Digital Family Issue 89 November 2013 November 2013 | Page 12

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Postmortem of Goa Government Websites !
(Coint from pg 10)
page including director note, success stories
etc. don’t work. It seems like a nonehappening department .There are only two
news and event as on now. One in 2012 and
one in 2013.
Directorate of Animal Husbandry &
Veterinary website
Directorate of Animal Husbandry &
Veterinary has comparatively properly placed
information. It has a list of 21 vet dispensaries
with just the names of places and doctors
with photos but no contact information.
Same holds good about information of
52 key village sub centers. When such
incomplete information is provided all the
time , bandwidth and money spent on the
same becomes a sheer waste.
Department of Civil Supplies Website
If you click on the Department of Civil
Supplies Website link on the state portal it
says bad request or host name tp://www.
goagrahak.nic.in/ . But the actual website
link is http://www.goacivilsupplies.gov.in/
and no one looking after the state data portal
has bothers to do the change which could
take at the most half a minute. The website
which opens up is like most other websites
many links don’t work and there is hardly
any substantial information. For eg. Click on
tenders and you will get a blank page.
North Goa Collectorate website
Nort Goa collectorate website done by
Goa Electronics Limited is one of the few
websites in the Government which can be
termed as working as they are expected to
do. Updated information, working links,
online services it everything almost comes
in as a pleasant surprise.
South Goa Collectorate website
Designed by NIC some years back
this website does host relevant updated
information but is nowhere near to what
the North Goa Collectorate website has on

offer.
The Department of Craftsman Training
website
The Department of Craftsman Training
website is again static but the information here
is updated and most importantly this is the only
site after GMC where the website maintenance
team is specifically mentioned and we know
that there is someone there who is ready to take
accountability of the contents.
Goa Medical College Website
GMC website too the info is static but the
best part here is an online library where a lot of
medical content is available for download and
use.
On the backdrop of the recent expose on
blood checking being diverted towards private
labs by GMC the blood test charge list of private
hospitals added on the blood bank page looks a
little conspicuous.
Fire and emergency services website
Fire and emergency services website is
updated till date. The site also lists daily events
list. Latest tenders etc.
Government Colleges
Pernem Government college has a website
but it looks as though it is there for the sake of
being there. Khandola and Quepem colleges
do not have websites of their own.
Health Department Website
The website is static with no search
facilities, no regularly updated contents.
Usefulness to the citizen is as usual minimum.
But data about schemes is available here. Here
again the chronology is upside down. Info
also is as minimum as possible for instance
– there is information that there are two drug
detoxination centers, but there is no contact
information.
Printing and stationer website
This is a good Website with dynamic data
and a lot of hands on and useful content.
The information is searchable as well as

appropriately updated.
Panchayat Department website
Another website by GEL, the Panchayat
department website is also among the
properly working ones with Dynamic Data
and updated contents. And more importantly
the information is in searchable format.
Registrar of co-operative societies
and Education Department are static but
have useful information on them. While
the GOA GAZETTEER DEPARTMENT
designed by Goa Infortech Corporation has
hardly any information to offer. The PWD
website designed by C-DAC has road,
Bridges,water supply, sewerages etc.
statistics as on 31st March 2006.
One thing we observed all through was
that all the websites designed by Info Tech
Corporation of Goa Limited looked like
they were designed by absolute novices.
For instance the Public private partnership
cell with its silly layout,Forest with its fancy
interface and non working links, IPHB
website are all designed by ITCGL with
more focus on silly flash displays than
contents and all have almost weird user
interfaces.
The website of pharmacy college is
haphazard while that of Directorate of
Vigilance, Govt of Goa - old fashioned with
hardly any information on it. The high tech
Department of science and technology has
a low tech, old interface website. Some
Data is there but it is rather difficult to
access.
The Transport Department website of
which thousands have been spent as on
now is also user unfriendly was giving lot
of problem to open. There is dynamic data
here but no help whatsoever.
Captain of ports website has some static
information but there are quite a few flaws.
For instance the “ organizational flow chart
[[link to be inserted]” tagging done during
designing stil remains there for users to
figure out what it is all about.
In addition many important departments