The Hindu 17.11.2009
Now you can log on to Municipal Corporation website
Staff Reporter
| It will be officially launched tomorrow |
— Photo: S. Rambabu 
Just a click away: Municipal Commissioner K. Manikraj explaining about the newly designed website of the Corporation in Rajahmundry on Monday.
Rajahmundry: The Rajahmundry Municipal Corporation (RMC) is all set to launch its official website on Wednesday.Commissioner K. Manikraj is giving the finishing touches to the site. The site -- www.rajahmundrycorporation.org -- is designed on the lines of the Guntur, Chennai and Hyderabad Corporations. It will be formally launched at the at the municipal council meeting.
Addressing a press conference here on Monday, Mr. Manikraj said that they have included 12 to 14 main departments in the website to enable citizens to know the status of works undertaken by the corporation. “This will ensure total transparency,”he added. To begin with, people can access public health, engineering and education wings. He expressed the hope that the site would become fully operational in 10-15 days.
The website is beautifully designed with two Godavari Bridges, AP Online access, Daily newspaper browsing, e-track, eSeva and other features. One can see photographs of different historic places in and around Rajahmundry, can know the historic importance of the city, online services like GOs with regard to tax payment, water billing, sanitation, etc. The e-tracking feature will enable the Sanitary Department head (municipal health officer) and the Commissioner to locate dumper vehicle movements and other information related to sanitary work.
“I am optimistic that hope within the next six months, the website will also compete with other Corporations like geocentric system through which one can get building plan approval on line,”said the Commissioner.
He said that the website would not only provide information but also reply to complaints made by the public through SMS. This unique feature is not available in other municipal websites.
The Commissioner also announced that a toll-free helpline -- 18002009111 -- would be opened on Wednesday.
