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Arunachal for electoral enquiry through SMS
The Election Commission of India (ECI) is going to launch ‘electoral enquiry’
system in Arunachal Pradesh for providing correct information
assembly constituency number, part number or polling station number, elector’s serial number in the photo electoral role of particular polling stations will be received by the senders. The ECI is also going to introduce an online public complaint lodging system in the electoral officer’s website shortly, to lodge public grievances.
After few seconds, the sender will receive a reply SMS by an auto generated system which will provide various information to the particular electors to ensure his or her troublefree casting of votes. The SMS number will be announced later in a public announcement, the sources informed. The information like, EPIC number, name of elector,
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After Gujarat, Uttarakhand rolls out e-Mamta
Bihar to launch a slew of online services soon Bihar’s Rural Development department has decided to provide online services to the people seeking income, caste, birth and death and other certificates. “We are contemplating to provide line service to people, who have to run to the block office for such certificates,” Nitish Mishra, Minister of Rural Development said. Mishra said that
to the voters for their convenience. The unique short message service (SMS) system will provide electoral information to the voters, who want to know his or her electoral details. To get the details one has to only send an SMS to a particular mobile number with his or her own elector’s photo ID card (EPIC) number to get the details.
the people would not have to go to the block office every time for certificates. The scheme christened as ‘kahin bhi kabhi bhi sevayen’ would be launched soon. “The department is moving methodically before launching the scheme aimed at mitigating the problems of the common masses,” the Minister stated.
Post Gujarat’s inauguration of e-Mamta project, which aims at monitoring mother-infant health pre and post delivery, Uttarakhand’s Health Department has followed suit. The Health Department of Uttarakhand has finalised the e-Mamta system of mother and child tracking which mainly aims at ensuring proper and timely vaccination of the pregnant women and new born. This project would use SMS alerts to constantly inform and remind the users of upcoming vaccinations. The project is being run with the help and support of the National Informatics Centre (NIC) which has provided
training to the state and block units. More than1000 pregnant women have already registered themselves under the e-Mamta project in the state and all the block units have been given the user name and passwords for the entry of the names of the women and children in their active database. The project would be implemented with the help of the ANM and Asha workers in the state as they work at the grassroots level and disseminate health services. The scheme would include registration of the pregnant women and tracking of their health and
vaccination of the new born infants. The mobile numbers would be fed in the database and the users would get the information about the impending vaccinations from time to time. This would ensure that no vaccine is missed and the health and future of the children is not compromised.
Mobile VAS in Punjab by BSNL In a bid to transform mobile telephony in Punjab, Sachin Pilot, Minister of State for Communication and Information Technology has launched the Bharat Sanchar Nigam’s (BSNL) value-added services (VAS) in the state. The new VAS launched includes ‘dial-a-video’, ‘live share services’ and ‘video SMS’ services. “The value added services
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would transform communications for users in Punjab,” Pilot said, reported IANS. The Minister said that BSNL was reaching out with its services in the most interior and difficult parts of the country. He said the BSNL had installed towers and provided services in Maoist-affected areas
where private mobile operators were reluctant to go. Users of ‘dial a video’ services can access entertainment or video based services on their mobile anytime anywhere without requiring a special data plan or settings, as long as the user has a video call enabled phone, a BSNL official said.
“With live share services, users will be able to share videos instantly through their mobile phones with their families, colleagues, and friends over SMS or popular social networking sites. The video SMS service will allow users to leave video messages for anyone as long as they have a phone which supports video calls,” he added.