e-Office Orientation Workshop held

An e-Office OrientationWorkshop of Government of India Nodal Officers was held in New Delhi. This was the first workshop organized by Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) of this kind, which was attended by the Nodal Officers of the 18 consenting Departments /Ministries.

Secretary DARPG, Shri Ramesh C. Misra provided a perspective of the e-Office, a Mission Mode Project of the National e-Governance Plan and decisions of the GoM on the 11 Report of the 2 Administrative Reforms Commission. He also narrated the insights emerging from the implementation of the three pilot sitessince September 30, 2010– at Department of Information & Technology (e-Gov. Division), Department of Personnel &Training (Training Division) and DARPG. There was also a reference to the draft Central Secretariat Manual of Electronic Office Procedure targeted to be prepared by June 30, 2011.

On the occasion a presentation was made on the implementation of e-Office by National Informatics Centre which included background and objectives, framework, deployment plan, change management, business process re-engineering and monitoring.An online demonstration of the product and its features was also shared where-in the modules related to email integration, e-File, e-Leave, e-Tour, Knowledge Management were explained. Case study of e-Office implementation in the Cabinet Secretariat was also presented.There was consensus inWorkshop on the tasks involved in e-Office implementation. They included the following:

1.To streamline and automate all the internal processes (covering establishment, finance and accounts, stores and purchase);
2.To embed all the rules and regulations (stipulated in the CCS guidelines, the FR, SR, GAR, GFR etc.) that govern and validate the execution of all the workflows;
3.To be completely workflow based and data driven through structured forms.
4.To conform to the e-Governance Standards;
5.To have sufficient flexibility to configure and accommodate core activities of the office;
6.To provide user-friendly front-end enabling quick learning and acceptability by employees; and
7.To satisfy the commitments relating to RTI Act, Citizen's Charter and CAG and other audit bodies.


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