CONTRACTORS TO BE MONITORED ONLINE
Chennai/Bangalore, December 21, 2009
Business Standard
Contractors slipping on deadlines in completing construction work accorded by the Greater Bangalore City Corporation (GBCC), the city corporation, can now easily be detected, thanks to the civic service provider’s initiative in rolling out a web-based project monitoring system.
As part of its IT initiatives in ramping up quantity and quality of services, GBCC has deployed WBPMS to ensure real time monitoring of progress of work at remote construction sites, GBCC commissioner Bharat Lal Meena said. This would help provide proactive alerts by detecting any slippages early and thereby help applying mid-course correction.
The progress of work at these sites can be independently uploaded to the website by the contractor and the inspection agency stationed there, he said. The central monitoring cell can instantly access this data from the website and take appropriate action to minimise time and cost overruns.
UIDS LIKELY FOR SCHOOLCHILDREN
Subrahmanyan Viswanath, Bangalore, December 21, 2009
Deccan Herald
School admission across the country may not be the same again from 2011. It may be impossible without the Unique ID (UID) if the Centre accepts a proposal of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).
The UIDAI, chaired by Nandan M Nilekani and his second-in-command Director General Ram Sewak Sharma, has stressed the need for making it mandatory for children to have the UID at the time of admission to school once the process of issuing the UID gets under way.
The rationale behind the proposal is that children can be tracked for academic progress besides being targeted for direct benefits.
FROM JULY ’10, PASSPORTS MAY’VE E-CHIP
Prafulla Marpakwar, Mumbai, December 21, 2009
The Times of India (Kolkata edition)
After a prolonged delay of more than a year, the Central Passport Organisation (CPO) has drafted an ambitious plan to issue electronic passports from next year, preferably from July 1, 2010.
“In June 2008, we delivered the first electronic passport to President Pratibha Patil and the second to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. At that time, we had promised to issue electronic passports to the public within a year, by July 2009. But due to technical problems, the project was delayed. Now, we are in a position to issue e-passports by July 1, 2010,’’ a senior passport official said.
STATE CONSUMER FORUMS GET TECH TOUCH
Shalabh, December 21, 2009
The Times of India (Mumbai edition)
Consumer rights in the state are set to get more teeth, thanks to technology. Consumer forum centres across Maharashtra will soon be connected to the State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, located at Hazarimal Somani Marg, via internet. The upgraded infrastructure will help bring down the number of cases pending before consumer forums in the state.
The additional circuit benches of the state commission at Aurangabad and Nagpur and 40 district forums in Maharashtra will be equipped with sophisticated interactive telecommunication technology in the coming few weeks, allowing two-way communication between two centres. The pan-Maharashtra reach of state commission members at the click of a mouse is being achieved for as less as Rs 50,000.
“Confonet (Computerisation and Consumer Networking of Consumer Forums) is my top priority. We will also introduce video conferencing facility on a trial basis at some centres,” said Justice S B Mhase, president of the state forum. A set comprising a webcam and high-end headphone is being bought for each centre in the state. “I will regularly hold review meetings with the presidents and judicial members of the consumer forums to keep number of pending cases under control,” added Mhase.
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