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Written By murali772 - 13 June, 2011
Bangalore Infrastructure egovernance governance Transparency citizen engagement
CIVIC Bangalore has great pleasure in inviting you to a presentation on BBMP’s Web-based Global Project Management System
Mr. R. Sri Kumar, IPS, Vigilance Commissioner, Central Vigilance Commission will preside
Chief Guest - Mr. Siddaiah, IAS, Commissioner, BBMP
Mr. Raja Seevan & Mr. J. K. Rao, Founder Trustees, Indian Centre for Social Transformation (Indian CST) will make the presentation of Web-Based Global Project Management System (GPMS) of BBMP
Date: Saturday, 18th June 2011; Time: 3PM to 5.45 PM
Venue: Senate Hall, Central College Campus (Entrance from Jnana Jyothi Auditorium, Palace Road), Bangalore 560001
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike's Global Project Management System (GPMS) has been developed by the Indian Centre for Social Transformation along with Karnataka State Police Housing Corporation. It is a professional tool to manage projects on-line from conception to completion. The progress of the project is tracked by all stakeholders who work collaboratively to ensure successful completion of the project. The system has the following components available:
- On-line Global Project Management System (GPMS)
- Remote Eye Monitoring System (REMS)
- Intelligence Report Generation System (IRGS)
This e-governance initiative enables real-time monitoring and management of BBMP's 33,737+ works, which are going on in various parts of the City. If someone wants to monitor any particular project being executed by BBMP, with respect to its timely completion, cost effectiveness or quality, they can follow the progress of the work by selecting the project and putting the same on their watch list. As progress gets uploaded on BBMP's website, they will get alerts and the public can also upload photographs and feedback to ensure that the work proceeds in the desired direction.
Advantages of using Web-Based Global Project Management System (BBMP-GPMS)
- The goal is to use technology-aided tools to enable efficiency and transparency and bring about accountability in all e-governance services.
- To provide total transparency in all the civic functions of BBMP.
- Empower citizens by providing them accurate ready-to-view real-time information on-line.
- Provide a single-point database for all citizen services and matters.
- Enable access to central repository to all citizen data through cloud services.
- Bring about constant improvement in e-governance services through continuous public feedback.
Now BBMP has provided this portal for public to register complaints, view projects, provide additional information, suggestions of their interest and update delays or inconvenience caused through this BBMP-GPMS on-line portal.
For details on the programme, contact:
Kathyayini Chamaraj, Executive Trustee, CIVIC, 97318 17177
www.civicspace.in
Muralidhar Rao
COMMENTS
idontspam - 28 August, 2011 - 02:58
Firstly consultant who prepares framework/DPR cant participate in implementation as per the KA transparency in procurement act, so if infy makes the framework & roadmap they cant participate in the real implementaition of the workflow system. Secondly E&Y is standard consultant within GoK for this type of work. Some depts actually welcome other consultants to come forward & empanel themselves. There will be bunch of DPR's waiting to be done & you can take you pick. For IT related work there are few vendors as most want to bid for the larger implementation rather than the smaller consulting piece.
The resistance to workflow might decrease but I can bet there will be arm twisting of the implementing agencies to provide manual bypasses to every system. I have heard this reluctance when the property mapping was happening, the folks in the various offices tried all they could to scuttle it including simple tricks like claiming to forget the login password to windows & not informing the helpdesk for a new password.
The janlokpal citizens charter or even the right to service act should become the framework to define the service level for each transaction type, work backwards to define application & infrastructure service levels to outsourced service providers.
It will be interesting to see if the WGPMS will be hooked to this workflow to show the real status of the works instead of the useless behemoth it is now.The WGPMS shoud show how many updates are happening on a weekly basis so the people know the truth about these IT "systems"
srinidhi - 28 August, 2011 - 10:36
The concern with a PWC or EnY is that they are mostly far removed from the ground realities..
The objective as the news report says and as we discuss here, is how to plug gaps and bring transparency..and not simply a well bound huge document with jargons..
Its shouldnt end up like the zurich built BIA..where they completely missed out on the fact that platform tickets selling is a big biz at the railway stations in India and so on..
The report also says everything will be ready in six months..I can bet that EnY itself will not be able to submit their report by then..and then the dev works will start..nothing less than 1 year..to see something!
idontspam - 31 August, 2011 - 17:52
On the topic of monitoring & digitization here is the cat which nobody is willing to bell
BBMP engineers are now doing a survey on the damage to the roads and also started the process of finding out the road history.
So why is the road history being done now? Because the BBMP does not have a centralised database on the history of each road — the time it was asphalted, the cost, who the contractors were and so on.
“There is a tremendous opposition to such a database being generated both from within and outside the civic authority, as the history could prevent roads in good condition being re-laid,” said a senior BBMP official, hinting at well-entrenched corruption. The road history will also help the palike manage the roads better — both before and after monsoon.
idontspam - 7 September, 2012 - 06:54
I put it on ichangemycity also... BBMP office directed me to BWSSB ultimately I went down to the BWSSB office, they wouldnt take a letter I had written out, but asked me to write in a complaints book they have there. Lets see if that works.
All this internet doesnt trickle down to them at all, unless work gets assigned & closed thru these systems only there will be no hope for any work getting done.
srinidhi - 28 August, 2011 - 02:21
Ernst & Young, for instance, will prepare a detailed project report for BBMP's egovernance initiative.
Gubbi mele brahmastra..its like they brought a tank to quell a domestic quarrel! They should have just asked praja or even the implementation co(Infy/HCL) to do it!
Anyways its not just that..it JNuRM free flow money for the project!
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