Akhilesh launches scheme to make offices paperless

LUCKNOW: Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday launched a scheme to make secretariat offices ‘paperless’ by obtaining his digital signature. “It is an important step aimed at not only increasing efficiency and bring transparency in working of departments, but also to turn the concept of green governance into reality,” an official release issued here said.

LUCK NOW: Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav put down his first digital signature to pass a file of the IT and electronics department while discharging his official duties here on Saturday. With it, he also launched the process of making the Uttar Pradesh secretariat paperless.

The government said that it was the first step towards fulfilling his vision of increasing efficiency, transparency, good governance and green governance.

He signed the file at his official residence at Kalidas Marg and followed it up by using the e-Office application developed by the National Informatic Centre (NIC). He used e-Office to instruct all the divisional commissioners and district magistrates that availing of various government services like various certificates should be made hassle-free for all citizens, including students. The chief minister asked the officers to regularly review the processes so that people and students did not have to run around government departments and tehsils.

He said the electronic delivery system would help monitor and track movements of files, correspondences and their disposal in a fast-paced manner.

“The system would help us know as to how much time does a file spend or stay pending with an officer,” he said and warned that they should be beware of any inordinate delays on their part as delays would lead to action against them.

Rakesh Garg, principal secretary to the chief minister, said with this the state had become the first one in the country to have developed and implemented the system so fast.

“Now filed won’t get torn, tattered and lost,” said principal secretary IT and electronics, Jeevesh Nandan. Ministers Ahmed Hasan and Rajendra Chowdhary, the advisor to the CM Amod Kumar, special secretary Rigzin Samphel, the special secretary IT and electronics JS Navin Kumar and a few others were present.