Department of Information and Public Relations

Press Release No. 442/15

NATIONAL YOUTH AWARD 2014-15

Shillong, June 29, 2015: Applications are invited by the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, Government of India from individuals and voluntary organizations who have contributed their outstanding work in the field of National development and social service for the nomination of National Youth Award 2014-15.

For individual category, persons should be in the age group of 15-29 years and must completed 15 years as on 1st April of the financial year for which award is to be conferred and should be less than 29 years on the 31st March of that financial year.

For voluntary organization category, organization should be registered under the Registration of Societies Act, 1860 (Act XXII of 1860) or a corresponding State Act for at least 3 years and have a proper constitution or Articles of Association and have rendered service involving the youth for at least 3 years and must be a non-profit organization.

Detailed guidelines and application form may be obtained from the office of the Director Sports & Youth Affairs, Meghalaya, Shillong during office hours or may visit www.meghsports.gov.in.

Last date for submission of application is on or before 24th August, 2015.

Press Release No. 444/15

DIGITAL INDIA WEEK

Shillong, June 29, 2015: The Commissioner & Secretary to the Government of Meghalaya, Information Technology Department has informed that the Central Government will launch the Digital India Week on 1st July and that the Government of Meghalaya will be observing the Digital India Week from the 2nd July to 7th July, 2015.

The Digital India programme, envisions transforming India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. The programme aims towards preparing India for the knowledge based transformation and delivering good governance to citizens by way of synchronized and coordinated engagement with both the Central and the State Government.

In Meghalaya, the Digital India Week will start from the 2nd July, 2015 on the sidelines of the workshop organized by Telecom Association on the theme, “Mobile Telephony: Digital Inclusion and Health Aspects”. The State Government aims at leveraging the Digital India program towards the benefit of the citizens of the State.

During the Digital India Week, the Government of Meghalaya in partnership with several Government bodies as well as industry and private institutions will be organizing a number of events at various levels in the State which will cover multiple areas and sectors ranging from Information Technology, Telecom, Skill building, Education, e-Services. The State Government is partnering with multiple Central Government bodies like RailTel, BSNL, Telecom Department, National Informatics Centre (NIC) for various events during the week. The events will also be held at the District level offices as well.

The Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLEs) of the Rainbow Common Services Centres (CSCs) will also be organizing awareness sessions related to services being provided by them. The State Government will be awarding the best performing VLEs in the State, one each from the Khasi Hills, Jaintia Hills and the Garo Hills region. Several private institutes which impart State sponsored training courses like NIIT, Aptech, Symantec, St. Anthony’s and Rama Krishna Mission will also be conducting awareness sessions on the courses.

Several educational institutions will also be participating in the week-long event which will involve the launching of Digital Classroom, Smart Classroom, WiFi for Schools and Tablets for Teachers.