India’s first Swachh Bharat Academy to be established in Thane

In a recent development, Thane will be home to India’s first Swachh Bharat Academy, set to be established at the […]

Civic elections will get fast tracked with GIS system

Advanced technology is going to be used by the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) to ensure that election results can be […]

India News: July 2011

[This article was published in the July 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

India News: July 2011

Thane Launches Portal for Clearing Building Proposals

The Town Planning Department of the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) in Maharashtra has gone online with a dedicated portal launched to clear building proposals.

CM Launches New Smart Card Scheme in Maharashtra

Maharashtra CM, Prithviraj Chavan, recently launched a new initiative in Bhiwandi village of a state. The initiative is on the lines of financial inclusion using biometrics where he issued smart cards to beneficiaries of the Sanjay Gandhi Niradhar Yojyna, a state-sponsored financial aid scheme for destitutes.

Automating self-services

[This article was published in the August 2010 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Hi-tech building blocks are being used to enable diverse micro transaction needs of the citizens

Tree Tracking goes Hi-tech in India

A team of botanists in Mumbai are planning to map trees with the help of GPS based etchnology. Environmentalist, Ramesh Madav and his team, who have founded Terracon Ecotech Pvt. Ltd, will be out with equipment that can determine the exact location of a tree using global positioning system, or GPS, a satellite-based technology typically used in vehicle navigation and location-based information search.