Kumar Bahukhandi
Raipur: Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai has congratulated and wished the officers of the Mineral Department on Chhattisgarh’s Mineral Online Portal receiving the Excellence Award. Mineral Online, a web-based portal developed by Chhattisgarh’s Mineral Resources Department for the overall management of mines and minerals in the state, has been awarded the Technology Sabha Excellence Award under the Enterprise Applications category by the Indian Express Group.
Joint Director and Nodal Officer of Mineral Online Anurag Dewan received this award on behalf of the Mineral Department in a program organised on August 23 in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
This scheme of making any government process online has proved to be a major step towards ease of doing business in the mining sector of Chhattisgarh. With the success of Khanij Online, the department is now working on the Khanij Online 2.0 scheme. In which, along with geofencing of mines, vehicle tracking system, mobile app etc., it is working on the plan to establish a Central Command and Control Center for monitoring and control including integration with RTO, Railways etc. In the year 2018-19, the Khanij Online project has also been given the National Award for e-Governance by the Government of India to recognise and promote excellence in the initiative and implementation of re-engineering of government process and system through digital transformation.
It is worth mentioning that the Khanij Online portal is being operated since June 21, 2017. In this portal, online application for various purposes, single click payment, system generated bar coded e-transit pass, end-to-end tracking have been arranged for the ease of work of stakeholders associated with mining operations such as mine owners, processors, transporters and users, end-use plant owners. Through the portal, all stakeholders involved in mining operations, processing, transportation, end-use etc. work on a single platform.
Along with the country’s Navratna companies like NMDC, SECL etc. engaged in mining operations, large private sector companies such as BALCO, Hindalco, Ultratech, Cement, Emami, Jaiswal Nico, Godavari Power, JK Lakshmi, Nuvoco, Ambuja, as well as small dolomite excavation lease holders, mining business is being done successfully through the Mineral Online Portal,
