Civil Aviation Minister inaugurates e-office of the Ministry

Speaking on the occasion, the Minister highlighted the importance of e-governance and elaborated upon the arrangements made in the Ministry of Civil Aviation under this programme.

He particularly highlighted the importance of transparency and accountability through which both efficiency and effectiveness are derived. The salient features of the e-office are as under:

• Single instance has been created for MoCA, BCAS, DGCA, CRS and IGRUA with URL as follows : ca.eoffice.gov.in

• All new files will be generated electronically, for which Training and Hand Holding on e- office has been provided to all users of the Ministry of Civil Aviation including Data Entry Operators/Consultants.

• 90 Digital Signature Certificates (DSCs) have been installed and bound with e- office Application out of 137.

• All identified Employee Master Database (EMD) managers/Master Trainer identified by the Department have also been trained on e-office Admn modules.

Shri V. Somasundaran, Secretary, Civil Aviation gave a detailed account of the e-office programme which was followed by a presentation and as part of the live demonstration an active file was forwarded by the Secretary to the Minister which was cleared by the Minister online.

As part of the e-governance implementation, in the offices under the Ministry of Civil Aviation, AAI’s initiative of e-clerance (communication mast) was also launched. Shri S. Raheja, Chairman, AAI gave details of the project and immediately after the presentation, height clearance of one of the active case was granted online. The salient points are as follows:

• Standing Advisory Committee on Radio Frequency Allocation (SACFA) is responsible for Frequency allocation and mast (fixed wireless) clearance to telecom Operators, based on AAI’s No Objection Certificate (NOC).

• The applicants were required to file an additional online application at NOC Application System (NOCAS), AAI for NOC for height clearance.

• Integration of SACFA and NOCAS servers will benefit the Telecom Operators in many ways:

• No duplicate application; Data will be fetched from SACFA server to populate the NOCAS application.

• No document (hard copy) is required by the AAI either from the applicant or SACFA. The system has become paperless.

• NOC letter is sent to SACFA electronically. The individual SACFA application is automatically updated with height clearance data.

• Effective Single Window clearance to Telecom Operators.