Digitisation work picks up pace at Estate Office

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, February 25

To improve efficiency, the UT Administration has speeded up digitisation work at the Estate Office.

Radhika Singh, Secretary, Chandigarh Housing Board, and Director, Museum and Art Gallery, has been directed to assist in monitoring and overseeing the digitisation process at the Estate Office.

An order issued by Mandip Singh Brar, Deputy Commissioner-cum-Estate Officer, stated that Radhika would continuously engage with the Estate Office and the National Informatics Centre (NIC) to ensure that the digitisation process meets the timeline and quality parameters.

She would also monitor the online process, re-engineering as well as other timelines in the MoU with the NIC. Brar also sought a weekly progress report in this regard.

In a recent meeting with UT Adviser Manoj Parida, the Property Consultants Association had submitted that the entire working of the Estate Office had been disturbed in the name of digitisation. Target dates given for various jobs such as transfer of property, issuance of NOC and even information under the RTI Act were not being supplied on time, they said.

They suggested that that the digitisation job should be handed over to some private agency or some separate branch be started and the Estate Office staff be asked to concentrate on their routine work.