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08/10/23 03:47 AM IST

Tripura becomes fourth state to introduce e-cabinet system

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  • Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha launched an e-cabinet system at Agartala to promote digital infrastructure development and digitisation of government services and information.
e-Cabinet System
  • Tripura has thus become the fourth state—and second in the Northeast—after Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Arunachal Pradesh, to have introduced an e-cabinet system.
  • All future cabinet meetings in the state will be paperless, reducing the carbon footprint and environmental degradation in the process, with ministers and bureaucrats using tablets.
  • All ministers attended the event at the new Secretariat complex, where the chief minister launched the app to be used for the e-cabinet.
  • In the debut e-cabinet meeting, the government approved a proposal to procure a loan of Rs 160 crore from the Asian Development Bank, which has earlier provided soft loans with low interest rates to the government and partnered with it in several developmental projects.
  • The e-cabinet app would have features to facilitate uploading of cabinet memos marked with date and time and that ministers, the chief secretary, secretaries and other officials would be able to review and approve them online.
  • The application has the highest degree of privacy protection safeguards.
  • The e-cabinet system is expected to eliminate delays caused by the physical movement of paper documents and to infuse dynamism in the government’s decision-making process.
  • The government had earlier introduced e-file and office systems in keeping with the Digital India campaign.
  • As part of the mission to ramp up digital infrastructure development across the state, the state government has been trying to introduce digitisation on all possible public service platforms.
Source- Indian Express

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