AP: NREGS software bags Stockholm Challenge Award

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Gibreel on 2008-05-24 - Tags e-governance , internet , IT , NREG-Scheme , software , Stockholm-Challenge-Award , TCS

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The software developed by Tata Consultancy Services in coordination with Rural Development Department for the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme has bagged International Stockholm Challenge Award for 2008.

It was presented to K. Raju, Principal Secretary, Rural Development, at a function in Stockholm on May 22, according to an official release here on Friday.

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The software was developed two years ago soon after NREGS was launched in the State.

As many as 95 lakh individuals from 59 lakh families benefited from the scheme during the last two year