With 100% adoption of e-office Prasar Bharti goes paperless
New Delhi, June 24: Use of technology has turned the Operations at Prasar Bharati around. It's no more business as usual, as in less than 2 years, 577 Centers and 22,348 employees of DD, AIR have embraced e-Office operations.
Well established IT-enabled working structure through e-Office at Prasar Bharati came in handy during the pandemic when employees across the country had to work within several limitations during the lockdown and after.
With the vision to make Prasar Bharati operations more efficient and paperless, e-Office was introduced in August 2019. Of 577 Prasar Bharati centers across the country, 10% adopted e-Office in 2019 (Aug - Dec), 74% in 2020 and the remaining 16% have joined by June 18, 2021.
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In what has brought speed and transparency in the working of the organisation, more than 50 thousands e-Files have been created so far, with the status of every file available online. Internally, concerned departments can trace their files, whether it is in movement or parked or closed.
On
an
average,
complete
process
of
clearing
one
physical
file
used
to
take
almost
a
week.
Through
e-Office,
this
has
been
drastically
reduced
to
24
hours
on
an
average,
sometimes
even
couple
of
hours.
As
a
result,
the
figures
on
total
volume
of
cleared
files
over
almost
last
2
years
and
average
number
of
files
cleared
every
month
during
the
same
period
have
jumped
significantly.
This initiative has also made Prasar Bharati operations paperless, saving organisation's expenditure on paper by 45%between August 2019 and June 2021. Apart from reducing Carbon footprint, paperless work also enhanced the COVID safety during the pandemic through remote working, work from home, etc, thus reducing the chances of infections.