Mobile Governance

• To check the status of their application they had applied.
• To check his eligibility for the respective post he/she had applied.
• To check the examination results in which he/she has appeared.

If the applicants want:

(a) To check the status of their Application they can:

The reply message will give the Application number of the candidate (eg., 10641400014), which can be used for further enquiries.

(b) To check the eligibility:

The reply message will give eligibility (eg., eligible/ineligible), Roll Number (eg., 180611202200522) and date & time of Examination (eg., 24.06.2007 10.30 am) to the eligible candidate.

(c) To check the Examination Results:

The reply message will let them know their result.

Note:
<>            : Indicates space,
RRBA         : Railway Recruitment Board Application Status
ENNO                : Employment News Notice Number.
CATNO       : Category Number
DOB          : Date of Birth
NAME        : Candidate Name
RRBE         : Railway Recruitment Board Eligibility
APPNO       : Application Number
RRBR         : Railway Recruitment Board Result

Indian Railway has started a new Mobile/Phone Service on No: 139 for his/her Rail Customers under One Nation One Number Scheme. Across the India, people from any village or town can call on 139 for Rail Passenger enquiries without STD facility.
They can access following services through 139:

• PNR Enquiry
• Current Train Running Position
• Accommodation Availability
• Fare Enquiry

All theses above services available in Hindi, English, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, kannada, Bangla, Oriya and Assamese in respective regions. Railway customers can access these services on MTNL, BSNL, Dolphin, Garuda, Cellone, Idea, Vodafone and Spice phones (Services on other telecom service providers shall be made available shortly). At present, these services are available only in Delhi & Mumbai city.

Process of Dialing:

• Dial 139  X X X X X X X X X X  (X X X X X X X X X X= 10 digit PNR Number).
• Dial 139  X X X X  (X X X X= 4 digit Train Number)

Indian Railway provides Train Schedule/Time Table/ PNR Status/ Search/Seat Availability related information through Mobile SMS (Short Messaging Services). BSNL, MTNL, Airtel, Reliance, Tata Infocom and Idea mobile user can access these services through his/her mobile phone. They can access these services on: 56677, 57886, 5676747, 55888 & 5888. 

Services Available with 56677

1. Schedule (RST)
2. Time Table (RST)
3. PNR Status (PNR)
4. Search (RSI)
5. Seat Availability (RSK)

How to use these services on Mobile

Know more about all the above SMS services, please log on: http://www.indianrail.gov.in and
Click on Rail SMS Service menu.

Soon, Faizabad's citizens will receive e-Governance services on their mobile phones. The Chief Development Officer (CDO) Gaurav Dayal has launched an initiative, called 'Real e-Governance', in which e-Governance services would be conducted through mobile phones.

Recently Dayal has started trials for a project called Anant Sampark by Harnessing Wireless Access (ASHWA), with an aim to establish a practicable e-Governance infrastructure, which will connect rural areas with the district Headquarter. With ASHWA, villagers can access their family register, different certificates including death, birth, income, domicile and land records with the "dial" button of the cell phone. A member who is associated with ASHWA is known as Ashwarohi.

A villager who needs a copy of land record of any government certificate or assistance, he has to approach Ashwarohi, and pay him a sum of INR 20. A master computer, monitored personally by the CDO will be installed at Vikas Bhawan in the district headquarter. This main server will receive the message. After identifying the Cell Phone, from which the message has been sent, the computer will print the required document. Each village will have one Ashwarohi, who will be trained to use GPRS Cell Phone.

Source: http://www.egovonline.net/news/news- details.asp?newsid=13026

SMS service for immediate redressal of agri-related problems of the farmers in the state, introduced by the Haryana Agriculture Department in the early of year 2007 has been a success with the farmers asking a wide range of questions from experts.

This free of cost service was launched on February 02, 2007 and the farmers could send their SMS at Mobile Number: 9915862026 for immediate redressal of their queries. Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Agriculture, Mr S P Sharma told that the department had received 800 SMS related to this service till date out of which 599 SMS queries were concerned with agricultural problems, 192 were horticulture related, 4 fisheries related, three animal husbandry related and two were forestry related. The concerned specialists and officials were answering questions sent to the department through this service within 24 to 48 hours telephonically.

Source: http://news.oneindia.in/2007/04/29/farmers-in-haryana-use-sms-service-
for-agri-problems-1177850139.html

The Indian government, along with the mobile industry, seems to be taking steps to ensure that mobile services are available in the deepest parts of the Indian farming community. The government has begun sending out SMS alerts to farming communities, informing them about details involving the supply of food.
The government of the state of Chhattisgarh is going to provide 35 kilos of rice a month to each family, at the subsidized rate of Rs 3 a kilo, under a food security scheme. What the government has decided to do is send an SMS message that will inform these communities that food is being distributed at designated centers. Families that wish to avail of this service will have to register at the website of the food and civil supplies department.
The food scheme starts on January 16, 2007 and will cover 3.4 million families (or about 60 percent of the state¡¯s 20 million population). The SMS facility will go live from January 26, 2007.

Reliance Communications has launched "Money Transfer" through mobile phones across the country through it's tie- up with ICICI Bank. This initiative offers Reliance Communications subscribers an alternative means of account-to-account transfer generally associated with banks and other agencies. Money Remittance market opportunity is estimated to be in the range of $24Billion annually including global remittances to India.

Through this arrangement, ICICI Bank's customers can transfer money to others having an ICICI bank account anytime, anywhere in the country using their Reliance mobile phones. This service is available on Reliance Mobile World enabled phones including the recently launched Reliance Classic range of phones starting from Rs. 777 (Black and White) to Rs. 1234 (Colour Phones).

ICICI Bank's Reliance mobile customers can go to the 'Finance' section > R World> Mobile Bank>M Banking>ICICI Bank>Saving Account to avail of this offer. The customers would be charged a mobile transaction fee of Rs.10 and can transfer up to Rs. 5000 with multiple transactions in a day.

Source: http://www.tech2.com/india/news/mobile-phones/transfer-money
-via-reliance-mobile-phones/15111/0  

Reliance Communications has partnered with HDFC Bank to launch a virtual credit card on the mobile phones. The virtual credit card 'Reliance mPay¡¯ will be available to all Reliance Mobile users who own an HDFC credit card.

The Reliance Mobile itself would become the credit card for the customers who subscribe to its ¡®m pay service¡¯, and the mobile number doubles itself to make the credit card number. Customers can use their Reliance mPay credit card at all merchant establishments that accept payment via Reliance mPay. Even if the customer loses the mobile phone, there is no financial risk, as the use of mPay is PIN protected. Both RCom and HDFC are keen to forge further tie-ups for virtual credit card with other players.

Source: http://www.egovonline.net/news/news-details.asp?NewsID=13804