“ePMS, an On-line Project Management System for Puducherry 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 Puducherry at ICT Academy, BSNL Staff Qrts, Jayanagar, Puducherry on 31st July and 01st Aug 2014. The program was chaired by Mr. L. Kumar, Director (IT), Govt. of Puducherry.

 Training program was divided into two batches of 16 ministries each for the first day i.e. forenoon session 0900hrs to 1300hrs and afternoon session 1400hrs to 1800hrs. The technical inspection was already being performed in the evening of 30th July 2014 at the venue by Mr. Amar Arora, Scientific Assistant, NIC, Delhi and Mr. Vinod Kumar J, Scientist-B, NIC, Delhi before going for the actual training sessions. Forenoon session started at 0910 hrs at central conference room. The session started with introductory speech by Mr. Prasad, Consultant, Govt. of Puducherry where he explained the need and requirement of the e-PMS system. It was followed by detailed and historical preview by Mr. D. C. Bijalwan, Under Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, then technical introduction was provided by Mr. Vinod Kumar J. He also discussed Agenda for the whole day. The Combined presentation of Admin and Private Users were played to mark the start of the morning session, followed by technical demo which started at 1000hrs. In this session Agenda development and decision process was also demonstrated in brief to make them understand the whole issue resolving process.

  The hands on session for the participants was taken care by Mr. Amar and Mr. Vinod in which all the individual doubts were cleared and they were given practice on the local replica of the real portal. Then the same procedure was replicated for the afternoon session which started after lunch i.e. from 1430hrs and continued till 1800hrs.

 The Admin workshop started on 01st Aug 2014 at 0940 hrs among 8 Admin participants with technical introduction provided by Mr. Vinod. The overview of the whole training modules was discussed like Master, Projects, and Contacts etc. from 100hrs to 1050hrs to make the admin participants aware about their roles in the e-PMS followed by full Admin side technical demo. Then Q&A session was taken up from 1205 hrs in which lots of doubts were cleared and new suggestions were taken up. On the request of the participants the issue resolution of GOI ministry in state project was also demonstrated by local replica of central portal.

 Then hands-on practice was given to the admin participants after lunch on the projects which was created by the ministry participants on the past day. Then the day was closed with the closing comments and vote of thanks by Mr. L. Kumar, Director (IT), Govt. of Puducherry.