Cabinet Secretariat Initiative - e-PMS State Portal for Gujarat on 21st July 2014, at Gandhi Nagar by Dr. Varesh Sinha, Chief Secretary, Govt. of Gujarat

Dr. Varesh Sinha, Chief Secretary, Govt. of Gujarat launched the State Level web portal ‘Online Projects Management System’ for Gujarat on 21st July 2014, at Chief Secretary Conference Room after Jharkhand, Odisha, Uttarakhand, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Puducherry, Assam and Madhya Pradesh. 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.
Speaking on the occasion of, Anil Swarup, Additional Secretary and Chairman of the Project Monitoring Group, Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India informed that this paperless online system is investor-friendly. Industries can upload their issues on both (State as well as Central Project Monitoring Group portal) depending upon the project investment cost. The portals of the states and the Central PMG are connected. So once a developer registers with the state PMG, all state-related issues are sent to nodal officers there, while those relating to the Centre immediately come to the Central PMG. 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.
Giving a brief presentation on the e-PMS system, Shubhag Chand, Head of Department, Cabinet Secretariat, Information Division, said industry members can use the online solution for any bottleneck the industries are facing during the implementation stage, it 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. Times of India, The DNA Syndication and eGov Reach dated 22th July 2014 on e-PMS, an Online Projects Management System for Gujarat.