THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Sulekha plan formulation and monitoring system for decentralised planning executed by the Information Kerala Mission (IKM) has won the CSI-Nihilent e-Governance Award for Excellence in the Government to Government (G2G) project category.
The Computer Society of India has instituted the CSI e-Governance Awards for notable e-governance initiatives in the country. The Computer Society of India (CSI) is a professional society established in 1965 for the advancement of theory and practice of computer science, computer engineering and technology, and related areas.
For 2008-09, the awards are being instituted in association with Nihilent Technologies and the National Institute for Smart Government (NISG).
The Sulekha project was implemented by IKM along with the Local Self-Government Department (LSGD) and State Planning Board (SPB) in all panchayats, municipalities and corporations in 2008.
The project captures the details of over 1.5 lakh projects created by 1,223 local governments annually under decentralised planning. The data is used to generate reports for appraisal of the projects by the 169 Technical Advisory Groups and then for approval by the 14 District Planning Committees.
The project-wise monthly expenditure details are also captured in the software and transmitted to the State Data Centre over the network and made available to the public on the LSGD website (http://www.lsg.kerala.gov.in).
The award will be presented on October 9 in Pune as part of the CSI Annual Convention 2009.
Incidentally, IKM had also been awarded the CSI-TCS Best IT Usage Award for its Sevana births, deaths and marriages registration software in 2001.