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Saturday 12 April 2014

File Digitisation Work Given to 10 Firms

Published: 10th April 2014 09:25 AM
Last Updated: 10th April 2014 09:25 AM
The state government has entrusted the work of digitisation of files for division process to ten  agencies.  Chief secretary PK Mohanty issued orders to this effect on Wednesday.
Each agency has been allotted certain departments for digitising the files.
The work will be completed before the Appointed Day, June 2.
A committee constituted by the chief secretary examined the infrastructure capability of all the vendors such as availability of scanners, desktops and manpower, and decided to allot the Secretariat departments and heads of departments to entrust the digitisation work to small and medium enterprises.
The committee decided that the budget required for the scanning and digitisation process shall be placed at the disposal of the department of information technology, electronics and communications by the department of finance.
The ITC department will function as a nodal agency for facilitating digitisation of files. It will enter into an agreement with all the empanelled vendors for the work, the orders issued on Wednesday said.
The department will open a help desk for answering departmental queries during data scanning and uploading.
A PMU will be established for coordination of the entire work till its completion.
ADF scanning will be used for documents  in good condition and flat-bed scanning for documents which are old and may get damaged if ADF is used.
For documents which are very old and fragile, photographic scanning will be adopted.
After digitisation all the files will be uploaded to the state data centre.

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