Railways creates over 72,000 e-files Replacing Manual Files

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New Delhi : E-Office has been implemented in over 58 establishments of Indian Railways to provide reliable, efficient, and effective way to handle office files and documents. Quick disposal of files and systematic, timely monitoring of pending files has been the immediate advantage of NIC e-Office.

Altogether 72,000+Digital Files have been created in mere 6 months’ time over 58 establishments of Indian Railways replacing manual file. The NIC e-office, implemented by RailTel for Indian Railways, is helping Indian Railways to adapt paperless work culture saving tons of paper every day.  In Phase I of the project, RailTel has created 50,000+ users in these 58 establishments of Indian Railways and trained executives to handle the platform.

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).  e-Office fosters paper-less culture which not only saves operational cost but also reduces the carbon footprint.

Talking about the project, Puneet Chawla, CMD/RailTel, said, ” Implementation of e-Office has not only helped in saving paper but also increased pace and efficiency of the users. More than 2,50,000 receipt has been created in the past few months. After the success ofPphase I, we have started working on the Phase 2 of the project in which 39 more establishments of Indian Railways will be converted into Digital workspace through NIC e-office.”

It is a big challenge to transfer the entire manual filing system of Indian Railways on to one digital platform. However, the bigger challenge is to condition the users to give up the habit of using manual file system and adapt the new system of paperless working. RailTel team has managed to complete the implementation before the deadline, according to a PIB release.