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All government documents will be digitized and microfilmed, which will enable all government departments to explore these files through a digital search enginePHYSICAL COPIES TO STAY
Despite the microfilming and digitization, the government will not do away with the physical copies just as a backup in case the files from system go missingSHEDDING DISGRACING IMAGE
It is hoped that after the digitization of files and documents, government offices will shed the image that they are basically a godown for old, musty and dusty filesDIGITISATION SPREE
At present, old birth and death documents have been digitized in the State. The government seeks to digitize documents of 125 other government institutions---------------------------------------------------------------------
PANAJI: The Department of Information and Technology will refloat a tender, this time a global tender for the digitization and microfilming of state government records in a first-of-its-kind exercise to be undertaken by the Goa government.
While the government had earlier undertaken an exercise to digitize some books and some documents but the digitization of the entire repository of documents of state government is yet to be completed. This involves lakhs of files in the possession of the government.
Director of the Information Technology Corporation Srinet Kothawale informed that the corporation has prepared the tender document and the global tender will soon be floated.
Physical files deteriorate and disintegrate as they keep moving between various departments often leading to a situation in several government departments where the orders, ordinance and reports issued by government end up being misplaced.
To avoid such situations, all government documents will be digitized and microfilmed, which will enable all government departments to explore these files through a digital search engine without having to physically sift through files. Arrangements will be done to store all the scan documents, sources in the department informed.
However, despite the microfilming and digitization, the government will not do away with the physical copies just as a backup in case the files from system go missing.
It is hoped that after the digitization of files and documents, government offices will shed the image that they are basically a godown for old, musty and dusty files upon files bundled upon each other and which tumble out once an officer opens a cupboard.
At present, old birth and death documents have been digitized in the State. The government seeks to digitize documents of other government departments, corporations and institutions altogether documents of 125 government institutions.
