Corporation services now a SMS away

By SNV Sudhir

Visakhapatnam, Aug 14: The services provided by the Greater Visakha Municipal Corporation will now become dearer to the user with the new SMS project that they are going to launch very soon. With the new project under T Governance, which is first of its kind in the country being developed, one can know the details of house tax, vacant land tax dues and other details like the birth and death registrations by just sending an SMS to a 4-digit number. The SMS notification server would be connected to the centralized database of the Corporation and retrieves the necessary information whenever a sender seeks information. “We are very happy that any information would be just an SMS away. We are waiting for the 4-digit number to be allotted for which we are holding discussions with various service providers. The project would be launched very soon,” said the GVMC Commissioner, N Srikanth. The project under T Governance as the name suggests, aims at bridging the gap between the citizens and the government by letting both them access and disperse information using the all prevalent mode of communication- The Telephone, said the Satyendra B, CEO of Dialabs, which designed the project for the GVMC. “Its not that easy to get information from the E Seva centers which was known as user friendly places. We have to wait for long hours to get out turn just to seek small information. But with this project I think the information will be on our finger tips” said a delighted K Paramseh, software professional who came to know about the project. There will be four components under this project- Samacharam- to get any information about the services provided by the authorities through SMS. Prajanadi- fully automated opinion poll gathering system. Dandora- Information Broadcasting and Alert system through SMS and Firyadu Kendram- automated complaint management system. “Not every one can browse Internet to get information but most of the public have mobiles in them. Whenever one needs information he will get it in just few seconds. And the project also does not cost much, but has lot many uses. We are on trail run right now and may launch the new service in a month” said the Officer on Special Duty, IT and HRD of GVMC, P Rambabu.