Digitisation of Defence Records
Government has taken various initiatives to promote e-Governance in Defence Sector like Aadhaar enrolment for defence personnel and their dependents, Digital Life Certificate for retired defence personnel, Central Public Grievance Redressal and Monitoring System (CPGRAMS) for online complaint registration and Smart cards for accessing canteen facilities etc. Defence services have also implemented various IT initiatives for decision making relating to operational, manpower, infrastructure and procurement matters. Using Raksha Bhoomi software, the Defence Land Records are also digitised by Directorate General Defence Estates (DGDE) with the objective of long term preservation and easy retrieval. Further, under the digitisation programme, the work of indexing, scanning and digitisation of records of Defence Estate Offices (DEOs) and Cantonment Boards has been taken up in two phases. In phase-I, 69,657 files by 37 DEOs and 2, 42,836 files by the 62 Cantonment Boards were digitised.
Further, Digitisation of declassified War Records has already been initiated by History Division and about 29 Lakhs pages have been Digitised upto 31.03.2015.
Digitisation of Records is a continuous process. Many of the above efforts taken are expected to bring transparency and efficiency.
This information was given by Defence Minister Shri Manohar Parrikar in a written reply to Shri A. U. Singh Deoin Rajya Sabha today.
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