Shri Rajiv Rathi, Deputy Director General and HoG (NeVA), NIC, New Delhi visited Odisha Legislative Assembly (OLA) on 20th March to review the progress of NeVA implementation in Odisha.

Shri Rathi visited the Digital House, Neva Cell and Neva Seva Kendra of the OLA and assessed the progress of the work. He inspected the newly installed i-Pads in the House for the Honourable Members and the networking system to implement Digital house.

The appraisal meeting was held at NeVA Seva Kendra in the presence of Shri Dasarathi Satpathy,I.A.S, Secretary, Shri Satish Kumar Meshra, Joint Secretary, Odisha Legislative Assembly, technical team of NeVA project and other officials. Shri Ashok Rout, Joint Director (IT) gave a brief presentation on the implementation and informed that Odisha is the 1st State to present Odisha Budget completely in Digital Mode on NeVA.

Discussing on NeVA building blocks Joint Secretary highlighted on networking of 380+ nodes, wi-fi connectivity, dedicated Video Conferencing Studio, 1 GBps NICNET connectivity, SWAN integration etc.

Shri Rathi expressing his satisfaction on the progress and stressed upon having redundant internet backbone availability and advised to complete all dry runs (testing) during next two months’ time as there is no business day in House now.   He asked to focus on continuous capacity building of Honourable Members, their PS / PAs, and technical support staff.

Secretary acknowledged the effort of NIC not only for implementing NeVA modules but also for developing applications to fulfil in-house needs and assured that within a fortnight the House would be ready to go Digital.