Chandigarh, December 10
The Mandi Board has bagged the 8th Digital Transformation award in recognition for its innovative citizen engagement platform for the benefit of farmers through technology “Digitisation of J-Form via Whatsapp and Digi-Locker”.
The award was bestowed to the officers of the Board by Assam IT Minister at a function held in Guwahati on Friday. The winner was selected through a jury-led process at Assam under the supervision of senior bureaucrats and experts from Assam’s Department of IT.
Mandi Board Secretary Ravi Bhagat said Punjab was known for setting up of e-Governance in almost all departments of the government and the Board had started this unique initiative by setting up e-procurement (procurement by invitation) during the pandemic in 2020.
He said since then, the IT team of the Board had launched several e-services like online licence, online payments, digitisation of J-Form, online procurement, VTS app for recording of other state’s crop coming to Punjab, e-Auction portal, e-Daak portal and others to facilitate the stakeholders.