West Bengal’s Utkarsh Bangla and Sabuj Sathi schemes have won the prestigious World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) awards under the United Nations.

• Utkarsh Bangla and Sabuj Sathi were selected out of 1,062 nominations and they also topped the list in their respective categories.
• Utkarsh Bangla got the topmost award and emerged a winner in the Capacity Building category.
• Sabuj Sathi ranked in the first five as a champion project under the ICT application: E-Government category.