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Appscape

Appscape Showcasing latest mobile

apps developed by National
Informatics Centre

Ente Thai (My Sapling)

he Kerala State Biodiversity Board has taken
up many initiatives for afforestation in both
T Urban and Rural landscapes. Afforestation is
a method of making those lands greener which
has been abandoned and degraded agricultural
lands or without forests for quite a time. On the
occasion of World Environment Day celebrations
on 5th of June 2021, the State Biodiversity Board
has distributed saplings to common people
through various NGO’s.

The mobile App “Ente Thai” has been developed
for monitoring plant growth with realtime
updations and various snapshots. This mobile
app will provide a quick survey of plant
distribution and health status with reasonable
time and effort. The details of the sapling with its
common Name, Species name, Quantity and Real
time photographs with location data is captured.
Monthly growth updation of the saplings are
uploaded by the users and monitored by
the department. Gallery of the saplings with
monthly statistics is available in the app.

It’s an android application with location based
services designed for collecting information on
planted saplings. The mobile app provides server
side components for uploading data and a web
based interface for managing and analyzing data.
The backend is developed on PHP with Slim
framework and Database Management System
is PostgresSQL. The access of the mobile app is
restricted by the administrators through Mobile
numbers.
M Kasthuri, Scientist-F (kasthuri.m@nic.in)

“PAUTI”

he “PAUTI”, local Odia name of “Rent Receipt”,
is referred by Government Authorities for
T providing some services to the citizens. Thus,
the importance of this document on the part of
citizens is more. Many times, people staying away
from Odisha were coming to Revenue Inspector
(RI) offices to pay their Land Revenue in time. To
meet this public requirement, a citizen-friendly
web application “Online Land Revenue Payment”

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