Chhattisgarhhas bagged the golden award for e-Shramik Seva from the Union Administrative Reforms and public grievances department for innovation in the field of e-Governance.
The golden award has been given to the state labour department under the Universalizing Accessincluding e-Services category of National Award for E-Governance 2020-21. An amount of Rs two lakh has been given as award .
About 36 lakh workers have been registered under e-Shramik Seva by the labour department of Chhattisgarh. The state now ranks 6th in the country in terms of registration of unorganised workers and 3rd on the basis of he target. The workers registered on the e-Shram portal are being benefited by various schemes run by the Central and state governments for the workers.
For the year 2020-2021 award has been given under different categories like Excellence in Government Process Re-engineering for Digital Transformation, Universalizing Access including e-Services, Excellence in District Level Initiative in e-Governance, Outstanding Research on Citizen-Centric Services by Academic/ Research Institution, Excellence in Adopting Emerging Technology and Use of ICT in the Management of Covid-19.