Category 5 – Innovative use of IT in Governance

Category: Category 5 – Innovative use of IT in Governance(Silver Award Winner)
Project: PULL SMS Gateway for Collecting Daily Cane Crushing & Sugar Production Info from Sugar Factories
Department: Sugar Commissionerate, Department of Cooperation

Project Description: Through this Revolutionary initiative, Sugar Commissionerate has simplified the process of collecting data from factories for Sugar Cane crushing on daily basis, through SMS. Sugar factories now send an SMS daily in a pre-defined format, from their registered mobile numbers. The central server collects Sugarcane crushing statistics across Maharashtra and MIS reports are generated at various levels through a role-based system. The project also boasts auto- calculation of crushing, production and recovery parameters. More than 50,000 SMSs have been processed involving 170 sugar factories through this automated system. This has resulted in reduced time and efforts spent on the repetitive and manual task of data collection. As MIS reports are automatically being published on the web portal, this has resulted in transparency in sugarcane crushing business. Also, updated crushing reports are available on non-working days/holidays as well.

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