Prof Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Department of CSE IIT Bombay and his team has received the "The 25th National E-Governance GOLD Award 2022" on Saturday November 26, 2022 from the Honorable Minister Dr Jitendra Singh. The other members of the team included SrivisifAI Technologies Pvt Ltd (industry partner of IIT Bombay) represented by its Co-founder Mr.Yogesh Ray and research associate Dr. Pratap Sanap and Dr. Vishal Kaushal, who recently graduated with his PhD from IIT Bombay. Please find the award film proclaiming this Gold Award to IIT Bombay at https://youtu.be/9pRFPlUPeWk

The team has been awarded under the category "Outstanding research on Citizen Centric services by Academic/Research Institutions" for their work on Artificial Intelligence based Video Analytics solutions for Safety, Security and Compliance Monitoring: https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~vidsurv. The award consists of a Crystal Trophy, Certificates and a reward of Rs. 5,00,000.

This category consists of one gold and one silver award. Of all government and non-government organizations across India, the team was awarded the prestigious Gold Award (https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1879127)

The video recording of the inaugural award event is at https://webcast.gov.in/events/MTg2Ng--/session/NDQwMQ--?jwsource=cl with IIT Bombay team receiving the award featured at 1 mins and 55 seconds. All remaining videos can be found at https://webcast.gov.in/events/MTg2Ng--?lang=en and other details at https://nceg.gov.in/25thnc (such as the citation booklet at https://nceg.gov.in/nceg_header/files/Citation%20booklet%20-%2025th%20NCeG.pdf)