SHILLONG: The Meghalaya Legislative Assembly’s initiative of joining the ‘go green’ bandwagon with the launch of a hi-tech SMS service for the legislators has been able to reduce the customary practice of ‘paper work’ in the Assembly.
Assembly Speaker A.T. Mondal on Monday said that the whole process has become faster and has helped in saving paper.
Mondal informed that under the new initiative the legislators are sent e-mails and SMS about all the meetings, Assembly schedules, questions, answer and others. The legislators are also provided information on the dates and timings of the Assembly sessions as well as the meetings of the different committees.
The idea was implemented after Mondal visited Jaipur to study a similar process adopted by the Rajasthan Assembly and held several meetings with his Rajasthan counterpart and other officials.
Mondal informed that this was an innovative use of the IT and is a sort of online solution to replace the cumbersome manual procedures, he said.
