STATE PLANS TO MODERNISE EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGES
Kolkata,
Business Standard
With a view to streamline the functioning of the employment exchanges in the state, the Orissa government has chalked out plans to upgrade and modernise them.
A separate portal will be set up which will have facilities for registration of job seekers both locally and nationally. While the local registration will be useful for employment inside the state, the national registration will help the candidates to seek job outside the state, sources said.
“ We intend to modernise all the 80 employment exchanges in the state with an expenditure of Rs 60 crore. The work is proposed to be completed in next five years”, Jagar Singh, secretary, labour and employment department of Orissa government said. The modernisation and upgradation work will be taken up under public-private-partnership (PPP). While the Centre would provide 75 percent of the proposed cost, the remaining 25 percent would be provided by the state government.
ONLINE PROVIDENT FUND CLAIM SETTLEMENT BY 2011
Srikumar Bondyopadhyay,
The Telegraph
Provident fund subscribers may be able to access their accounts and push for an online settlement of claims by 2011.
The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) is aiming to create an inter-connected online platform for its 117 regional and sub-regional offices that will eventually allow online settlement of claims within a day or two.
The EPFO is one of the last bastions of bureaucratic outfits that is being sucked into the online platform managed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC).
P. Sudhakar Babu, additional central PF commissioner, said a trial run was being carried out at five centres: Karnal,
“Another 15 centres will be networked by the end of this month. We are aiming to bring all our centres onto the online platform in 2010,” Babu said here today while addressing a seminar organised by the Social Security Association of India.
Once all the regional and sub-regional provident fund offices are connected, EPFO members will be able to get their claims settled overnight. They will also be able to access other information such as the account balance.
BPSC TO GO ONLINE SOON
Sanjeev Kumar Verma,
The Times of
Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) would soon have a fully-computerised system in place. The information technology (IT) department has taken up a scheme in this regard, the request for which was made earlier by the commission. BPSC conducts competitive examinations for premier state government services, including Bihar Administrative Service, Bihar Police Service and Bihar Financial Service.
PROPERTY REGISTRATION TO GO DIGITAL TO CURB FRAUD
D Suresh Kumar, Chennai
The Times of India (Chennai edition)
In a move aimed at curbing fraudulent and benami property transactions, the Tamil Nadu Registration Department is all set to introduce biometric fingerprinting and digital photographing for registering documents at all its 573 sub-registrar offices.
The technology-enabled system, for which the Registration Act has been amended, is expected to be implemented from February next year. This would replace the existing three-year old practice of manually affixing passport-sized photographs and inked left hand thumb impressions of property vendors and buyers on the second page of registered property documents.
“We have placed orders with Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT) for acquiring 1,200 biometric finger print devices and an equal number of digital cameras, which would be installed at the subregistrar offices (two devices of each in every office) for which the state government has sanctioned Rs 55 lakh. Once the equipment is in place, every property seller and buyer will be digitally photographed and their left hand thumb impressions will be recorded on the biometric device against their photographs. The procedure will be over in less than 5 minutes, unlike the present system which takes time,” R Sivakumar, inspector-general of registration (Tamil Nadu) told The Times of India on Wednesday.
HIGH-POWERED PANEL FORMED FOR UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION PROJECT
Kohima
The Economic Times
To facilitate successful implementation of unique identification numbers in Nagaland, a 17-member state empowered committee has been constituted under chairmanship of Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio.
According to an official notification issued here yesterday the state home commissioner will act as the secretary to the empowered committee.
In order to assist the empowered panel in implementing the project, a 12-member state-level implementation committee under the chairmanship of the chief secretary Lalthara was also constituted, the notification said.
The Centre through the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is embarking on the ambitious project.
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