“ePMS, an On-line Project Management System for Odisha tracks the projects involving investment 100 crore to 1000 crore. It enhance 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 pushed 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 Odisha at OCAC Centre, Bhubhaneswar  on 27th and 28th  May 2014. The program was chaired by OCAC chair person Sh G. Mathi Vathanan, IAS. Sh. Vishal Kumar Dev, IAS, Commissioner cum Secretary, Govt. of Odisha, Industries Department has also addressed the session.

 Training program started at 10:30 AM at OCAC Centre. . Welcome speech given by Sh. G. Mathi Vathanan was followed by the audio video presentation. Demo on e-PMS  was given by Sh. Vinod Kumar J, Scientist 'B', whereas Hands on for Private Entrepreneur module, Sponsoring Ministry Module, Recipient Ministry Module and Monitoring Ministry Module was given by Sh. Vinod Kumar J and Sh. Vijay Tiwari.

 On second day  i.e. 29th May 2014, admin module has been demonstrated which includes accept/reject/referred back the projects/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.

 Training was attended by 25 participants at OCAC Centre, Bhubhaneshwar.