Govt e-governance initiative yet to take off
Bhubaneswar: The state government’s websites for almost all its departments, as well as its overall portal for communicating with the public – www.edodisha.gov.in — are not performing as they should.
The edodisha portal has given space to 38 departments, besides the governor’s secretariat and the assembly. Save three or four departments, none of the others updates information on the portal. While the health and family welfare department last updated their section in February 2019, the school and mass education department did so in September 2019.
The government has created nearly 23 websites for primary government departments, besides having more than 100 separate site for allied agencies.
The Odisha Computer Application Centre is the nodal agency for maintenance of the edodisha portal, but one finds no information in the edodisha space of both the parent department (electronics and IT) and its subordinate office. Department secretary Manoj Kumar Mishra said it is the duty of the respective department secretary to update the portal. When asked why his own department is not updating information on the portal, Mishra said it was due to manpower crunch.