Two-day National Orientation workshop on NeVA begins today

The mNeVA(NeVA-mobile app) is a device-neutral and user-friendly app that has made information on the conduct of business in Legislatures accessible anytime, anywhere to everyone.

Union Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, Water Resources, River Development, and Ganga Rejuvenation, Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal presided over the Inaugural Session of the two-day National Orientation workshop on National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA), organized by Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, here today. On the occasion, Shri Meghwal also launched the new website of the NeVA and administered the Swachhata Pledge to over 200 delegates, which included senior officers from Secretariats of Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, 31 Legislative Assemblies and 7 Legislative Councils from across the country.

The Orientation Workshop would include technical sessions and group discussions over 2 days, which would facilitate exposure for the delegates about the positive attributes of NeVA; deliberations on issues faced by different State Legislatures in the implementation of e-Vidhan and finding solutions thereof. The focus of the workshop would be to encourage all State Legislatures to move towards the e-Vidhan platform and bring in transparency, accountability, and responsiveness in their conduct of business, through the use of technology.

Addressing the delegates in the inaugural session, Shri Meghwal said that information regarding the functioning of the Houses should be available in real time, in a format that is user-friendly and increases its applicability for the member. He described instances from his Parliamentary experiences how the digitization, availability, and applicability of information could save precious time, energy and resources of the Houses and its members and increase their efficiency manifold. This digital intervention is a big step to increase transparency, accountability and decreases the scope of corruption in the functioning of House, the Minister added.

Shri S.N. Tripathi, Secretary (Parliamentary Affairs), informed that NeVA is a member-centric, decentralized digital application that makes information available on digital platform about day to day functioning of Legislative Houses covering, among other areas, List of Business (LOB), Notices, Bulletin-1, Bulletin-2, Starred/ Unstarred Questions including reply by the Departments (Q&A), Bills: Introduced/ Consideration & Passing, Synopsis of Proceedings, House Proceedings-Verbatim, Committees Reports, Rules & Procedures, Digital Library, Provisional Calendar, Reference material, Rotation of Ministries,Contacts, BudgetPress Releases etc. The application would host a secure page for each Member of the House for submitting Questions & other Notices.

The mNeVA (NeVA-mobile app) is a device-neutral and user-friendly app that has made information on the conduct of business in Legislatures accessible anytime, anywhere to everyone. It is a work-flow based app deployed in Cloud (Meghraj) which helps the Chair of the House to conduct the proceedings of the House smoothly and the members to carry out their duties in the House efficiently.NeVA-mobile App is available for download from Play store and App store for Android and iOS mobiles respectively.

NeVA has made live for Rajya Sabha in respect of Monsoon Session 2018 and information in respect of Lok Sabha is being updated. Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Sikkim, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Puducherry, Manipur Assemblies have already started using the application. Regular training through Video Conferencing is being provided by the Union Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs to all the Houses.

Dignitaries present during the inaugural session included Smt. Neeta Verma, DG, NIC and other senior officers of the Ministry.

(With inputs from PIB)