National e-governance award bestowed on RINL    10-Jan-2017     View PDF


Visakhapatnam Steel Plant has been awarded National e-Governance Award  in Silver category for the project Gyan Era – E-learning management system for Innovative Use of ICT by Central Government PSUs for the year 2015-16. The award was presented by Sri PP Chaudhary, Union  Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, at the 20th National Conference on e-Governance held at Visakhapatnam.  Sri KVSS Rajeswara Rao, GM(IT&ERP), Visakhapatnam Steel Plant received the award on behalf of RINL on Tuesday evening.Sri P Madhusudan, CMD,RINL congratulated Information Technology Department for bringing  laurels to the organisation and mentioned that the award reflects the commitment of RINL on implementation of  e-governance initiatives. Gyan Era provides an integrated platform for online Learning coupled with the facility of knowledge sharing by collaborating, thus fostering the culture of mass training in the organization.It also provides the management a very comprehensive and effective tool to track the training performance of employees in the organization. The system has been developed and deployed in house by the team from Information Technology and Technical Training Institute. The team was led by Shri KVSS Rajeswara Rao, GM(IT&ERP) and other members include Sri BBS Vardhaman DGM(TTI), Sri G Thaygaraju, DGM(IT), Sri SS Choudhary, AGM(IT), Shri KNSS Yadav, Sr. Mgr. (IT), Shri Abhijeet, DM(IT) and Ms Sriya Basumallik, AM(IT).