Policies & Guidelines
This is the Official website of Hyderabad Metropolitan Water supply and Sewerage Board , Department of MA&UD , Ministry of Municipal Administration , Government of Telangana, designed, developed and hosted by IT WING of HMWSSB
The site has been developed to provide information to the general public. An attempt has been made through this site to provide reliable, comprehensive, accurate information about Water Supply and Sewerage System of HMWSSB under jurisdiction HMWSSB .
The content in this site is the result of a collaborative effort of various Groups and Divisions of the Department. It is our endeavour to continue the enhancement and enrichment of this site in terms of content coverage, design and technology on a regular basis.
Content Contribution, Moderation & Approval Policy (CMAP)
Content needs to be contributed by the authorized Content Manager from various wings of HMWSSB in a consistent fashion to maintain uniformity and to bring in standardization along with associated metadata and keywords.
The content on the portal goes through the entire life-cycle process, which consists of:-
Once the content is contributed it needs to be approved and moderated prior to being published on the Website. The moderation could be multilevel and is role based. If the content is rejected at any level then it is reverted back to the originator of the content for modification.
Different Content Element is categorized as: -
(Approver and the moderator for each of the content element)
SECTIONS |
ROLES |
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CONTRIBUTOR |
MODERATOR |
APPROVER |
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Home Page & Common Section e.g, FAQs, Help etc |
General Manager (IT) |
General Manager (IT) |
Director (Technical) |
Who's Who,Organization Chart, Circulars/ Notifications, Profile |
General Manager (P&A) |
General Manager (P&A) |
General Manager (IT) |
Citizen Charter |
General Manager (P&A) |
General Manager (P&A) |
General Manager (IT) |
Statues |
General Manager (P&A) |
General Manager (P&A) |
Director (P&A) |
O&M Wing |
DCE, Director(Operations) |
DCE, Director(Operations) |
Director(Operations) |
Projects |
DCE,Director (Projects) |
DCE,Director (Projects) |
Director (Projects) |
News/Events, Awards etc |
Public Relation Officer |
Public Relation Officer |
General Manager (IT) |
Prospective Customer Services |
General Manager (E),SWC Wing |
General Manager (E),SWC Wing |
General Manager (IT) |
RTI |
General Manager (P&A) |
General Manager (P&A) |
General Manager (IT) |
Source and Storage |
CGM (E)/Transmission Circle |
CGM (E)/Transmission Circle |
Director(Technical) |
Tenders |
Concerned Head of the Department |
Concerned Head of the Department |
General Manager (IT) |
Content Review Policy (CRP)
HMWSSB website is an important tool for disseminating the information to the masses being served by the organization. It is therefore required to keep the content on the Website current and up-to-date and hence there is a need for the Content Review Policy. Since the scope of the content is huge, different Review Policies are defined for the diverse content elements.
The Review Policy is based on different type of content elements, its validity and relevance as well as the archival policy. The matrix below gives the Content Review Policy:
The entire website content would be reviewed for syntax check once a fortnightly by the HMWSSB Website
SECTION |
REVIEW PERIODICITY |
Home Page |
Daily |
News Page |
Daily |
Who's Who list |
As and When required |
Newsletter, Circulars, Notifications etc |
As and when required |
Act, Rules |
As and When required |
The Guidelines for Indian Government Websites (GIGW) stipulate that expired contents must not be presented or flashed on the website. Therefore, as per the content archival policy adopted by this department, contents will be deleted from the site after its expiry date. Important data will be shifted to the archives page. Therefore, the content contributors should revalidate/modify the content periodically to ensure that expired data is not present/flashed in the site. Wherever contents are no longer needed to be displayed, suitable advice may be sent to the web information manager for their archival/deletion.
Each of the content components is accompanied by meta data, source and validity date. For some of the components the validity date may not be known i.e., the content is stated to be perpetual. Under this scenario, the validity date should be Ten years.
For few of the components like announcements, tenders, only the live content whose validity date is after the current date is shown on the Website. For other components like documents, schemes, services, forms, websites and contact directory there is a need for timely review of the same as per the Content Review Policy.
Entry/Exit Policy and Archival Policy for the content elements on the HMWSSB website will be as per the following table:
Table- (Content Archival Policy)
S.No. |
Content Element |
Entry Policy |
Exit Policy |
1 |
About Department |
Whenever Department is realigned / / changes its work distribution. |
Perpetual (10 years) since date of entry into archival. |
2 |
Programme/Schemes |
Discontinuation of Sanction of Programme/Schemes for Central Sector, State Sector or both. |
Five (05) years since date of discontinuation. |
3 |
Policies |
Discontinuation of Policy by Government – Central/State |
Perpetual (10 years) since date of entry into archival. |
4 |
Acts/Rules |
Issued through the gazette/ Passed by the Central or State Government |
Perpetual (10 years) to be always available in the acts/rules database. |
5 |
Circulars/ Notifications |
Overruling Office Memorandum or Notification issued. |
Five (05) years since date of discontinuation. |
6 |
Documents/Publications/Reports |
Completion of its validity period. |
Perpetual (10 years) since date of entry into archival. |
7 |
Directories |
Not required |
Not Applicable |
8 |
What’s New |
As soon as it loses relevance. |
Automatically after the expiry of the validity period. |
9 |
Tenders |
As soon as it loses relevance. |
Five (05) years since date of discontinuation. |
10 |
Highlight |
As soon as it loses relevance. |
Automatically after the expiry of the validity period. |
11 |
Banners |
As soon as it loses relevance. |
Automatically after the expiry of the validity period. |
12 |
Photo-gallery |
As soon as it loses relevance. |
Five (05) years since date of discontinuation. |
13 |
Group Wise Contents |
As soon as it loses relevance. |
Five (05) years since date of discontinuation. |
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At many places in this website, you shall find links to other websites/portals. The links have been placed for your convenience. HMWSSB is not responsible for the contents and reliability of the linked websites and does not necessarily endorse the views expressed in them. Mere presence of the link or its listing on this Portal should not be assumed as endorsement of any kind. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all the time and we have no control over availability of linked pages.
We do not object to you linking directly to the information that is hosted on this site and no prior permission is required for the same. However, we would like you to inform us about any links provided to this Portal so that you can be informed of any changes or updating therein. Also, we do not permit our pages to be loaded into frames on your site. The pages belonging to this site must load into a newly opened browser window of the User
HMWSSB Website does not automatically capture any specific personal information from you, (like name, phone number or e-mail address), that allows us to identify you individually. If the HMWSSB - Website requests you to provide personal information, you will be informed for the particular purposes for which the information is gathered and adequate security measures will be taken to protect your personal information.
We do not sell or share any personally identifiable information volunteered on the HMWSSB Website to any third party (public/private). Any information provided to this website will be protected from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
We gather certain information about the User, such as Internet protocol (IP) addresses, domain name, browser type, operating system, the date and time of the visit and the pages visited. We make no attempt to link these addresses with the identity of individuals visiting our site unless an attempt to damage the site has been detected.
For Authorized Users:
User ID and Password Policy:
For all other users:
OTP Based Mechanism:
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