“ePMS, an On-line Project Management System for Haryana tracks the projects involving investment between 50 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 Haryana at Knowledge Centre, 9th Floor, Haryana Civil Secretariat, Chandigarh on 18th and 19th February 2015.

Training program started at 10:00 AM at conference hall. Mr. Ganesh Dutt, Scientist E, Govt. of India gave the introductory speech about the project and the historical aspects of the e-PMS. Mr. Vinod Kumar. J, Scientist-B, NIC provide the technical insight of the e-PMS portal of Haryana. He first discussed the Agenda for the training followed by the audio/visual presentation for both Ministry/Department users and the private entrepreneurs. Thereafter, Mr. Vijay Tiwari SO (SB),NIC gave the complete demonstration about the working of the Haryana portal regarding the roles of Ministry/Department users. During the demo all the real examples were used to better connect with the users. Just after completing the demo a Q&A session has also taken place.

During 2nd session, hands on was conducted for Ministries/Department users which continued till 5:00 PM.  During the hands on session, all the users were provided with to-do list which participants to try in accordance to their respective roles. During the hands on adding of projects, acceptance by the sponsoring and comments made by the recipient, searching projects etc. were also tried by the users with the help of Mr. Vinod and Mr. Vijay Tiwari. There after individual queries and doubts were also taken up and resolved after the hands on session. Thereafter the ministry users were requested to provide their feedback and allowed to leave after a vote of thanks to them.

On second day, training program started at 10:30 AM, few ministry/department representative were also present on day two as they were absent on day one. Hence demo was given to various Ministry/Department representatives again along with administrator activities like Accepting the project, preparing the agenda and monitoring projects etc. All the tasks were explained in detailed way till 2:00 PM, which was followed by the Q&A session, during this the state portal’s usernames and passwords were also handed over to the state PMG.

 At 2:30 PM the hands on session started with three groups of 2-3 members each for admin. During this session they were provided with the to-do list of Admin users which list all the major operations as per Admin role. During hands on all the teams were able to perform all the operations including project monitoring and commissioning reports. Master data for Haryana Portal was updated by Haryana State admin team during the Hands on session.

A separate hands on session was conducted for Ministries/Department users came on second day. During the hands on adding of projects, acceptance by the sponsoring and comments made by the recipient, searching projects etc. were also tried by the users.

Hand on session was also attended by Sh. Vijayendra Kumar, IAS, Director General cum Secretary Electronics & Information Technology, Haryana and Sh. Ghan Shyam Bansal, DDG and Scientist G, Haryana State Unit.

All the major doubts of all the participants were cleared during individual interaction by Mr. Vinod and Mr. Vijay Tiwari during the hands on. Then day was called with the concluding comments by Mr. Ganesh Dutt.