Tracing of old records made easier
The Hindu
Over 65,500 files containing 50L scanned pages uploaded to servers with index
At a time when several State Government departments at district and State level are still struggling to maintain physical records of all official transactions and finding it difficult to trace old records when in need, the district administration of Mahabubnagar has made a giant leap forward by digitising all records in the district record room.
As part of the digitisation exercise, a whopping 50-lakh pages of records in about 65,600 files have been scanned and uploaded to the server for easy tracing and recall.
The digitisation of records was taken up in 2017 but could be completed in November this year with District Collector S. Venkata Rao speeding up the process after he took over in February last year.
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