National e-Vidhan Application’ (NeVA)

Syllabus: GS3/Science and Technology

In News

• The President of India, inaugurated ‘National e-Vidhan Application’ (NeVA) and addressed the Gujarat Legislative Assembly at Gandhinagar.

About

• NeVA is a work-flow system deployed on NIC Cloud, MeghRaj which helps the Chair of the House to conduct the proceedings of the House smoothly.
• NeVA is a device neutral and member centric application created to equip them to handle diverse House Business smartly 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/ Departments to handle it efficiently. 
• NeVA will completely eliminate the process of sending out a notice/request for collection of data.
• The application hosts a secure page for each Member of the House for submitting questions & other notices.
• The aim of the project is 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.
• mNeVA is a user-friendly Mobile App of NeVA which is available on Android as well as on iOS. 
• mNeVA has made information on the conduct of business in Legislatures accessible anytime, anywhere to everyone.

Source: PIB