Mr. N. Rangasamy, Chief Minister, Puducherry launched the State Level web portal ‘Online Projects Management System’ for Puducherry on Friday, 11th July 2014, at Chief Secretariat after Jharkhand, Odisha, Uttarakhand, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal 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.

The Chief Minister said on the occasion of the launching that the system would assist in fast-tracking industrial and infrastructure projects with investments worth above Rs.100 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”

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.

Chief Secretary Chetan B.Sanghi said that Puducherry was the first Union Territory to adopt PMS and a project monitoring group has been constituted to manage the projects in Puducherry. He asked the departments concerned to make use of PMS and post their issues regularly with all updates. Mr. Sanghi also said a two-day workshop would be organized to sensitise and make the officials understand various features of PMS and in that workshop experts would train the nodal officers and other officials in using the system efficiently and effectively for the long-term interest and benefit of Puducherry.

Giving a brief presentation on the system, Shubhag Chand, Head of Department, Cabinet Secretariat Informatics Division, said the system in addition to project management 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.

A news article published in the various news agencies i.e. The Hindu, The New Indian Express, Daily Thintha dated 12th July 2014 on e-PMS, an Online Projects Management System for Puducherry.