Getting Tech-savvy

Last July, Uttar Pradesh chief minister encouraged the state’s MLAs and his cabinet ministers to use laptops and tablets for their work. This February, he arranged for their training by the National Informatics Centre ahead of a ‘paperless’ presentation of the budget in the assembly. The legislators were also offered reimbursement for purchasing iPads. The trend seems to have caught on. Adityanath, who is recuperating from Covid, now uses a tablet to send instructions to his ministers every morning.