(From left) BJP MLA Nitin Navin, minister of minority welfare and information technology Shahid Ali Khan and director of Indian Institute of Business Management, Patna, AK Nayak release a book, ICT in Rural Governance in India: Theory and Practice, at a UGC-sponsored seminar at Abhilekh Bhavan in Patna on Friday. The minister said government offices in Bihar will soon be made paperless with the help of computers. “We are working on a project to ensure automation of all government offices in the state. We expect to finish this project by 2016,” Khan said. Text by Shuchismita Chakraborty, picture by Ranjeet Kumar Dey