Minister will be honoured with 'SKOCH IT of the Year Award' on Sep 9

Hyderabad, Sep 4: Telangana Minister for Information and Technology K T Rama Rao will be honoured with ‘SKOCH IT Minister of the Year Award’. The award will be conferred on the Minister at a ceremony scheduled to take place during the 49th SKOCH Summit in New Delhi on September 9. Mr Rao's initiatives related to IT are bang-on, required to build a new State for new India,” Sameer Kochhar, Chairman, SKOCH Group said in a statement here today. SKOCH has been conducting independent assessment of States since 2003 and it is the only time-line study compiled as ‘Annual Smart Governance Map of India’ available in the country. SKOCH Annual Assessment of Governance last year rated Telangana as the best performer overall attaining the number one spot. "The Minister’s selection is based on SKOCH’s own research and assessment of his innovative implementation of forward looking IT policies and laying a future IT roadmap for the State since the time he took over as the Minister of IT,” Mr Kochhar added. Desk research, evaluation of State projects conducted by the jury comprising domain experts, stakeholder consultation and recommendations made by the College of SKOCH Awardees is an integral part of the SKOCH Awards process. SKOCH has also assessed the overall improvement in governance in the State since its formation, year-on-year based on which, Telangana State topped the list as the best performer during 2016, up from 18th rank in 2015. UNI