Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 26: In order to bring transparency and accountability in the working of the J&K State pollution Control Board, on-line consent management and monitoring system has been launched in Jammu.
Board also organized one day workshop on the launching of e-consent mechanism starting from December 26, 2014.
The workshop was inaugurated by the new Chairman of the State Pollution Control Board, Suresh Chugh who launched and introduced the e-consent management and monitoring system (OCMMS) in the working of the board, initially from the Jammu district.
Chairman informed that shortly this system will be extended to other districts of the State as well. On the occasion, Chairman informed that this will bring transparency, accountability and simplification of procedure and paperless working for the e-consent. He added that gradually all the services of the board shall be made online for the benefit of the industry and the people at large.
He said since the Public Service Guarantee Act has been adopted by the State Government for the service provider departments, and PCB is one such organization, so it has become necessary to improve the efficiency in working of the board, so as to dispose of the consent cases in a stipulated time period that too in a transparent and simplified manner, for which the introduction of online consent management is a step forward in this direction.