The E-Procurement implementation in Orissa crossed another milestone when NIC Certifying Authority (NIC-CA), New Delhi, decided to open its Registration Authority office at NIC Bhubaneswar, Orissa for smooth delivery of Digital Signature Certificates to all government officials. Sh. P. K. Mohapatra, Commissioner Cum- Secretary to Government, Department of IT, Government of Orissa, inaugurating the Office of the Registration Authority of NICCA at NIC Orissa State Centre, Bhubaneswar on 31st October 2008 congratulated NIC for setting up this facility in a record time and hoped that this would bring down the time to issue Digital Signature Certificates to users substantially. Sh. Tapan Prakash Ray, Scientist-D & RAA, demonstrated the detailed process of DSC creation and IT Secretary printed a DSC card using the RA setup installed at Bhubaneswar. Participating on the occasion over Video Conferencing Dr. Y. K. Sharma, DDG and Sh. Madhav Reddy, STD & Head NICCA Office, NIC New Delhi, informed that Orissa is privileged to be the second state after Karnataka to have the RA office. Sh. K. Srinivasa Raghavan, STD & Sh. M. Manivanan, STD from NIC Chennai have also joined in the interaction over Video Conferencing. IT Secretary, interacting on the occasion expressed his sincere thanks to NIC Hqrs. for opening of RA office at Bhubaneswar which was a long standing demand of Government of Orissa to facilitate faster issue of Digital Signature Certificates to users in the Government domain. Sh. S K Panda, SIO Orissa informed that so far 971 DSC cards have been issued to be used with e-Procurement system out of which 71 cards have been printed and issued from RA Bhubaneswar setup as a process of test run conducted during last 3-4 days.