Tripura becomes 4th state in India to have e-cabinet

Agartala: The Tripura government has decided to go for holding a paperless meeting of the council of ministers with full automation as part of the digitization program of the administration, said government spokesperson Sushanta Chowdhury on Thursday.
The Tripura government has already made the assembly proceedings in the digital mode under the e-vidhansabha initiative.
The work for e-office in Smart arrangement in the administration of Civil Secretariat and district Magistrate offices of the state has been going on and very soon, Tripura will achieve a milestone of digital administration, the minister claimed.
“We are working on a module of SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound) administration to bring complete transparency in government functioning and to facilitate a citizen-friendly governance in Tripura, which will ensure a transparent and accountable administration,” Chowdhury stated.
He pointed out that the decision for e-cabinet had been taken by the council of ministers in a meeting on Wednesday and Tripura will be the fourth state after Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Arunachal Pradesh to have paperless meetings of the cabinet.
Chowdhury further underlined that the state government has responded wholeheartedly to the call of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for digital India and almost all the public services in Tripura have already been shifted to the digital platform and whatever is left would be switching to the e-governance module soon.
“Besides educating people about the benefits of digital services, we are propagating the environmental cost of traditional governance which is driven by pen and paper. Moreover, e-services and e-governance ensure transparency and accountability of the administration that will reduce the problems and speed up the functioning,” Chowdhury added.
The minister also stated that the cabinet meeting has decided to fill up 147 vacant posts under various departments including filling up of the vacancy of 14 teaching posts in Maharaja Bir Bikram University and for recruitment of 75 Assistant Professors in the General Degree Colleges.
The minister also highlighted that the cabinet approved the launch of ‘Chief Minister’s Tribal Development Mission’ for the overall welfare of the tribal people. He said this was a sincere effort of the government to fulfill its election promises and state budget announcements.
The mission will have a financial allocation of Rs 30 crore in the first year, which will be increased as per requirement. The mission will focus on creating employment opportunities by enhancing the skills of the youth, as well as providing roads and drinking water facilities in the tribal areas, he added.