Soon, the state Legislative Assembly will go completely paperless with the state government undertaking an initiative to digitise all records. This is expected to save around `35 crore to `49 crore annually and time as the state has been spending around `40 crore for taking tonnes of paper printouts.  The first phase of the project is expected to be completed in 14 months.
The state has awarded the work to the Uralungal Labour Contract Cooperative Society and it has started working on the ambitious project called E-Vidhan to enable the state legislature to go completely paperless, said Speaker P Sreeramakrishnan.
“The project is expected to cost around `40 crore. Though the first phase can be executed in the stipulated time, it would take around two years to completely go paperless for all the departments connected to the Assembly,” he said.