Karnataka - Bellary

Boost for technology-driven administration in Bellary

BELLARY: The district’s administration may be given a boost with the new Deputy Commissioner Harsha Gupta keen on introducing a web monitoring system to receive and respond to petitions from the people.

Speaking to presspersons here on Thursday, Mr. Gupta said that with the help of advanced information technology, the petitions received from the public during Janaspandana programmes would be forwarded to the departments concerned for redress. The use of advanced technology would not only save time but would also ensure transparency in functioning, he said and added that soon the people may be asked to even send in their petitions by email.

Stating that such a system introduced in Bidar was yielding positive results, he said he proposed to organise a week-long training programme for district officials before the new system was introduced. All information relating to ongoing development programmes, including the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act, would be made available through the Internet. Mr. Gupta said that introducing wireless communication sets (walkie-talkies) for district and taluk-level officials was also on his priority list, to ensure that officials could be contacted without difficulty, especially during times of crisis such as the recent floods. To avoid traffic congestion in the city, it had been decided to re-impose the ban on heavy vehicle movement during the day until the second stretch of the ring road was ready, he said.

The first stretch of the ring road, between Bangalore road and Anantapur road, has already been thrown open to traffic. The second stretch, between Bangalore road and Hospet road, is being laid. Heavy vehicles and goods carriers were forced to pass through the city as a result. Now, their movement may be banned between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. on the Hospet road-Bangalore road stretch.

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