Paperless Parliament

Paperless Parliament

It is pleasant to know that the Hon’ble Speaker of Lok Sabha has provided an option of online papers (soft copies) to be delivered to the members in lieu of physical copies (hard copies) from the next session. The decision taken is highly appreciable, especially towards ensuring a paperless environment to encourage a seamless flow of information.

The decision to go paper free is an optional one, but it needs to be made a mandatory measure. As most of parliament members have access to emails and technology, it is high time both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha adopted a paperless office environment. The Lok Sabha Secretariat may also adopt the best practices to encourage paperless environment from the European Union, the United Nations Secretariat and the UN General Assembly.

Further, an effort should be made by the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs to provide details of private member bills, amended bills and bills tabled through a news website regularly. An extensive effort is highly necessary now to reach out to the public to disseminate parliamentary proceedings of regular updates through news portals and leading newspapers.

Varun Dambal,

Bangalore.

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