It has commissioned the Hyderabad-based National Institute for Smart Government (NISG) to study the internal processes and welfare schemes, to facilitate presenting a report by the end of the year at a cost of Rs 20 million.
NISG, a public-private initiative to provide e-governance solutions, has already roped in global consultants KPMG to prepare the business process re-engineering report, which will be completed by 2008-end.
The study will take a hard look at the emigration system, look at the objectives and national goals and then review if the existing system is in line with it. A proposal to integrate the immigration network with the passport system of the ministry of external affairs is also on the cards.
Following this, tenders will be floated and a private company will be chosen to execute the implementation of the project by March 2009. The procedures which will be re-engineered under this project that includes the process of application for emigration clearance from the protector of emigrants, monitoring of recruiting agents and contract verification by Indian missions abroad and even of foreign employees.
Recently, the ministry also initiated a number of services such as insurance cover, database management, counselling, pre-departure orientation and skill upgrading.
A team of NISG officials has been working on this project for nearly two months, visiting regional offices and meeting stakeholders.
