President Ram Nath Kovind while presenting Digital India Awards 2020 acknowledged that it was the technological advances that helped us to ride through the darkest hours during the pandemic. "Technological advances are often termed as ‘disruptions’, but this year they helped us overcome the big disruption to a great extent," said the President. On Wednesday, the President presented the Digital India Awards 2020 via video conferencing. The Digital India Awards is an initiative of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to honour exemplary initiatives/practices in Digital-Governance. The 6th Digital India Awards 2020 have been presented in six categories - Innovation in Pandemic; Excellence in Digital Governance; Excellence in Digital Governance; Excellence in Digital Governance; Open Data Champion; and Exemplary Product.

Source: Mint December 30, 2020 08:46 UTC