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Written By psaram42 - 21 June, 2011
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The meeting started a bit late. The dignitaries were invited one by one to the dais by Kathyayini Chamaraj, Executive Trustee, CIVIC. Mr. R. Sri Kumar, IPS, Vigilance Commissioner, Central Vigilance Commission was the First. He was followed by the deputy of the actual Chief Guest - Mr. Siddaiah, IAS, Commissioner, BBMP. The others were Mr. Raja Sivan & Mr. J. K. Rao, Founder Trustees; Indian Centre for Social Transformation (Indian CST) who made the presentation of Web-Based Global Project Management System (GPMS) of BBMP.
Kathyayini Chamaraj briefly introduced the chairman by saying he was a BTech, Mtech and a National Law school Graduate by qualification. His record of positions held included that of DGP in Karnataka state police. He was a recipient of IPS Police medal too for meritorious service. Currently he is the vigilance commissioner. He is closely associated with the project management of police Housing Corporation since 2009.
Mr. Srikumar expressed his happiness over prospect of transparency through internet of the BBMP functioning. He also expressed that the money spent by BBMP over the implementation of the software on its existing official BBMP site will be well spent if utilized properly by the citizens of Bangalore. BBMP has 33000 projects. The citizens of Bangalore are one of the crucial stake holders of these projects. The general public has to decide to day how they are going to participate in the well being of the megacity Bangalore.
Raja Srinivasan proceeded to briefly explain how the present tool added to the existing site proposes to be ready for being monitored by all the stake holders including the citizens of the city. I had the feeling that the way the presentation was made by Mr. Raja was not appropriate for the occasion. Probably Mr. Sheshadri the IT consultant could have presented the software better. The emphasis was more on uploading of pictures rather than the
- tendering process,
- Fund allocations made,
- cost over runs
- Project time over runs etc.
This was evident on the way much time was spent on complaint registration and monitoring complaints.
On the whole it is a great effort by BBMP for including the concept of ‘monitoring’ of each project by all the stake holders. Now the ball is in court of the stake holders to see that the fine tool is not high jacked.
COMMENTS
The site is the BBMP site itself
psaram42 - 21 June, 2011 - 15:39
@shrinidhi
The functionality is extended to include the additional functionality of project monitoring capability. Kindly search the site. I am yet try it out.
Picture 1 The vigilance Commissioner on Dias
idontspam - 21 June, 2011 - 06:22
The emphasis was more on uploading of pictures
Should introduce them to flickr :)
psaram42 - 21 June, 2011 - 07:27
Satya comments are cryptic aren’t they? WOW. But Satya Sahib it is not
them but us users
who have to be experts in flicker. I am still a novice in uploading. Hence it is painful for me to upload pictures to Praja site.
That is the reason why I felt that somebody other than BBMP person should have made the presentation that he made. It would have been wonderful if CIVIC chief Kathyaini Chamraj had made the presentation from the users, public side.
My personal opinion is that this is a welcome move by BBMP to have installed this facility as added to their website itself. It is up to the Bangalore citizens to demand what ever they expect from this utility software
to bring absolute transparency
in BBMP operations. Especially financial audit operation needs to be addressed to. We should demand and see that BBMP get their accounts audits audited by professional auditors every year starting 2011-2012. These should be uploaded too. If that does not happen it is our mistake to take it lieing low.
Nobody rolls out a test system for citizens to use.
psaram42 - 21 June, 2011 - 15:27
@IDS
Yes, but elected reps sitting in government do. What can you do to prevent this? Precious little I think. The NGO like CIVIC also has failed miserably to spot the anomaly and blindly promote the undeserving product. The needle of suspicion points at them too to promote such activity!
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