GS 2: Governance

Why in news?

Kerala Legislative Assembly recently announced an initiative to digitize all its records and proceedings under its ambitious project called E-Vidhan.

e-Vidhan:

• It is a Mission Mode Project (MMP) comes under the Digital India Programme.
• Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs (MoPA) is the ‘Nodal Ministry’ for its implementation in all the 31 States/UTs with Legislatures.
• The funding for e-Vidhan is provided by the MoPA and technical support by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MietY).
• The funding of NeVA is through Central Sponsored Schemee. 60:40; and 90:10 for North East & hilly States and 100% for UTs.
• To bring all the legislatures of the country together, in one platform thereby creating a massive data depository without having the complexity of multiple applications.

Features:

• Paperless Assembly or e-Assembly is a concept involving of electronic means to facilitate the work of Assembly.
• It enables automation of entire law-making process, tracking of decisions and documents, sharing of information.
• Through the cloud technology (Meghraj), data deployed can be accessed anywhere at any time.
• Himachal Pradesh is already the first Digital Legislature of the country.