Madhya Pradesh is preparing to take its Legislative Assembly paperless from the December winter session, with all 230 MLAs set to train on the National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA) from 28 to 30 October 2026.
Assembly Speaker Narendra Singh Tomar will inaugurate the three-day programme at noon on 28 October in the Vidhan Parishad Hall of the Vidhan Sabha in Bhopal, according to an IANS report dated 24 October. The training sits under the Centre’s ‘One Nation, One Application’ push to digitise legislative work across states on a common platform.
Five batches, full House coverage
MLAs have been divided into five batches of about 50 members each, with two batches scheduled each day so every legislator gets focused time on the application. Assembly officials and employees have already completed their training. Officers on Special Duty (OSDs) and personal assistants who support MLAs in House work, along with departmental nodal officers who coordinate replies to questions, have also been invited.
What moves online
Once NeVA is live for routine House business, members will be able to submit questions, calling-attention and adjournment motions, resolutions, petitions and private members’ bills through the application. During sittings, the House agenda, departmental replies, Bills and related documents will be available on tablets or other digital devices. Past questions and records of proceedings will also be searchable online, cutting the need to dig through physical files.
Part of a national stack
NeVA is already reported to be in use in 21 legislative Houses across 19 states and jurisdictions, including Punjab, Odisha, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Assam, Delhi and others. Madhya Pradesh’s winter-session target would bring one of India’s largest Assemblies into that shared digital workflow.
Why it matters for e-governance
Legislative sittings generate large volumes of printed questions, replies, Bills, notices and agendas. Moving that cycle onto a single national application reduces printing and storage costs, speeds retrieval for members and staff, and — if records are published — can improve public visibility of what representatives ask and how departments answer. The October training is the capacity-building step; the December session will be the first real test of paperless House business in Bhopal.
