Maligaon, August 29 (MExN): In a major step towards realization of the dream of Digital India, the phase one of ‘E-Office’ in Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) was inaugurated today at NFR Headquarters, Maligaon, making it the first Indian Railway Zone of Eastern India to migrate to digital platform for official working.
A press release from Subhanan Chanda, Chief Public Relations Officer stated that at the first phase, E-Office is being implemented at NFR Headquarters and Rangiya Division. Four other divisions of NFR will be brought under the ambit of E-Office in a phased manner.
Inaugurated by General Manager, Sanjive Roy, the release stated that this has been implemented with the help of RailTel, a Mini-ratna PSU under the Ministry of Railways.
Senior Officials of NFR and RailTel were also present in the simple ceremony held at the NFR headquarters. E-Office is a cloud-enabled software that is deployed/hosted from RailTel’s Tier-III certified data centres at Secunderabad and Gurugram.
The system will enable paperless working in NFR Headquarter and Rangiya Division, which will help to take a giant leap towards a shift from manual filing system to E-Office in the day to day activities in a phased manner, bringing transparency and efficiency in functionality. This will also promote green way of working by introducing paperless work culture, it added.
RailTel has taken up the work for implementing e-Office system for Indian Railways. It is a mission mode project under the National e-governance programme of Government of India.
