“ePMS, an On-line Project Management System for Gujarat tracks the projects involving investment 100 crore to 1000 crore. It enhances the efficiency, bring transparency and improve the communication between industries to Government and State to Centre or vice versa. It automates the entire tracking of stalled investment projects in the context of the bottlenecks. Industries can submit their projects with issues after creating their login credentials. 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 on-line”

 In this context, a Training workshop on ePMS On-line Project Management System Portal was organized for Govt. of Gujarat at iNDEXtb, GandhiNagar on 22nd and 23rd July 2014. The program was chaired by Mr. Kamal Dayani, IAS, Industries Commissioner.

 Training program started at 11:00 AM at central conference room, Mr. Kamal Dayani gave the welcome address followed by introductory speech by Mr. Anil Kapoor, OSD, Govt. of India. He gave the description about the project and the various achievements made by the PMG group during the last one year through the e-PMS. Then Mr. Vinod Kr. J, Scientist-B, NIC provided the technical insight of the e-PMS portal of Gujarat followed by the audio/visual presentation for both Admin user and the private entrepreneur.

 Mr. Vinod gave the complete demonstration about the working of the Gujarat portal regarding the roles of ministry users. A real time project example was discussed to give them the better insight of the decision making process during the meetings and loading of minutes in system for the resolution of the issues. After this the admin role was also explained to give them the complete insight of the process followed by the lunch break.

 The afternoon session starts for the purpose of hands on for the ministry users. During the hands on session, all the users were divided in to 4 groups having 3-4 members, all members were provided with to-do list in accordance to their respective roles. The procedure for connecting, logging and other aspects were explained by Mr. Vijay Tiwari, Scientific Officer(SB), NIC along with the username, passwords, and their respective roles under display on the projector screen. During the hands on the actual adding of projects, acceptance by the sponsoring and comments made by the recipient, searching projects etc. were also tried by the users. The individual queries and doubts were also taken up and resolved during the hands on session. The day was called closed with a vote of thanks to all the ministry users and collection of feedbacks from all the participants. 

 On second day i.e. 23rd  July 2014, the session started at 11:00 AM, admin module was demonstrated which includes accept/reject/referred back the project/issues submitted by the sponsoring and recipient ministries, generating and sending agenda on-line, entering decision on-line when the PMG subgroup meeting is going on, generating various types of reports and graphical charts for monitoring purpose. In the technical session requirement of admin module, functional role and responsibility were elaborated in detail followed by lunch at 2:00 PM. The afternoon session resumed for the hands on for the admin users was initiated on the projects submitted by the ministry users last day, with the creation of master data, agenda creation and entering decisions etc. The day was called with vote of thanks by Sh K.T. Vyas, OSD, Govt of Gujarat with closing comments by Sh. Anil Kapoor, OSD, Govt. of India and Mr. Vinod Kumar.