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Odisha Government has bagged the prestigious e-governance award ‘’SKOCH AWARD 2023’

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Bhubaneswar:13/2/24:The Odisha Government has bagged the prestigious e-governance award ‘’SKOCH AWARD 2023’’ for Disaster Assistance Monitoring & Payment System (DAMPS), Odisha.

Among the participating e-Governance projects from various states, the DAMPS project of the Revenue & Disaster Management Department, Govt. of Odisha, was selected for one of the best categories of award i.e. “SKOCH SILVER AWARD 2023”.

This is a proud moment for Odisha state. The project has been developed in technical collaboration with NIC, Odisha State Centre, Bhubaneswar, and has been running successfully for the last 2 years.

DAMPS, an online integrated workflow-oriented system comprising various Government to Citizen (G2C) services and Departmental (G2G) services combined with real-time systems has been developed to ensure that financial assistance is given to the Next of Kin (NOKs)/victims in a timely, hassle-free and transparent manner to their bank account directly without the interference of any middleman. With this Mission, Govt. of Odisha aims to set an example to other states of the country in service delivery standards to make disaster assistance proactive in a timeless manner in the state.

In addition, the system includes linkage of this data to management dashboards and decision support analytic reports with an administrative focus to undertake measures on the selective disasters and geographical areas of concern. Today DAMPS has been implemented in 30 districts of Odisha covering 317 tahasils and more than 2400 Revenue Inspector (RI) Circles serving a wide range of people. More than 14860 cases have been registered, out of which 12463 cases consisting of 14485+ NOKs have received ex-gratia assistance amounting to more than 490 crore rupees.

The award was received by officers from Govt. of Odisha in an award ceremony held on 10th February 2024 in New Delhi. For this achievement, Chief Secretary Shri Pradeep Kumar Jena and Add. Chief Secretary & SRC Shri Satyabrata Sahu congratulated all the stakeholders of DAMPS.

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Ashok Palit has completed his graduation from Upendranath College Soro, Balasore and post graduation from Utkal University in Odia Language and literture.. He has also carved out a niche for himself as a scribe of eminence after joining the profession in 1988. He is also an independent media production professional. He brings loads of experience to Advanced Media, Ashok Palit as a cineaste has been active in film criticism for over three decades. As a film society activist, he soared to eminence for his profound commitment to the art film appreciation and aesthetics of cinema. His mode of discourse is often erudite but always lucid and comprehensible marked by a perfect acumen so rare in the field. A film aesthete with an immense fond of critical sensibilities, he wrote about growth and development of odia cinema in New Indian Express, The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, The Asian Age and Screen. He has been working as an Editor for Cine Samaya from 2002-2004.. He had made solid contribution on cinema in many odia Dailies and weekly such as Samaj, Prajatantra, Dharatri, Samaya, Satabadi, and weekly Samaya.
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