Bhubaneswar, Feb 1: In another step forward towards e-governance, Chief Secretary Aditya Parsad Padhi Saturday inaugurated the e-Offices for IPICOL and Directorate Horticulture in the conference hall of the IPICOL.
The Chief Secretary on the occasion said that the basic aim of e-office is to improve turnout, reduce turnaround time, and ensure more accuracy, quality and transparency in the Governance.
This would be helpful in timely delivery of services to the people, he said while advising the Administrative Reform wing of the General Administration department and NIC to expedite the process of implementation of e-office at the directorate and district levels.
Additional Secretary R Gopalan said that as of now e-office has been put in place in the offices like Commissioner, Commercial Tax, Commissioner Transport, IPICOL and Directorate Horticulture.
The Center for Modernizing Government Initiatives (CMGI) in collaboration with National Informatics Center (NIC) is implementing this project. Target has been set to implement it in Collectorates of 20 districts in the current financial year. The rest of the districts will be covered by end of December, 2016.
Horticulture Director Susanta Nanda launching the file movement through e-office on occasion said that all 63 officers and 5 sections of the directorate of horticulture have been connected through e-office.
The Nodal Officer of e-office IPICOL Susanta Kara said that all 500 current files of IPICOL have been scanned and put in the system. All 49 officers in 8 sections of IPICOL have also been connected through it.
The senior officers of IPICOL, CMGI and Directorate Horticulture were present on the occasion.
