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Vijaywada online!

Vijaywada Municipal Corporation is getting computerised and, better, is putting its records online. This step follows a pact the Andhra Pradesh government signed with the Department of Electronics to provide such online access.

Part of AP Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu's attempt at electronic, the Vijaywada Online Information Centre is expected to be the foundation stone for a statewide information network including even the villages, can be accessed and assessed from Hyderabad itself.

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The average citizen too can avoid the tangle of red tape and find out relevant information over the Internet. Information from birth and death records to land deals and more will be available on the Net, sources said.

Computer Maintenance Corporation is putting up the project, which had received in-principle cabinet clearance from the Union cabinet. Both the AP government and the DoE are funding the Rs 20 million project, with the state providing 75 per cent of the hardware costs and the DoE providing most of the software.

These moves are expected to make government functioning more transparent, curbing corruption, improving services and removing bottlenecks. If the VOICE experiment is successful, the project may be extended to other cities in the state and maybe elsewhere in the country in about three to five years, the sources said.

VMC was picked because much of its work is already computerised. Using the database already available on computer, the VMC hopes to boost itself into Internet era.

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