The Telangana government has hit upon an innovative concept for contactless governance. As part of its initiatives to reduce physical contact while simultaneously expedite the movement of files, the K Chandrasekhar Rao-led state government has taken a crucial decision to implement the e-office system.
The process for the new system has already been initiated even as the authorities are intending to put the e-office system into practice from second week of July. Accordingly, all the departments have been ordered to chalk out a master database of all government employees and collect the digital signatures of the authorities concerned. This is in addition to installing necessary hardware and software for a hassle-free functioning of the system.
“The e-office system was designed as part of Digital India programme by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) and has been under partial implementation in some departments as well as district collectorates. The proposals for expanding the e-office operations to all departments have been there, pending for a long time. It is just that the current COVID-19 scenario has forced several departments to expedite the process which was kickstarted a few weeks back. This will minimise physical contact and also improve transparency and effective movement of files,” sources in Telangana IT department said.
