Paperless Push: Odisha Assembly To Be WiFi Enabled In 3 Weeks

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has decided to make the Assembly WiFi enabled within three weeks in a bid to make it conduct paperless business.

Odisha Speaker Surjya Narayan Patro had a meeting with Odisha State Wide Network (OSWAN) officials  in this regard. “It has been decided that the Wi-Fi equipment would be fitted in the new hall of the Assembly building. The process will be completed in 20 days,” Patro told the media here.

The Speaker said that with the WiFi network will also enable the state government to communicate with the district collectors online. The Odisha Computer Application Centre (OCAC) authorities will expedite the work very soon.

While the Legislative Assembly in Jharkhand and Himachal Pradesh have gone paperless, efforts are on to make the Delhi Assembly one as well.

To streamline the business of the State Assemblies, the Centre has introduced the National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA) project to enable automation of the entire law making process, tracking of decisions and documents, sharing of information. The project aims 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.

NeVA is a device-neutral and member-centric application created to equip them to handle diverse House business by putting entire information regarding member contact details, rules of procedure, list of business, notices, bulletins, bills, starred/unstarred questions and answers, papers laid, committee reports etc in their hand held devices/tablets and equip all legislatures and departments to handle it efficiently. Citizens would also gain access to this information at their fingertips.