AHMEDABAD,February18 2012: When the budget session of the Gujarat legislative assembly opens in the state capital of Gandhinagar near here next week, members entering the house will have a pleasant surprise.The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has spent Rs30 million to replace the old weather-beaten audio-visual system with an ultramodern sound system and an up-to-the-minute digital voting-cum-counting system. The lawmakers will be able to listen to a particular speaker in the language of their choice what with six strategically-placed, high-tech cameras automatically focussing on the speaking member whose images will be instantly flashed on five 65-inch television screens for easy viewing by one and all in the sanctum sanctorum. MLAs will be able to cast their votes by just pressing a button and the results after the counting will be out in a jiffy.
Former minister and BJP legislator Bharat Barot told Khaleej Times that 10 Indian states had a similar system in their assemblies but the Boss-made system fitted in the Gujarat’s highest law-making body (Vidhan Sabha) was the most advanced version and is seen only in Singapore and Scotland. The four-storied building with a light pink façade of Dholpur stones is itself an architectural wonder having been judged as the ‘Best Building’ in 1985
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