The concept of e-Assembly or Paperless Assembly refers to the involvement of electronic means to facilitate the workings and proceedings of the Assembly. In India, this will enable the automation of the entire law-making process; legislative functions, tracking decisions and documents and sharing information via hand-held devices like mobile phones and tablets, using cloud technology (Meghraj), for efficient access by all citizens, legislatures and departments anywhere and at any time. This will also include the live webcasting of Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha TVs as well as Doordarshan.
Based on this concept, the National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA) Project has been rolled out by the Ministry of Parliament Affairs, the nodal ministry. It is a device-neutral and member-centric application that aims to bring all the legislatures of the country together on one platform, to create a massive data depository, without having the complexity of multiple applications. This includes collating information regarding member contact details, rules of procedure, list of business, notices, bulletins, bills, questions and answers, papers laid, committee reports etc.
NeVA will completely eliminate the process of sending out notices/requests for data collection that often involve a bulk of paperwork. Phase One involves data processing only, while in Phase Two, cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies will be utilized, possibly sometime in 2019, to make voluminous information available in different formats. Its analysis via intelligent data processing will study patterns and suggest improvements on the basis of insights drawn from the system.
Surendra Nath Tripathi is the head of the nodal ministry driving the ambitious national E-Vidhan project. “When this information will be ‘cooked’ properly and becomes ‘digestible’ for use in artificial intelligence system, then we will use AI.”
The platform has been developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) by all the state legislatures. It was implemented in Himachal Pradesh as a pilot project where it was successful and the state assembly has amended its rules to accept Q&As through the e-platform. Based on the insights drawn from the pilot project, staff in 11 states have been trained and more states are poised to adopt the system soon.
Under the auspices of PM Modi’s Digital India Mission, this ambitious project to digitalize each legislature in the country, is valued at INR 740 crores, to be jointly shared by the central and state governments. The e-Parliament in South Korea provided some inspiration for this. The coming years will be witness to how successful or not this attempt will be, under the Digital India Mission, which aims to leverage digital technologies in each sphere of the government to enhance efficiency in functioning and reduce the time and costs involved.
India Outbound
December 31, 2018
source https://indiaoutbound.org/indian-parliament-going-green/
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