Bhubaneswar, Apr 24: Special Relief Commissioner’s (SRC), Innovative people-centric project “Disaster Assistance Monitoring and Payment of Odisha(DAMPS), has received the 19th eGovernance award. In a national level function held on Saturday at Prayagraj, the award has been given by the Computer Society of India.
On behalf of the SRC, a team comprising Nabarangpur Collector Kamal Lochan Mishra, Joint Special Relief Commissioner Padmanav Behera, SRC office’s OSD Biswanath Sahoo, SIO Kabita Roy Das, and NIC Bhubaneswar Sr technical Director Lalatendu Dash, received the award.
DAMPS facilitates payment of exgratia to next of kin of persons losing their lives due to disasters in the shortest possible time. An absolutely paperless and hassle-free digital platform, do links the field-level revenue officials at the lowest level to the Government could provide disaster Assistance to the beneficiary entitled.
The platform integrates the Crime and Criminal Tracking Networking System (CCTNS) police and IFMS of the Finance Department to transfer the assistance directly to the bank account of the beneficiary on DBT mode.
The project has been developed in June 2020, technical collaboration with NIC Odisha State Centre, Bhubaneswar. The NIC team led by Kabita Roy Das and Lalatendu Dash facilitates the complex technical requirements of the sophisticated project.
