State IT Secretary Ankit Anand confirms a massive infrastructure rollout linking tribal belts via 1,273 new mobile towers alongside a multi-crore tech push.

ATAL NAGAR, 23 July 2026 — Chhattisgarh’s state exchequer raked in a massive ₹30,311.80 crore in mining revenue over thirty months by transitioning its mineral administration to an automated digital tracking framework. It’s part of a sweeping technological overhaul aimed at replacing slow bureaucratic channels with automated, cloud-based systems. Electronics and Information Technology Secretary Ankit Anand alongside CHiPS Chief Executive Officer Mayank Agrawal broke down the data during a press conference at the Chhattisgarh Samvad Auditorium today.

The state’s primary civic interface, the Seva Setu portal, underwent a major upgrade on 29 April 2026 under Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai to consolidate fragmented operations. Citizens don’t have to visit multiple district offices anymore because the single digital window now hosts 564 distinct services spanning 35 separate government departments. The numbers reveal a heavy reliance on the platform, which processed over 85 lakh applications within the last two and a half years and successfully closed 78 lakh cases.

But how do you deliver digital services to remote tribal belts if there isn’t basic cellular infrastructure?

That’s the exact bottleneck the administration claims it’s tackling through aggressive physical infrastructure deployment across left-wing extremism affected areas. State records show contractors put 1,273 new mobile towers on-air since January 2024 under the central government’s Digital Bharat Nidhi framework. This expansion targets deep forest zones and tribal pockets that haven’t ever seen reliable cellular signals before.

Isolation won’t remain the norm for long.

The central government cleared a massive ₹3,928 crore budget allotment for the rollout of BharatNet Phase-III across the state’s rural grid. This funding will push high-speed fiber-to-the-home connections straight into remote village panchayats. Officials expect the fiber network to create a foundation for local commercial ventures so rural populations don’t get left behind.

So the state is rushing to prepare its local workforce because it can’t afford a skill gap.

Under the newly minted CM IT Fellowship, the state teamed up with the International Institute of Information Technology, Naya Raipur, to train fifty local graduates under strict reservation guidelines. They’ll embed directly within active government departments to manage data pipelines and optimize ongoing state projects. It’s an attempt to build a homegrown technical cadre so the administration doesn’t have to rely permanently on expensive external consultancies.

Industrial tracking systems are getting a parallel upgrade to ensure corporate compliance matches the state’s environmental mandates. The newly deployed Integrated Waste Monitoring and Management System tracks the movement and ultimate disposal of toxic industrial waste in real-time. Similarly, the updated Single Window System 2.0 combines 151 individual investor clearances from 19 separate departments so businesses don’t face constant delays.

Targeted tracking networks are also watching over specific high-conflict zones like the Bastar division. The specialized Bastar Munne portal monitors the distribution of welfare benefits across seven districts in the region to make sure aid doesn’t vanish into bureaucratic black holes. Meanwhile, senior officials use the PARAS portal to monitor large-scale infrastructure projects, ensuring public works don’t stall past their deadlines.

The state’s long-term plan pivots heavily onto the Chhattisgarh Artificial Intelligence Mission to position the region as a tech hub. The government signed a ₹105.3 crore memorandum of understanding with the Software Technology Parks of India to build four specialized enterprise centers. They’ve split the funding equally between the state and central governments to back local startups working on smart agriculture, urban planning, and medical tech.

A new Cloud First policy will soon govern how every single department stores citizen records and exchanges sensitive data. Anand emphasized during the briefing that these security upgrades earned multiple national awards for the state’s geographical information systems and legal tracking platforms. The administration insists it’s building a permanent, transparent infrastructure that can’t be manipulated by corrupt intermediaries.