In a significant development, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday started “paperless” office in the State government by clearing an IT and electronics department file with a digital signature.
On the occasion, he also used the “e-office” application developed by the National Informatics Centre. Akhilesh told divisional commissioners and district magistrates to periodically review the progress of this interface with regard to various schemes and projects undertaken by the government.
He said it should be ensured that unnecessary and cumbersome procedures faced by people were cut short and redress of their problems expedited. Further, he said there should be no roadblock in providing important services and information like issuing of certificates etc to people through the new system.
Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister, Rakesh Garg, said Uttar Pradesh had become the first State in the country where the said digital system had been developed and implemented in record time. Principal Secretary, IT and Electronics, Jeevesh Nandan said age-old problems like files getting lost or getting torn will be a thing of the past. All files would now be stored safely in the “State data centre.”
The “State data centre” had been developed on the virtualisation concept and established on ultra-modern cloud computing system. With disaster recovery site, the State would not risk losing data in emergencies.
