Arunachal goes digital

In an another attempt to make the state go digital way, Arunachal Chief Minister Pema Khandu today inaugurated 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 communique 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 signatures for authentication, forms and reporting components.
E-Office framework (premium version) presently consists of e-File, e-Leave, e-Tour, Knowledge Management System, Personnel Information System, Collaboration and Messaging Systems, the communique said.

Khandu inaugurated 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 taken on-boarded in eOffice.
Arunachal is among one of the first states in the country to incorporate e-sign as part of e-office.

E-sign includes Aadhar based Digital Signature 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 communique added.