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"The mobile phone is now being used by the common man with ease and Gujarat is first to spread its usage in governance," he said while inaugurating a three-day conference, e-INDIA, in Gandhinagar.

The new concept of `Mobile Governance' would be on the lines of 'e-Governance' and 'Good Governance', he added.

"RMC has been on the forefront to use IT to deliver various civil services to its citizen in a more friendly manner and were constantly improving it so as to reach out to people in a very efficient way," said Ajay Bhadoo, municipal commissioner, RMC.

The civic centres of the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) bear a deserted look these days. Not too long ago, hundreds of people used to crowd outside these centres, wanting to know about their tax payment deadlines or how to pay electricity and water bills.

But that was before the RMC implemented its mobile governance project, providing useful information to the residents of one of Gujarat’s largest cities.

Mobile governance is the latest buzz word in India. Indian government is planning to use m-governance for delivery of public services.

While e-governance is more effective in the European nations, this is not the case in Asian countries (especially India), mainly because of high tele-density and low PC penetration. The government realized long time back that mobile is no longer a tool meant only for information and communication. Instead, it's a medium for empowering the citizens and a powerful enabler of good governance.

Chief Minister congratulated the Department of Excise and Taxation for providing information technology enabled services to the tax payers of the State. He said that the e-enabled services were the need of the hour and with the launching of e-CST service, dealers would be getting statutory forms essential to avail concessions on inter-state trade, anywhere and at any time round the clock through internet services.

Committed to fulfil its mandate of Free legal aid and Access to Justice as enunciated under Article 39A of the Constitution of India, Secretary (Department of Justice) would be launching the iOS version of the Nyaya Bandhu Application and its onboarding on UMANG platform (MeiTY), on Samvidhan Divas 26th Nov, 2020. The UMANG platform would also enable to make pan India easy accessibility of this mobile based legal service to approx 2.5 Cr registered users.Nyaya Bandhu mobile application was launched by Union Minister for Law and Justice and IT Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad in February, 2019 to ensure empowerment of common man by popularizing technology to a level that it becomes a instrument of change.

Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Saturday launched the 'mySrinagar' mobile app -- a one-stop solution catering to the needs of residents and tourists by integrating all available e-services offered by various departments and tourism-related information "in both offline and online modes".

An official spokesman said the 'mySrinagar' mobile app also has emergency helpline service.

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The Jharkhand chief minister today launched a grievance management system, which in its hi-tech avatar, aims to use information technology for better and transparent governance, enabling people to state their bona fide grievances directly through multiple platforms — phone calls, fax, email, even social network platform Facebook or micro-blogging site Twitter.

Kapil Sibal, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India, today launched the pilot e-Gov application store. The e-Gov Appstore has been designed, developed and hosted by DeitY through NIC. The Appstore will bring functional efficiencies to the government and enable citizens to receive services in a more streamlined manner. Inclusion of IT in governance aims to reduce uncertainty and improve transparency” said Mr. Sibal on the occasion.

This appstore will allow citizens to receive information in an efficient and a much-simplified manner. It is hosted by the DeitY and has been designed and developed by the NIC.

The appstore will start with 20 apps, of which 'roughly half' will be directly accessible to the public (g2c). The number is expected to rise to 100 within three years.

After setting an example with its e-mandi concept, now the south Indian state of Karnataka will be setting another landmark. The central government has now asked Karnataka to share details of state's mobile-governance platform which integrates 4,187 services, both government and private, into one app, Mobile-One.

As per an Economic Times report, the Narendra Modi government is planning to facilitate other states with a similar technology and scale it to the national level.

The mobile app, which is growing at a rate of 10% every month and has generated business worth Rs 5 crore, is just seven months old and was launched by President Pranab Mukherjee. Karnataka Chief Minister, who is not so tech-savvy made it a pet-project and the app, so far, has got 1.25 crore hits and 1.5 lakh downloads.

MobileOne was awarded in the "comprehensive application class."

The Karnataka government’s mobile governance service has won the best m-government service award at the first World Government Summit in Dubai.

The much acclaimed Karnataka MobileOne, which integrates 4,187 services, both government and private, into one app, was launched in December 2014 by President Pranab Mukherjee.

The Karnataka Government is set to be the first State in the country to come out with a policy on mobile-governance, to enable services to be delivered through mobile phone applications.

“The policy is ready, we are just fine-tuning it,” Mr M.N. Vidyashankar Secretary- Department of Information Technology, Biotechnology and Science & Technology, Government of Karnataka told Business Line.

Taking one step toward good governance, the Karnataka government is all set to roll out its m-governance project in the state. The objective is to create a mobile service delivery mechanism and help citizens access all the government services on their mobile devices.

An integrated Road Accident Database (iRAD) mobile application is likely to come up soon which will enable collection of accident data on the spot.

An integrated Road Accident Database (iRAD) mobile application is likely to come up soon which will enable collection of accident data on the spot. This will help in analysing causes of road accidents and help reduce fatalities. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MORTH), in-charge of the initiative, will be supported by the World Bank.

The state government is all set to launch an integrated m-governance platform.

Secretary of the department of information technology, biotechnology and science and technology, Srivatsa Krishna, who took part in the IT secretaries meet and session on ‘The Future of e-Gov and m-Gov: Sharing and Learning from Each Other’ during the Bangalore ITE.biz 2013, said m-governance platform would be the next big thing in the e-governance services and that Karnataka already has a pilot project in place.

According to the Department of Health and Family Welfare Services, a containment zone is an area of 100 meters radius around the premises of a COVID-19 positive case which will be sealed for 28 days.

The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), Bengaluru’s local civic body, has developed a mobile application exclusively for residents living in containment zones that have been sealed due to coronavirus. Named ‘BBMP Contains,’ the app aims to be a platform for grievance redressal and to help the authorities monitor surveillance mechanisms in these areas.

In Bengaluru, all Hoysala jeeps, police stations and the control room will be connected to the new app through automatic vehicle location.

Finding a policeman in a crisis situation may no longer be a utopian idea in Bengaluru. A new mobile-based application can help the public alert the nearest Hoysala patrol team during emergencies.

Branded as "Bharat phone", the mobile device has a three-inch large screen display with provision for dual SIM card and has been priced at Rs.1,099 to make it affordable to common man.

"The low-cost mobile device will alter the Indian feature phone industry as it has been designed especially for e-governance applications and optimised for internet access to empower common man," BSNL chairman R K Upadhyay said on the occasion.

Offering an array of public utility services right on your mobile phone screen, the service will see a State-wide launch by June 15. Paying your BESCOM or BWSSB bill, or that taxing traffic penalty can’t get any simpler.

The BangaloreOne and KarnatakaOne portals already offer a hundred services at a mouse-click. M-Gov will offer all those services and more using the mobile platform. The tender process has already started and the service provider selected.