Madhya Pradesh Assembly Speaker Sitasharan Sharma on Monday visited Himachal Pradesh Assembly in Shimla and contemplated its e-legislative system. Sharma called on the Himachal Pradesh Assembly speaker Braj Bihari lal Butel and took information about the e-legislative system centre.
During the meeting on the occasion, Butel informed that an expense of Rs8.12 crore were incurred on the establishment of e-legislative system and whole sum of money was paid as grant by the Government of India.
Sharma informed that Madhya Pradesh Assembly has taken initiative in this direction and has made many parliamentary procedures online. Due to that on the one hand, time, labour and money is saved and on the other hand, assembly members, Government and secretariat are eased. Till now, Madhya Pradesh has not incurred any amount over the proceedings because the whole work has been done through the National Information Centre, he added.
He also informed that with the implementation of e-system in the secretariat, paperless working has been started and we are on the way to make Madhya Pradesh assembly secretariat paperless. The methods adopted by the Himachal Pradesh assembly would be followed by the MP assembly, he added.
The meeting held at the Himachal Pradesh assembly was attended by the speakers of both the assemblies while principal secretary of the MP assembly Bhagwandev Israni and other senior officials, NIC officials and HP Assembly’s secretary Sundar Singh Varma, director IT Dharmesh Sharma. Sharma presented a souvenir to Butel and invited him to visit MP.