E-office to bring transparency in government work

New version 7 of e-office will be implemented by the month of October

Facility of speech to text, paragraph referencing feature will also be made available, Chief Secretary

New version to have the facility to open multiple documents at one time, Sanjeev Kaushal

New version to have the facility to work in both Hindi and English – Chief Secretary

Chandigarh, June 9 :–  Haryana Chief Secretary, Sh. Sanjeev Kaushal said that the work of forwarding the government files through e-office is going on and to bring more transparency, a new version 7 of the e-office will be made available by October, so as to ensure that no delay is caused in any work.

Sh. Sanjeev Kaushal said this while presiding over a review meeting regarding the implementation of the e-office process held here today.

The Chief Secretary said that the new version of e-Office 7 can be accessed on tablets and iPad also and in this multiple documents can be opened simultaneously at the same time.

Besides this, the facility of speech to text, and paragraph referencing feature will also be available in this new version.  There will be the facility to work in both Hindi and English languages. This will also improve the working capacity of employees deputed in government offices, said Sh. Kaushal.

He said that as envisaged by the Chief Minister, with the implementation of the e-office the entire working of the government offices would be made paperless. So far, e-office has been implemented in 146 Departments, Boards and Corporations of the state.  These include 123 departments and 22 Public Sector Enterprises.

The Chief Secretary said that there are more than 32,000 e-Office users, for which data storage has been increased from 6 to 8 Terabytes. He said that 75 percent of work of the Finance Department and 61 percent of work of the Office of the Chief Secretary is being done through e-office.  He said that till now version 5.6 of e-office is being used in the state.  It will be upgraded to a new version 7 and implemented in all departments by the month of October.

The Chief Secretary directed that training video clips should also be prepared for the smooth implementation of e-office so that all officers and employees can use them from time to time. Sh. Kaushal also took suggestions from senior officers and directed them to incorporate these suggestions into e-office software.

Additional Chief Secretary and Financial Commissioner, Revenue and Disaster Management and Consolidation Departments, Sh. P.K Das, Additional Chief Secretary, Information Technology, Electronics, and Communication Department, Sh. Anil Malik, Principal Secretary, Industries and Commerce Department, Sh. Vijayendra Kumar, Commissioner and Secretary, Administrative Reforms Department, Sh. Pankaj Agarwal, Additional Principal Secretary to Chief Minister-II, Smt. Ashima Brar, Managing Director, HARTRON, Sh. Mandip Brar, Secretary, Personnel, Training, Vigilance and Parliamentary Affairs Department, Sh. Ashok Kumar Meena and Special Secretary, Human Resources Department, Sh. Chander Shekhar Khare also remained present.

 

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