eOffice for the IPICOL and Directorate of Horticulture, Govt. of  Odisha is inaugurated  at the Conference Hall of IPICOL House, Bhubaneswar by the Chief Secretary, Odisha Sri Aditya Prasad Padhi, IAS on dt-30.01.2016 at 10.15 AM in the presence of  Sri R. S. Gopalan, IAS,  Addl. Secy and CE, CMGI, Sri S. K. Panda, SIO & DDG, Sri Susant Kumar Nanda, IFS, Director of Horticulture, Sri Purna Chandra Mohanty, GM, IPICOL,  and Dr R N Behera, STD, NIC Odisha.

NIC has developed the product e-Office with an aim to support e-governance by ushering in more effective and transparent inter and intra-government processes. The vision of e-Office is to achieve a simplified, responsive, effective and transparent working of all Government offices. 

The Open Architecture on which e-Office has been built, makes it a reusable framework and a standard reusable product amenable to replication across the governments, at the Central, State and District level. The product brings together the independent functions and systems under a single framework.

The inaugural function was coordinated by Dr R. N. Behera, STD, NIC, Bhubaneswar and Sri S. K. Bhol, TD. Sri Ashok Kumar Mohanty, TD demonstrated the eOffice of IPICOL and Sri B. P. Satapathy, PSA demonstrated the e-Office of Directorate of Horticulture. The Chief Secretary expressed his satisfaction over the progress of e-Office implementation in Odisha and thanked NIC for providing necessary support.

Others present in the occasion include Sri R. K. Sahoo, SA and other senior Officers of IPICOL and Directorate of Horticulture. It is pertinemnt to mention that eOffice is centrally co-ordinated  by  Ms.  Rachna Srivastava, STD and her team including Sri Saroj Kr. Patro, SSA and others at NIC(HQ), New Delhi.