Officers asked to take utmost care before placing notes

Arunachal Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein today called upon the officers to take utmost care while drafting cabinet notes before placing it to the cabinet for decisions.
Inaugurating a day-long training programme of senior officers on cabinet notes here, Mein said as decisions in the Cabinet are taken on the basis of inputs by various departments, therefore, it is quite imperative that correct facts are reflected in the cabinet note.
"State cabinet is the highest decision making body of the government," Mein said and asked the officers to be cautious and not to place any partial facts that may mislead the members of the cabinet to take wrong decisions.

"It is important to have inter-departmental consultations and obtain opinions of important regulatory departments such as law, finance, personnel and administrative reforms before finalizing cabinet notes," he said and congratulated the IT department and the cabinet cell for launching the e- Cabinet solution which he said would be a powerful tool for the government to streamline its decision- making process.
He said that the e-Cabinet would give ample time to the ministers to read, understand and absorb the issues of the upcoming cabinet meetings as they would have access to the data through their desktop and laptop, IOS, iPads and Android based tablets well before the cabinet session begins.

"The system, besides helping ministers to prepare for cabinet meetings, will also makes it paperless and will also reduce the session time drastically as the ministers will have access to the review of each agenda item and can determine their own position by leaving a comment on the topic before the session begins," Mein said.

He expressed hope that that the training being imparted by a very experienced resource person, P K Jaiswal from New Delhi-based Institute of Secretariat Training and Management (ISTM) would go a long way in strengthening systems for Good Governance.
Chief Secretary Shakuntala Doley Gamlin said that the training was being conducted to introduce reforms in the governance and to reiterates govt guidelines.

She said that the cabinet notes must clearly follow the prescribed format for submission to the cabinet and should strictly adhere to the guidelines framed by the union cabinet secretariat.
Gamlin added that the cabinet notes must be prepared, appraised and finalised well in time by the head of departments enabling the cabinet members to adequately go through the proposals in-depth prior to the cabinet meeting.
In the day-long training, principal secretaries, DGP, commissioners, secretaries, IGPs, special Secretaries, additional joint secretaries, directors, deputy secretaries and under secretaries were imparted training in two separate sessions.