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Mayor launches Corporation’s website

Saturday, 18 July 2009 06:56 administrator
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The Hindu 18.07.2009

Mayor launches Corporation’s website

Staff Reporter

Kozhikode: Mayor M. Bhaskaran formally launched the official website of the Kozhikode Corporation http://www.kozhikodecorporation.org. at his chamber here on Friday.

The website of the corporation has been functioning for quite some time. However, now the site has been given a facelift with updated information.

Mr. Bhaskaran said the government in its order in March had directed the civic bodies to launch websites for improving municipal governance.

He said the website would update the citizens charter soon.

The site maintains updated information on financial accounts, directory of councillors, information on the Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Programme (KSUDP), Information Centre, Right to Information and Plan funds.

The website provides information on procedures for obtaining permission to construct residential buildings under the one-day permit system, birth and death certificates, procedures for making corrections in birth and death certificates, ownership certificate for buildings and residential certificate.

Last Updated on Saturday, 18 July 2009 07:02
 

‘GIS must be integrated with national e-governance’

Monday, 08 June 2009 09:25 administrator
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Source : The Business Line Date 16.02.2009

‘GIS must be integrated with national e-governance’

Phalguna Jandhyala

Hyderabad, Feb. 11 The Union Government has been urged to look at integrating geographic information system (GIS) with the national e-governance programme.

“E-governance to me means embedding geospatial information, maps of different types showing resource usage, where the education and health facilities are located and so on. All these are GIS applications,” Ms Preetha Pulusani, Director, Rolta India, told Business Line on the sidelines of the Map World Forum here on Wednesday.

She added that the Government should look at making GIS applications more pervasive.

Ms Pulusani said that budgetary allocation for GIS must be increased like it has been done for the information technology sector.

“GIS has always been taken as a very special and niche area. GIS has hardly been looked at by the Government from a strategic and long-term perspective, rather it was looked at as project based rather than enterprise wise,” she said.

Welcoming the move to set up an independent regulator for the sector, Ms Pulusani said such a body must be inclusive and have representatives from the private sector and the academia and not just with Government focus.

“As the Map Policy frees up digital map information, we will be able to deploy more applications in this area. The industry should look at the developed countries where such applications have been deployed to replicate here,” she said.

Earlier, speaking at a session on Geospatial Technology – Development and Trends, Mr Mark Steele, Chief Operating Officer, Tele Atlas Asia Pacific, said, “Navigational devices are no longer a novelty. Soon navigation devices will be ubiquitous just like the mobile phones.”

He also said that the future of digital maps will have higher levels of accuracy but for this collection is the key.

“The new applications and digital maps of the future will have more personal information and this will be the next wave that we will ride,” Mr Steele added.

Last Updated on Monday, 08 June 2009 09:28
 


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