Mr. Jitesh Khosla, Chief Secretary, Govt. of Assam launched the State Level web portal ‘Online Projects Management System’ for Assam on Monday, 14th July 2014, at Chief Secretariat after Jharkhand, Odisha, Uttarakhand, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Puducherry. 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.

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”

The portals of the states and the Central PMG are connected. So once a developer registers with the state PMG, all state-related issues are sent to nodal officers there, while those relating to the Centre immediately come to the Central PMG. 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.

Giving a brief presentation on the e-PMS system, Shubhag Chand, Head of Department, Cabinet Secretariat, Information Division, said industry members can use the online solution for any bottleneck the industries are facing during the implementation stage, it would provide assistance in generation of MIS reports such as graphical reports, financial reports and tracking of actual investment for the projects entered in the system.