NATIONAL e-VIDHAN APPLICATION (NeVA) PROJECT & MORE (C.A. 1 Feb 2021)

NATIONAL e-VIDHAN APPLICATION (NeVA) PROJECT

Meghalaya State Assembly Speaker visited Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly Secretariat in Itanagar to get first-hand information about the National e-Vidhan project implemented in the Assembly.

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e-Vidhan is a Mission Mode Project (MMP) included in Digital India Programme and Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs (MoPA) is the ‘Nodal Ministry’ for its implementation in all the States/ UTs with Legislatures.
Funding of NeVA is on the pattern of Central Sponsored Scheme i.e. 60:40; and 90:10 for North East & hilly States and 100% for UTs.
The funding for e-Vidhan is provided by the MoPA and technical support by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).

MATUA

The Matua community in West Bengal are upset about the cancellation of a rally Union Home Minister Amit Shah was scheduled to address.

About:

The Matua community has members on either side of the Bengal border.
It is associated with a religious movement begun in the 1870s by Harichand Thakur of a Namasudra (SC) family, who hailed from Safaldanga in East Bengal.
In the early 20th century, his son Guruchand organised the movement socially and politically. In 1915, the Matua Federation was established.
Today, Matuas constitute the second largest SC population of West Bengal. Government sources put their number at around 17% of the state’s electorate.
For years, the Matuas were demanding an amendment to the Citizenship Act of 2003, whose provisions made it difficult for refugees to get citizenship.

ROBINHOOD APP

The online trading app Robinhood became a cultural phenomenon and a Silicon Valley darling with a promise to wrest the stock market away from Wall Street’s traditional gatekeepers and “let the people trade”.

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Baiju Prafulkumar Bhatt (born 1984) is an Indian-American billionaire entrepreneur of Gujarati descent. He is the co-founder, along with Vladimir Tenev, of Robinhood, a US-based financial services company.
Robinhood Markets, Inc. is an American financial services company headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
On January 28, 2021, Robinhood restricted the trading of certain stocks following an effort by users of r/wallstreetbets subreddit to drive up their price. This decision attracted condemnation from internet users on the subreddit and on Twitter.

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