‘Digitalization to bring efficiency’

By Uzma Zafar

ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Wednesday called for timely completion of all processes with regard to the automation of the Parliament and make it digitally operational by January 2023.
Chairing a meeting on President’s Initiative for Cyber Efficient Parliament (PICEP here at Parliament House, the president emphasized that the digitalization would improve its efficiency as well as help in the smooth running of the legislative business of both Houses of the parliament.
He said the digital parliament would greatly help improve the processes of planning, monitoring and control by using modern technology, besides providing its members easy access to data and files through latest IT tools. Besides others, Chairman Senate Sadiq Sanjrani, Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser, Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication Syed Amin ul Haque, attended the meeting.