State e-Governance Mission Team

The National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) is an ambitious program of the Government of India with the vision to "Make all Government services accessible to the common man in his locality, through common service delivery outlets and ensure efficiency, transparency and reliability of such services at affordable costs to realize the basic needs of the common man". With this vision,the Government of India (Gol) Capacity Building (CB) Scheme for taking NeGP forward across the country in all the States and UTs. The CB Scheme is mainly for provisioning technical and professional support to State level policy and decision-making bodies and to develop specialized skills for e-Governance.

Creation of the State e-Governance Mission Team (SeMT) is one of the initiative of the overall CB scheme. The SeMT is responsible for undertaking the groundwork for providing an overall direction, standardization and consistency through Programme Management of the e-Governance initiatives in the State. All interdependencies, overlaps, conflicts, standards, overarching architecture, security, legal aspects, etc. across projects as well as core and support infrastructure shared across several projects falls under the purview of SeMT. The SeMT supports the Program Steering Council & NeGP Apex Committee and function as the secretariat and full time internal advisory body in undertaking e-Governance projects.

Currently the SeMT team is functioning under Digital India Corporation (DIC)
Digital India Corporation (DIC) leads and guides in realizing the vision, objectives and goals of the Digital India program. It provides the strategic support to Ministries/Departments of Centre/States for carrying forward the mission of Digital India by way of Capacity Building for e-Governance projects, promoting best practices, encouraging Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), nurturing innovation and technology in various domains.

The SeMT has personnel with appropriate background and aptitude who have adequate skills and experience in performing work across the project domains.

State e-Governance Mission Team of Odisha

1.    Shri Sudipta Samant
2.    Shri Chandan Pradhan
3.    Shri Avijit Puhan
4.    Shri Ashish Kumar Barik