eVidhan project was formally inaugurated by the Honourable Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, Shri Virbhadra Singh on 4th August 2014. A number of Ministers and Members of the Assembly including, Shri Kaul Singh Thakur, Minister for Revenue, Health & Family Welfare, Shri Mukesh Agnihotri, Minister for Industries, Shri Sudhir Sharma, Minister for Housing & Urban Development, Shri D.R. Shandil, Minister for Welfare were present during the ceremony. The current Monsoon Assembly Session of Himachal Pradesh is being conducted through the eVidhan system. In his inaugural address, hon’ble Chief Minister expressed hope that the eVidhan system would be adopted by all members of the assembly and will result in huge savings to the Government besides bringing efficiency and transparency in the system. Shri Brij Bihari Lal Butail, Honourable Speaker of HP Assembly has been the driving force behind eVidhan initiative and got the necessary funding for the project through Department of Electronics & IT, MCIT, GoI. During the occasion, he himself read the speech from a laptop. He assured that although it is a new system and members may take some time to get used to it, necessary technical support will be provided for assistance. With implementation of eVidhan, Himachal Pradesh Assembly has become the first ever high-tech Legislative Assembly in India where touch-screen based laptops have been installed on the seats of all the honorable members of the house for viewing bills, assembly questions, and other important documents, including e-voting. The key features of eVidhan solution include digital recording of proceedings of the house, time management, distribution of hand-written notes through tablets, video conferencing with Governor house, processing of questions, proceedings, RFID based entry passes, constituency management, legislative committees, library MIS etc. The technical support and coordination for eVidhan has been provided by NIC Himachal Pradesh while NICSI is the implementing agency for the project.