Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday urged presiding officers for the use of technology to improve the efficiency and functioning of legislatures. He said that legislative bodies should discuss on various platforms and shape welfare schemes for the welfare of the last person of the society through technology.
Birla was chairing the Plenary Session of the 10th Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) India Region Conference in Parliament premises on Monday. Deputy Chairman, Rajya Sabha, Harivansh and Presiding Officers of State Legislative Bodies of India participated in the Session.
Birla further added that in the current context, when technology and means of communication have become a part of people’s daily lives, public representatives should find ways and means to meet the increasing aspirations and expectations of the people from democracy through legislative institutions. The theme of the Plenary Session was, “The Role of Legislative Bodies in Attainment of Sustainable and Inclusive Development”.
The Speaker urged the Presiding Officers and legislators to reflect on the extent to which they had succeeded in fulfilling the expectations and aspirations of the people as the legislative body of the country in the journey of the last 7 decades.
Without this introspection, the dream of inclusive development cannot be realized, he added.
