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eINDIA: A Convergence of ICT Knowledge Share, Networking and Felicitations

the recently held eINdIA 2012 at HICC, Hyderabad, witnessed

key decision makers & experts, administrators & policy

makers, leaders & stakeholders, service providers & It-telecom

vendors, consulting firms, ICt entrepreneurs & development

agencies – all converging on one platform

“technology is of no use unless it comes to the reach and

affordability of the common man,” said Sri N Kiran Kumar Reddy,

Hon'ble Chief Minister of Andhra pradesh and hon’ble chief guest,

during the inauguration of the eighth edition of eIndia 2012. India’s

largest ICt event – comprising conferences, expo and awards –

was held at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre on

15-16 November, 2012. Jointly organised by Elets technomedia

pvt Ltd; Centre for Science, development and Media Studies

(CSdMS); and the All India Council for technical Education

(AICtE) and hosted by the Andhra pradesh Government and Mee

Seva, the two-day event witnessed 30 panel discussions on ICt

usage in governance, health and education.

the summits offered a unique platform for in-depth

knowledge exchange and networking for key decision

makers & experts; administrators & policy makers; leaders

& stakeholders; service providers & It-telecom vendors;

consulting firms; ICt entrepreneurs and development

agencies. Apart from the seminal tracks, eINdIA Awards

turned out to be the real showstopper of the event. Fifty-

four awards were given for ICt initiatives across governance,

health and education under 24 separate categories.

Interestingly, Moreover, the ICt expo with 110 exhibitors was

a major attraction of eINdIA 2012.

the event coincided with the first anniversary of Mee Seva

– the flagship scheme for electronic delivery of services by the

Government of Andhra pradesh. Speaking about Mee Seva (at

your service), the Chief Minister said that by issuing certificates

and other documents through digital signatures, the state

government had reduced dependence on the middlemen, thus

introducing transparency in the system, timely delivery of

services, and reducing wastage of public money.

dr (Smt) Killi Kruparani, Minister of State for Communication

& It, Government of India; dr Raghuveera Reddy N, Minister

of Revenue, Relief and Rehabilitation, Government of Andhra

pradesh; and Sri ponnala Lakshmaiah, Minister for It &

Communication, Government of Andhra pradesh also graced

the occasion with their presence as guests of honour. besides, M

Samuel, IAS Chief Commissioner of Land Administration (CCLA)

and Special Chief Secretary, Hyderabad; J Satyanarayana,

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IAS, Secretary Government of India; and Sanjay Jaju, IAS,

Secretary, It & Communication, Government of Andhra pradesh

& eINdIA programme Chair; dr M p Narayanan, president, Elets

technomedia pvt Ltd; and Ravi Gupta, CEO, Elets technomedia

pvt Ltd and Convener of eINdIA 2012, were among the other

dignitaries present at the eINdIA 2012 inaugural session.

eGovernance Summitthe eGovernance summit witnessed

eight sessions in the two days.

the topics of panel discussions

ranged from e-Governance in India;

ICt deployment in public Safety

& Security; Smart Cities; ICt in Energy & transportation;

Aadhaar based Service delivery; From eSeva to Mee Seva: State

Leadership Summit; ICt usage by public Sector units; and ICt

usage in Financial Inclusion.

Among the key speakers were J Satyanarayana, Secretary,

Ministry of Communications & It, Govt of India; Sanjay Jaju,

Secretary, It, Andhra pradesh; R S Sharma, director General

& Mission director, uIdAI; Rajesh Agarwal, Secretary, It,

Maharashtra; bipul pathak, Secretary, It, J&K; Madhusudan

padhi, Secretary, It, Odisha; dr p V Ramesh, principal Secretary,

department of Finance, Andhra pradesh; V V V Satyanarayana,

General Manager, Financial Inclusion department, NAbARd,

Mumbai; and p H Kurian, Secretary, It, Kerala.

the achievements and benefits of Mee Seva and Aadhaar

were the most emphasised points in the discussion panel.

Health SummitIn the two days, eINdIA witnessed

eight sessions on health and

telemedicine. panel discussions

took place around the Emerging

paradigms in Healthcare; eHealth

and mHealth; point of Care technologies and Chronic disease

Management; Emerging trends in Health Insurance; patient

Safety; Rural Health and the like. While aiming to provide a

platform for dialogue on the health systems in India and beyond,

the eINdIA Health Summit track was able to associate with

various departments and representatives of state government

departments, bodies like the National Accreditation board for

Hospitals & Healthcare providers (NAbH) and others.

the event speakers and attendees were from reputed

hospitals, diagnostic laboratories, doctors, policy makers,

researchers, health experts and industry members from Andhra

pradesh, across India and abroad. Among the key speakers were

Girdhar J Gyani, Member, Governing board, NAbH and Member,

Governing board, ISQua; p K taneja, principal Secretary, Health

& Family Welfare, Gujarat; balaji utla, CEO, Health Management

and Research Institute (HMRI) and N Veerabhadraiah, Chief

Information Officer & deputy director, Commissioner of Health &

Family Welfare, Andhra pradesh.

Education Summitthe education seminal track was

divided in two parts – School

Education and Higher Education.

Overall, 14 panel discussions were

held during two-day conclave.

the topics for Higher Education included Challenges and

Opportunities in Accreditation of Higher Education Institutions;

Investment in Education; Vision 2020; transformatory

practices in technical Education; Creating Innovative Models

in Education; and best practices in Higher Education.

under the School Education track, discussions were held

on topics such as Essentials for building Visionary Schools

in a Globalised World; Learning practices in the 21st Century;

Alternative Assessment Strategies; StEM Education and tech

Assisted tools for Student Comprehension; progressive Learning

Environment through Connected Classrooms; blended Learning

Curriculum & Supportive teaching; and training of Educators:

Coping with Rapidly Changing Education technologies.

prof S S Mantha, Chairman, All India Council for technical

Education (AICtE); K Sunitha, Commissioner, directorate of

Collegiate Education; prof parvin Sinclair, director, National

Council for Educational Research and training (NCERt); prof

u b desai, director, IIt Hyderabad; prof V S Rao, director,

bItS Hyderabad Campus; Sanjay Singh, principal Secretary,

department of School Education, Madhya pradesh; dr pascal

Chazot, Head of School, Mahatma Gandhi International

School; N Siva Sankar, Commissioner & director of School

Education, Andhra pradesh; Son Kuswadi, Education Attache,

the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia; Andrey Shelukhin,

Counselor(Science & technology), Embassy of the Russian

Federation in India; and K Gopal, Managing director, tamil

Nadu textbook Corporation were among the key speakers

who included state education secretaries, vice-chancellors

of universities, directors and faculty members of higher

education institutes, and principals and chairmen of schools.

the speakers focused on how institutions and academicians

have an important role to play in the development of

employability skills of the students and how ICt can be utilised

as an integral tool in this direction.

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Mee SevaConceived and launched

by Andhra pradesh Chief

Minister N Kiran Kumar

Reddy in Chittoor district

on November 4, 2011, the

Mee Seva Initiative of the

state government was one of

the key highlights of the event. With more than 6,000 Mee

Seva counters operational across the state, rendering 45

Government -to- Citizen (G2C) services, the Chief Minister

announced that efforts are on towards delivering 100 such

services by March next year. “the impact of Mee Seva

initiative is such that it has helped in saving Rs 6,000 crore of

the common man,” said Sri Reddy.

the Institute of public Enterprises, Hyderabad, and the

digital Empowerment Foundation, New delhi, were assigned to

evaluate customer satisfaction of Mee Seva. Reports prepared

by both the institutes were released during the event. the

IpE report stated that 98 percent of respondents have

expressed their satisfaction towards Mee Seva services and 93

percent have mentioned that they have got their work done

without paying any extra money. Current Adangal, Integrated

Certificate and Income Certificate are among the best-ranked

services, according to the report. the report by the dEF stated

that Mee Seva is really about citizen empowerment and these

changed processes have wide-ranging ramifications in better

governance.

Along with the report, Mee Seva Awards were also given

during the event. “today we are honouring the stakeholders

who have done tremendous job in bringing Mee Seva from

nowhere to where we are today, with 45 services clocking

more than 70,000 transactions on a daily basis. today we

have touched 7 million transactions under Mee Seva,” said

Sanjay Jaju, Secretary, It, Andhra pradesh.

eINDIA Expothe eINdIA Expo, which was organised at the same venue

along with seminal tracks, had 110 exhibitors from across

the country and received an overwhelming response by the

attendees. the main aim of the exhibitors was to showcase

their ICt solutions to the target audience.

For exhibitors in education sector, the target audience was

schools and higher education institutions and educationists.

the focus was on how It initiatives could make learning a

better experience for students and how such It initiatives

could help institutes become more high-tech and reach out to

a larger section of students. For exhibitors in healthcare, the

target audience was hospitals, medical institutes and medical

professionals. the aim was to showcase how a particular

software or portal or an It initiative could help in reducing

the paperwork and hence the workload of hospital staff. Also

how new systems could help in achieving higher accuracy in

the diagnosis of diseases and better patient management. For

exhibitors in eGovernance, the target audience was state and

central government departments and pSus.

eINDIA National Essay Contest – A New InitiativeInterestingly, eINdIA 2012 announced a new initiative in

involving the youth and teenagers in its movement to promote

innovations in the usage of ItC in governance, health and

education. It’s a step towards creating a platform for innovative

young minds to share their perspective with industry players.

As the first step in this direction, Elets technomedia pvt Ltd

had organised an online national essay contest for teenagers

and the youth. the objective was to assess the vision and

understanding that today’s youth have on governance,

health and education. the topic was future of technology in

governance, health and education sectors. the contest, which

was completely online, received 250 participants out of which

the winner, 1st runner up and 2nd runner up were felicitated

during the event.

Conclusiondrawing a conclusion to the two-day event, Sanjay Jaju, It

Secretary, Government of Andhra pradesh said: “All three seminal

tracks – eGovernance, Health and Education – were widely

attended and response was overwhelming. As part of the Mee

Seva anniversary and eINdIA it definitely repositions Hyderabad

as the most preferred It destination. the event has witnessed so

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much enthusiasm, people came in large numbers and much of the

credit goes to the effort put up by the organisers, which is simply

exemplary.”

Mee Seva Awards

Awards to Authorized Agents• SriChinnaMuneppaGariKumaranofAPOnline,Chittoor,

for making 19,122 transactions

• Sri Ananth Raj Padma of APOnline, Medak, for making

13,646 transactions

• SriK.KaleswaraReddyofSreeven,Khammam,formaking

10,633 transactions

• SriGojeVijayKumarofCMSNizamabadformaking8,005

transactions

• SriS.VenkateswaraRaoofCMS,Vizianagaramformaking

7,894 transactions

• SriLeelaKrishnaPrasadUppalaofSreeven,Krishna,for

making 6,218 transactions

Awards to Tahsildars(In disposing Category “b” applications within citizen charter

limits)

• SriV.BhujangaRao,MRO,Karimnagarmandal,Karimnagar

district – 1st Rank

• Sri K. Chadrakala,MRO, Asifnagarmandal, Hyderabad –

2nd Rank

• SriM.KrishnaReddy,MRO,Nalgondamandal,Nalgonda–

3rd Rank

Awards to Sub-Registrars of Registration Department(In disposing Category b applications within citizen charter limits)

• SriJ.RajeswarRao,SRO,SangaReddy–1stRank

• SriS.N.MohanRaj,SRO,Ibrahimpatnam–2ndRank

• SriG.V.KondaReddy,SRO,Renigunta–3rdRank

Award to GHMCdr. p. Murlidhar Gupta for approving 88.85 percent requests

within citizen charter limits.

Awards to Spl. deputy Collectors of Mee Seva

(For rendering exemplary services in the implementation of

Mee Seva)

• SriB.Eswaraiah,DeputyCollector,Chittoor

• SriMotilalS,DeputyCollector,RangaReddy

• SmtP.RamaDevi,DCFSO,DeputyCollector,Nalgonda

Awards to District officials(For rendering outstanding support during the pilot project)

• SriS.SolomonArokiaraj,IAS,CollectorChittoor

• SriCh.VijayMohan,IAS,ExJCChittoor

• (Sofartheyhaveclocked7,68,363transactionsinChittoor

district)

• SriS.A.MRizvi,IAS,CollectorHyderabad(anderstwhile

Collector Krishna) and dr. Gaurav uppal IAS, erstwhile

Joint Collector Krishna for extending their outstanding

support during the pilot in Krishna district.

• Sri SiddarthJain, IASCollectorKhammamandSriM.M.

Naik, IAS, Joint Collector, Khammam for excellent work

in the pilot project. they have also clocked maximum

number of Category A transactions numbering 2,26,964

as on November 1st 2012.

• Sri Saurabh Gaur, IAS Collector Srikakulam for his

outstanding performance in Srikakulam district.

• Sri PS Pradyumna, IAS, Joint Collector, Warangal, for

rendering highest number of pahanies i.e 2,22,725 under

his able guidance.

• SmtP.A.Shobha, IAS,JointCollector,Vizianagaram for

extending outstanding support during the implementation

of Mee Seva in Vizianagaram district.

• DrA.Sharat,IAS,JointCollector,Medak

Awards to state level officers in Mee Sevadr. K. Gopinath, IFS, director, EdS; Sri. b.V. Sarma, SIO,NIC

; Sri. K. yendukondalu dy. director urban, EdS; Sri. K.

Surendra Mohan pd, CMRO; Sri. N .S. S. Sai baba, NIC;

and Sri. bodgari balakishore, ApOnline for rendering

outstanding work in making this dream a success.