AGARTALA: Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Wednesday launched an e-cabinet system at Agartala to promote digital infrastructure development and digitisation of government services and information.
Tripura is the fourth state 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 at Agartala, where the chief minister launched the app to be used for the e-cabinet.
The government approved a proposal to procure a loan of ₹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 new ADB fund will be used by the tourism and urban development department for boosting infrastructure and fostering an ecology of sustainable livelihood generation, Tourism Minister Sushanta Chowdhury said.
Chief Minister Saha said the e-cabinet would follow a similar model introduced in Uttarakhand.
The e-cabinet system was launched by executives of the National Informatics Centre as well as the state’s information and cultural affairs department.
Saha said digitisation would bolster e-governance and align the state’s development journey with the national Digital India initiative.
The shift will increase transparency, efficiency and accountability, he added.
