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Outdated info on GHMC website
Despite tall claims of maintaining transparency and adopting technology to transform Hyderabad in to a global city, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation\'s official website continues to provide outdated information and wrong contact numbers. The website has not been updated for the past three months.
​Hyderabad: Despite tall claims of maintaining transparency and adopting technology to transform Hyderabad in to a global city, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation's official website continues to provide outdated information and wrong contact numbers. The website has not been updated for the past three months.
The website even today carries 100 day action plan, Urban Malaria Scheme (Entomology) Mosquito Control which were hosted six months ago. The civic body information technology wing has not bothered to update the progress of several ongoing works.
According to officials, the GHMC website was hosted by Centre for Good Governance (CGG). Officials said that the corporation has been paying about Rs 30 lakh annually for updating and maintaining the website.
Officials also said that the CGG has been not updating the website on regular basis even though they had provided the information.
Recently, the GHMC had posted that works in regard to 912 roads were completed while it was not so.
As this came to light, the GHMC Commissioner B Janardhan Reddy suspended an engineering official for uploading the details without getting any information from 24 engineering divisions of the corporation and without obtaining signed copies from the executive engineers concerned.
The civic body even conducted a public poll in which 14,196 people rated the website as poor, 2,156 as average and 3,507 as good.
Even the contact numbers of many GHMC officials is not correct as the website has not been updated. For example, information about P Venkat Ramana (former Director of Fire Services) and J Shankaraiah, Additional Commissioner who were transferred have not been updated. Even the names of some suspended officials continue to be displayed on the website.
A senior GHMC official told The Hans India that that the fault lies with the CGG which had not updated the website since least three months.
He said that corporation has already sent the information to CGG and it was for them to do it. The GHMC official further said that the Corporation has now decided to hand over the website maintenance to a private firm for just Rs 1.5 lakh annually.
