Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Friday afternoon arrived in Shimla on a three-day visit to Himachal Pradesh.
Mahajan was welcomed on her arrival by HP assembly speaker Rajiv Bindal, Governor Acharya Devvrat and Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur. During her 3-day visit, she would preside over the programme on e-Vidhan system of assembly proceedings on 22 September.
Besides Mahajan, legislature from Punjab, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh would be present in the training programme on e-Vidhan model of assembly proceedings. The e-vidhan model of HP assembly, the first of its kind in the country, makes use of touchscreen-based e-Books that are installed on legislators’ tables to view the business, replies of questions, Bills, the budget and to lay papers in the House. The HP assembly becomes paperless over two years ago and it saves Rs 15 crore as well as 6,000 trees annually through the online system.
It is worthwhile to mention here that Kerala, Bihar and North-Eastern states had visited HP legislative assembly and had expressed their desire to replicate the model in their states.