Railways move over 500,000 files, 1.2 mn documents online during lockdown

During the past four months, when the entire country was in various stages of the coronavirus-induced lockdown, the Railways has digitised over 1.2 million documents like letters, bills, office orders, project drawings and more than 400,000 files, scrapping their manual handling and reducing not just physical contact between officials but also operational costs.

The use of Railways’ e-office has grown manifold since the pandemic hit the country — the number of e-receipts increased from 450,000 during March 2019 to March this year, to 1.65 million in April-July this year; the number of e-files increased from 130,000 to 540,000 during the same periods respectively.

The e-office platform provided by RailTel is a cloud enabled software developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) and aims to provide reliable, efficient, and effective ways of handling office files and documents.