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Speaker proposes Assembly online

Special Correspondent

`The e-edge will help in faster processing of issues'

HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly will go hi-tech if the Speaker K.R. Suresh Reddy has his way in getting funds for a programme aimed at networking the House electronically within and outside.

What Mr. Reddy proposes is to introduce the use of computers to link the Assembly with the Government for faster processing of issues that figure in the Assembly, digitise House records and the library besides receiving petitions through e-mail.

`e-petition' will change the way petitions are received by the Speaker. Any person can e-mail his petition to the Assembly's website from where it will be forwarded to the local MLA.

If the legislator finds the grievance important enough to be referred to the Committee on Petitions, he will send it through the Speaker.

Mr. Reddy had the distinction of sending the first ever e-petition some five years ago when he e-mailed a letter of his constituents in Armoor in Nizamabad district to the then Speaker K. Pratibha Bharathi.

Mr. Suresh Reddy told The Hindu that he proposed to present these plans at the two-day Speakers' conference convened by Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee in New Delhi on July 30 and 31. He explained that electronic networking would help in accessing Parliament's library, considered the best in India, and also in knowing about the best practices in other State Assemblies.

If the plans materialised, they would be just in time for the golden jubilee of the Assembly.

Golden jubilee

The Speaker disclosed that the event would be celebrated befittingly. The imposing building of the Assembly, declared as a heritage structure, would form the perfect backdrop for these celebrations. It served as the Town Hall during Nizam's rule and later as the Hyderabad Legislative Assembly till Andhra Pradesh was formed in 1956.

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