Agartala, Sep 21 (UNI): 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 digital mode under the e-Vidhan sabha 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 the 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.
