App to soon make all legislatures paperless

The Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs (MoPA) is bringing out a National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA) to make all the legislatures in the country paperless, by making the proceedings of the Houses digital. Once the programme is operational, details of 5,379 MLAs and MPs will be uploaded on the portal. A total of 1,13,337 questions, 25,662 notices, 1,708 Bills, 515 committee reports and 10,043 papers from the Legislatures will become available in public domain on NeVA app and the website.

A workshop presided here by Parliamentary Affairs and Statistics and Programme Implementation, Vijay Goel discussed to provide the information about the functioning of House to the common citizen at the click of a button. Goel said the Google app of NeVA along with the NeVA Website, will act as a repository of data related to the business of all legislatures in the country in a uniform manner.

"The NeVA aims to live up-to its potential of being 'One Nation, One Application'. This uniformity of database will lead to easy and effective engagement of citizens with the government, which will lead to efficient delivery of services and ensure reliability, efficiency, transparency and accountability of all the stakeholders," the minister said. The NeVA is also aimed to bring legislatures closer to citizens, thereby taking a decisive step in achievement of substantive democracy.