Overview

• IT Minister Ashish Shelar directed an amendment to the Government Resolution so all Mantralaya consultant appointments and payments must be reported to the IT Department.
• Shelar cited six empanelled agencies deploying 246 individuals across departments, with some consultants drawing four to five times pay by working in multiple offices.
• A centralized consultancy portal will capture profiles and remuneration, a new GR will follow in consultation with the Chief Minister, and strict action is promised for non-compliance or non-performance.
• On the Maha-Samanvay project, MahaIT reported about 15 crore records collected with 5–6 crore verified and 144 attributes completed, with orders for UID certification, a robust firewall, advanced load testing, DG Yatra integration, an AI search engine, and a citizen notification system.
• For WhatsApp-based citizen services, the first 100 services run on the current vendor, the target is 1,000 services, capacity must be reassessed for high traffic, and the remaining services will be procured via an updated RFP for a new vendor.