Lok Sabha Speaker urges BRICS parliaments to promote ethical, responsible, and transparent technology with human oversight paramount
Distilled Policy Brief
- India showcased its digital legislative innovations, including the National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA), 'One Nation, One Legislative Platform', Digital Sansad, and archival digitization of parliamentary debates to enhance legislative transparency.
🎯 Prelims High-Yield Examination Points
The National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA) is implemented under the 'One Nation, One Legislative Platform' framework to bring paperless operations across all legislative bodies in India.
⚖️ Mains Analytical & Syllabus Linkages
Integrating ICT and Digital Public Infrastructure into parliamentary and governance frameworks strengthens institutional resilience, administrative transparency, and public accountability.
🎯 UPSC Prelims Practice Drill
With reference to the digital legislative initiatives of the Indian Parliament, consider the following statements: 1. The National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA) under 'One Nation, One Legislative Platform' connects legislative assemblies to facilitate paperless governance and live streaming of proceedings. 2. Archival digitization equipped with metadata and video-search features covers both pre-independence and post-independence parliamentary debates. 3. The daily List of Business in the Indian Parliament is currently made available in all 22 scheduled languages. Which of the statements given above are correct?
- [A] 1 and 2 only
- [B] 2 and 3 only
- [C] 1 and 3 only
- [D] 1, 2 and 3
▶ Reveal Official Answer & Analytical Explanation
Statements 1 and 2 are correct. The National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA) and 'One Nation, One Legislative Platform' aim to inter-connect state assemblies and facilitate paperless governance along with live streaming of proceedings. Furthermore, archival digitization with metadata and video-search features covers both pre-independence and post-independence parliamentary debates. Statement 3 is incorrect because the daily List of Business is currently provided in 10 languages (with work ongoing to cover all 22 scheduled languages), though simultaneous translation is available in 22 languages.
🏛️ Historical Twin PYQ Anchor (2021)
Consider the following statements regarding the "National Clean Air Programme (NCAP)": 1. It is implemented by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. 2. Central Pollution Control Board acts as the sole regulatory executive body.