“ePMS, an On-line Project Management System for Jharkhand 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 Jharkhand at Nepal House, Ranchi on 18th and 19th September 2014.

 Training program started on 10:30 AM at Computer Centre, 3rd Floor, Nepal House, Ranchi. Demo on e-PMS  was given by Sh. Vinod Kumar J, Scientist 'B' and Sh. Vijay Tiwari Scientific Officer(SB) followed by Hands-on session for Private Entrepreneur module, Sponsoring Ministry Module, Recipient Ministry Module and Monitoring Ministry Module. Sh. D. C. Bijalwan, Under Secretary, Govt. of India has joined the program during 2nd session. He has shared his experiences about the systems and various practical examples were discussed.

 At the end of the day, training proceedings were discussed with Mrs. Himani Pande, IAS, Secretary Industries, Govt. of Jharkhand.

 On second day  i.e. 19th September 2014, admin module had been 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.

 Training was attended by total 22 participants at Computer Centre, Nepal House, Ranchi.