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13/06/22 22:10 PM IST

e- Vidhan System

In News 
  • A delegation of MLAs from Gujarat visited the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly to learn about the novel e-Vidhan system for paperless proceedings that has been recently adopted by the UP state assembly.
NeVA 
  • The National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA) is a system for digitising the legislative bodies of all Indian states and the Parliament through a single platform on which house proceedings, starred/unstarred questions and answers, committee reports etc. will be available.
  • Nagaland became the first state to implement NeVA, in March this year.
  • The NeVA system has been developed to make all the work and data related to legislative bodies available online for the use of both citizens and the members of Assemblies. It includes a website and a mobile app.
  • A digital platform, a portal that not only gives the necessary technological boost to our parliamentary system, but also works to connect all the democratic units of the country.
Benefits
  • This has been done for streamlining information related to various state assemblies, and to eliminate the use of paper in day-to-day functioning. Its website states:“Several thousand tons of papers would be saved, which in turn would help in saving lakhs of trees annually”.
  • Himachal Pradesh’s Legislative Assembly implemented the pilot project of NeVA in 2014, where touch-screen devices replaced paper at the tables of the MLAs.
Challenges 
  • Access, particularly for legislators representing rural constituencies, to devices and reliable internet and electricity was an issue.
  • In its 2020 report, it said lack of training and heightened concerns over security are some more recent issues in the road to digitisation.
Source- PIB 

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