Which of the following statements about National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA) is/are correct ? 1. It is a Mission Mode Project (MMP) under the Digital India Programme (DIP) of the Government of India. 2. This application is based on the principle of ‘One Nation – One Application’. 3. It has been developed by the Parliament Secretariat. 4. Its core aim is for end-to-end digitalisation of all the functions of the State Legislatures. Select the answer using the codes given below :
- (a)1, 2 and 3
- (b)1, 2 and 4
- (c)2 and 3 only
- (d)4 only
Answer
Why
Correct — B, (b) 1, 2 and 4. Statement 3 is the only false one, and every option except (b) either keeps it or drops a true statement.
Statement 1 — CORRECT. The National e-Vidhan Application is run as a Mission Mode Project under the Digital India programme. Mission Mode Projects are the individual, time-bound, outcome-defined projects into which the national e-governance effort is broken up, each with a nodal ministry; NeVA is the legislature's one.
Statement 2 — CORRECT. 'One Nation One Application' is the project's own stated principle. The point of it is that every House in the country works on the SAME software rather than each legislature commissioning its own: members get one interface wherever they sit, and the papers of every House end up in one comparable digital form.
Statement 3 — INCORRECT, and this is the discrimination the item is built on. NeVA belongs to the MINISTRY OF PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS, which is the nodal ministry, and it was developed with the National Informatics Centre. The Parliament Secretariat — the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha Secretariats serve the two Houses under Article 98 — is not the developing agency. A candidate who knows only that the project concerns legislatures will find 'Parliament Secretariat' plausible; the correct body is a ministry of the Union Government.
Statement 4 — CORRECT. The aim is to turn the Houses into paperless 'Digital Houses' — notices, questions, lists of business, bills, committee papers and members' services carried end to end on the application, so that a State Legislature's whole cycle of business runs digitally.
One false statement out of four, and the option that names the other three is 1, 2 and 4.
Why the others are wrong
- (a)1, 2 and 3 — Right about statements 1 and 2, but it takes in statement 3 and leaves out statement 4 — which is the project's actual object. Its attraction is the assumption that a legislature's software must have come from a legislature's own secretariat; it came from the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs working with the National Informatics Centre.
- (c)2 and 3 only — This keeps the one statement that is wrong and drops the two that describe what NeVA is and what it is for. A candidate arrives here by recognising the 'One Nation One Application' slogan and then guessing at the developer instead of testing it.
- (d)4 only — Statement 4 is indeed correct, but so are statements 1 and 2, and an option that admits only one of three true statements is under-inclusive. This is the safe-looking choice for a candidate who has heard of the paperless-legislature aim but is unwilling to commit on the Digital India link or the slogan; on a 'which are correct' item, refusing to commit costs the marks just as a wrong commitment does.
Concept
NeVA is a single, device-neutral, member-centric application on which any legislature in India can run its business without paper. A House that adopts it puts its notices, starred and unstarred questions, list of business, bills, amendments, committee reports and members' bio-data on the platform; members receive and file business on a tablet or a phone. It is administered as a Mission Mode Project under Digital India, with the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs as the nodal ministry and the National Informatics Centre as the technical partner, and it is hosted on government cloud infrastructure so that no House has to buy or maintain its own system. The application is hosted centrally so that a House adopting it neither buys hardware of its own nor maintains its own software, and members reach the same interface from a tablet, a phone or a desktop. Because every adopting House works on one platform, the papers of different legislatures end up in a common digital form, which is what makes comparison across Houses possible at all.
Governance and e-governance items in this paper tend to test one link in a chain — which ministry owns a scheme, which agency built it, which umbrella programme it sits under — because that is the part that separates a candidate who has read about the project from one who has only heard the name. NeVA is a good example: the name, the slogan and the aim are widely reported, while the ownership is not, so the false statement is placed there.
The option set repays inspection before any research is recalled. Statement 1 appears in options (a) and (b), statement 3 in (a) and (c), statement 4 in (b) and (d). Settle statement 3 as false and (a) and (c) both fall; settle statement 1 as true and (d) falls with them, leaving (b) without the fourth statement ever being examined. That is the structure of nearly every four-statement item on this paper, and it means a candidate sure of two statements rarely needs the other two. It also means the examiner places the falsehood where general awareness runs out — on ownership and authorship rather than on names and slogans.
Key facts
- NeVA — National e-Vidhan Application — is a Mission Mode Project under the Digital India programme.
- Nodal ministry: the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs; developed with the National Informatics Centre.
- Its working principle is 'One Nation One Application' — one common platform for all Houses instead of separate software for each.
- Object: paperless 'Digital Houses', with the business of the Legislature carried end to end on the application.
- It covers the Houses of State Legislatures as well as Parliament, which is what makes a single application worth building.
- A Mission Mode Project is a discrete e-governance project with a defined scope, timeline and nodal ministry, under the national e-governance framework now carried forward by Digital India.
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Common traps
- Assigning a legislature-facing project to a legislature's secretariat rather than to the ministry that owns it.
- Dropping a true statement because a familiar false one is also in the option.
- Confusing the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs with the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha Secretariats — they are different employers with different functions.
- Assuming 'One Nation One Application' is a slogan invented for the question; it is the project's stated principle.
Expect one or two items per paper on a named government digital initiative, asked either as a four-statement set like this one or as a one-line 'which objective does it serve' question. Prepare each initiative along four axes — full form, nodal ministry, umbrella programme, and the one line that states its object — because the examiner falsifies exactly one of those four.
Related PYQs
EPFO_APFC_2023_Q93‘eSanjeevani’, a scheme of the Government of India, serves which one among the following objectives?
- (a) Creates a database of people affected by COVID-19
- (b) Promotes the use of telemedicine
- (c) Establishes an electronic National Clinical Registry
- (d) Efficient promotion of health advisories
Answer(b) Promotes the use of telemedicine
The same question shape applied to another Government of India digital platform — what objective 'eSanjeevani' serves — where again the naming is familiar and the function is what has to be known.
Practice
- practice — not a real PYQ
Which one among the following is the nodal Ministry for the National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA) ?
- (a)Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
- (b)Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
- (c)Ministry of Home Affairs
- (d)Ministry of Law and Justice
Answer(b) Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs