Om Birla launches e-Vidhan app at Bihar assembly; Nitish skips event
Patna (PTI): Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Saturday unveiled the National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA) at the Bihar assembly, aimed at creating paperless legislative processes.
The function, held at the Central Hall of the state legislature, was attended by Assembly Speaker Prem Kumar, Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh Narayan Singh, and Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju, among others.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, however, remained conspicuous by his absence.
State Parliamentary Affairs Minister Vijay Kumar Choudhary said, "The CM was supposed to attend the function, but because of his already scheduled engagements, he did not attend it with permission of the assembly speaker."
Leader of Opposition in the Assembly, Tejashwi Yadav, also gave the programme a miss.
NeVA is a workflow system deployed on the NIC cloud to help conduct legislative business in a paperless manner.
It equips members to handle diverse businesses smartly by putting information regarding rules of procedures, the list of businesses, notices, bulletins, bills, questions and answers, and committee reports, among others, in their hand-held devices, officials said.
The aim of the project is to bring all the legislatures of the country together, thereby creating a massive data depository, they said.
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Woman dies by suicide using husband's rifle in UP's Kaushambi
Kaushambi (UP) (PTI): A woman allegedly committed suicide by shooting herself with her husband's licensed rifle on Saturday morning, police here said.
The woman was identified as Sangeeta Devi (42), wife of Karan Singh, a resident of Purab Sharira village in the police station area.
According to police, Sangeeta shot herself with her husband's licensed rifle, following which her husband took her to the district hospital with his family members, where doctors declared her dead.
Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Rajesh Kumar Singh said that he reached the spot after receiving the information, and preliminary investigation revealed that Sangeeta was suffering from depression.
She was undergoing treatment for it in Prayagraj, Singh said.
The body has been sent for post-mortem, and further investigation is underway, Singh added.
(Assistance for overcoming suicidal thoughts is available on the state’s health helpline 104, Tele-MANAS 14416.)
