National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA) Project

National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA) Project

News: A delegation of MLAs from Gujarat recently 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.

About:
• It is a Mission Mode Project (MMP) under the Digital India Programme.
• The Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs (MoPA) is the ‘Nodal Ministry’ for its implementation in all the 31 States/UTs with Legislatures. The funding for e-Vidhan is provided by the MoPA and technical support by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MietY).
• The funding of NeVA is through Central Sponsored Schemee. 60:40; and 90:10 for North East & hilly States and 100% for UTs.

Key Highlights of the Project:
• Paperless Assembly or e-Assembly is a concept involving electronic means to facilitate the work of Assembly.
• It enables automation of entire law making process, tracking of decisions and documents, sharing of information.
• Through the cloud technology (Meghraj), data deployed can be accessed anywhere at any time.
• Himachal Pradesh is already the first Digital Legislature of the country. Trivia
• Nagaland became India’s 1st paperless assembly. It became 1st legislative assembly where members can use NeVA app to participate in house proceedings.
• It enables automation of entire law making process, tracking decision and documents.