RailTel Corporation of India (RailTel), a Central Government PSU under the Ministry of Railways; National Informatics Centre (NIC) under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY); and National Informatics Centre Services Incorporated (NICSI), a Government of India Enterprise under NIC have entered into a tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) intending to “provide one-stop managed end-to-end NIC eOffice and SPARROW solution to user organisations by leveraging and synergizing the facilities and capabilities with each other.” Dr. Rajendra Kumar, Additional Secretary, MeitY, Government of India, Shri Puneet Chawla, Chairman and Managing Director, RailTel, Shri Sanjai Kumar, Director (Network Planning and Management), RailTel, Shri Anand Kumar Singh, Director (Finance), RailTel, Ms. Rachna Srivastava- Deputy Director General & HoG, NIC, and Shri Prashant Kumar Mittal - Managing Director, NICSI were among those present on the occasion of MoU signing ceremony. Other senior officials from RailTel, NIC, and NICSI also attended the function. RailTel has recently implemented a mega eOffice project for Indian Railways over its 216 establishments (zones / divisions / CTIs / workshops). There are more than 1.38 lakh, users of Indian Railways, on the eOffice platform handling over 20 lakh e-files and generating more than 1.36 crore e-receipts. It is one of the largest NIC eOffice roll-outs in the country. The eOffice implementation has resulted in enhanced transparency, quick and systematic disposal of files, and timely monitoring of pending files alongside a reduction in carbon footprint by fostering paperless office culture. On this occasion, Shri Rajendra Kumar, Additional Secretary, MeitY informed that eOffice is being extensively used by the Government Departments at both State and Central levels as well as at PSUs across the country. He added that the eOffice proved to be the lifeline in keeping the Government offices functional during the recent COVID-19 era. He hoped that after this MoU, NICSI, and NIC could also leverage the association for offering other NIC / NICSI Software Products using RailTel managed cloud services. Smt. Rachna Srivastava, DDG & HoG, NIC conveyed that the eFile module alone is being used in the country by more than 8.77 lakh officials and more than 3.19 crore files have been created so far. She added that the eOffice system is enabled for local languages and several states are using the eOffice in their respective languages.