Monsoon session of Assembly may be paperless: Speaker

Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel asserted that in order to ensure transparency, improve efficiency, reduce cost and to contribute to eco-conservation, the Assembly is moving towards a paperless set up. It is expected that the next monsoon session of the Assembly would be paperless.

On Tuesday, Goel was addressing mediapersons on completion of the sixth Assembly of Delhi.

“We hope that in the Monsoon session of the Assembly, we’ll be going paperless. With the use of technology, we hope to increase efficiency and transparency,” Goel said.

“A project has already been submitted to the Ministry of Information and Technology, government of India for this purpose,” said Goel. Impressed with the functioning of the Himachal Pradesh Assembly, he said: “We got the software from them and our IT officials are making necessary modifications to suit our requirements and taking all sorts of help from them.”

All the questions and answers will not be printed on paper but would be uploaded in the computer system which is being developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC).

Delhi Assembly Speaker Goel has also made a strong pitch for public-owned TV channels while speaking at a conference of Assembly Speakers in Gandhinagar.

The Assembly has formally applied to the Information & Broadcasting Ministry seeking permission to launch an independent television channel on the lines of Rajya Sabha TV and Lok Sabha TV.