Amit reviews IT projects, working of JaKeGA

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 22: Amit Sharma, Secretary to Government, Information Technology (IT) Department and Chief Executive Officer, J&K e-Governance Agency (JaKeGA) today chaired a comprehensive review meeting of several ongoing Projects of IT Department being executed through JaKeGA and other agencies.
All the officers of the IT Department and JaKeGA including Additional Secretary Rajinder Khajuria, FA/CAO Rashim Deepika, Deputy Director Planning Mohd Iqbal, Deputy Secretary Afaq Ahmed, Under Secretary Monika Sambyal, Project Managers JaKeGA Saima, Irfan and Imran, Technical Officers, IT Analysts and others, attended the meeting through offline and online modes.
During project-wise review, Amit Sharma analyzed physical and financial progress of all important ongoing projects such as Upgradation of UT Data Centre, e-Office components implementation such as Joint LAN implementation for both Secretariat Complexes, Near DR Centre Set-Up at Srinagar, Provisioning of Gap Infrastructure wherein Secretary IT advised that more effort is required to ensure 100% target achievement in these important projects of the Union Territory at the earliest.
Other important projects reviewed by the IT Secretary include UT Dashboard which is at the final stages of launch wherein the working and performance of all Government Departments can be viewed, APAR and IPR Projects to be filed by all employees of the Union Territory. Other important projects which were reviewed by Secretary IT include Capacity Building related projects, Digital Village Centres for connectivity up to Panchayat Levels, State Wide Area Network for connectivity at Block levels and Bharatnet spread for reaching to all the villages.
Amit Sharma complimented JaKeGA team that a project is ready for provisioning free WiFi for all the pilgrims visiting Mata Vaishno Deviji Shrine. Before culmination of meeting, he assured all the employees of JaKeGA that IT Department will take all measures to safeguard the interest of employees.