Railway signs MoU with RailTel for setting up NIC e-office

Indian Railways and RailTel have signed an MoU for the setting-up of NIC e-office systems in Indian Railway units

New Delhi: Miniratna PSUs Indian Railways and RailTel Corporation of India (RailTeL) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the setting-up of NIC e-office systems in Indian Railway units across the country. This second phase MoU has been signed on Friday, RailTel said in a tweet.

Earlier, Railtel had successfully completed the Phase-I execution of NIC e-office for 50,000 users in 58 units of Indian Railways. The MoU has been signed by Railway Board's Executive Director (Telecom Division) Umesh Balonda and RailTel's General Manager (IT Projects) Haritima Jaipuriar in the presence of Railway Board's Chairman Vinod Kumar Yadav, Railway Board's Member (S&T) Puneet Chawla, RailTel's Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) Puneet Chawla and other senior official of Railways and RailTel.

After the successful completion of the Phase 1 execution of NIC e office for 50000 users in 58 units, Indian Railways signed MoU with RailTel, a miniratna PSU under Ministry of Railways, for the phase 2 of the project. pic.twitter.com/dBMxskxQne
— RailTel (@RailTel) January 10, 2020

What is NIC e-office

NIC e-office implementation is a mission mode project (MMP) under the national e-governance programme of the government. The project aims to usher in paperless, more efficient, effective and transparent inter-government and intra-government transactions and processes. NIC e-office is a cloud-enabled software developed by National Informatics Centre (NIC) that is being deployed/hosted from RailTel Tier III certified data centres at Secundrabad and Gurgaon. It is based on the Central Secretariat Manual of e-Office Procedure (CSMeOP). Currently 4 modules (File Management System (eFile), Knowledge Management System (KMS) Collaboration & Messaging Services (CAMS) & Personnel Information Management System (PIMS) are part of the e-office system being implemented.