Prasar Bharati goes 100% paperless

This comes in less than two years since e-office was introduced in August 2019. Out of 577 Prasar Bharati centres across the country, 10% adopted e-office in 2019. By 2020, it was 74% of Prasar Bharati centres and the remaining 16% joined by June 18, 2021

India’s public broadcaster Prasar Bharati has gone 100% paperless, with all its centres functioning as e-offices, according to a press release from the government.

Prasar Bharati. (File photo)

This comes in less than two years since e-office was introduced in August 2019. Out of 577 Prasar Bharati centres across the country, 10% adopted e-office in 2019. By 2020, it was 74% of Prasar Bharati centres and the remaining 16% joined by June 18, 2021.

Anuradha Agrawal, additional director general (Tech), Prasar Bharati, said, “In 2019, we adopted e-office and it was picking up. But, it helped when Covid hit; files could not move and everyone was home. Even though we were home, data was available on e-office and we could complete our daily work very smoothly and efficiently. Covid did not affect even 1% of our work.”

She said adoption of e-Office was CEO Shashi Shekhar Vempati’s initiative. “He made it clear that he would not receive any files in physical form. So in Delhi, we adopted e-office even before Covid and other centres did so during the pandemic. That’s how we became 100% paperless.”