SMC to adopt useful apps developed during APPATHON Surat

December 20, 2014
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Surat, DeshGujarat

26 team of Surat on Friday participated in ‘Appathon’ event organized by Microsoft and Surat Municipal Corporation(SMC). Overall 96 technical students, software developers, local start-ups and others had participated in this event which started at 10.30 am on 18th December and concluded at 10.30 am on 19th December. For 24 hours, the youths continued to develo application.

Bhavin Gajjar, Ritesh Gajjar and Nimesh Goti won first prize with an application developed by them called ‘healthcare solution’. Second number was secured by a team that developed ‘lost and found’ application which can help government office to find a particular detail or file. ‘RTO solution’ application developer Salman Khan and his team stood as second runner-up.

Winner were given windows tablet and Nokia mobile phones as prize.

SMC Commissioner Milind Torvane said, SMC will start new four to five applications for public use soon. He said the city has already started a dashboard which showcases important parameters of city managements.

Torvane said technology is very useful in city management. He gave an example. He said recently the SMC had invited forms for 11,000 units of affordable housing. The SMC received 7,000 forms. The next task was to invite each of them to draw event. Conventionally SMC would dispatch letters to them, but it was a time consuming task. So, SMS took decision to inform each applicant through voice message on his/her mobile phone. A system was developed to shoot telephone call to each applicant and deliver a recorded voice message of invitation to draw. Suppose if someone couldn’t receive the call, the system was design in a way that he/she would receive call again from SMC with recorded message. With this application saved time and manual efforts. The entire task was completed without any complain.

Torvane said the SMC is already using some applications regarding RTI, tax payment, birth-death registration, complaints etc. A new bunch of application will further serve citizens through technology.

Read more: Surat partners with Microsoft to become a smart city

Surat citizen on twitter hails SMC’s adaptation of new technology and its efficiency in bringing results:

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