2019 – Posted in: Daily News – Tags: e-Vidhan, National e-Vidhan Application

NATIONAL E-VIDHAN APPLICATION (NEVA) PROJECT

For: Preliminary & Mains
Topic covers: NEVA, Significance, Aim, Role of State governments

News Flash

Kerala’s Legislative Assembly will go completely paperless with the state government undertaking an initiative to digitise all records. The ambitious project called E-Vidhan.

Significance

Once the project is completed, all the Assembly proceedings like submission of notice by a member, question and answers, and all the other correspondence and business concerning the Assembly will go paperless.
The Assembly handles hundreds of various committee reports, Bills, notices, and various other reports which demands massive paperwork. So this project will completely get rid of paper in all the business transacted by the Assembly.

Paperless Assembly

Paperless Assembly or e-Assembly is a concept involving of electronic means to facilitate the work of Assembly.
It enables automation of entire law making process, tracking of decisions and documents, sharing of information.

National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA)

NeVA aims to bring all the legislatures of the country together, in one platform thereby creating a massive data depository without having the complexity of multiple applications.

NeVA is a device neutral and member centric application created to equip them to handle diverse House Business smartly by putting entire information regarding member contact details, rules of procedure, list of business, notices, bulletins, bills, starred/unstarred questions and answers, papers laid, committee reports etc. in their hand held devices/ tablets and equip all Legislatures/ Departments to handle it efficiently.

NeVA will completely eliminate the process of sending out a notice/request for collection of data.
Through the cloud technology (Meghraj), data deployed can be accessed anywhere at any time.
e-Vidhan is a Mission Mode Project (MMP) included in Digital India Programme.
Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs (MoPA) is the ‘Nodal Ministry’ for its implementation in all the 31 States/ UTs with Legislatures.
Funding of NeVA is on the pattern of Central Sponsored Scheme i.e. 60:40; and 90:10 for North East & hilly States and 100% for UTs.
Himachal Pradesh is already the first Digital Legislature of the country. Other states like Punjab, Madhya Pradesh & Sikkim are also in various stages of transformation and their initiatives are highly commendable.

Duties & responsibilities of State governments

The Central Project Monitoring Unit (CPMU) under MoPA will be responsible for reviewing the financial and technical progress of the project.
The State will prepare detailed project report (DPR) and gap analysis report.
State level project monitoring committee will carry out the technical scrutiny and financial scrutiny of the DPR and after final approval of the same will be send to the MoPA for approval.
After the technical and financial scrutiny, funds will be released for project implementation.
The State Government will appoint a Secretary level officer to be designated as the nodal officer/representative for e-Vidhan implementation in the State Legislature(s).
State Government will bear the funds required for running of e-Vidhan MMP after 3 years.
State Government/Legislature will undertake maintenance and replacement of ICT equipment after 3 years.

Source: New Indian Express

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