Hon’ble Union Minister of Electronics & IT and Law & Justice, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad visited Kolkata on 4th August 2018 during his transit to Patna.
The Hon’ble Minister was welcomed by Shri R.H. Khan,SIO, NIC(WB), along with other senior officials of various organizations of MeitY. The Minister was briefed on the status of implementation of e-Office in 50 Secretariat Departments, 17 Directorates, other Govt. bodies and 2 Districts, implementation of e-Procurement in all departments and all directorates, corporation offices of West Bengal with tender value of more than 5 lakhs.
SIO further informed the Minister that e-Procurement has been integrated with UPLMS (Unified Project Life Cycle Management System) for monitoring all infrastructure related projects of GoWB. Shri Khan mentioned about the implementation of ePrison system in all 58 correctional homes of West Bengal. Answering the query of Hon’ble Minister on the Video conference facility of production of inmates from prisons to court, Shri Khan explained on availability of the facility in 10 District Jails and all District Courts of West Bengal.
SIO,WB mentioned that single window system for all citizen centric schemes including NOC, Licenses etc., of Labor Department, GoWB has been implemented for EoDB ( Ease of Doing Business). e-Abgari (winner of National e-Governance Award), which is a workflow based software system for Excise Department, developed by NIC,WB is being productized for implementation in other states such as Sikkim, Tripura, Assam, Punjab and Maharashtra.