The 18th National Conference on e-Governance, based on the theme E-Governance: ‘Digital Governance - New Frontier’ was held at Mahatma Mandir, Gandhinagar, Gujarat during 30-31 January 2015.

National Informatics Centre, Bihar with Rural Development Department, Govt. of Bihar was conferred with Gold Award for SAMVIDA and with Office of Chief Electoral Officer, Bihar conferred with Silver Award for the Project Force Deployment Software.

SAMVIDA: National Informatics Centre, Bihar with Rural Development Department, Govt. of Bihar has been conferred with Gold Award in Special Sector Category - "Skill Development and employability" for Project SAMVIDA.

SAMVIDA, popularly known as online contractual recruitment/volunteer services portal, is the practice of using ICT technology and in particular Web-based resources for tasks involved with finding, attracting, training, assessing, interviewing and hiring new candidates/personnel under various schemes of state and central government. 

SAMVIDA portal is being used by various departments for selection of candidates for surveys, contractual appointments, short term appointments etc.

This facilitates unemployed youth to register to the website for getting services and alerts. Depending upon necessary eligibility criteria registered users automatically get sms and email for applying for suitable vacancies. The software provides facility for registering a person to the website by entering personal credentials. This allows departments to publish any advertisement for recruitment of volunteers or contractual appointments. This provides easy and effective method for and alternate methodology of recruitment. With most of public service commission’s overloaded and delayed with regular employment state government has decided to use alternate method of employment/volunteer selection process.

The Project team from NIC are Sh. Rajesh Kumar Singh, STD & SIO, Sh. Shailesh Kumar Shrivastava, TD and Sh. Niraj Kumar Tiwary, SA.

Force Deployment Software: National Informatics Centre, Bihar with Office of Chief Electoral Officer, Bihar has been conferred with Silver Award in "Innovative use of Technology in e-Governance" for Project “Force Deployment Software”.

This is a Workflow based application system which leverages spatial and textual data to generate various MIS to serve and facilitate various levels of decision support to force deployment related election machinery across 38 (Thirty Eight) districts consisting of 534 (Five Hundred and Thirty Four) Blocks, 243 Assembly Segments and 40 parliamentary segments of Bihar to facilitate District Administration and Police Administration, Election Commission of India, Office of Chief Electorate Officer and Citizens of State.

The project team from NIC are Sh. Rajesh Kumar Singh, STD & SIO, Sh. Shailesh Kumar Shrivastava, TD, Sh. Niraj Kumar Tiwary, SA and Sh. Prakash Kumar, SA.