The Indian Express                          05.04.2013

Corporators get Sony Vaio laptops

BMC distributed Sony Vaio laptops to all 232 corporators, including the five nominated ones, Thursday. 'Yes Sir', a unique software, will connect the machines to the main server of the BMC website. The corporators will be able to know status of ongoing and future projects through it, said a senior civic official.

"This is a positive step towards digitisation. In future, we hope to make copies of agenda of all committees online," said Rais Shaikh, Samajwadi Party corporator and standing committee member. The laptops approved last year cost BMC Rs 4.5 crore. The civic body is also planning to set up kiosks that will upgrade information about civic projects and policies on the laptops. BMC will also conduct a two-week training session for corporators.