Accenture bags contract from Sikkim Govt

Accenture has been awarded a contract by the State Government of Sikkim to create Internet access to government services, enhancing efficiency and reducing administrative functions. The 42-month contract, effective from September, will help upgrade information delivery and monitoring of services through online access for citizens and businesses.

Accenture will leverage its expertise in technology and leading large-scale implementation efforts to create an Internet-based system which is a new communications channel that will enable collaboration by state departments, standardization of information and increased efficiency of service delivery to citizens and businesses.
The e-Governance portal will provide easy, anywhere, anytime access to government services and help reduce the number of government office visits for citizens.

“The government will be better equipped not only to share important information, but facilitate future growth by reducing operational costs and overhead. We are proud to collaborate with the government on this important digital initiative.” said Krishna G.V. Giri, who leads Accenture's Health & Public practice in Asia Pacific.
“The 'Accenture e-forms builder' that will be used for this e-Governance project is a great example of applying a reusable asset developed by Accenture for rapid and standard implementations. This enables state governments like Sikkim to deliver early availability of services to its citizens,” He added.

N K Pradhan, Minister of Information Technology of State of Sikkim, said, “We believe this project will significantly benefit citizens and enable easy interaction with various government services. This represents an important part of our ongoing initiative to move Sikkim ahead in our path toward citizen-centric, technological advancement.”