Fin Min’s office wins first ISO certification

For the first time in the administrative history of state secretariat (Mantralaya), office of any minister will be awarded prestigious International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) certification – ISO 9001:2015.

Sudhir Mungantiwar, minister for finance and planning, has won the ISO certification for his office located at fifth floor in Mantralaya. The certificate will be handed over to Mungantiwar by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday.

The ISO certificate is being awarded after assessing the ministry on parameters

Mungantiwar has kept a record of all correspondence that he makes or receives at his own personal backend office. So it comes as little surprise that Mungantiwar's office is all set to acquire the ISO certificate

of prompt policy making and execution, monitoring and administrative control activities related to finance, planning and forest departments in the state.

Sources in the finance and forest department said that the Van (forest) Bhavan in Pune and Nagpur and some district offices of the Chief Conservator of Forests (CCF) in places like Mumbai, Thane, Nashik and Nagpur have already acquired the ISO certification.

The rest of the forest department offices in other districts have been mandated to get their ISO certification done by December this year.

Much before the ISO certification, Mungantiwar has been known for being a stickler of sorts when it comes to responding to letters and telephonic calls. Sources said that Mungantiwar has kept a record of all the correspondence that he makes or receives at his own personal back-end office. So it comes as little surprise that Mungantiwar's office is all set to acquire the ISO certificate, which is first of its kind for any government ministry.