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Mid Day Meal Scheme, (http://mdm.nic.in/)
The Mid Day Meal is the world’s largest school feeding programme reaching out to about 12 crore children in over 12.65 lakh schools/EGS centres across the country. With the view of bringing in accountability, transparency, responsiveness, effectiveness, efficiency and improve the quality of work amongst the work force, the department of Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India has recently launched their MDM official website. The content rich website has incorporated many useful information and features pertaining to the MDM project like Union Budgetary Allocation, Central Assistance Released, Foodgrain Allocation, FCI Payment, Physical Progress etc. Apart from it, the website also helps in management, monitoring, evaluation of the project which is simultaneously improving nutritional levels among children. All the updated information of the Department, information RTI and useful forms have been uploaded.
National Mission for Empowerment of Women (http://nmew.gov.in)
The National Mission for Empowerment of Women ensures empowerment of women in all spheres viz. economic, social, political and legal. The content rich website of the mission is an effort to achieve these goals and to promote all round development of women through Co-ordination and Convergence of Schemes, Programmes of participating Ministries or Department. The homepage of the site discusses on various domain areas towards which the mission aims at. One important feature of this website is its accessibility option which enables one to increase or decrease the font size, increase the text spacing and/or change color scheme of this website according to his/her preferences. Well structured information architecture and easy navigation housed in a clean interface provide an excellent user experience to everyone visiting this new website of NMEW
Water Resources Department, Jharkhand (http://wrdjharkhand.nic.in/ )
Water Resources Department (WRD), Government of Jharkahnd, is responsible for protecting the rights of the state in sharing water of Inter State Rivers and basins. The newly launched website of the department details about the various field of Operations of the WRD, pertaining to construction, maintenance and regulation of major , medium and minor irrigation projects, Flood Control and Drainage works. The MIS facilitates monitoring of real time progress of projects at various locations through ‘Google Maps’ using latitude & longitude. Apart from this, regular features like photo gallery, allotment orders, notifications & departmental circulars are updated regularly. The site is in compliance with Guidelines for Indian Government Websites ( GIGW) and is easily accessible to differently abled.
Contributed by: Lokesh Joshi, NIC HQ
lokesh[at]nic[dot]in