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All 41 depts of Mizoram secretariat use e-office to boost efficiency: Minister
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Aizawl: Mizoram minister for information, communication & technology Vanlalthlana on Wednesday said all the 41 departments in the state secretariat, including the chief minister's office, are now using e-office that has resulted in official files being moved faster and with fewer hassles
Addressing a media conference in Aizawl, Vanlalthlana said 6,492 files have been created under the e-office and the files have moved 63,565 times.
He said pending files are almost zero.
"The state govt was in favour of introducing e-office and steps were taken in this regard since Jan 2024 and Rs 1.99 crore was received from the department of administrative reforms & public grievance (DARPG), Govt of India under the State Collaborative Initiative Scheme (SCI) on Oct 11, 2024," he said.
The minister said the department of personnel and administrative reforms (DP&AR) is the nodal department for implementation of the e-office project while the ICT department is implementing the project.
The national informatics centre (NIC) designed the software while deployment and hosting have been taken up by RailTel, he said.
The minister also revealed that Mizoram's official websites have been subjected to cyberattacks, especially after the India and Pakistan conflict, requiring upgrade and improvement of the ICT infrastructure in the state. "It was decided that from Ctrl-S Data Centre where we used to host our server, we have been shifting to Google Virtual Private Server (VPS) which is regarded as more secure. Due to this exercise, an office circular was issued on June 12 that different govt websites will not be available for sometime due to server upgrade," he said, adding 23 official websites of different departments have become functional again.
He, however, admitted that it will take time to conduct an internal security audit of all 318 official websites under the domain and 14 web applications as well as 12 websites under and
