STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Secretary, Information Technology Department and Chief Executive Officer, J&K e-Governance Agency (JaKeGA), Amit Sharma on Monday chaired a comprehensive review meeting of several ongoing Projects of IT Department being executed through JaKeGA and other agencies.
All the officers of the IT Department and JaKeGA attended the meeting through Offline and Online modes including Additional Secretary Rajinder Khajuria, FA/CAO Rashim Deepika, Deputy Director Planning Mohd Iqbal, Deputy Secretary Afaq Ahmed, Under Secretary Monika Sambyal, Project Managers JaKeGA Saima, Irfan and Imran, Technical Officers, IT Analysts and others.
During Project-wise Review, Amit analysed physical and financial progress of all important ongoing Projects such as Upgradation of UT Data Centre, eOffice components implementation such as Joint LAN implementation for both Secretariat Complexes, Near DR Centre Set-Up at Srinagar, Provisioning of Gap Infrastructure wherein Secretary IT advised that more effort is required to ensure 100% target achievement in these important projects of the Union Territory at the earliest.
Other important projects reviewed by the IT Secretary include UT Dashboard which is at the final stages of launch wherein the working and performance of all Government Departments can be viewed, APAR and IPR Projects to be filed by all employees of the Union Territory.
Other important Projects which were reviewed by Secretary IT include Capacity Building related Projects, Digital Village Centres for connectivity up to Panchayat Levels, State Wide Area Network for connectivity at Block levels and Bharatnet spread for reaching to all the villages of the UT as per the vision and directions of LG J&K Manoj Sinha and Chief Secretary Dr Arun Kumar Mehta. Amit complimented JaKeGA team that a Project is ready for provisioning free WiFi for all the pilgrims visiting Mata Vaishno Deviji Shrine. Before culmination of meeting, he assured all the employees whether JaKeGA that IT Department will take all measures to safeguard the interest of employees to keep them motivated and he directed for immediately ensuring proper heating arrangements for staff working in Kashmir in these peak winter months and expected total professionalism from each and every person working in the department.