Champions In Public

Sri K. C. Das, OAS

GM (Procurement)

Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Department.

Till October, 2011 there was no systematic procedure to monitor the progress of paddy procurement in the State. A decision was taken to start an application using mobile phones for tracking the paddy procurement from the Primary Agriculture Cooperative Societies (PACS).Mr. K. C. Das, GM (Procurement) & Mr. B. P. Acharya, DGM (Finance) of Odisha State Civil Supplies Corporation (OSCSC) provided domain knowledge for the application, Mr. A. N. Prusty, Sr. DEO of FS&CW Department helped in integrating technology with the domain and meet the requirements of the Department through mobile phone technology.

Chief Minister’s Award for Excellence and Innovations in Governance and Public Service Delivery is awarded to Sri K. C. Das, OAS, Sri B. P. Acharya and Sri A. N. Prusty, Food Supply and Consumer Welfare Department for their project Mobile Governance in Paddy Procurement Operations.