Directorate of Information Technology

Government of Maharashtra

Category 4 – Best Website / Portal

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Category 4 – Best Website / Portal

Category: Category 4 – Best Website / Portal(Gold Award Winner)
Project: Mahanews Web portal
Department: Directorate General of Information and Public Relations
Project Description: This is an official news portal (www.mahanews.gov.in) of Government of Maharashtra, managed by Director General, Directorate General of Information and Public Relations (DGIPR). This website showcases news from all districts in Maharashtra as well as administrative head offices in Mantralaya. All 35 District Information Officers contribute to this portal daily through their laptops, providing latest news bytes Videos and photographs of political events. This site has become very popular with journalists of newspapers and electronic media all over Maharashtra and across the globe. About 5000 netizens visit this site daily. This portal also has Recruitment section which exhibits latest job opportunities in Government.

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Category: Category 4 – Best Website / Portal(Silver Award Winner)
Project: Marathi Language Department Website
Department: Marathi Language Department
Project Description: Marathi Language Department Website is hosted at URL www.marathibhasha.maharashtra.gov.in, which is the artistically designed website about the Marathi Language Department. This website has a number of resources that are unique in nature. Complete Shasan Vyavahar Kosh made available in Marathi in the digital form. Information about award-winning Marathi literature is well appreciated by scholars. Marathi Poem is available at the click of the mouse. A number of famous audiobooks in Marathi such as Krishna Katha, Dasbodh etc. are also made available through this website. This website as becoming very popular amongst Marathi researchers and scholars.

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Category: Category 4 – Best Website / Portal(Bronze Award Winner)
Project: Web Portal of Sugar Commissionerate, Maharashtra State
Department: Sugar Commissionerate, Department of Cooperation
Project Description: A state-of-the-art web portal of Sugar Commissionerate, M.S. provides information about the Sugar industry in Maharashtra including administrative details, information of all Cooperative and Private Sugar factories, Daily Cane crushing and Sugar production reports for each factory, Sugar factories’ current financial position, their updated balance sheet etc. The website contains GIS maps depicting all sugar factories as per their exact latitude-longitude positions and various parameters are also mapped on the maps. This website has been a catalyst for the promotion of transparency in the Sugar industry in Maharashtra, as previously such information was not publicly available. The website has been receiving more than 500 hits per day since its launch last year. After the launch of website in June 2013 the number of RTI applications has reduced by 40%.