(Moderator's Note: The author of this mail Dr Santhosh Babu is an IAS Officer in Tamilnadu and heads the Department of Horticulture. He was earlier the IT Secretary of Government of Tamilnadu and also the Director of E-Governance of the State. Few months back, Dr Abdul Kalam mentioned about his achievements in the IAS Officers Conference at Delhi. He is part of our India Vision Group.)
Dear Friends,
This technology is being used by 23 government departments in Andhra Pradesh. I learned of it when I was IT Secretary, and gave a live demonstration to about 25 IAS officers of our cadre. I understand that many departments have tendered or are in the process of tendering for the application.
Now, we have implemented this technology in the Directorate of Horticulture & Plantation Crops in remotely inspecting installation of micro irrigation systems, works in our parks, farms, gardens etc. As yu area aware, we are the only state in the country giving 100% subsidy for micro irrigation to small and marginal farmers and 75% subsidy to other farmers. So it involves a huge amount of money, and necessarily needs 100 % inspection before release of subsidy. Currently, the administration of this subsidy is very difficult, with the Collector insisting on 100% fiield inspection by his team, even though this has been 100% inspected by our ADH and 25% by the DDH. The apprehensions of Collectors as Chairman of the DMIC is also not misplaced as there haves been instances of :
1. No installation, but bill being passed cases very rarely.
2. One installation, and multiple bills taken, again very rarely.
3. The MI system being sold off by the small and marginal farmer in rare cases, putting our officials in a serious situation viz.a.viz audit etc..
Now, we have managed to overcome all these issues by implementing m-Governance. You can view the same live at http://tnhorticulture.tn.gov.in
1. Click on m-governance link on the home page
2. The new page will show the reports section on the left side (you can generate 25 different kinds of reports)
3. In the middle is a link for dashboards for DDH, Collector, Commissioner Horticulture, APC/ Secretary Agriculture, Hon'Ble Agriculture Minister etc
4. On the right side of the screen is the GPS. Click on that
5. On the new page will be displayed the google map of TN and India.
6. Click on verified members on the left top margin and wait for a few seconds.
7. Now you will see green colored teardrop shaped icons all over Villupuram disirict, a few at Krishnagiri and Coimbatore. We have just started; in a couple of months yu will be able to see 30,000 such icons depending on the number of MI systems installed.
8. Click on any icon
9. Now you will see e photograph of one field with time and geo stamps.
10. Click twice on the photo an you will see multiple photographs with time and geo and geo stamps
11. On top of the first photo is a link which will give you all details related to that particular field
.m-Governance allows us complete control over the installation of micro irrigation systems ( about 50,000 nos) and all works that we undertake in our parks and gardens across Tamil Nadu. it is a completely cloud based model that allows us to Geo-fence ( Geo-fencing is done by taking latitude and longitude with reference to the satellite coordinates by using an application installed in the mobile phone equipped with GPS capabilities) all the micro irrigation systems. Tis work is being outsourced to a third party, such that when the third party in the field takes a photo of a micro irrigation system or any work place which has been Geo-fenced, using a mobile phone installed with a software, he is able to lock on the Geo-fenced area when he comes 3 to 5 meters near and then clicks the photo. The photo does not remain in the mobile. ( The photo which is about 1Mb in size is compressed to 5 kb by a Danish compression technology which allows transfer of the photo to the server in micro seconds. ) The photo with the time stamp and full details of the farmer field is transmitted to the server and anybody can visualize these pictures by visiting our website. This can prevent duplication or multiplication of bills by taking different photos of one field and claiming multiple bills, give us evidence of installation where after sometime the beneficiary has sold the equipment etc, as has a happened in a few cases.
I will be happy to answer any queries in this regard.
With warm regards,
Santhosh Babu
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