CM pushes for digital records

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With an aim to bring transparency in Government working Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has asked officials to be tech savvy and all ministers, department heads, District Magistrates and Superintendent of Police were asked to use Twitter to communicate with people.

A senior official told The Pioneer here on Monday that the UP will replicate the system prevailing in Centre where all the ministers and Heads of departments operate Twitter and keep people as well as Prime Minister informed about their progress.  The entire system would be in place by October this year, he said.

The official said that all the departments in the state would have separate Facebook page where people can complaints their problems. 

He said the departments and the officials would be required to load all the orders and actions taken to implement them besides it will also serve as grievance cell where any individual can lodge their complaints and officials will inform about their response.

UP government would be setting up two control rooms, one in Noida and another in lucknow to connect all these government department through social sites.

Principal secretary( Information) Avnish Awasthi said here that these social sites of the government will also serve as  public feedback for the government on different development and welfare projects.

Meanwhile UP chief minister Yogi Aditynath said that e-office should be set up at any cost in all the government offices by October 1, 2017.

For this, all the offices would be required to submit their detailed project by June 15 next.

Officials said here that after the setting up of e-office the traditional files and papers would be removed and digital files would come in there place.

“During the project, all the present files would be digitalised by October 1 besides, all the employees would be trained for the purpose,” officials claimed.

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