Madhya Pradesh has become the first in the country to implement online meetings of the Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC).
The Madhya Pradesh Public Service Commission has developed comprehensive software for this. So far, six DPCs have been performed including three of Finance and Rural Industries Departments. The Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is encouraging innovative application of Information Technology for good governance with greater transparency.
Official sources said that online DPCs will reduce time taken in procedural preparations. With this, the online DPCs will resolve many issues. It will standardize the process uniformly, Increase transparency, help planning and monitoring of organizing DPCs, keep updated gradation lists of various designation, quicken the decision making.
The Online DPCs will generate minutes of the proceedings. It will also help in management of the Gradation lists of various cadres. Submitting user–friendly format of proposal for DPC including information regarding court cases will be easier. Processing of the proposals will help address queries. Minutes of DPCs could be well-documented. Very soon, the DPC minutes will also be available online.
The software has been initialized in 39 departments, which hold DPC in the Chairmanship of Members of MPPSC. For initialization the departments have entered necessary details. So far 39departments have entered necessary details of 872of designations and still further details are being entered.
Some departments have even created and finalized Gradation lists of various cadres of the department. So far 39 departments have created gradation list out of 872 designations and entered names of 24,052 officers.