Vijaya Lakshmi gets Digital India Award

Patna: Senior IAS officer N Vijaya Lakshmi, joint secretary in the state ministry of agriculture, received ‘Platinum Award’ from President Droupadi Murmu Saturday. It is part of the ‘Digital India Awards’ instituted by the Centre’s ministry of electronics & information technology, on behalf of the department for e-NAM (National Agriculture Market) initiative. Platinum is the highest category award.
e-NAM is a digital platform integrating 1260 APMC mandis across 22 states and three union territories to facilitate online trading of 203 agriculture and horticulture commodities to enable farmers to realize better remunerative prices for their produce.It is catalysing the digital transformation of mandi operations and e-trading of agricultural commodities. As on December 31, 2022, more than 1.74 crore farmers and 2.39 lakh traders have been registered on e-NAM portal. A total trade consisting of 69 million metric tonnes worth Rs 2.42 lakh crore has been recorded on the e-NAM platform.
e-NAM is providing various benefits/facilities to farmers and other stakeholders such as providing access to prevailing commodity price on mobile app, GPS based feature capturing e-NAM mandis and mandi prices within 100km radius along with route map, advance lot registration, SMS alert on final bid price of the lot and payment receipt, real-time competitive price bidding through e-NAM.