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Itagar, Nov 18: In another attempt to make the State completely digital savy, Chief Minister Pema Khandu today iugurated the e-Office training programme for all ministers and parliamentary secretaries at the Civil Secretariat here.
The Department of Information Technology and Communication is committed to make the entire civil secretariat paperless by the end of this year as per cabinet decision of August 20 last, an official communiqué informed.
The e-office mission mode project has been taken up by the Union Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) department in order to improve efficiency in government processes and service delivery mechanisms. NIC is the technology partner of DARPG for implementing e-Office mission mode project. e-Office is aimed at increasing the usage of work flow and rule based file routing, quick search and retrieval of files and office orders, digital sigtures for authentication, forms and reporting components. e-Office framework (premium version) presently consists of e-File, e-Leave, e-Tour, Knowledge Magement System, Personnel Information System, Collaboration and Messaging Systems, the communiqué said. The product is based on the Central Secretariat Manual on e-Office Procedures (e-Manual) based on the Central Secretariat Manual on Office Procedures. e-Office is not merely an initiative for office automation but also a highly citizen oriented reform. As a result of e-Office, the offices would have less paper work, and the ambience of the office will substantially improve. The delays in the movement of papers and files would be greatly reduced. The common citizen would get much better services from the government departments and would also find the atmosphere pleasing and welcoming.
Khandu iugurated e-Office by signing an e-file for Department of IT & Communications on August 16 last. Simultaneously, the Department of Information technology, Administrative Reforms and Personnel were on-boarded in e-Office.
Further, a decision has been taken in a Cabinet meeting on August 20 this year to implement eOffice across all the departments in the secretariat by the end of this year as a part of e-Governce initiatives to usher in paperless and transparent governce practices in the State.
Accordingly, the IT & Communications department as per the direction of Chief Secretary in collaboration with NIC has organized training for all ministers and parliamentary secretaries and their PS/PA on August 18 last followed by tentative training for departmental users of all departments from November 22 to January next year. Aruchal is amongst one of the first states in the country to incorporate e-sign as part of e-office. E-sign includes Aadhar based Digital Sigture and doesn’t require any USB dongle. One can do e-sign from any platform and any device easily. The first digitally signed orders regarding implementation of e-office were issued by all the ministers present during the training. Khandu appreciated the efforts of the NIC team and IT&C department to deploy e-office in all the departments of the secretariat. He also instructed all head of departments to ensure immediate completion of the training, the communiqué added.