Innovation is a continuous ball game in Information Technology. Gathering and sharing of information, after due processing, is to contribute significantly to change. In IT-savvy Andhra Pradesh the path-breaking effort is just coming as an exclusive portal. Take a look. The portal will take you much closer to elected representatives or vice-versa. That's www.mana-mla-garu.com. It is the perfect platform to take the representative of the people closer to his or her constituents. This is the ultimate in legislator-voter interface. A group of committed journalists after a detailed discussion hit upon this exciting and equally novel concept that can change the mindset of the legislator and the voter. It is not merely a portal doing a postman's job. It is a unique information technology-based tool that is useful in planning and decision making to develop strategies. But it is not just for the legislator alone. It's equally so for every citizen. Data gathering, sifting and mining is a complex exercise that is made simpler by the use of information technology. www.mana-mla-garu.com is to do that in a state where the government has already deployed IT not only to interact with administrators but also to provide better governance. The new portal will also analyze the data to offer solutions and tangible results based on the qualitative research inputs. It is being developed by experienced IT professionals and media practitioners, putting their heads together, provides 5MB space on the website to each one of the MLAs to receive complaints from voters and even convey details of the redressal. Everyone is well aware of the fact that as a legislator it's difficult to interact with each individual in their constituency and solve problems. More so, as it is not humanly or physically possible. But, what is impossible otherwise, will become possible with the portal www.mana-mla-garu.com With each legislator having anywhere between 150,000 and 250,000 citizens it is hardly surprising to receive at least 300 mails every day from constituents. We have developed a simple and user-friendly format for legislator and his/her voter to understand the crux of their problems and respond through the portal, how best a legislator can address people's grievances. It may not be a welcome solution always. But the voter likes to be heard by the representative. At the end of the day, he or she feels relieved, if not excited, for receiving a prompt reply from the elected leader/representative. One may ponder how a voter living in inaccessible village of Internet, can make use of this facility? Don't worry. www.mana-mla-garu.com has prepared foolproof arrangements to ensure that your reply is delivered to the doorstep of the aggrieved complainant. To begin with we would like to make available this facility to all those district-headquarters and towns, which have Internet access. It may come as a surprise to know that Andhra Pradesh tops the Internet-users list, with 20 out of 23 districts having access to the Internet facility. As we explained in the beginning, the website is exclusively for the legislator and their voters. And the experienced media practitioners manning the portal remain postman and also play watchdog gathering critical information on the changing trends and face of your constituency. But, what we expect from you for doing this post-man or WATCH DOG job is to supplement our efforts. For that, you may have to pay Rs 5000 for registration, and yearly subscription of Rs 1000 a month. All this is only meant to maintain the proposed massive portal that brings people closer to a legislator that never heard before. Yes, it's an exciting experience. Apart from providing 5 MB space to receive mail, the portal will also ensure CHAT rooms for MLAs to interact with their voters at drawn up scheduled time once in a fortnight. Apart from our constant interaction with voters, the website will also have news pages to ensure due publicity to all legislator's work in their respective constituency.

Concept: Sparsha Communications Network, comprising seasoned media practitioners and software professionals, besides marketing experts, have exclusively designed and developed a unique portal www.mana-mla-garu.com. Through this portal an ordinary voter can ensure his complaint (read grievance) reach his or her leader (MLA). Whether it is of a civic/ social/ property/ legal problem, the portal ensures that the grievance will be heard. Having said that the elected representative too had not been given an opportunity to explain why he or she could not redress his or her constituency problems - whether due to constraints in government policies or of his/ her own. And, a foolproof design has been ensured incorporating all these facts in the form of www.mana-mla-garu.com with sole objective of taking people closer to their leader and vice-versa. Each of the 293 MLAs had been provided with 5 MB mailboxes to receive complaints from their constituents and also redress there soon, if not immediately. Apart from this, the portal will soon be providing chat room for MLAs to interact with their constituents live once in a week or fortnight or month. The portal will have franchised cyber cafes at every nook and corner of the state (to begin with district headquarters and major towns and in the second phase penetrate to mandal-level once internet facility is provided by the department concerned VSNL or BSNL). People can make use of these cyber cafes free of cost to send their mails to their respective leaders (MLAs). Like any newspaper set up, the portal will have correspondents spread all over the state to monitor and report as news unfolds.