E-governance, GIS: New face of
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[ 22 Jul, 2006 0045hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
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BANGALORE: It's a
new Bangalore that the BMP envisages, with a slew of aggressive and
ambitious programmes lined up month after month.
The BMP, in partnership
with eGovernments Foundation has chalked out a scheme which has
programmes that would be launched at the rate of one a month. To
start with, property tax would be integrated with GIS (Geographical
Information System) which means, there would be no lapses in
declaring a citizens's exact property dimensions.
Srikanth Nadhamuni,
managing trustee, eGovernments Foundation, said the entire exercise
was a completely internet-driven enterprise.
"There will be English and Kannada content.
It will make for an interactive site where a complaint is filed
online by a citizen and tracked later. The status is also monitored
with the complaint tracking system."
The site would be interactive and
transactional and will replace the existing stagnant and
rarely-updated www.bmponline.org.
To enhance the revenue from property tax,
all wards will be covered under GIS, a long-pending project of the
BMP. Is this a deliverable module? "This is user-friendly.
It also does not mean
all of BMP would be connected overnight, there needs to be capacity
building" says BMP commissioner K Jairaj.
The bottomline — it requires the complainant
to be computer-savvy. Which means, if you want to report a bad road,
don't shout at the corporator. Click and file the complaint.
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