DIGITAL INDIA! Prasar Bharati goes paperless: 577 Centers and 22,348 employees of DD, AIR adopt 100% e-Office operations; cut down paper expenditure by 45%

In a move that will go a long way in protecting environment and cutting down carbon footprint, Prasar Bharati has gone completely paperless with 100% adoption of e-Office operations. As many as 577 Centers and 22,348 employees of DD, AIR have embraced e-Office operations as on June 18, 2021, said Ministry of Information & Broadcasting in a press release on Thursday.

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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.

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.

It is no more business as usual in these offices as more than 50,000 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.