Digital India: Power To Empower e-Governance and e-Parliament

By : Research Associates (Lok Sabha Secretariat)

Page No: 1-65

Abstract
Launched in 2015, Digital India programme aims to transform the country into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy, ensuring digital access, inclusion and empowerment. Thus the programme has implications for the economy, society, government and administration, justice delivery system, etc. The present article studies the e-Governance aspect of the Digital India programme. After discussing the nine pillars of Digital India programme, the article explains the concept of e-Governance, the benefits accruing therefrom as also the various facets of e-Governance and narrates how e-Governance has significantly reduced government-citizen distance and enabled transparent, corruption-free service delivery to the beneficiaries. Various important government initiatives for e-Governance are also elaborated. Highlighting the requirements of paperless and smart parliament system, the Digital Parliament project has been discussed and the features of e-Office as adopted in Parliament are elucidated. The ambitious National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA) software designed to cater to the requirements not only of Parliament but also of legislative assemblies of the states/ UTs has been explained at length.