National e-Vidhan Application: National Orientation workshop held in New Delhi

Union Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs had held two-day National Orientation workshop on National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA) in New Delhi. It was inaugurated by Union Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Arjun Ram Meghwal. On this occasion, new website of NeVA was also launched.

National Orientation workshop on NeVA

The focus of the workshop was to encourage all State Legislatures to move towards e-Vidhan platform and bring in transparency, accountability and responsiveness in their conduct of business. It included technical sessions and group discussions.
It facilitated exposure for delegates about positive attributes of NeVA, deliberations on issues faced by different State Legislatures in implementation of e-Vidhan and finding solutions thereof.  It was attended by over 200 delelgates, including senior officers from Secretariats of Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, 31 Legislative Assemblies and 7 Legislative Councils from across the country

National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA)

NeVA is initiative of Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs. It aims to make all legislatures in the country paperless by making proceedings of houses digital. It also aims to provide information about functioning of House to common citizen at click of button.
NeVA is member-centric, decentralised digital application that makes information available on digital platform about day to day functioning of legislative houses. It hosts secure page for each Member of House for submitting Questions and other Notices.
It includes mobile applications (both on iOS and android platform) along with NeVA website which act as repository of data related to business of all Legislatures in the country in uniform manner. The user friendly app has made information on conduct of business in Legislatures accessible anytime, anywhere to everyone. It has been deployed in Cloud (Meghraj).
Significance
NeVA serves as ‘One Nation, One Application’ by bringing uniformity of database for easy and effective engagement of citizens with Government. This will lead to efficient delivery of services and ensure reliability, efficiency, transparency and accountability of all the stakeholders. It will bring legislatures closer to citizens, thereby taking decisive step in achievement of substantive democracy. It can be used by Legislatures as well as all Government Departments.

Month: Current Affairs - September, 2018