Rajya Sabha ready to e-publish gazette notifications

The Rajya Sabha Secretariat will switch to e-publishing of gazette notifications, a year after the Centre stopped physical printing of notifications after announcing the e-gazette project in October 2015.

Details:

A circular issued by the Upper House secretariat last week said all sections were to submit documentary notifications directly through the eGazette website/portal.

Nodal officers to operationalise the new system, the Rajya Sabha Secretary-General has nominated two designated officers who will act as Nodal Officers to oversee uploading of gazette notifications.

• This will put an end to agonising wait for the important documents.

Gazette notification:                                  

Gazette notification is an important legal requirement to validate, authenticate and to make effective various kinds of laws, rules, orders and Government decisions.

• Earlier, user groups had to wait for a few months for copies of such notifications as physical printing took some time. Hard copies were available for sale for usage by government and private users.
• The e-gazette move is believed to have saved Rs. 40 crore per year which was incurred on 90 tonnes of paper besides power, chemicals, colour, dyes etc. and as such it is a major environment-friendly effort.