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SMS to 56677 for booth location

Tuesday, 17 November 2009 04:42 administrator
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Deccan Chronicle 17.11.2009

SMS to 56677 for booth location

November 17th, 2009
By Our Correspondent
Tags: GHMC elections, polling booths

Hyderabad
Nov. 16: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation launched a short messaging service on Monday to inform city voters of the polling booths in which they can cast their ballots.

This service has been launched to increase the voter turnout in the civic body polls scheduled for November 23.

According to the GHMC special commissioner, Mr S.P. Singh, this facility has been made available to the residents of Hyderabad in addition to the existing facilities like the Internet and call centres.

“It can be availed by typing GHMC EPIC (electors photo identity card) number and sending the message to 56677,” said Mr Singh. “The service is charged Re 1, which is the charge for a local SMS.”

In return the sender will get a message giving all details of the polling booth he or she has to go to cast the vote, he said.

he service can also be availed by those who don’t have an EPIC card. They have to type GHMC along with their house number and send it to 56677.

“We have collected a huge database of about 30 lakh mobile phone numbers in Hyderabad with the help of a private IT firm, who will be receiving details regarding the addresses of various polling booths,” said the special commissioner.

 

Now you can log on to Municipal Corporation website

Tuesday, 17 November 2009 00:18 administrator
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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.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 17 November 2009 00:19
 

MC website being upgraded

Monday, 16 November 2009 05:37 administrator
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The Times of India 16.11.2009

MC website being upgraded

TNN 15 November 2009, 09:25pm IST

LUDHIANA: Owing to pressure exerted by state information commission (SIC) and Right to Information (RTI) activists, municipal corporation (MC) is on its toes to upgrade its website. Following the upgradation, exhaustive information pertaining to the civic body would be a click away.

The decision relating to the website’s upgradation had been on the cards ever since state information commissioner Lt Gen (retd) PK Grover had asked MC officers to comply with norms regarding proper dissemination of information under section 4(1)-B of RTI Act and include information in preview of the act on the website. For that, MC had even constituted a sub-committee comprising joint commissioner Mahinder Pal Gupta, senior deputy mayor Praveen Bansal and superintendent engineer (SE) designs DPS Wadhwa to look into the matter.

At a meeting of the committee held on Friday, it was decided that the website would be upgraded, with the main focus being on proper dissemination of information under clause 4(1)-B of the Act. At the meeting that continued for more than four hours, it was stated that the website would be divided into three parts- services, download and general information sections, which would be further divided into more than 20 sub-sections at the initial stage.

By accessing these sections, residents would be able to get information regarding services being given by the civic body, its income and expenditure, details of officers of each area and MC voter list. It was maintained that vital information regarding the budget and details of developmental work on in the city would be provided on the website.

Highly-placed sources revealed that it would take more than three months for the civic body authorities to complete the work on the website.

When contacted, Bansal said upgradation of the website would usher in a new era of information for city residents, adding that they were trying their best to complete the work soon as it would ensure transparency and accountability in working of the civic body.
 
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