Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 13: Minister for Information Technology (IT) and Administrative Reforms, Inspection & Training (ARI & Training), Satish Sharma, today chaired a detailed review meeting at Civil Secretariat, here.
Principal Secretary IT, Santosh D. Vaidya, CEO JaKeGA, Ankita Kar, State Informatics Officer NIC, Jaskaran Singh Modi, Director Finance IT, Iftikar Chauhan, Additional Secretary, Aijaz Qaiser and Meenakshi Vaid besides senior officials of the concerned departments were present in the meeting on IT Department.
Additional Secretary IT Department gave a comprehensive presentation about working of the department.
The Minister discussed the ongoing projects, infrastructure and services of IT Department. He directed the officers to ensure completion of all the pilot projects within the given time span. He instructed for regular inspection of CSC’s while asking for further strengthening of the audit mechanism regarding CSCs.
Further, the Minister directed the concerned officers to ensure safety procedures and protocols are strictly followed upon in terms of Cyber Security. He also asked them to take appropriate measures for safety of Critical Infrastructure of IT related projects.
Later, the Minister also had a detailed review of working of the Administrative Reforms, Inspections and Trainings (ARI & Trainings) Department.
Shabnam Kamili, Secretary ARI & Training, Dr. Abdul Kabir, Secretary, (Technical), Muzaffer Ahmad Secretary, Law, ARI, Menu Mahjin, Chairperson, JK BoPEE, Pankaj Gupta, Special Secretary, ARI, Dr. Shabir Hussain Keen, Secretary, JK BoPEE, besides other senior officers of the concerned department attended the meeting.
Secretary ARI & Trainings briefed the Minister about the working of ARI and its allied Departments down the line.
During the meeting, Satish Sharma took stock of different aspects of working of the department. He reviewed department’s performance regarding administrative inspections, finalization of recruitment rules and printing services being extended to different government departments/organizations.
The Minister asked the concerned officers to further streamline functioning of the department as it has a defined role and can immensely contribute to advance the vision and mission of the government to bring reforms and bridge certain gaps.
Satish Sharma asked for carrying out necessary survey to assess the scope and need of modernisation of Government Presses. He also took stock of issue of upgradation of these vital units in terms of men and machinery including construction of new building for Ranbir Government Press Jammu. He directed for identification of land for construction of own buildings for JK BoPEE at Srinagar and Jammu.
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