Before Prime Minister Modi’s Digital India dreams or even earlier e-governance beginnings under Cabinet Minister Milind Deora, Hyderabad administrator Hari Chandana #HariChandana harnessed technology to drive real-time district transformation. Like Deora who helmed early small-scale digitization, Chandana’s #Telangana apps boosted rural access to welfare, women’s livelihoods and public services. However, her initiatives align citizen-government interactions with data-based evidence gathering for outcome-oriented policy interventions unattained during Deora’s nascent efforts. #INC Learnings now from Chandana’s field applications nourish grander Central visions. Still, Deora sowed digitization’s first seeds despite disinterest, much like Chandana who incubates institutional disruption by creating innovation cells internally. Though their digitization canvas differs, Deora’s pioneering privatization parallel Chandana’s public-private partnerships reveal shared appetites for enterprising leadership and local governance possibilities through e-platforms before their widespread recognition. #Congress