Himachal becomes first State in the country to make the Cabinet meeting paperless
Himachal Pradesh has become first state in India to have paperless Cabinet meetings with end to end processing of the proceedings by implementing e-cabinet application.
The first e- Cabinet meeting was inaugurated by Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Friday at Shimla; while entire process from initiation of a Cabinet memo its approval through concerned Secretary, Chief Secretary, and concerned Minister and finally by Chief Minister to place it in meeting was done online.
A spokesman of the state government said, “The dates of the meeting after CM’s approval, the cabinet proceedings and recording of decisions on agenda items and issuance of advice to the concerned departments are now done through e-cabinet application. The IT App has been developed by Department of Information Technology and is one of the first electronic platforms in the country.”
“The App provides for generation of automatic alerts through SMS on real time basis for various stages involved in processing the issues for the Cabinet meeting like receipt of memo, finalization of meeting, advice received on memos etc. at various levels. The App also helps in removing information asymmetries by providing efficient process handling in the form of a dashboard to the concerned Secretaries. The App is also available on Mobile Phones on android devices and several steps have been taken to maintain security of the App,” he added.
