The Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) on Saturday initiated the National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA) programme for conducting a session in paperless mode. By doing this Nagaland became first in the country to roll out the National e-Vidhan Application.
Nagaland becomes India's 1st Legislative Assembly to successfully implement National e-Vidhan project.
Now members can use electronic devices to participate in House proceedings. This initiative encourages paperless operations & reflects Govt's commitment towards Ashta Lakshmi. pic.twitter.com/bGdOALs2Ge
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The Nagaland Assembly Secretariat has attached a tablet or e-book each on the tables of the 60 members as the Budget session for fiscal 2022-23 began on Saturday.
NeVA is a device neutral and member centric application created to equip legislative members to handle diverse house business smartly by putting entire information regarding member contact details, rules of procedure, list of business, notices, bulletins, bills, starred or unstarred questions and answers, papers laid, committee reports etc. in their hand held devices or tablets and equip all legislatures/ departments to handle it efficiently. The application will completely eliminate the process of sending out a notice or request for collection of data. The software has provision to provide access to these documents bilingually viz. English and any regional language.
This is the medium through which we will be using this NeVA application in the Assembly as part of the pursuit to have a paperless House, Speaker Sharingain Longkumer said while making a statement on the new application. A similar system outside the framework of NeVA has been in operation in Himachal Pradesh while many other state Assemblies are moving in this direction, Longkumer said.
Paperless Assembly of e-Assembly is a concept involving electronic means to facilitate all the works of the legislature. It is being done under the supervision of the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs. The Assembly Secretariat has already conducted preliminary familiarisation training for the members and it will be continuing with the training programme for the benefit of all the members. In the coming days, it will be scaled up to the full advantage of the e-Vidhan system and achieve one of its targets of making the functioning of the state legislature paperless, he said.
Once all other assemblies implement it, Parliament and all state legislatures will be networked together effectively, the Speaker said. The expenses for implementing NeVA is funded by the Centre and the state government on a 90:10 sharing basis. The Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs has complimented the Nagaland Assembly for being the first in the country to initiate it, the Speaker informed the House. NeVA aims to bring all the legislatures of the country together, in one platform, thereby creating a massive data depository, the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs had earlier said.