Lucknow: In a significant development, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav yesterday launched “paperless” functioning 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 state government.
He said it should be ensured that unnecessary and cumbersome procedures faced by people were cut short and redress of their problems was expedited.
Further, he said there should be no roadblock to providing important services and information like issuing of certificates, etc to people through the new system.
Rakesh Garg, principal secretary to the chief minister, said Uttar Pradesh had become the first state in the country where the said digital system had been developed and implemented in record time.
Jeevesh Nandan, principal secretary, IT and Electronics, said age-old problems like files getting lost or getting torn will be a thing of the past. He said all files will now be stored safely in the “state data centre”.
Nandan also said the “state data centre” had been developed on the virtualisation concept and established on an ultra-modern cloud computing system.
Back-ups of all files will be routinely done. With a disaster recovery site, the state will have no worries about losing data in the event of an emergency.
IANS
