Times of
India: Mumbai:
Thursday, April 04, 2013.
Soon,
citizens and activists won't need to file a right to information (RTI) request
to access civic data.
The civic body
plans to upload most of its 80 crore documents on its website to counter
charges of lack of transparency levelled against it by campaigners that
citizens and civic activists complain about.
According to
BMC officials, the digitization of documents will be useful for people to have
free and quick access to them.
"All
data will be uploaded on to a server. A link will be made available on the
website to view all uploaded documents. Hence, there will be no need to file an
RTI request for any records," said deputy municipal commissioner Vasant
Prabhu.
The Stock
Holding Corporation of India Ltd (SCHIL), which has a hi-tech data centre at
Mahape in Navi Mumbai, has been tasked with digitizing and preserving the
records.
The civic
body has provided the task of digitising and preserving these documents to the
Stock Holding Corporation of India Ltd (SCHIL), which has its state of the art
data centre at Mahape, Navi Mumbai. The data of all the BMC documents will be
stored here amidst tight security arrangements.
SCHIL
Projects Limited (SPL), a subsidiary of SCHIL, will carry out the document
management and digitization of BMC records. SCHIL's Mahape data centre is
missile proof and fireproof with various layers of security along with
electronic identification for every employee.
"We have
three data centres at Mahape, Airoli and Bengaluru. Original documents will be
preserved at Mahape, a backup of the information will be stored in the Airoli
and Bengaluru centres," said Sanjeev Vivrekar, managing director and CEO
of SPL.
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