Jammu, India On October 17th, at the request of Chief Secretary Dr. Arun Kumar Mehta, Commissioner Secretary IT Prerna Puri called a conference of all the Deputy Commissioners in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir to discuss the progress of e-Office.
The Deputy Commissioners joined the conference virtually, while Anuradha Gupta, CEO of JaKeGA; Saleem Khan, State Informatics Officer; and Rajinder Khajuria and Satish Kumar Sharma, Additional Secretaries of the IT Department, were present in person.
The meeting’s main topic was moving all government file processing to the e-Office platform across all levels of government, from districts to blocks to panchayats. To improve government record-keeping’s openness, accountability, and accessibility, the shift to a paperless and digitally driven system was aggressively pushed. The Chief Secretary has planned to eliminate the use of paper documents in the UT.
While addressing the group, the Commissioner Secretary urged the Deputy Commissioners to make e-Office the de facto method for managing government records. This change will likely have a profound effect on the efficiency of government agencies by making data more widely available to those who need it. She also requested that all DCs advocate for the use of e-Office throughout all divisions in their respective districts.
Several major concerns were also anticipated during the conference, including the accessibility of VPN connections and an increase in bandwidth to support the e-Office system, as well as the availability of information technology infrastructure. The Commissioner Secretary told the crowd that NIC and JaKeGA would work together to quickly tackle the problems.
Prerna Puri demanded that each district’s Deputy Commissioners provide a list of at least five potential web-based services that may be built for their area and included in the e-UNNAT system. The goal of this project is to make it simpler for people to use government resources and data.
In order to ensure that the e-Office system is implemented without hitch in all of the district’s tehsils and blocks, it was decided to host a workshop to give the required advice and assistance in order to bring the digital platform into full operation across the board.
The Commissioner Secretary said that Jammu and Kashmir’s government will invest in technological innovation for the sake of public administration and service delivery. She insisted that administration and service delivery throughout the Union Territory would improve when the e-office system was put into place.
