GUWAHATI: Despite nationwide lockdown due to the COVID19 outbreak, RailTel has successfully completed the work of providing NIC e-office in Lumding and Tinsukia Divisions of North Frontier Railway (NFR). With this, all establishments of NFR (the Zonal HQ and all 5 Division offices) are now adopting paperless work culture by replacing manual files with the NIC e-office suite, implemented by RailTel. NIC e-office is helping Railway officials of North Frontier Railway (NFR) to handle all their manual file work remotely on a digital platform.
The RailTel Corporation a “Mini Ratna (Category-I)” PSU is one of the largest neutral telecom services providers in the country owning a Pan-India optic fiber network. MoU between Indian Railways and RailTel was signed in March 2019 with a mandate to complete the work by March 2020. But RailTel completed the work ahead of time and completed the work at North Frontier Railway zonal Head Quarter, Rangiya Division and NFR Construction within 5 months of signing the MoU. The works at Lumding, Tinsukia, Katihar, Alipurduar divisions were executed within 3 months.
NIC e-Office is cloud-enabled software developed by the National Informatics center (NIC) that is being deployed/hosted from RailTel Tier III UPTIME USA certified data centres at Secunderabad and Gurgaon. It is based on the Central Secretariat Manual of e-Office Procedure (CSMeOP). Implementation of the NIC e office aims to usher in paperless, more efficient, effective and transparent inter-government and intra-government transactions and processes.
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