Mr. P Mitra, Chief Secretary, Govt. of Himachal Pradesh launched the  State Level web portal ‘Online Projects Management System’ for Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday, 30th June 2014, at Shimla after Jharkhand, Orissa, Uttarakhand, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra. 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.

Chief Secretary said that the Project Monitoring Cell for the state has been established in the Planning department and it would be linked with the CCI-PMG portal of the Cabinet Secretariat.

Speaking on the occasion of, Anil Swarup, Additional Secretary and Chairman of the Project Monitoring Group, Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India “industries can upload their problems and grievances on the portal at both the Central and state government level and their issues would be addressed on priority”

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.

The system would automate the entire tracking of stalled investment projects in the context of the bottlenecks which would include submission of a new project, editing or updating the projects, reviewing the projects, submission of details relating to bottlenecks, conducting Sub Group meetings and to take decisions for removing the implementation bottlenecks in the stalled investment projects.

The system would also help in redefining processes for effective tracking and resolving issues using a central interface. It would also provide integrated services in transparent and fast manner, and accurate information to the government for strategic decisions. It would also generate various MIS reports including financial and summary report. 

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. Amar Ujala, The Times of India, Day and Night News, The Himachal News, Press Trust of India, Shimla Times, Economy Lead, India News Calling on  1st July 2014 on e-PMS, an Online Projects Management System for Himachal Pradesh.