KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has directed the authorities concerned to digitise all government department to increase efficiency, transparency, cost- effectiveness, improved data security and better collaboration.

He issued these instructions while presiding over a meeting here at CM House on Monday. The meeting was attended by Chief Secretary Asif Hyder Shah, Secretary to CM Raheem Shaikh, Information Technology Secretary Noor Samoo, Services Secretary Ghulam Ali Brahmani and others concerned.

The chief minister said that he wanted the government departments to adopt an electronic mode of filing/correspondence system to replace the manual filing system, built to perform the function/business assigned to it in the Sindh Government Rules of Business, 1986.

Mr Shah said that he had a plan to introduce a paperless system in government departments by introducing a digital system or E-office.

In first phase, E-Office App will be introduced in nine departments, IT secretary tells CM

In the first phase, the departments do their official work through a digital system and phase-wise connect other departments.

The IT secretary told the CM that in the first phase, deployment of the E-Office application would be made in the the IT Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPD), Minorities, Social Welfare, Rehabilitation, Mines and Mineral Development, Inter-Provincial Coordination, College Education departments and the Sindh Technical Education & Vocational Training Authority.

He told the CM that his department has started training the officers of the concerned departments to implement E-Office in different departments.

He said that he would submit his proposal for implementation of the E-Office system in the other departments in the second phase.

The chief secretary told the CM that an E-service app had been developed in the office of deputy commissioner-Sukkur. The assistant commissioner and mukhtiarkars are connected to the e-services. Through the e-service, domiciles, heirship certificates, and revenue-related applications are submitted and disposed of digitally, he added.

The chief secretary said that he was monitoring the success and effectiveness of the system. Once it is established the system would be replicated in other districts, he added.

Published in Dawn, September 24th, 2024