The Meghalaya Enterprise Architecture Implementation project is changing the way the government is run, with processes becoming seamless and red tape being cut.
The project won Meghalaya an award at the World Summit on the Information Society 2022 recently, for which the Chief Minister and senior officials travelled to Switzerland to receive.
Paperwork and the transfer of paperwork from one department to another is now seamless, Sangma gushed to reporters today, because all the proposals are now made online.
The CM said that there were 90 countries vying for awards from 10 or so different categories at the summit in Geneva.
“We won by defeating other larger nations. It was a great moment and we were the only state in the entire country that won for India. It was a proud moment for the state and the government, especially the Planning Department,” he said.
The project connects government departments through software technology and has brought down working times from 90 days to just two in some cases, he claimed. “In the category for e-governance for development, there was an award where countries like China, Singapore, Saudi Arabia and India, through Meghalaya, and we qualified for it.”
The government plans on using the project to connect the whole process of government but this will take a couple of years to implement.
