ITANAGAR, Aug 6: The North Eastern Development Financial Corporation Ltd (NEDFi) has been awarded the Economic Times Govt Digitech Award 2023 in the category of education to students using  digital solutions. NEDFi  won gold in this category for its Advancing North East initiative ,which was initiated, conceptualised, and funded by the North Eastern Council, Ministry of DoNER. NEDFi is  executing  the portal and through the  portal and its  mobile app, it has been providing career mentoring support to 10 lakhs + students of NER  and also working on their capacity building in terms of employment and entrepreneurship. State governments of NER states have also joined hands with NEDFi in this endeavor.
The  award has been instituted to recognise the innovative digital initiatives to   governance & services on demand and  also to empower citizens of the Central Ministries/Departments, State/UT Governments, Districts, Local Bodies, and Central & State Government Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) .
In this 4th edition of the award, 300  digital initiatives from 20 states of India participated in 15 different categories of digital services. A jury constituted of  former senior bureaucrats, notable personalities from industry and faculty from Indian Institute of Management has evaluated the initiatives on the criteria of innovation, relevance, impact, inclusivity and replicability.
On NEDFi's behalf the award was received by S K Baruah, Executive Director; Lemli Loyi, General Manager and Prithviraj Neog, Assistant Manager, NEDFi in the award ceremony which was held at Grand Hayat, Goa on Saturday.

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