outstanding Content category
• Platinum Award: Ministry of External Affairs.
• Gold Award: Ministry of Tribal Affairs and Kerala Tourism
• Silver Award: Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region
Innovative Use of Technology category
• Platinum Award: MKisan-Government of India Portal for Farmer Centric Services
• Gold Award: Madhya Pradesh Commercial Tax Department and Department of Commercial Tax, Tamil Nadu
• Silver Award: E-Sahakar, an online Cooperative Society Process Management System of Maharashtra Government
Comprehensive Web presence category:
• Platinum Award: Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
• Gold Award: Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
• Silver Award: Controller General of Accounts
Comprehensive Web Presence State category
• Platinum Award: Maharashtra
• Gold Award: Tamil Nadu
• Silver Award: Uttarakhand
