ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi has asked the relevant stakeholders to implement the digitalization process of Parliament by January 2023.
Chairing a meeting on President’s Initiative for Cyber Efficient Parliament in Islamabad today (Wednesday), he said a cyber efficient parliament would prove to be a milestone in improving government efficiency, transparency and responsiveness.
Ministry of Information Technology and Telecom briefed the meeting about the implementation plan of Cyber Efficient Parliament. The ministry informed that PC-I of the project has been prepared which would be sent to the competent forum, after completing the necessary formalities, for allocation of funds for financial year 2021-2022.
The President stressed the need to meet the timelines with regard to implementation of the Cyber Efficient Parliament project. He advised all stakeholders to work in unison for early completion of this important project.
He lauded Ministry of Information Technology and Telecom for timely designing the PC-I of the Digital Parliament.
Chairman Senate Sadiq Sanjarani and Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser appreciated the initiative of the President and said that the project once fully implemented would manifold enhance efficiency of the Parliament.
They also directed their respective Secretariats to workout plan for capacity enhancement of Members in terms of Information Technology and gadgetry.
