Central government ministries and departments will now be rewarded for successful implementation of e-Office or 'paperless office' initiative
New Delhi, May 15 (PTI)
Central
government ministries and departments will now be rewarded for
successful implementation of e-Office or 'paperless office' initiative.
The move is aimed at improving the ease of governance and expediting the
administrative process.
Minister
of State in the Prime Minister's Office Jitendra Singh has written to
all ministers to take urgent action to shift to paperless functioning
mode in a time bound manner. "It is one of the priority works of the
government. We are writing to all ministers for going paperless. The
e-Office will help in speeding up administrative work and result in
saving money for the exchequer," he told PTI.
Singh
said those doing exemplary work in this project may be given awards for
excellence in public administration, which are given annually by the
Prime Minister on civil services day. In his letter, the Minister said
one of the agendas of the minimum government-maximum governance is to
adopt e-Office in all government functioning for achieving the goal of
governance with accountability, transparency and innovation (GATI),
which is the sine-qua-non for achieving Prime Minister's Mission of
PRAGATI.
The
Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances is providing
financial assistance for implementation of e-Office initiative. "In
order to give encouragement towards implementation of e-Office across
central ministries or departments, the Department of Administrative
Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) is also providing financial
assistance for implementation of e-Office based realistic estimates duly
vetted by National Informatics Centre (NIC). "It is also finalising a
scheme for awarding better performing Ministries and Departments in
e-Office," the letter reads.
The
DARPG acts as nodal authority for the implementation of e-Office in
central ministries with the help of the technical partner NIC. "It is
noteworthy that the Ministry of Panchayati Raj has completely
transformed itself to an e-Office platform, while the Ministry of Rural
Development is close to achieving it," the letter said, citing works
done by the two government departments.
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