IE : BMC portal: Back-end ready, now just log on : Sept 13, 2007
BMC portal: Back-end ready, now just log on
Posted online: Thursday , September 13, 2007 at 12:00:00
Updated: Thursday , September 13, 2007 at 01:01:27
Mumbai, September 12 : Once Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh inaugurates
this 10,000-sq ft data centre of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation
(BMC) at Worli and the swish new portal of the civic body on Thursday, this
state-of-the-art property will be the nerve-centre that runs the country’s
richest municipal corporation’s e-governance initiatives.
Through a 100-kilometre wide area network (WAN), the data centre is
connected to the BMC headquarters, 24 ward offices, 34 fire stations, 6
octroi nakas, 3 dumping grounds, 19 garages, 50 pumping stations and 25
hospitals.
So, starting Thursday, when you pay property tax, water bills or octroi
online, get your birth and death certificates and many such civic services
online, whether you are working from home, from work or from the Citizen
Facilitation Centres of the ward offices, you will be routed through BMC’s
new website and through its 4.5-tetrabyte data servers, working round the
clock here.
“It took two years of non-stop efforts – of talking to consultants, getting
the software in place and looking through at least 20 international websites
and systems followed by 6 months of a dry run to get us to this stage – from
formulation to actually seeing it happen now,” said Shree Kant Singh,
additional municipal commissioner (BMC), the project in-charge while working
on last minute arrangements.
“Also it is a project which has seen support across the masses,” he added-
which explains why Sena president Uddhav Thackarey, BJP’s Prakash Mehta are
going to share the stage with the chief minister on Thursday.
The data centre at Worli will be managed by 85 BMC employees. A day before
the inauguration, the data centre- a high-security 2,000 sq ft server room
and network operation centre of 170 central processing units (CPU) supported
by MTNL leased lines of 2 MB, ISDN, 64 kbps – was packed with techies
belonging to the implementation agency, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS),
hunched over 25 computers double checking all systems.
Publication : IE; Section : MN; Pg : 1; Date : 13/9/07
URL :
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/BMC-portal-Backend-ready-now-just-log-on/216239/