The Delhi Secretariat building. The Delhi Secretariat building.

In a step towards paperless governance, the Delhi government will switch to e-offices in a phase-wise manner after the Cabinet on Tuesday approved the implementation of e-offices in all government departments.

“Delhi will be the first state to implement e-office in all its departments. In the first phase, it will be implemented in 15 departments. Simultaneously, all other departments and their attached offices will also start necessary preparations for its implementation. In these 15 departments, there will be no physical movement of files from December 1,” an official said.

The move was mooted to eliminate the paper-based system as it takes time to create, search and transfer files from one department to another. Paper files are also at a risk of being stolen or burnt, said officials.

The Delhi government’s department of Information Technology (IT) will be the nodal department for the project. Through the Delhi e-Governance Society, the government has already procured a combined single-user licence.

In another announcement that will cut down paperwork and passing around of files, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said the government has moved all projects under the MLA Local Area Development (LAD) online.

Making a presentation of the online page, IT secretary Vasanta Kumar said Delhi’s 70 MLAs will be provided with user names and passwords and they can get approval and estimates for their projects using the LAD online.

Speaker Goel’s ‘marvellous offer’ to BJP MLA

On the first day of their orientation programme, Delhi’s 70 MLAs received tips and suggestions from Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, CPM leader Sitaram Yechury, BJP MP N K Singh and BJD MP Bhatruhari Mahtab. While Mahajan said MLAs should be remembered for the points they raise, Mahtab said that Chhattisgarh assembly had resolved to suspend any MLA, who stepped into the Well of the House, for a day. Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel said, “I will request Vijender Gupta (BJP’s leader of opposition), let us become the second state to do that. It will be marvellous. I am giving you an offer.” When Gupta retorted that some introspection would be in order before such a step, Goel said they could do that together.

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