The Governament of India has been playing about with the idea of eGovernance for some time now. I used to be a person who would laugh at the quality of government web-sites, and how stupidly useless they were. But things are changing. Both the user friendlyness of these sites as well as the services they offer are improving.
I recently came across this site Indian Government Portal, that links to many government sites. It has a good interface, and is useful. Infact more than any other site it was this one that has made me write this post. It has web directories, maps, greetings... its a long list. Yes, it does provide eGreetings too. I never expected to find that.
You can track the progress of various documents like passports. This recently helped me find how far the work on my mom's passport had progressed.
Want to find someone's phone number?
Need to find the address of someone and all you have is the phone number?
Check out this BSNL site. Now this works for Vasai, and many other town in Thane to the north of mumbai. To find numbers in mumbai, you will need to go to the MTNL site. I could not get this one to give me results.
Need to travel to some part of the city you are not familiar with? No problem! Take a look at this BEST site that will give you the buses, I mean bus numbers... and the route you need to take.
There are many such services available...and I see many more will some come up.
3 Comments:
Yup! right... its an eyeopener DuDe!
:D
Dont know when the MTNL site will start working though.
Dude you seem to be missin from quite a few days. I hope you are alive. If not then just inform us so that we can delete your contact from our address books. Just kiddin. Tc.
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