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Book's First PageHome Minister of Independent India Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel addressing the first batch of Indian Administrative Services officers at Metcalf House, New Delhi. It is organised by DARPG annually in New Delhi. National Conference on e-Governance DARPG along with the Ministry of Electronics and information Technology, in association with one of the state governments, organizes the National Conference on e-Governance every year since 1997. This provides a platform for the senior officers of the government including IT secretaries of state governments. IT managers of the central government and resource persons, experts, intellectuals from the industry and academic institutions, etc., to discuss, exchange views and experiences relating to various e-Governance initiatives. So far 21 National Conferences on e-Governance have been held. In the Conference the National Awards on e- Governance are given in following categories which include: Excellence in Government Process Re-engineering, Outstanding performance in citizen centric service delivery; Innovations in existing projects of government departments other than PSUs; Best District level initiative through ICT in North East state; Hill states+UTs (excluding Delhi), other states; Use of spatial technology and GIS in e-Governance; Innovative Use of ICT in e-Governance Projects/initiatives by Start-ups; registered with Government; etc. Each category is given a gold and a silver award. The gold award winning project and its team is given a cash award up to a maximum of ₹ 2 lakh, subject to a ceiling of ₹ 75,000/- per individual and silver winning project and its team is given a cash award up to a maximum of ₹ 1 lakh subject to a ceiling of ₹ 50,000/- per individual. e-Office Project e-Office is one of the 31 Mission Mode Projects (MMPs) identified in the erstwhile national e-Governance Plan-2006 NeGP 1.0 and its implementation is being steered by the DAR&PG. The e-Office has been subsumed in the current Digital India Programme (NeGP 2.0). It is being monitored on a regular basis by an apex committee headed by Cabinet Secretary. Modernisation Scheme The modernization scheme is being implemented by the DAR&PG from 1987-88 in order to give boost to modernization of offices at branch and section level in various central government offices located in Delhi as an overall process of administrative reforms. As per the scheme, the DARPG extends financial assistance to the extent of 75 per cent of the total cost of the project and the beneficiary has to contribute 25 per cent of the cost. Redressal Public Grievances DARPG is responsible for issuing policy guidelines and coordination and monitoring of issues regarding redress of public grievances for the central government. In accordance with the federal principle of governance, the grievances relating to states are forwarded to concerned state government for appropriate action. A mobile app was launched in 2015 which was for android based mobile through which people could lodge and track their public grievance. This has been further developed to make it more user friendly and has now been integrated with the Unified Mobile Application for New-Age Governance (UMANG). Further, to monitor public grievances on real time and periodically review progress of