Workshop on eSuvidha Portal conducted at Vigyan Bhawan Annexe On 21st October, 2016

“eSuvidha, an On-line Project Management System, tracks the projects involving investment above 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 capacity building workshop has been organized for the five States (i.e. West Bengal, Assam, Telangana, Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim) and the nodal officers of various Central Ministries/Departments in Room No 211 at Vigyan Bhawan Annexe,, New Delhi on 21st October, 2016. Training program started at 10:15 AM on 21st October, 2016 with Inauguration & key note address by Ms.Shubha Kumar. Joint Secretary, PMG, followed by an introductory speech by Dr. Shubhag Chand, HoD, NIC Cabinet Secretariat Informatics Division with a short description about the eSuvidha portal. Thereafter, Mr. Amar Arora, STA ‘A’ NIC, Cabinet Secretariat Informatics Division discussed the Agenda for the training followed by the complete audio/visual presentation and explained the workflow of eSuvidha in detail. The complete live demonstration about the working of the portal including submission of new projects/issues, updation of comments by the recipient Ministry(ies)/State(s), generation of various MIS Reports etc. was also provided. During the demonstration all the real-time examples were used to better connect with the participants. Along with that, he also explained all the new features added recently in the Central PMG portal, followed by the lunch break from 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM. After lunch, hands-on and Q&A session took place in which the major doubts of every individual participant were cleared by Mr. Amar Arora Mr. S.D. Sharma, Director, Project Monitoring Group appreciated the training and efforts by the NIC team for conducting the training. Then day was called at 5:00 PM with the vote of thanks and concluding remarks by Dr. Shubhag Chand, HOD, CSID.