The Karnataka government plans to collaborate with startups in Bengaluru and other cities to find innovative and effective solutions for malnutrition, disability, waste management and other issues affecting society.
Uma Mahadevan, Karnataka’s principal secretary, (Panchayat Raj), said startups can play a big role in coming up with better solutions for social issues such as malnutrition, menstrual hygiene for teenage girls, and disability.
In Panchayat Raj too, she said, “we have tremendous potential to use the energy and innovativeness of startups to improve rural governance, and we are looking at ways to take that further.”
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Mahadevan and her team plan to explore ways to leverage the IT sector to collaborate around an accounting platform built by National Informatics Centre and used by over 6,000 gram panchayats in Karnataka. “We are now thinking of developing this further and making it an end-to-end platform, which will not only help them in managing their double entry accounting system but also help in planning, works management and online payments. We plan to see if we can improve rural governance itself, in terms of their meetings, their meeting decisions, and making it available for those who need it, via the platform,” she said.
Source: livemint
