Go paperless, get PM's award: Modi sarkar to departments

May 15, 2016 15:21

Central government ministries and departments will now be rewarded for successful implementation of e-Office or 'paperless office' initiative. The move is aimed at improving the ease of governance and expediting the administrative process.

Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office Jitendra Singh has written to all ministers to take urgent action to shift to paperless functioning mode in a time bound manner.

"It is one of the priority works of the government. We are writing to all ministers for going paperless. The e-Office will help in speeding up administrative work and result in saving money for the exchequer," he said.

Singh said those doing exemplary work in this project maybe given awards for excellence in public administration, which are given annually by the prime minister on civil services day.

In his letter, the minister said one of the agendas of the minimum government-maximum governance is to adopt e-Office in all government functioning for achieving the goal of governance with accountability, transparency and innovation, which is the sine-qua-non for achieving Prime Minister's Mission of PRAGATI.

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