Bhubaneswar-Today marks the worldwide launch of the new, dynamic Orissa Government Portal www.orissa.gov.in . The portal was inaugurated by the Chief Secretary of Orissa at Secretariat. This is a highly ambitious initiative from the government to go the smart way through this dynamic content driven portal for dissemination of information in real time to people around the globe, The Secretary IT, Sri S.N. Tripathy explained the main features of the website.

With the inauguration of new dynamic Orissa Government Portal, each and every department will have the privilege to manage their own information and display the same to the public with standard page lay out and common link structure. Citizens can get Government Press Releases, Projects & Scheme information etc from the portal. Each department will also be able to update news on a daily basis.

The web portal contains more than 5000 pages of information for the stakeholders. Some of the other features of the web portal are department telephone directory, online tenders, department wise notification and circulars with dynamic content management facility. The dynamic content management facility of this portal ensures continuous and timely updating of information. The Portal will have  Administrators for  every department  to manage  their contents.  The look and feel of the web portal is considered to be one of the best in the country as far as government institutions are concerned.

Efforts are on to make the site bilingual.This portal took 3  months to build  up and the  prototype  was presented  through the old  website  to invite improvisation.  This website also  marks  the  standardization  of  Official  website  of Govt. of  Orissa  for  all times  to come. The  colour  , fonts  and the content has been  documented  for  managing  future  &  archived  information  in a  structured  manner  to  give the citizen the  ease  to  search  required  content. The website was a joint effort of IT Department & its partner CSM technologies.

Senior officers of the government of orissa, particularly IT department and OCAC, were present on the occasion.