The Urban Development Department has three branches (Metropolitan Development, Town and Country Planning and Urban Land Ceiling). There are 10 Development Authorities (including KMDA and Hidco) and 6 Planning Authorities. There will be a review meeting today at 2pm. Thereafter, the eFile-Track system will be inaugurated. We have published few advertisements. The e-System will help us making sense of the n-number of files/letters among 200 odd staff/officers. It will help produce management information and quickly monitor progress.
We have set up a LAN in Nagarayan, trained our staff and made a trial run for the last one month or so. I think it is a very useful tool for improving governance. It is not spectacular, but fits well with present Secretariat Practice. There is no re-engineering, no lofty paper-less-office ideals - but simply a practical way of speeding up the administrative machinery as it exists.
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12th February 2012
Here is one other clipping from the Telegraph that appeared later:
After recently introducing biometric attendance, another applaudable step towards good governance from you. I agree that adopting existing workflows to an e-file tracking system itself a big step forward e-governance. Acceptability of simple “usable” system to migrating users is always more than asking someone to use a complex fancy system changing their workflows altogether.
ReplyDeleteWe are planning now to use full WiFi in Hidco Bhavan. No LAN will be required there.
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