Along with the innovation in technology, the use of Mobile Applications has increased in e-Governance. Number of Mobile Applications on NIC Mobile Appstore portal (https://egovmobileapps.nic.in) has increased to 333. More and more Mobile Apps are getting uploaded on iTune and Play Store under NIC account. m-Governance is complementing e-Governance by providing more accessible services to G2G, G2C, G2B areas.
Most of the times, the development of a Mobile Application starts with native technology that is Android or iOS. Hybrid Mobile App development is becoming popular and takes advantage of HTML, CSS and JavaScript for Mobile App development. However, none of the single platform is the best. Based on functional and performance requirements, a suitable technology may be chosen. In case of frequent changes in application where it has to run on multiple platforms, Hybrid Mobile App may be chosen. In cases, where there is a need of rigid access to hardware and other platform specific features are required, we may opt for Native Mobile Application development.
In this issue, Appscape covers Mobile Apps from various sectors such as Rural Development, Transport, Education, District Administration, Agriculture, and Judiciary. GSA 18 is a GPS based Mobile Application developed for tracking and monitoring the activities performed during Gram Swaraj Abhiyan. Khatara Gaadi empowers citizens to identify and report obsolete vehicles to Transport Department. Lakshadweep Course College Information App provides information for courses, colleges and number of seats available for e-Counselling. Delhi Online Registration Information System (DORIS) is for checking the property registered with Revenue Department. E-Litigation Mobile App enables to get real time daily information status of pending court cases of the Government in Meghalaya. MP LandRecords facilitates single window access of land ownership documents along with other departments information. Dairy Farmers Survey App is for Department of Dairy Development (Govt. of Kerala). iExaMS-DHSE-Kerala helps students to get detailed result on their mobile.
GSA 2018 Mobile App The Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR), in coordination with the Ministry of Rural Development, GoI has organised Gram Swaraj Abhiyan(14th April - 5th May, 2018) and extended Gram Swaraj Abhiyan (1st June -15th August 2018) campaign in partnership with various Ministries like M/o Petroleum and Gas, M/o Health & Family Welfare, M/o of Finance, M/o of Power, M/o Skills Development, M/o Social Justice & Empowerment, M/o Agriculture, M/o Women and Child Development. The campaign aims to promote social harmony and saturate the 7 flagship schemes of the Government in appox 65,000+ Villages across India. GPS based Android and iOS Mobile Application GSA 18 is developed to track & monitor the activities during this Abhiyaan.
Among the various features offered by the App, some prominent ones are: GPS based App for auto-detecting location, Image upload captured from conducted activities, User friendly with ease of operation, Auto routing mechanism for image and testimonials moderation/ verification, Geo-tagged and Timestamped captured media, Seamless operation in low internet connectivity areas and Bilingual language support for both English and Hindi. The App has been developed by NIC and is offered under NIC e-Gov Mobile Apps. It already installed for more than 50,000 users. More than 70 lac pictures and approx 1 lac testimonials have been uploaded using this App during GSA 18.
Khatara Gaadi App Khatara Gaadi App is a joint initiative of e-Transport, NIC and Delhi Transport Department.
“Spotted a junk vehicle in your neighbourhood wasting parking space?” Now people can report it through a mobile application -‘Khatara Gaadi’
In Delhi, any petrol vehicle above 15 years age or any diesel vehicle above 10 years age is not allowed to be parked. Many such old, junk vehicles are illegally parked in public spaces or road-side and clutter the city.
The App will empower citizens to identify and report such vehicles in a very easy and effective manner, which will then be towed away by the Transport department/ Civic Body. Citizens will just enter the vehicle registration number and the App will connect them with the back-end National Database and confirm if it is an old vehicle. Users can now click the photograph of the vehicle, which will be sent directly to the control room of the Transport Department. The photos would be geo-tagged, which will help the department to find the location of the vehicle to be towed. Reporting person's identity will be kept confidential. The App is available on both Android and iOS platforms. Through this initiative, citizens will help to make the city clean and clutter-free.
Lakshadweep Course College Information App The App is developed to provide information of courses, colleges and number of seats available for the courses in a college under a particular university for e-Counselling. Online Seat allotment through e-Counselling is conducted by the Education Department every year at Lakshadweep for allotment of Seats in various colleges for higher studies in mainland, for post SSLC, Post-Plus 2 and PG courses. The process ensures transparency in allotment process. The information of course, college, university and number of seats is available in the e-Counselling site. Due to slow network, it is not very convenient for the islanders to view/ download this information every time from the site. Besides, Mobile Apps are very handy and easy to use. With this purpose, this App has been developed with offline data. Also, the App will provide updated information during the period of Counselling. Students and parents get prepared for counselling and hence, the time taken to select the course and college of their choice can be reduced.
The App was developed with the co-operation of the online counselling team. The application provides details about Universities (available for selection), College details (Colleges under the university), Course details (list of colleges where a particular course is offered) and Seat Availability.
DORIS App Delhi Online Registration Information System (DORIS) is for the users who want to check property registered with Revenue Department, Delhi. Users can search their queries by entering Registration year, Book number, first party name, second party name, property address etc.
DORIS has been developed with the objective to provide Single Window Services, timely registration and transparent & reliable transactions. It is a tool to monitor the revenue generated out of registration. Keeping future trends and requirements in view, DORIS has been designed and developed using user-friendly windows based technologies.
DORIS automates all major activities of Sub-Registrar office and covers deeds (27) of Sale, Mortgage, Will, Adoption, SPA, GPA, Exchange, Pattanama/ Lease, Tatima etc. Major features include token issuance, online capturing, storage, printing of photographs on stamp paper, valuation of property etc. The system is integrated with land record and at present, all agriculture transactions in DORIS are reflected through auto mutation in land record. It has been implemented in all 22 SRO offices in Delhi.
Daily Registration data from all the locations has been saving to State Data Center (SDC) since 1st April, 2017. Deed templates are also available on Revenue Department’s website.
E-Litigation Mobile App Objective of the Mobile App is to check real-time daily information for Government court cases’ statuses that are pending in various departments in Meghalaya. The e-Litigation application is an online Court Case Monitoring System that enables the stakeholders to update the court cases which are pending in the departments. It not only provides a tool to departments to monitor the pending court cases but also streamlines the process of engagement of Government counsels for the cases. The Mobile App has updated information for all pending cases in its database.
Using the App, one can search the status of the case by entering different parameters. User can get the updated details of the case.
App can also be used by the citizens to search any pending cases and get the status, provided they know the case number, party name and name of the counsel engaged by the Government to take up the case. They can have access to information from anywhere. Users are allowed to view the data only, making changes of the data is prohibited. To use the App, the user should have a 3G/ 4G mobile phone connection.
MP LandRecords App ‘MP LandRecords’ has been launched as a citizen centric Mobile App to serve and empower land owners of Madhya Pradesh to deliver excellent grassroot governance. Land records data comprises of 43 million Khasra (Plot/ Survey) and 15 million landowners from 55 thousand villages. The App facilitates single window access of land ownership documents along with other departments information such as office orders, gradation list, exam results and important telephone numbers of Land Record officials.
Earlier, it was difficult to get ROR details if patwari halka or RI circle of a village was not known. To overcome this problem, an option is added in the Android App. With this, users may now click directly on village. Just after the selection of District, users get alphabetic list of Villages. They may directly select village from the list to get details of Khasra, Khatauni & Naksha of the land on their smart device.
The App was launched on 23rd July, 2014 and approx 1.25 Lakhs users installed it. The next version launched on April, 2018 has 9,275 downloads and more than 26 Lakhs hits since release. The App is designed and developed by Land Records Division, Madhya Pradesh for the Commissioner, Land records & Settlement, Madhya Pradesh.
Dairy Farmers Survey App ‘Dairy Farmers Survey App’ is an e-Gov App for the Department of Dairy Development (Govt. of Kerala) and Dairy Co-operative Societies. Dairy Survey Questionnaire serves as a primary data collection instrument for the Dairy Department's estimation of Milk Production, Fodder availability, Infrastructure facilities, Land holdings, Location details and Farmers profile etc.
This App can be used by the Department personnel for recording and synchronising the Dairy Farmers details by making face-to-face interactions with them. The geotagged Survey details are recorded in the App while conducting the field level survey and the same is synchronised with the local server periodically or when the survey is completed.
NIC has developed and tested the Mobile App to meet data gathering requirements of the Dairy Department. The offline Survey App is designed for face-to-face interactions with farmers. The data can be used for various analysis and tabular reports.
Services offered by the App include Family Members Details, Land Area, Major Crops, Fodder Types, Drinking Water Resources, Cattle Population, Total Milk Procurement, Cattle Feed Availability, Cattle Shed Modernization, Cow Dung Usage, Photo of Farmer, Photo of Cattle Shed, Photo of Fodder Land and GPS Location of Survey Area.