Yogi govt goes digital: Virtual Cabinet meetings, paperless assembly sessions soon
UP CM Yogi Adityanath has instructed officials to hold the next Cabinet meeting virtually and also to train all the members of Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly for the same.
New Delhi: Yogi Adityanath government has gone high-tech and is on path to set new precedent of governance. The state govt has decided to shun papers in cabinet meet as well as assembly sessions and rather conduct them in digital mode.
CM Yogi Adityanath has instructed officials to hold the next Cabinet meeting virtually and also to train all the members of Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly for the same.
“Information regarding the security features for e-Cabinet meetings should be given to the members,” the chief minister said.
CM Yogi also said that the efforts should also be made to make the state budget paperless on the lines of the Union Budget.
This year, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman read the entire budget speech through a tablet. No Budget documents were printed this year.
Speeding up the mantra of ‘Minimum Government and Maximum Governance’, CM Yogi has already implemented a new paperless policy to push effective governance in the country’s most populous state.
In order to an effective implementation of the e-governance, all the ministers, members of legislative assembly and members of legislative councils are being provided with tablets to discharge their works online and shun use of papers in the official chores.
The government has also arranged to train all the MLAs and MLCs and make them well versed in the online working culture. A training session for them has been organised from February 11 to 13. The officials of National Informatics Centre (NIC) will train the public representatives.
The Chief Minister had himself held the ‘orientation’ meeting with the Ministers and put forth his point of view with regards to the importance of e-governance.
Through programmes like Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) to farmers, old age pensioners and divyang, the cane slips to farmers through online mode, making 217 government services online, CM Yogi has always espoused the cause of transparency in the administration.