Sukhbir for cyber-age compliant buildings

Punjab administrative offices and other new buildings to be well connected

PTI | July 18, 2012



All new buildings and district complexes in Punjab should be planned to make them compliant with emerging needs of the cyber-age, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Tuesday directed.

Badal, accompanied by Bikram Singh Majithia, Revenue Minister, reviewed the progress of construction of District Administrative Complexes and Tehsil Offices besides infrastructure in the old and new districts of the state.

He said that all the newly-planned buildings of the administrative complex should be integrated offices of tehsil complex and it should have in house provisions like 'Suvidha Kendras'.

Badal said that he has observed that PWD had been adopting archaic designs of pre-partition era for district administrative complexes that waste a lot of precious space and putting extra expenditure on idle infrastructure that was never used.

He said that since Punjab was on verge of networking all the districts under e-district programme, the design of new administrative complexes should be according to the future emerging needs of cyber-age.

Favouring a paperless office, Badal said that Deputy Commissioner should take initiative to digitalize the records at the earliest so that concept of paperless office could be translated into reality.

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