Maharashtra becomes first state where MLAs can raise questions online

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ಜ್ಞಾನಸೆಲೆ GK4KPSC ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ ಜ್ಞಾನ

Maharashtra has become country’s first state to allow the members of state legislature to raise online questions as part of complete digitization of  legislature processes. The step is aimed at bringing the paper work to minimum. It is an initiative under ‘Digital MLAs’ scheme which  is expected to cut paper cost and time, while it will also enhance the accuracy.

In future, answers given by ministers will also be made available online and in the last step all members, ministers and assembly speaker will be given touch screen tablets, which will be connected via-wireless network.

It was tried for the first time on experimental basis before the ongoing winter session of the state legislature at Nagpur. It has received satisfactory response from the MLAs and MLCs as the state govt  managed to cut down 30 per cent of the paperwork.

Key facts :-

• The State government has given unique user names and passwords to each of the members and a server has been set up. Laptops of members have been configured to server, which is set up by Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation Limited.
• It has eight sections, such as star questions, calling attention motion, proposals, etc. Each member was given training once by MKCL to use the facility, while members’ personal assistants were trained twice. The entire system is available on Unicode and can be accessed in Marathi.