The Union Ministry of Women and Child Development on Monday launched ‘e-office’ in an effort to bring transparency and accountability in its functioning.
Launching ‘e-office’, Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi said about 12,000 files of her Ministry has been digitised since July 2015.
The legacy data of all the files of the ministry has been digitised and the entire file movement is now taking place electronically.
Maneka Gandhi, Union Minister of Women and Child Development
Under e-office, every paper received by the Ministry is scanned and digitised, and a new file is opened. The file is then processed electronically, as per specified procedures and hierarchies.
The minister hoped that the National Commission for Women will also go paperless.
She said, applications, along with necessary documents for important programmes of the ministry like STEP (Support to Training and Employment Programme for Women) will be received online, and processed on the new system.
“The file now took 4-5 days to be processed as compared to 30-40 days earlier and it was possible now to locate the point at which the file was held up and avoid delay,” an official said.
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