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NeVA

17th March, 2022 GOVERNANCE

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Context: National eVidhan Application (NeVA) is a Project for making Digital Legislatures.

 

Details

  • National eVidhan Application (NeVA) is a Mission Mode Project for Digital Legislatures to make the functioning of all Legislative Houses in the country paperless.
  • It has been developed on the theme of ‘One Nation – One Application’.
  • NeVA is transforming all State Legislatures into ‘DIGITAL HOUSES’ so as to enable them to transact entire Government Business on digital platforms including information exchange with the State Government Departments in digital mode.
  • Bihar Legislative Council became the first House in the country to transit to NeVA platform completely.
  • Keeping in view the federal structure and autonomy of the State/UT Legislatures, all are being encouraged to adopt NeVA.
  • NeVA is Unicode compliant software having provision for easy access to various documents like List of Questions, List of Business, Reports etc. bilingually viz. English and any regional language.
    • This application is spearheading the principle of ‘One Nation- One Application’ with the objective of Cloud First and Mobile First to serve Members’ FIRST.
  • Technical and financial provisions have been made under NeVA for creating digital archives of entire legacy data and making it available to users including Members and citizens in easy to search mode through mobile App and website as well.
  • It will help in fiscal consolidation and also promote transparency and accountability in the system; it will make the system more accessible for citizens.

 

 

https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1806591