National Awards for e-Governance are presented by the Department of Administrative reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG), Government of India every year for exemplary implementation of e-Governance initiatives. Its main objective is to recognize and promote excellence in the implementation of e-Governance initiatives.

The 23rd National Conference on e-Governance was conducted on February 7-8, 2020 at Mumbai. Satyukt bagged the “Gold” award in Category V – “Innovation Use of ICT in e-governance solutions by startups (startup as defined by Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) government of India) for providing farm-scale data from multi satellites. Several officials from the Central government and state governments, including IT secretaries and IT Directors were part of the conference. Maharashtra Tourism minister Aditya Thackeray was the chief guest. Maharashtra Industries and Mining and Marathi language Minister Subhash Desai presided the function. Union Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Dr Jitendra Singh and Maharashtra IT Minister Satej D Patil were the guests of honour.

Satyukt is so honoured to be a part of the National Conference and grateful to be the recipient of this award. We wholeheartedly would like to thank our mentors and advisers without whom this recognition wouldn’t be possible. We thank our clients, academicians, researchers and the team of Satyukt. Satyukt sincerely appreciates all your hard work and dedication.

The awards and recognitions are always a boost to accomplish more. This award will also boost our research activities and will help us in providing multi-satellite data for the upliftment of the agriculture sector. We will continue to enhance the resolution of our “eye from the sky” and will be able to provide finer-scale products in the future.