The Andhra Pradesh assembly has become the first state legislature in India, which provides wireless Internet connectivity to its member within the premises of the building.
The legislators, who have already been provided with laptops, will now be able to access the Internet within the assembly when they meet in the Parliament for the monsoon session. All the necessary equipments including Wi-Fi Router, have been installed and the system has been successfully tested in the assembly building. The Wi-Fi project aims to enable the legislators to get access to necessary information during the session itself for raising the issues and participating in debates. As the system will have 50 lines of 1mbp capacity, only the legislators will be able to utilise it. Every legislators has been provided with a Wi-Fi card to access the Internet through this system.
