Assistance in maintenance, solid waste management, control of related functions of buildings and factories and facilitation of operations at the administrative division (ward) level.

Application is currently on pilot basis, available full time from 1st October 2024

The mobile application was developed by the Information Technology Department of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation

Maintenance, Solid Waste Management, Buildings & control of related operations of factory department And for the purpose of facilitating it, MyBMC Sachet app has been created on behalf of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to know the actual status of field work. Currently, this mobile application has been launched on an experimental basis. From 1st October 2024 it will be available full time for the concerned employees.

Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation Commissioner and Administrator Shri. According to the guidance of Bhushan Gagrani, as well as Additional Municipal Commissioner (City) Dr. (Mrs.) Ashwini Joshi’s concept, Information Technology Department has developed MyBMC Sachet application based on Geographical Information Technology (GIS).

The employees and officers of various departments of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation are regularly doing field work. MyBMC Sachet app has been created with the aim of improving transparency, reliability and management of field operations in the work done by them. This application has been developed by the Information Technology Department of the Municipal Corporation.

Under this, the employees and officers related to the operations of maintenance, solid waste management, buildings and factory departments at various administrative department (ward) levels can record their daily activities details with photographs. After completion of the said work can also record the completion of the work by uploading the related information and photographs. Hence, information about their ongoing work, completed work and current status of work etc. will be available at a moment’s notice.

Assistant Commissioners of concerned departments, Deputy Commissioners of Circles, Additional Municipal Commissioners as well as Municipal Commissioners will be able to review this complete information and operations through the web application and dashboard.

Currently this mobile application is launched on Android platform and on experimental basis. Soon this application will be made available on iOS platform as well. It is being informed by the municipal administration that it will be available full-time for the concerned employees and officers from October 1, 2024.

Mumbai: Member of Parliament and NCP (SP) leader Supriya Sule said on Friday that the women doctors of Mumbai’s civic-run Nair Hospital who have raised complaints about sexual harassment are being silenced. “Despite them requesting to be heard, government authorities are turning a blind eye to this entire issue. We demand urgent action now, it is gravely jeopardising women’s safety,” Sule said in her X post.

On Thursday, in a hearing, several more female students came forward to lodge complaints against a suspended assistant professor from BYL Nair Hospital, who was accused of sexual harassment. To date, around 10 complaints have been filed against the professor, reports say.

As per HT’s report, the hearing was organised following a directive from the additional municipal commissioner of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. It was conducted by the Savitribai Phule Women’s Resource Centre’s Internal Complaints Committee and Sexual Harassment Prevention Committee at the Workplace. 

What Is the Nair Hospital Case

A female student studying at Bai Yamunabai Laxman (B.Y.L.) Nair Hospital and Medical College, located in Mumbai Central, lodged an official complaint accusing the associate professor of inappropriate conduct and sexual harassment. The allegations were initially examined by the hospital’s internal Sexual Harassment Prevention Committee.

Earlier this month, Nair Hospital’s Dean had said that he received the information about the sexual harassment case from the internal complaints committee on April 12 and by first week of June the professor was taken off from all academic activities.

On September 15, the BMC informed that the professor was suspended after the sexual harassment complaints. The case was escalated to the Municipal Headquarters’ Complaint Committee under the Savitribai Phule Women’s Resource Center.

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar-headed Election Commission of India (ECI) team will hold two-day discussions with various stakeholders and review the preparations for the upcoming Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election starting from Friday.

The team, which was welcomed by the state chief electoral officer S. Chockalingam on Thursday night, will hold discussions with the political parties, state government officers, enforcement agencies, district collectors and Superintendents of Police from 10 a.m. onwards on Friday and Saturday. The CEC along with two Election Commissioners, Ganesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu, will address the media on Saturday.

The ECI team on Friday will meet political parties to seek their views. During the day, it will have discussions with the state Chief Electoral Officer, enforcement agencies, the state chief secretary, the director general of police and other administrative secretaries and senior police officers with regard to the deployment of the necessary manpower and law and order situation.

On September 28, the ECI team will hold an interactive meeting with the district collectors and superintendents of police to take stock of the ground-level preparations. Thereafter, CEC will address the press conference. The ECI team’s visit is important as Chief Minister Eknath Shinde had recently said that the Assembly election may take place in the second week of November. The term of the present Assembly ends on November 26.

The ECI’s visit comes after the state CEO on September 12 and 13 met the deputy district election officers, district collectors and chief district election officers and reviewed the preparations for the elections in 288 Assembly constituencies. The CEO reviewed the status of electronic voting machines, the updated voters’ list, the status of polling material and district-level poll management, especially, the availability of the required number of staff and security arrangements for free and fair elections.

Further, the CEO also took stock of the situation of the district-level preparedness for conducting counting smoothly. He also reviewed the plan to start polling stations in high-rise buildings and cooperative societies with over 200 families. Maharashtra has added 2.4 million new voters during the special drive conducted between August 6 and 20.

In view of this, the number of total voters in the state rose to 95.4 million, up from 92.94 million at the end of the Lok Sabha election. Over 2.08 million applications for voter addition and 370,000 applications for name deletion due to death or duplication were received by the Election Commission of India during the special drive.