e-Office Platform Soon in All Govt. Engg Colleges, Polytechnics & ITIs

Bhubaneswar: Principal Secretary of Skill Development & Technical Education (SD&TE) Department Hemant Sharma Friday said that e-Office platforms will also be implemented in all government engineering colleges, polytechnics and ITIs in the state under the Department of Skill Development and Technical Education in the near future. “It has been implemented as a pilot project at the World Skills Center,” he said inaugurating e-Office at World Skill Centre here.

“It will help in students’ scholarships, office management and ensuring transparency in their work,” said the Principal Secretary. Talking about the advantages of e-Office for a Digital World Skill Center, Executive Director of CMGI Dr. Satya Priya Rath said that e-Office is a very effective tool to ensure Transparency, efficiency, effectiveness &accountability. “e-Office is very convenient system for the employees, which will reduce the workload as well as ensure efficiency of employees,” he said.

The World Skill Center is a premier institute in transforming the skill ecosystem of the state of Odisha, under the Skill Development & Technical Education Department. Speaking on the occasion CEO, Odisha Skill Development Authority Reghu G said that the implementation of such a system will help WSC to move to a paperless system and improve decision making on real-time basis especially when WSC is an ADB project that requires constant interaction with Government officers.

SIO of NIC Kavita Roy Das gave a detailed overview of e-Office. She said that the e-Office is a mission mode project under the National e-Governance Plan initiated in 2009. e-Office is developed by National Informatics Centre (NIC) and being implemented through the Center for Modernizing Government Initiative (CMGI), under the GA & PG Department of Odisha Government. Principal WSC Sangaran Gopal informed that so far e-Office has been implemented in 149 Government Offices. e-Office has been proved to be very useful to operate office remotely, especially during this pandemic period. It is a proud moment to launch e-Office in the WSC.