The Odisha Government has bagged the prestigious e-governance award ‘’SKOCH AWARD 2023’’ for Disaster Assistance Monitoring & Payment System (DAMPS), Odisha.
Among the participating e-Governance projects from various states, the DAMPS project of the Revenue & Disaster Management Department, Govt. of Odisha, was selected for one of the best categories of award i.e “SKOCH SILVER AWARD 2023”.
This is a proud moment for Odisha state. The project has been developed in technical collaboration with NIC, Odisha State Centre, Bhubaneswar and has been running successfully for the last 2 years.
DAMPS, an online integrated workflow-oriented system comprising various Government to Citizen (G2C) services and Departmental (G2G) services combined with real-time systems have been developed to ensure that financial assistance is given to the Next of Kin (NOKs)/victims in a timely, hassle-free and transparent manner to their bank account directly without the interference of any middleman. With this Mission, Govt. of Odisha aims to set an example to other states of the country in service delivery standards to make disaster assistance proactive in a timeless manner in the state.
In addition, the system includes linkage of this data to management dashboards and decision support analytic reports with an administrative focus to undertake measures on the selective disasters and geographical areas of concern. Today DAMPS has been implemented in 30 districts of Odisha covering 317 tahasils and more than 2400 Revenue Inspector (RI) Circles serving a wide range of people. More than 14860 cases have been registered, out of which 12463 cases consisting of 14485+ NOKs have received ex-gratia assistance amounting to more than 490 crore rupees.
The award was received by officers from Govt. of Odisha in an award ceremony held on 10th February 2024 at New Delhi. For this achievement, Chief Secretary Shri Pradeep Kumar Jena and Add. Chief Secretary & SRC Shri Satyabrata Sahu congratulated all the stakeholders of DAMPS.
