National e-Vidhan Application | 11 Jul 2024

Why in News?

Recently, the Madhya Pradesh cabinet has given approval to the implementation of the centrally sponsored scheme 'National e-Vidhan Application' (NEVA) in the state Legislative Assembly.

Key Points

  • Under the Digital India initiative, the Government of India has launched the centrally sponsored 'National e-Vidhan Application' scheme to transition all Legislative Assemblies of the country to a paperless format and unify them on a single platform.
    • The scheme implementation costs will be shared with 60% funded by the Government of India and 40% by the state governments.
  • The rationalisation of students residing in hostels, ashrams, and community welfare centres operated under the Denotified, Nomadic, and Semi-Nomadic Tribe Welfare Department as per the scholarship rates determined by the Scheduled Caste Welfare/Tribal Affairs Department.
    • The present monthly scholarship for boys will be increased from Rs 1230 to Rs 1550 and for girls from Rs 1270 to Rs 1590 a month.
  • The council of ministers also gave its nod to invite tenders for seven projects of Narmada Valley Development Department worth Rs 9,271.96 crore.

Digital India Programme

  • The Digital India program, launched in 2015, aims to transform India into a digitally empowered society and a knowledge-based economy.
  • Its key objectives include strengthening digital infrastructure, delivering services digitally, and promoting digital financial inclusion.

De-Notified, Nomadic And Semi-Nomadic Tribes

  • These are communities that are the most vulnerable and deprived.
  • DNTs are communities that were ‘notified’ as being ‘born criminals’ during the British regime under a series of laws starting with the Criminal Tribes Act, 1871.
    • These Acts were repealed by the Independent Indian Government in l952, and these communities were "De-Notified".
  • A few of these communities which were listed as de-notified were also nomadic.
    • Nomadic and semi-nomadic communities are defined as those who move from one place to another rather than living in one place all the time.
  • Historically, Nomadic Tribes and De-notified Tribes never had access to private land or home ownership.
  • While most DNTs are spread across the Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Other Backward Classes (OBC) categories, some DNTs are not covered in any of the SC, ST or OBC categories.