Online app to map secretariats runs into trouble in Agency

Visakhapatnam: A mobile application designed to collect data and map

secretariats

will have to use its offline version to collect data and map secretariats in Visakhapatnam

Agency

. Located on the margins, these areas lack connectivity, causing the online application to not work.

The Visakhapatnam Agency is by far the largest chunk of the agency tract in north-coastal Andhra Pradesh. The remaining area is distributed between East Godavari, Vizianagaram and Srikakulam.

As per the data provided by Visakhapatnam district authorities, there are 212 secretariats with every single secretariat comprising 50 households. The government has designed a model application to upload data for every secretariat.

District collector of Visakhapatnam, V Vinay Chand said, “Keeping the peculiar problem in mind, the government has also designed an offline app which will help store data which can be subsequently transferred online.”

The collector added that the offline app is a must in Visakhapatnam Agency. “This app has been tried and tested and will be released any time now so that we can go ahead with mapping secretariats in the entire district,” Chand said.

There are a few such areas in Vizianagaram district and the Rampachodavaram area in East Godavari as well. Vizianagaram district collector M Hari Jawaharlal said, “The online mapping method cannot be introduced in interior parts bordering Odisha.”

Sources say that around 300 secretariats will have to use the offline app for mapping secretariats in north-coastal Andhra Pradesh.