The Centre has asked Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena to ensure the digitisation of the Delhi Legislative Assembly, which has allegedly been pending for almost five years. L-G House officials said the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs had written to Saxena asking him to ensure that the National E-Vidhan Application (NeVA) was taken up. The application was launched in 2015 for the digitisation of Legislative Assemblies across the country and to make them paperless. “The Delhi Legislative Assembly remains the only House in the country which has not initiated the digitisation process so far,” L-G House officials said, adding that 37 legislatures across the country had accomplished it. “Despite 100% funding being provided by the central government for the project, the AAP government in Delhi, in 2019, refused to accept its financial and technical assistance and instead chose to develop the application on its own at an estimated cost of Rs 20 crore. However, the project is yet to see the light of the day despite a lapse of more than four-and-half years,” officials said. According to officials, the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs had written to the L-G Secretariat seeking intervention in the matter and ensuring the implementation of the application using the funds already available under the NeVA project. The L-G Secretariat has forwarded this request to the Law, Justice & Legislative Affairs department of the Delhi government for action, officials said, adding that the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs had earlier written to the Delhi Chief Secretary over the matter in February.
