Himachal Pradesh becomes first State to implement e-cabinet

Himachal Pradesh has become first State in the country to make the end to end processing of the cabinet paperless by implementing e-cabinet application.

Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur inaugurated first e-cabinet at Shimla  yesterday. The entire process from initiation of a cabinet memo, approval of the cabinet memo through concerned Secretary, Chief Secretary, concerned Minister and finally by Chief Minister to place in the cabinet has been made online. It will also be possible to monitor the status of implementation of cabinet decision more effectively through this application.

The date of cabinet meeting will also be notified through this system after the approval of Chief Minister. The cabinet proceedings and recording of the cabinet decisions on respective agenda items and further issuance of advice to the concerned departments will also be done through the e-cabinet application.

It may be recalled that IT



application for e-cabinet has been developed in-house by the Department of Information Technology and is one of the first such electronic platforms in the entire country. About 32 cabinet memos were discussed and processed through this application.

The e-cabinet provides for generation of automatic s through SMS on real time basis for various stages involved in processing cabinet issues like receipt of cabinet memo, finalization of cabinet meeting, advice received on cabinet memo for various level like Secretaries and Ministers.

The e-cabinet application is also available as a Mobile App on android devices .

The security of the application has been kept at highest priority.

The new system will bring greater efficiency in the overall process of conducting a cabinet meeting by removing dependencies which arise due to the physical movement of cabinet memos.