Delhi University has digitised the vast majority of its operations in an effort to go utterly paperless. The varsity’s administrative and accounts departments have gone utterly paperless, having been linked to its E-Samarth portal.
The varsity has efficiently made most processes comparable to admission and examination on-line.
Joint Dean (Admission) Prof Sanjeev Singh, who heads the college’s paperless initiative, informed the Press Trust of India: “We have linked administrative and accounting work to Samarth in the last few months. We are in the process to link everything to Samarth. We are successful in making most of our processes online.”
He stated the varsity was utterly paperless apart from sure operations that have been troublesome to utterly swap to on-line.
“On the surface and administrative level, we are paperless. But in nuances we cannot say it is completely paperless because several processes like examination and mark sheet require paper printing,” Singh stated.
“Though its digital version is available, there is a requirement for a print version. Attestation of the documents and all other notifications have to be printed.”
The course of to shift all of the college’s operations on-line began in 2016. However, the initiative picked up tempo within the final six months throughout which the varsity linked most main operations to E-Samarth.
It is working to make printing “redundant” and officers stated all stakeholders’ participation was wanted to realize that.
Dean of Colleges Balaram Pani stated digitising would assist streamline the varsity’s functioning and cut back paper dependency.
“We are making most of the administrative work and accounting work digital. We are creating a digital library. We are creating a digital data bank,” Pani informed the Press Trust of India.
Pani added that the varsity would hyperlink all departments with E-Samarth. He stated it required time to digitalise years of knowledge and the varsity was within the course of.
With inputs from Press Trust of India.
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