SPEED POST POSTMEN TO FLAUNT DIGITAL HANDSETS SOON
D Govardan, Chennai, July 13, 2009
Financial Chronicle
The next time your friendly neighbourhood postman from the Speed Post knocks at the door, do not be surprised if he flaunts a PDA (personal digital assistant) handheld device to record the delivery. As per the Indian Postal department’s plans, he may soon be multi-tasking, rather than merely delivering you the ubiquitous letter.
The process of providing the postmen in-charge of handling Speed Post documents with PDA handsets has started in right earnest. The Maharashtra circle kick-started the process by calling in tenders in March this year and the commercial bids were opened on May 22, 2009.
A Chennai-based company, eLogistics has emerged the L1 in the bid to deploy 3,000 PDA handsets. While 12 bidders were said to have participated, six of them were short-listed for the technical bid and four qualified for the commercial bid level.
The postal department is keen to increase the role of the postman, till now the pointsman for delivery of posts and money-orders. Besides plans for selling postal stamps and other services of the department, he may soon be using the PDA handset to register the receiver’s signature of registered posts.
In minutes, this will be uploaded to the central server, which will enable a sender as far away in the US to check the deliver status online.
The Maharashtra circle of the postal department will be the first one to implement this and it will cover both Maharashtra and Goa.
Following the initiative by the Maharashtra circle, the Delhi and Chennai circles have followed suit and have initiated the tender process to implement this PDA initiative.
“The plan is to cover around 45,000 postmen all over the country handling the Speed Post documents initially. The tasks to be undertaken by the postmen will increase going forward to bring in complete transparency in terms of delivery,” an official with the department of posts in Chennai said.
GOVT TO CONNECT MAJOR EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGES
New Delhi, July 13, 2009
The Pioneer
The Centre has decided to list all information on job opportunities in Government departments and Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) on Internet by inter-linking major employment exchanges across the country.
"The computerisation process of major employment exchanges of the country is on and will be completed in the next three months.
"Once this is done, all information about job opportunities and those listed in the exchange will be available on a website," Union Minister of Labour and Employment, Mallikarjun Kharge said.
This could be a boon for job seekers as the proposed 'national portal' will make all employment-related services available on a single window.
"The web portal would be a storehouse of information on availability and requirement of skilled persons and would also network with industrial training institutes and other centres," a senior official of the Ministry said.
Modernisation of employment exchanges across the country will help students register online and reach out to any exchange in the country.
The National e-Governance Plan had identified employment exchanges as one of the Mission Mode Projects.
The modernisation move will also enable real-time usage of online data submitted by employers for providing opportunities to job seekers, the official said.
NEW PG DIPLOMA IN E-GOV LAUNCHED
Chennai/Kochi, July 13, 2009
Business Standard
The Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Kerala, and the Institute of Management in Government (IMG) have jointly launched a postgraduate (PG) diploma course in e-governance, a first-of-its-kind initiative by any state government in the country to promote a career in this space.
The two institutes have developed the course for capacity building at the individual level to create a good number of trained professional to manage e-governance projects of the government. The focus of the course is on e-governance through developing foundations in IT, management, government process, re-engineering and change management and has been designed in line with the recommendations of the Administrative Reforms Commission for promoting e-governance.
In order to help the participants align with the outcome of the course with their areas of interest, the classroom sessions have been divided into core courses and elective courses.
DELHI AIRPORT INTRODUCES INTERACTIVE MAP SERVICES ONLINE
New Delhi, July 13, 2009
The Hindu Business Line
Flying down to Delhi and worried about reaching your destination from the airport? Don't fret as help is just a click away.
The website of the Indira Gandhi International Airport has now added an interactive and highly detailed 'Google Maps' service that provides precise road directions guiding a visitor to his destination along with the distance and time taken to and from the airport.
"The interactive map, provided by the internet major Google, not only provides visitors the information about road directions to and from the airport to their destinations but also the distance," a senior official of airport operator, Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL), said.
As one visits the website 'www.newdelhiairport.in' and clicks the 'IGI Airport Interactive Map' tab in the 'Passenger Info section', the page leads to a window which shows the location of the airport in relevance to the city.
If a visitor wants to go to 'NOIDA sector 29' and types the same in the dialog box, he would get the directions leading from the Airport to Dhaula Kuan, Ring Road and then across the Toll bridge into Noida.
The system also provides turn-by-turn directions along with the distances and the approximate time to reach the destination. The mapping system not only works within the National Capital Region (NCR) but also from any other city of the country to the airport here.
"This is highly useful for those from other cities who may not be familiar with the way to the airport while driving in from their places," the official said.
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