Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Mar 30: In a major step forward by Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT), Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh today did the twin-launching of first-ever on-line vigilance system and e-service book for employees.
Present on this important occasion was the entire top hierarchy of Government of India, including Additional Principal Secretary to PM Dr P.K. Mishra, Cabinet Secretary P.K. Sinha, Central Vigilance Commissioner K.V. Chowdary, CBI Director Alok Kumar Verma, Vigilance Commissioners Rajiv and Dr. T.M. Bhasin, Chairman PSEB Sanjay Kothari, Secretary in PMO Bhaskar Khulbe, Secretary DoPT B.P. Sharma, EO Rajiv Kumar and other senior officers.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr Jitendra Singh recalled that soon after the formation of government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave us the Mantra “maximum government, minimum government”. As a follow up of that, he said, a number of path-breaking initiatives have been taken to bring in ease of governance with more transparency and accountability. These include online portals for recruitments, online RTIs, abolition of interviews for Group C & D posts and abolition of attestation of certificates.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, today’s launch assumes special significance because this will provide an instant and objective data for vigilance clearance online of each of the officers working in the government. On the other hand, the e-service book will reduce the burden on the officials who always had to run from one place to the other to keep a track of their service book, particularly when they get transferred from one department to another.
Dr Jitendra Singh also made fervent appeal to other Ministries and Departments of Government of India to immediately adopt the online vigilance system and e-service book. He also called upon the various State Governments to adopt these two path-breaking progressive initiatives undertaken by the DoPT (Department of Personnel & Training).
The Online Vigilance System launched by Dr Jitendra Singh is a technology based mechanism introduced to obtain vigilance status of 120-130 Board Level executive appointments made annually of Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) timely, accurately and objectively so that process of their appointment is expedited. The system would enable efficient vigilance clearance of officers on real time basis who apply for these senior level posts. This system would facilitate CVC to decide on Vigilance Clearance early based on updated information. System will cover all CPSEs, Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions. The Online system will have modules for DoPT, CVC, CVO, CBI, PESB and ACC. To make the system secure, the Web portal has the feature of authentication of users from Ministries/Departments by DoPT and the users of CPSEs by the concerned Ministry/ Department. The data will be updated every month by the CVOs.
The e-service book, launched by Dr Jitendra Singh, is a document to record all the events of a Government servant in his/her entire service period and career, recording each and every administrative action concerning the Government servant right from the stage of his recruitment till his retirement to reflect the history of service of a Government employee. The format of e-service book was finalised on December 5, 2016 and it was decided to roll it out in DoPT initially so that necessary changes if required can be made along with credentials of software. Accordingly data of 661 employees of DoPT got verified and details as such Aadhaar, mobile no, DoB, leave balance, LTC details, salary details, designations, photographs etc were updated. Physical service book of employees also got scanned and uploaded as legacy data. The shift to electronic service book would free up significant manpower to concentrate on core works of the Department.
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