After the Haryana Assembly conducted its three-day winter session proceedings in a digitized format for the first time, State Speaker Gian Chand Gupta on Thursday said that about 98 percent of the paper could be saved through the digital Assembly enabled through the National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA).
The NeVA application was launched during the monsoon session of the Assembly by Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar in August. The application helped the legislators use computers or tablets instead of reading the session’s proceedings and conducting regular business on paper. The MLAs could keep a track of the Question Hour session, Calling Attention Motion, Starred and Unstarred Questions, audio and video of the House.
“Last time, we had decided to convert our Vidhan Sabha into a digital state assembly. In this session, we implemented it and saved lots of paper. As compared to previous times, for instance in terms of replies for the Starred Questions – 165 copies of the replies used to get printed; this time we printed only 25 copies,” the Speaker told reporters.