Indian Railways signs MoU with RailTel for Phase 2 of e-Office Project

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New Delhi : After the successful completion of the Phase 1 execution of NIC e office for 50,000 users in 58 units, Indian Railways has signed an MoU with RailTel, a miniratna PSU under Ministry of Railways, for the phase 2 of the project.

In phase 2, RailTel will register 39,000 users over 34 Railway divisions on NIC e office platform by June30, 2020. The phase 1 of NIC e-office execution started with a mandate to complete the work by March 2020. But with a lightning speed of execution RailTel completed the work way ahead of time and successfully created 50,000+ users in 58 units of Indian Railways and trained the executives to handle the platform in a span of mere 6 months, according to a PIB release.

ED/TD, Railway Board, Umesh Balonda, and GM/IT project/RailTel, Haritima Jaipuriar, signed the Memorandum of Understanding. Chairman, Railway Board, Vinod Kumar Yadav, Member S&T, Railway Board, Pradeep Kumar, CMD, RailTel, Puneet Chawla, and other senior officials of Railways and RailTel were present on the occasion.

NIC e-Office is a cloud enabled software developed by National Informatics centre (NIC) that is being deployed/hosted from RailTel Tier III certified data centres at Secundrabad and Gurgaon. It is based on Central Secretariat Manual of e-Office Procedure (CSMeOP).  Currently 4 modules (File Management System (eFile), Knowledge Management System (KMS), Collaboration & Messaging Services (CAMS), and Personnel Information Management System (PIMS), are the part of the e-office system being implemented. E-Office fosters paper-less culture which will not only save operational cost but also reduce the carbon footprint.