Mr. Prithviraj Chavan, Chief Minister, Maharashtra launched the State Level web portal ‘Online Projects Management System’ for Maharashtra on Saturday, 30th June 2014, at Chief Minister Conference Room, Secretariat Building, Mumbai, Maharashtra after Jharkhand, Orissa, Uttarakhand, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh. e-PMS, an online Projects Management System developed and managed by NIC, Cabinet Secretariat Informatics Division, Cabinet Secretariat, for fast-tracking industrial and infrastructure projects with investments in the range of Rs 100 to Rs 1,000 crore.

Prithviraj Chavan, Chief Minister, Maharashtra said “it is a step in the right direction. These would increase investor confidence so as to increase investments and take the growth agenda forward, I am sure this would go a long way in overcoming the challenges.”

Speaking on the occasion of, Anil Swarup, Additional Secretary and Chairman of the Project Monitoring Group, Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India “In view of the success of the PMG at the Centre, there was a demand from the industry to lower the threshold limit. Accordingly, the Centre is now assisting states, including Maharashtra, to set up their own portals for smaller projects”

Industries can create their login credential with this platform and the same credential can be used to submit projects with issues. When any project with issues is being added by an industry to the State PMG, the portal shall automatically push the data to the respective ministries at the state level. Once the project is being endorsed by state level Nodal Officer, it shall also be automatically routed to the Central PMG, if there are any issues/bottlenecks related to Govt. of India. Industries get the immediate response from the automatic mailer and they can see the current status of concerned projects through this platform immediately after the subgroup meeting is over if the decision being entered online.

This would include submission of a new project, editing/updating the projects, reviewing the projects, submission of details relating to bottlenecks. It also includes preparation of Agenda that can be generated online and circulated with auto mailer to all the Nodal Officers, Secretary to Departments and Invitees with their name. So it is mandatory to update contact details in the master database by the admin user. Similar to the agenda preparation, Minutes of the meetings can be generated and circulated online just after the meeting if decision taken by the subgroup is being entered online to the system. System also provides various Graphical Analysis, Reports, and Investment Monitoring module. 

A Presentation on Online Project Management System for Himachal Pradesh is given by Dr Shubhag Chand, HOD of the Cabinet Secretariat Informatics Division (CSID).  In the Presentation Dr. Shubhag briefed the industry members on how to use the online solution for any bottleneck the industries are facing during the implementation stage.

A news article published in the various news agencies i.e. Business Standard, Absolute India on e-PMS, an Online Projects Management System for Maharashtra.