Common Functionalities of eLORA System: Guidelines
Common Functionalities of eLORA System: Guidelines
Common Functionalities of eLORA System: Guidelines
Guidelines
Common
Functionalities of
eLORA System
May 3, 2016
Contents
1. Register Institute .................................................................................................................................................................... 4
2. Register Radiation Professional (RP) ............................................................................................................................. 5
3. Login to eLORA system......................................................................................................................................................... 6
4. Update Institute Details ....................................................................................................................................................... 7
5. Declaration of Staff ................................................................................................................................................................. 8
6. Process of designating and re-designating licensee ................................................................................................. 9
6.1 Designate Licensee ....................................................................................................................................................... 9
6.2 Re-designate licensee (to add additional responsibilities to an existing licensee) ........................ 10
7. Process to change licensee ............................................................................................................................................... 11
8. Process to update/dissociate employee..................................................................................................................... 13
8.1 Update employee details ......................................................................................................................................... 14
8.2 Dissociate employee: ................................................................................................................................................ 15
9. User account of Employer, Licensee and RSO in eLORA...................................................................................... 15
9.1 Functionalities available for Employer account ............................................................................................ 15
9.2 Functionalities available to Licensee account ................................................................................................ 16
9.3 Functionalities available to RSO account ......................................................................................................... 16
10. Declaration of Instrument ........................................................................................................................................... 16
10.1 Add Instrument ........................................................................................................................................................... 16
10.2 Manage Instrument Status ..................................................................................................................................... 17
11. Procedure for submission of application forms where signature of two authorities required ..... 18
12. Checking status of application ................................................................................................................................... 20
13. Obtaining RSO approval ............................................................................................................................................... 21
13.1 Nominate RSO (for first time approval in the institute) ............................................................................ 22
13.2 RSO renewal (renewal on expiry of RSO approval) ..................................................................................... 22
13.3 RSO Renomination (to add or remove roles of the RSO) ........................................................................... 23
13.4 RSO Undesignate (to remove RSO roles completely) .................................................................................. 23
14. Process of Employer change....................................................................................................................................... 24
14.1 Generation of Request-Id for Employer Change ........................................................................................... 24
14.2 Submission of Employer Change Application Form .................................................................................... 26
14.3 Submit the form by filling-in required fields and providing required attachments ...................... 27
14.4 Updation confirmation of Employer Change from AERB .......................................................................... 28
15. Non Compliance (NC) Management ........................................................................................................................ 29
16. Incident Reporting Functionality ............................................................................................................................. 30
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17. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) ....................................................................................................................... 32
17.1 Institute/Radiation Professional Registration............................................................................................... 32
17.2 Forgot Username and Password.......................................................................................................................... 33
17.3 Handling error message .......................................................................................................................................... 34
17.4 Changing details ......................................................................................................................................................... 35
17.5 How to check status of application submitted through eLORA account ............................................. 35
Help Email-Id:
See practice specific guidelines for concern help email id. (Practice specific guidelines are available
in ‘Help’ menu after login to system)
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Guidelines for Common Functionalities of eLORA System
1. Register Institute
Visit home page of AERB website www.aerb.gov.in and click on the button eLORA. It will redirect you to
eLORA system.
Click on Register Institute (see above figure) link available on eLORA home page. This will open
application form for Institute Registration.
Important Note: Detail guidelines to fill application form for Institute Registration is available on
eLORA home page. It is advised to read the guidelines and keep soft copy of required attachments ready
before start filling of application form.
Fill the application form as per the guidelines. However, important points in each tab are mentioned
below:
Tab Institute Details:
Institute Name: Ensure to provide correct institute name in application form.
Tab Employer Details:
Name: Fill the complete name of employer as appearing in his/her document for Proof of
Identity/Date of Birth (DOB) to be attached.
Date of Birth: Fill the DOB as appearing in the proof of identity/DOB to be attached.
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Document/card for proof of identity and date of birth (of employer): Select one from the drop
down. (Soft copy of this is a mandatory attachment).
Document/Card No. (of Proof of Identity/DOB): Must match with the proof of identity/DOB
attached.
E-mail (O): Will be used to send USERNAME and PASSWORD of your e-LORA account and for all
future communications. (Make sure to provide correct email address).
Attachments
Upload of following attachments are mandatory:
Proof of Identity and Date of Birth (of employer): Acceptable documents are as follows:
Passport
PAN card issued by Income Tax Department
Driving Licence issued by RTO
Photo identity document/card having serial number and date of birth issued by Central/State
Government or PSU
Proof of Employership: Example: (i) Appointment Letter of Employer, (ii) Board Resolution, (iii)
Any Govt./PUC document substantiating proprietorship (iv) Partnership deed (notorised) (v)
Proprietor’s self declaration on institute letter head affixed with institute seal (only for Diagnostic
Radiology Institutes)
Upload scan copy of any one of the document listed below (in the relevant position) for the proof
of existence of institute (The institute name and address mentioned in the application form must
match with any of the attached document):
PAN of Institute
TAN of Institute
Registration with State/Central/Local Government Authority
Enter the Captcha and submit the application form.
Important Note: Fields marked with * in the application form are mandatory. Application form will
not be submitted if any mandatory field left blank.
You will get acknowledgement message upon successful submission of application form. The copy of
submitted application (.pdf file) can be downloaded for which link will be provided (pl. note, this link will
be active for a short period). You will also receive an acknowledgement mail with the copy of your
application form (.pdf file) in your email (email address of employer as provided in the application form).
Application for Institute Registration will be scrutinized by AERB. After the approval of institute
registration by AERB, you will receive user ID and password in your registered email (email address of
Employer, as provided in the application form).
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Important Note: Detail guidelines to fill application form for RP registration is available on eLORA
home page. It is advised to read the guidelines and keep soft copy of required attachments ready before
start filling application form.
In case, your Institute has multiple profiles, system will ask you to select the Practice and Institute Role.
The screen will not appear if institute does not have multiple profiles.
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4. Update Institute Details
Updation of institute detail such as communication address of institute, institute telephone no., email id
of Employer, mobile no. of Employer, addition of profile, adding roles to the practice is done through
menu: Update Institute Details
This option be accessed through Menu: User Management (as shown below) Update institute
details
5. Declaration of Staff
Staff can be added in eLORA account through Menu: User Management Add Employee
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Provide Date of Joining (of service in your institute), PMS No. (i.e. complete TLD No.), Department
and Designation, Provide Email (O)
Browse and upload scan copy of joining /confirmation letter of employee and click on Submit
To upload “Attachment for uploading copy of Joining/Confirmation”, you can attach a Scanned copy of
the Joining/confirmation letter of the added staff or a letter signed by the appropriate authority of the
facility mentioning the Name and Designation of all existing staff members working in the institute.
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After selecting employee, employer can click “Designate Licensee” as shown above. The following screen
will appear:
Employer needs to select radiation facility(ies) for which the licensee shall be responsible and click on
“Designate” (as shown above).
After designating licensee, employer can check licensee status in the menu “My institute details”. The
licensee status of the selected employee should be “Yes” as shown below.
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Employer can select “Re-designate” and then choose employee by clicking LOV. By clicking re-
designate the following screen will appear in which employer can add the radiation facilities for which
the licensee is responsible and further click on re-designate as shown below.
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After clicking on change licensee the following screen will appear in which steps to change licensee is
mentioned.
After clicking on “Yes” as shown above the following screen will appear:
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You need to select incoming licensee details and submit the application. The following screen will appear
to indicate change of licensee has been successful completed.
Employer can check licensee status in the menu “My Institute Details”. The licensee status should be “yes”
against that employee name.
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8.1 Update employee details
After clicking on update/dissociate employee, the following screen will appear:
Employer need to select Type of employee as shown above and then select employee detail(s) and click
on show details as shown above, the following screen will appear:
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Employer can Update employee details such as PMS No., designation, department, E-mail(O), Roles, etc.
The details will be updated and can be viewed in ‘My Institute Details’.
Employer need to select Type of employee as shown above and then select employee detail(s) and click
on dissociate as shown below. Then employee will be dissociated from the institution.
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9.2 Functionalities available to Licensee account
Employer can designate any staff of institute as Licensee. After designating staff as Licesee, eLORA
account of Licensee is automatically created and login detail (i.e. Username and Password) is sent
automatically to designated Licensee on his/her Email (O) id. Once employer designates licensee for
particular equipment, thereafter only he/she can submit an application in eLORA for regulatory clearance
for that equipment. Hence, from licensee account, he/she can access regulatory forms through Menu:
Regulatory form applicable practice and can submit application.
However, other information such as employee details, instruments details cannot be added/removed but
can only be viewed from licensee account.
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Important Note: Regulatory clearances will not be issued till all requisite Measuring instruments,
Monitoring instruments, QA tools and Safety tools for particular type of facility are successfully
recorded in eLORA.
After clicking on “View Instrument” the following screen will appears. You can view details of all
instruments or update details of particular instrument or delete any particular Instrument from your
Institute account. Select the instrument and click on “View” as shown below.
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After clicking on “view’ the following screen will appear. Through this Employer of the Institute can
modify status of the instruments (viz. Functional status, Calibration date, Calibration valid till date,
Calibration energy and calibration lab detail). The selected equipment can also be deleted by clicking on
‘Delete’ button.
11. Procedure for submission of application forms where signature of two authorities
required
There are certain forms in eLORA which requires signature of two authorities (viz. Licensee/RSO) on
application form is required before its final electronic submission in eLORA. One of such form is
application to Nominate RSO. The standard procedure for submission of forms where signature of two
authorities required is explained below:
Menu Regulatory Forms select a desired form to be submitted
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Fill the required details and upload scan copy of required documents and click on Freeze. This will freeze
your application form and show your application number. Please note, Freeze does not mean
submission of application form to AERB.
For submission of application form, follow the path as:
Menu My Applications
Select required Application No. (Application Status is shown as Pending For Signed PDF). Click on
Show Details and download PDF of your application form from Download Link. Take a print of first
page, signing authorities shall duly sign the first page (their names will appear in the form, sign above the
respective names) and affix institute seal on it.
Scan this page (in .pdf format), Browse and upload this scan copy.
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After uploading of scan file, Application Status will change to Signed PDF Uploaded
Select the Application No and click on Submit to complete submission of application form (Application
Status will change to Submitted).
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Description for each type of Application Status is given below:
Application Status Description
Pending for Signed PDF Application form filled but scan copy of signed PDF not uploaded.
Signed PDF Uploaded Application form filled and scan copy of signed PDF uploaded but
application not submitted.
Submitted Application form submitted to AERB.
In Progress Application form Acknowledged by AERB.
Approve/Reject Application form reviewed and either Approved or Rejected by AERB.
Closed Approval status of preceding case shown as ‘Closed’ in case of renewal
approval (e.g. RSO renewal approval, Licence renewal approval, etc)
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Click here to get the list of
RP employees
Select the appropriate radiation facilities for which the candidate is to be nominated (as shown above).
After successful submission of form as per the standard procedure of eLORA, form will be scrutinized by
AERB. After approval of the RSO Nomination, Employer and approved RSO will receive intimation email.
A copy of the approval letter will also be emailed to RSO’s email Id (O).
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“Renew” button will be enabled for the employee whose
RSO status is “Yes” before one month of RSO approval
validity date.
On clicking on ‘renew’ button, the application form is generated which needs to be freezed and submitted
as per the standard procedure of eLORA.
Click on ‘freeze’ button and submit the form as per standard procedure of eLORA.
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Use “Undesignate” option
to revoke RSO.
In the “View employee list”, the status of RSO will be indicated as “No”.
Important Note: In case the RSO is leaving the Institute, the employer has to “Undesignate” the RSO
first and then “Dissociate” him/her. A relinquishing letter for the RSO dissociation will be available in
RSO approval file and the status of the RSO file will be “close”.
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Click on Employer Change Initiation
Provide details of incoming employer. It should be noted that the data provided in this form cannot be
modified later.
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After submission following screen will appear:
Incoming employer will receive an email regarding the same in the provided email address.
Important Note: On receipt of the Generated Request ID as shown above, the incoming employer
needs to submit the employer change application form to register his employership in eLORA by
following the process as mentioned below.
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Successful submission of this form will lead to ‘Application for Employer Change’.
(Any discrepancy in the data providing in above form from the data provided at the time of Request-Id
generation will lead to the denial of further processing).
14.3 Submit the form by filling-in required fields and providing required attachments
Note: The details to be provided in the above application form are as given below
Tab 1: Institute Details – Will be auto-populated and non-editable
Tab 2: Employer Details
Name: Will be auto-populated and non-editable
Date of Birth: Will be auto-populated and non-editable
Document/Card for Proof of Identity and Date of Birth: Select the document/card for PoI and DoB
from the drop down.
Document/Card No.: Provide document / card no. of PoI/DoB. The document/card no. mentioned
must match with the scanned copy of PoI/DoB attached.
Residential Address: Fill residential address of employer in a given format.
Permanent Address: Fill permanent address of employer in a given format.
Contact Details: Some fields will be auto-populated and non-editable
Tab3: Attachments
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Proof of Identity and Date of Birth: Upload scanned copy of ‘Proof of Identify and Date of Birth’ of
employer as declared in Tab ‘Employer Details’
Proof of Employership: Upload document substantiating employership of the institute.
Example: (i) Appointment Letter, (ii) Board Resolution, (iii) Any Govt./PUC document substantiating
proprietorship (iv) Partnership deed (notorised) or (iv) Proprietor’s self declaration on institute letter
head affixed with institute seal (only for Diagnostic Radiology Institutes)
After successful submission, a message will be displayed along with the link to download application
form.
Important Note: Outgoing employer (current employer) will receive a message in inbox regarding
the submission of ‘Application for Employer Change’
Incoming employer will receive an email regarding the same in the provided email address.
After submission of above form, outgoing employer (current employer) will not be able to submit any
regulatory forms till the employer change application is processed by AERB.
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15. Non Compliance (NC) Management
The non-compliance (NC) with respect to regulatory requirement raised against institute can be see
through:
Menu: My Institute Details Tab: Non Compliance Details: Active Non-Compliance details (as
shown in below figure)
Each NC has defined severity level (Severity level 1, 2, 3 and 4. Severity level 1 is the highest and severity
level 4 is the lowest) and final date for its resolution. Take necessary action to close the NC before final
date of resolution.
In eLORA, two types of NC generated:
1. System generated: System automatically checks the compliance and raises NC in case of:
Non-availability of RSO for the profile(s) available with the institute
Expiry of Licence validity date
Expiry of calibration validity date of instruments
2. Manually generated NC: Manual NC are raised by AERB reviewer during any phase of radiation
safety review of institute (e.g. review of safety status report, NC observed during regulatory
inspection, etc.). For such types of NC, response is required to be submitted through eLORA. Use
below form to submit response:
Menu: Regulatory Forms Common Forms NC Response Screen
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This will open screen to submit response for NC:
Select Reference number of NC from the list (this will display on manually raised NCs. If NC is not listed
here, it means, NC is system generated). Provide your response in ‘NC Response’ and attached document
(e.g. document for proof), if required, in ‘Attachment’.
Your response will be reviewed by AERB. If the response is satisfactory and approved by AERB, NC will
be closed. You can check the status of your application for NC response in Menu: My Applications.
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Menu: Regulatory Forms Incident Reporting
Incident Incident
Incident
Intimation Investigation
Update Report
Report Report
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17. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Que: Our Institute is functioning under Central/State Government; we do not have Govt. Registration
No./PAN/TAN, what should we upload in Institute Registration form?
Ans: Upload scan copy of certificate (issued by your Head of Institute on letter head affixed with Institute
seal) mentioning Government status of your Institute. Do not forget to give Certificate No., as the same
(certificate no.) will be required to be mentioned in Institute Registration form.
Que. After submitting Register Institute/Radiation Professional application, unable to access the link -
application_form.pdf, where can I download the application to keep for my future reference?
Ans. After successful submission of registration form, a link is provided to download .pdf of submitted
application for reference. If the link is accessed after sometime of submitting application, it may not open
as after limited timespan access is disabled due to security reasons. An automated confirmation e-mail is
sent from eLORA after submission of application, along with the submitted application (pdf file) as
attachment. From there it can be downloaded anytime.
Que. I have submitted application for Institute/Radiation Professional (RP) registration; how to check
status of submitted application?
Ans. Visit eLORA home page, click on ‘Application Status for Radiation Professional Registration’ /
‘Application Status for Institute Registration’ for knowing the status of application for Radiation
Professional Registration or Institute Registration respectively.
Que: I have submitted application for Institute/Radiation Professional (RP) registration, what are the
next steps I have to follow?
Ans. Submitted applications are reviewed by AERB and after that automated response e-mail is sent in
email id provided in application form.
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In case of approval of application, your account is created in eLORA and login credentials (USERNAME
and PASSWORD) are provided in e-mail (RP No. is also provided in case of RP registration; (format of
RPID: 13-XXXXX or 14-XXXXXX} so on ). You can login to eLORA system for further interactions with
AERB.
In case of rejection of application, the reason(s) for the rejection are mentioned in the mail.
Que: I want to do RP registration, however in RP Registration form tab Personal Details, First Name
and Last Name are mandatory but I have only single word Name. What should I do?
Ans. In such a scenario,
(i) Fill the last name field with your father’s name (any part from father’s/mother's/husband's name
such as the first name, middle name or last name).
(ii) Attach a copy of the proof showing your name and your father's/mother's/husband's name, such
as SSC certificate, PAN CARD, Driving License.
(iii) Attach a scanned copy of signed self declaration in the following format: "Though my name
consists a single name "__________" and eLORA does not accept single name, my name may be
considered as "______________" including part of my father's/mother's/husband's name for eLORA
purpose only.
Que: I forgot/not received my eLORA account username, how can I know my username?
Ans: Use ‘Forgot Username’ option available on eLORA home page to obtain your username on your
registered email address.
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In the form for ‘Forgot Username’, ensure to provide your First name and Last name separately in its
respective fields. The fields for First name and Last name are case sensitive.
After verification of detail, system will auto sent username on registered email address.
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Ans. This may happen when eLORA system is directly closed without logout. In such case, Please restart
your internet browser and access eLORA system.
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Please note, only short informative messages are displayed in 'Inbox' (after login) about the processing
status of applications, use 'My Applications' to see the details of approval/rejection of application.
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