The TDP supremo and former Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has expressed strong objection to the state government move to upgrade the existing e-office version ostensibly under the instructions of the Union Ministry of Electronic and Information Technology (MeitY) of the Government of India and the Network Interface Controller (NIC), New Delhi.
In an appeal to the Governor Abdul Nazeer he urged him to initiate measures to immediately put an end to the process of upgrading the e-office of the State Government. He suggested that the decision can be postponed till the new government is in its place and urged the Governor to direct the Chief Secretary to defer the decision till the new government is formed.
In the process, he deplored that the services of e-office application are not available for the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO), the Chief Secretary’s office, various wings in the State Secretariat and Heads of Departments (HoDs) from Friday till 25 May.
He also said that officials and political parties are expressing various kinds of apprehensions that the timing of the exercise is fraught with possible mischief of deleting the important files and documents relating to the decisions taken by this Government involving omissions, commissions, irregularities, deviations and diversions of resources to favour the contractors besides some YSRCP leaders.
He informed the Governor that the State Government, violating the regular practice, has not been uploading the GOs on its website, particularly some GOs relating to major decisions, thus keeping the crucial decisions under the wraps. He alleged that there is absolutely no transparency in the administration and cases are being foisted against those who are raising voice against the irregularities in the governance or opaque decisions.
He made it clear that this kind of functioning of the Government only gives a clear indication of some mischief likely to be resorted to by this Government in the name of migrating to new e-office version, particularly when the election process is on and many officers, including the HoDs are drafted for the poll duty who are not available at their respective headquarters.
He also said that he has information that certain crucial records are being destroyed or shifted from the offices and pointed out the incidents that took place earlier in which some records belonging to the CBCID were burnt without following the prescribed procedure for destroying the government records.