Khammam: The district collectorate in Khammam will soon do away with cardboard files. Efforts are on to transform it into an e-office, devoid of papers.
The day-to-day transactions and other works would be done online.
The e-office will begin functioning from next financial year. About 80 per cent of the files have been computerised and the remaining works would be completed in the next one month.
Once it becomes an e-office, attenders need not carry files from one department to the other.
All the files will go to the other department online and the concerned official can study and write his opinion on the file by reading it on his system.
The aim of the project is to save time and money and also reduce piling up of files and pest problems. None of the files will go missing as well.
The collectorates of Khammam and Medak districts have been chosen to for the project.
A batch of employees, including clerks and officials, from Khammam district has been sent to Hyderabad to undergo the necessary training to handle things on computers and online.
Each employee who will look after the day-to-day transactions will be given a ‘digital key’ to open the files. With this, the files can be accessed by specific persons.
Sources said that the government would first make the transactions at the collectorate computerised and then move on to the other departments such as revenue, civil supplies, panchayat raj, rural development, irrigation and education in the next phase.
The paperless office is aimed at increasing the speed of clearance of files, reducing corruption at various levels in the offices and also to let people know the status of their applications.
