Kindle: The new mantra for Modi's cabinet to go paperless

In order to embrace technology in governance, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Union Cabinet is planning to cut down paper use during its meetings by putting official notes on Kindle, revealed a Financial Express report.

Once a meeting will get over, these devices will be given back to the Cabinet Secretariat. The National Informatics Centre, which is a premier technology arm of the central government, has been given a time frame of six months to implement the move, the report added.

The Prime Ministers’ Office (PMO) hopes that this initiate will prevent leaking of official information on several strategic critical issues to the media.

Cabinet notes and annexures will be loaded in Kindle by the Cabinet Secretariat only once the ministers will reach to address any meeting or conference. The device will carry all information, from the minute of meetings to dissent notes, for the convenience of the ministers. The Kindle used the ministers would be given back to the Secretariat post meeting.

The devices will also take care of security issues. The minute anyone would try copying the notes using USB link or Bluetooth, the information will get erased. Beside this, the Cabinet ministers could also sign official documents using their digital signatures, installed in the device.

However, in order to communicate among themselves while drafting Cabinet notes, the ministries would continue to use paper. The new daily further added that this innovative idea is partly modelled on the step taken by Chandrababu Naidu’s government in Andhra Pradesh.

[Source: The Financial Express]