AP Legislature to adopt paperless system with NeVA scheme

Amaravati: The Legislature of Andhra Pradesh is ready to go paperless. To convert all legislative processes completely digital and paperless, the AP Legislature will become part of the National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA) administered by the Union Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs.

A proposal to this effect was approved very recently by the chairman of the Legislative Council and the speaker of the Legislative Assembly.

As a follow-up, at the invitation of the State Legislature, Umang Narula, secretary and Dr Satya Prakash, additional secretary, Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, visited the AP Legislature on Friday and interacted with the stakeholders.

What is the NeVA scheme?

The centrally sponsored NeVA scheme is one of the Mission Mode Projects (MPP) aimed at transitioning all Legislative Bodies of the country into a paperless format and unifying them on a single platform as ‘Digital Legislatures’ under NeVA.

To take this project forward, a tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, Andhra Pradesh Legislature and the Department of IT, Government of AP.

“Once a detailed project report is finalised based on the template provided by the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, the project will digitally enable both the Houses. Simultaneously, training and orientation programmes will be organised for the benefit of legislators, officers and staff of Legislature and other stakeholders from the executive arm,” said a press release by the AP government.

The Legislature Secretariat will be the executing authority for the project. Like every other centrally sponsored scheme, the NeVA scheme will provide 60 per cent of the project cost from the Centre.