In news– Recently, the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs has stated that NeVA is transforming all State Legislatures into ‘Digital Houses’ so as to enable them to transact entire Government Business on digital platforms including information exchange with the State Government Departments in digital mode.
About National eVidhan Application (NeVA)-
- It is a Mission Mode Project under the Digital India Programme for Digital Legislatures to make the functioning of all state Legislative Houses in the country paperless.
- The electronic delivery of services to its key stakeholder i.e., the Members of the State Legislatures is one of the key missions of eVidhan MMP.
- NeVA is a Unicode compliant software having provision for easy access to various documents like List of Questions, List of Business, Reports etc. bilingually viz. English and any regional language.
- Technical & financial provisions have been made under NeVA for creating digital archives of entire legacy data and making it available to users including Members and citizens in easy to search mode through mobile App and website as well.
- The Aims and Objectives of e-Vidhan MMP are electronic flow of information, laying of documents on the Table of the House and Electronic information exchange among all the stakeholders, thus to create paperless Legislatures in the country.
- This will also provide Data analytics, Information processing and analysis of the data of all the State Legislatures.
- It has been developed on the theme of ‘One Nation – One Application’ with the objective of Cloud First and Mobile First to serve Members’ FIRST.
- The Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, Government of India is the Nodal Department for e-Vidhan MMP.
- It envisages leveraging and utilizing the e-infrastructure namely National Cloud (Meghraj), State Wide Area Network (SWAN) / National Knowledge Network (NKN), Integrated Network Operation Centre (INOC) infrastructure for Network/Wifi management etc.
- To adopt NeVA, Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) have been signed with 18 States.
- As a special achievement, Bihar Legislative Council became the first House in the country to transit to NeVA platform completely on 25th Nov, 2021 and conducted Winter Session, 2021 on the NeVA platform in paperless mode.
- Odisha Assembly also presented their budget 2021 in paperless mode using NeVA.
Source: PIB
