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Abstract
The primary goals of E-Goverance are better service delivery to citizens, improved services for business , transparency ,empowerment, efficient government management through information.

On line Geographical Information System is a powerful tool to achieve these goals by the Government through its services oriented organizations like electricity ,water supply, land records, drainage , health sector, public safety, planning, infrastructure management, disaster management etc.,

This paper outlines the design and use of GIS for Electrical Distribution Network Management and its role as a decision support system for power utilities. The case study of TamilNadu Electricity Board forms the base for this paper.

The General objective of any Electrical utility is to improve their operational efficiency and deliver uninterrupted power to its consumers. The key parameters to achieve this objective are the equipments, supply cables and a management system. The development of efficient distribution network for electric utilities involves atomization with vision control on the GIS platform by laying out the electric network on the land base, analytic modeling of network problems /solutions and aid in fault attendance / rectification.

In the changed scenario, GIS models can be extended from the desktop scenario to on-line WEB based systems covering the needs of entire workforce from the Field Manager to the Management. Real time systems like SCADA, Call Centres, and IMS e.t.c can function on the GIS platform. Detailed planning is necessary to implement the GIS model for a large distribution network. The system should incorporate functional ability for updating the network, quality checks, costing and modification on interactive basis for all users.

E-Goverance on GIS platform will also empower each citizen to monitor the status of his facilities by logging to the system even from his mobile phone.