Lieutenant Governor Ajay Kumar Singh launches MITRA app in Puducherry

The Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry Ajay Kumar Singh has launched MITRA application to ensure protection of women, children & elderly in time of distress. The MITRA (Mobile Initiated Tracking and Rescue) application has been developed by the Puducherry Police department in association with National Informatics Centre.
Features of MITRA application:

• It is smartphone based application that helps women to end emergency SOS alert messages when they are danger and distress.


• The application gets launched automatically and sends SMS having user’s precise location to the nearest police station and to their Three registered numbers.


• It does not require an internet connection & presently is available only in smart phones.

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Puducherry to get Smart city nomination

Puducherry city has the first nomination to be received by the Urban Development Ministry for a Smart City Mission. In this regard, Govt. of Union Territory of Puducherry has nominated its capital city for addition in the Union Government’s flagship 100 Smart Cities Mission. It also has forwarded the nomination along with all the forms & documents as required in the Stage-1 of ‘City Challenge’ competition. The nominations has also include the details of evaluation of all the Five urban local bodies (ULBs) Puducherry, Kariakal, Oulgaret, Mahe & Yanam.The nomination was forwarded based on the recommendations of the High Powered Steering Committee (HPSC) constituted as per the uiderlines of mission. It was headed by the Chief Secretary of UT and had over-seen the process of 1st stage intra state competition. For each state and UTs slots assigned for the Smart City are as per the criteria based on equal weightage for urban population and number of ULBs and the geographical equity.
Facts about Stage-1 evaluation criteria of Puducherry:

• Puducherry has a population of 6.5 lakh has scored 75 of the possible 100 marks in Stage-1 evaluation criteria.


• Since 2011, Puducherry Municipal Corporation (PM) has achieved 18% improvement in provision of household sanitary latrines.


• Internal revenue generation has continuously increased by 14% over the past 3 year period of 2012-13 to 2014-15.


• It has met 23% of its capital expenditure from internal resources. It also has met about 80% operation & maintenance costs of water supply through user charges.

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