By Team MyGate
Last updated on 08/06/2021
What’s Open in Your City
| Restaurants | Open to seating at 50% capacity until 4 PM only on weekdays. |
| Malls | Closed until June 15th, 2021 |
| Cinemas | Closed until June 15th, 2021 |
| Public Transport | Closed until June 15th, 2021 |
| Schools | Closed until June 15th, 2021 |
| Gyms | Operating at 50% capacity until 4 PM |
| Yoga Centres | Operating at 50% capacity until 4 PM |
| Parks | Open from 5 AM to 9 PM |
| Curfew Timings | Essential services open till 4 PM |
| Large gathering restriction | Marriages- strictly only 25 people allowed for a duration of 2 hours. Funeral & last rites- strictly only maximum of 20 people |
Travel Guidelines for Your City
| Inter & Inter-City Travel | e-pass required for inter/ intra- state travel, along with a negative report. Register for e-pass –https://covid19.mhpolice.in/registration |
| International Travel | International passengers registration & declaration link- https://www.newdelhiairport.in/airsuvidha/apho-registration |
Important Links
Please note that contacts & information shared in the links have not been directly verified by us. Please read all disclaimers carefully.
| Sites & documents updated daily with bed availability, Oxygen, RT-PCR testing & more | Maharashtra Covid Resource Pune Covid Resources Bed availability |
| Whatsapp Chat Bot ( Send msg- COVID followed by requirement eg- Bed in Bangalore) | Whatsapp Chatbot |
| Twitter link to all Covid-19 related posts ( sort by ‘latest’ ) | https://covid19-twitter.in/ |
| Official Govt. Notification | Maharashtra Covid-19 Guidelines |
Important Numbers
| COVID Helpline | 104, 020 – 26127394 |
| Police | 100 |
| Ambulance | 108 |
| Fire | 104 |
| KEM Hospital Pune Helpline Number | +912026217300 |
| Naidu Hospital Helpline Number | +912025506317 |
| Sassoon Hospital Helpline Number | +9120-26102200) |
| Aundh District Hospital Helpline Number | 020 3952 8679 |
| Deenanath Mageshkar Hospital Helpline Number | 020 4015 1000 |
| Noble Hospital Helpline Number | 080070 06611 |
| Jehangir Hospital Helpline Number | 020 6681 9999 |
| GMF Ruby Hall Clinic Wanowrie Helpline Number | 9890300503 |
| National Centre For Cell Science Helpline Number | 020 2570 8000 |
Terms and Conditions
MyGate provides links to various websites, applications, services, for your convenience only and doesn’t have any control over the linked websites and or applications. Your use of those linked sites, mobile software applications, and services are subject to the terms of use and Privacy Policies of each such site and services.
This Policy is a part of and subject to Our Terms and Conditions of Use at https://mygates.techletsolutions.com/privacy-policy/. In case of any grievance, you can reach out to us at grievance@mygate.in
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By Team MyGate
Last updated on 18/05/2021
What’s Open in Your City
| Restaurants | Closed until May 20th 2021. Parcel and takeaway is allowed |
| Malls | Closed until May 20th 2021 |
| Cinemas | Closed until May 20th 2021 |
| Public Transport | Functioning at 50% capacity |
| Schools | Closed until May 20th 2021 |
| Gyms | Closed until May 20th 2021 |
| Yoga Centres | Closed until May 20th 2021 |
| Parks | Closed until May 20th 2021 |
| Curfew Timings | Night curfew in place. 8 PM to 6 AM |
| Large gathering restriction | Marriages- strictly only 50 people allowed. Funeral & last rites- strictly only 20 people allowed. |
Travel Guidelines in Your City
| Inter & Intra- State Travel | No restrictions on inter and intrastate travel All passengers travelling to the state of Gujarat from other states or UT’s mandatorily need a negative RT-PCR report, not older than 72 hours, from an ICMR approved laboratory. |
| International Travel | International passengers must carry a negative RT-PCR report, not older than 72 hours from the time of their flight International passengers registration link- https://www.newdelhiairport.in/airsuvidha/apho-registration |
Important Links
| Sites & documents updated daily with bed availability, Oxygen, RT-PCR testing & more | Gujarat Covid Resources Ahmedabad Covid Resources http://covidahmedabad.in/ |
| Twitter link to all Covid-19 related posts ( sort by ‘most recent’ ) | https://covid19-twitter.in/ |
Important Numbers
| COVID Helpline | 155303 |
| Police | 1090 |
| Ambulance | 108, 102 |
| Fire | 1070 |
| SVP Hospital Helpline Number | 079 2643 5555 |
| Civil Hospital Helpline Number | 079 2268 3721 |
| IKDRC Civil Hospital Helpline Number | 079 4901 7000 |
| GCS Hospital Helpline Number | 079 6604 8000 |
| HCG Hospital Helpline Number | 079 4001 0101 |
| Sterling Hospital Helpline Number | 079 4001 1111 |
| Narayana Multispeciality Hospital Helpline Number | 080675 06878 |
| National Institute of Occupational Health Helpline Number | 079 2268 6351 |
| The Gujarat Cancer & Research Institute Helpline Number | 079 2268 8000 |
Terms & Conditions
MyGate provides links to various websites, applications, services, for your convenience only and doesn’t have any control over the linked websites and or applications. Your use of those linked sites, mobile software applications, and services are subject to the terms of use and Privacy Policies of each such site and services.
This Policy is a part of and subject to Our Terms and Conditions of Use at https://mygates.techletsolutions.com/privacy-policy/. In case of any grievance, you can reach out to us at grievance@mygate.in
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We are issuing this advisory notice to all MyGate residents. It has come to our attention that there are few companies claiming to have a product like MyGate and operating in cities. They are reaching out to the RWA members, residents and guards and offering freebies and cash benefits to gain confidential information about the residents of society, about MyGate operations in the society with an intent to introduce their products.
We are sharing this to educate the residents to be alert about such activities.
Society may end up getting lured with such attractive offers and share your confidential information with such a company. We have heard of instances where a resident’s personal information has been misused by such companies. In addition, please ensure you are aware of other important fine prints of any contract that you are getting into.
- Are you giving default consent to use your personal and family data (phone # and email ) for any form of marketing activities like insurance, home services, banking etc?
- Do you have the right to deny a marketing campaign of any form by the company ?
- Is there a lock in period of many years in lieu of upfront cash payments received by the society?
- Are you liable to pay back the upfront cash amount – in case of the termination of the contract by society for any reason (like poor service) in future.
It is important that residents are aware of the kind of contract the society is getting into with MyGate or any other vendor/service provider. We have also noticed that few companies are sending their representatives to societies who are gaining access to society or knocking at resident’s doors claiming to be from MyGate. Please ensure your security checks for MyGate identification and government ID before allowing into society premises.
Social distancing is crucial to curbing the spread of coronavirus. But it’s fair to wonder the degree to which interactions can be minimised? At MyGate, we’re doing our bit to ensure that this is as close to zero as possible.
Here are a few ways in which MyGate minimises the need for interaction within the society – Zero-touch Community Management.
1. ‘Leave at Gate’ for contactless deliveries
2. ‘SmartEye Staff Attendance’ instead of traditional fingerprint biometric
3. Online Maintenance Payments to do away with the hassle of cheque deposits
4. Community Communications to stay connected
5. Benefit from our preferred partnerships
6. Emergency Contacts
1. Leave at Gate
Delivery executives are among the very few workforces that are active during these testing times. Social distancing from (and for) them is a must. With MyGate, you can use the ‘Leave at Gate’ feature to enable zero-touch parcel management to ensure contactless deliveries
How it works…
Once the parcel arrives at the gate, you are given the option to either ‘ALLOW ENTRY’, ‘DENY ENTRY’ or ‘LEAVE AT GATE’. On choosing ‘LEAVE AT GATE’, you can collect the parcel by sharing a 6-digit code with the guard, reducing the risk of any outside contact.
Your management committee will need to first enable this feature for your society.
2. SmartEye Staff Attendance
A biometrics system is putting your staff at risk to exposure from others as multiple people are coming in contact with the scanner. The MyGate SmartEye Staff Attendance uses facial authentication technology to ensure that attendance is taken without the need for any touch.
How it works…
Instead of punching in, guards can submit their attendance through facial authentication technology. It is the safest way to record attendance in the current times – for the guards as well as those they come in contact with.
3. Online Maintenance Payments
The society maintenance payments via cheque or even the domestic help payments in cash can easily put anyone under the coronavirus radar. The online transaction mechanism on the MyGate app provides an easy way to route payments at zero-cost, ensuring zero-touch throughout the process.
How it works…
Online payments to your domestic help can be made from the ‘Household’ tab on the MyGate app. Click on their profile and hit the ‘PAY NOW’ button. To pay maintenance bills, go to the ‘Payments’ section under the ‘Community’ tab within the app.
4. Community Communications
Common spaces, such as the notice board area within a community are home to contaminated surfaces. The ‘Communication’ feature allows the committee members to broadcast best practices for staying safe & other crucial messages, digitally via the app. The residents can also initiate community-wide discussions via the forum.
How it works…
Go to the ‘Communications’ card from the ‘Community’ tab on the MyGate app to start a discussion. To view or send (only for admins) notices, go to the ‘Notice Board’ card under the same tab.
5. Benefit from our preferred partnerships
We have collaborated with leading players in various segments to help your community get through the lockdown. These partnerships bring the essential services within your reach, while maintaining social distancing.
Groceries & Essentials
We’ve partnered with Grofers, ITC, and StoreSe to ensure all your essentials such as vegetables, fruits and groceries are delivered to your doorstep on time. The parcels are sanitized and delivered safely, through a contactless procedure.
Newspapers & Magazines
Get your morning dose of everyday news right on the app from top newspaper and magazine publications including The Times of India, Outlook, Deccan Chronicle, and many more.
Pharmacies & Telemedicine
In case you or any of your friends require medical attention, then you needn’t break your self-quarantine regime. We have collaborated with top healthcare providers such as mfine and Medlife to get you expert medical advice at home with discounted health checkups and medicine deliveries. Click here to avail of the benefits.
6. Emergency Contacts
In stressful times, every second counts, and having to search for the required contacts adds to the stress. Keeping a contact list handy in case of an emergency is always a smart move and this list can be found right on the MyGate app.
How it works…
Click on the ‘Emergency No’s’ card under the ‘Community’ tab to access contact numbers of nearest emergency services such as hospitals and clinics.
In addition to the Zero-touch Community Management features, we have put together and circulated precautionary measures Gated Communities should be taking in case of an emergency situation. You can download the ‘Coronavirus: Gated Community Response Guidelines’ document and use it for your internal preparations.
As we continue to be watchful, it is important for us to stay indoors and be safe. We are trying to ensure that we do the same.
NOTE: KSP CLEARPass is no longer active. This year, citizens will have to contact their local authorities for en e-pass during this lockdown. MyGate is no longer facilitating issuance of passes.
All’s not well with the world like the movies and motivational quotes would have you believe. Basic sanitation is unavailable to 2.3 billion people worldwide, while 785 million live without safe drinking water.
Back in India, the grass is surely not ‘greener’. McKinsey projected that by 2030, India’s urban population will rise to 590 million, with more people living in cities than villages in at least five biggest states. This will make scarce the most basic resource for survival, water.
Government’s NITI Ayog think tank reported in 2018 that 21 cities in India will run out of groundwater in 2020 and by 2030, 40% of Indians will have no drinking water available.
Another major challenge would be healthy sanitation systems. For all that we Indians consume, will also be released, except not with the ease and the infrastructure of developed nations. According to the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), 77% of sewage generated in India is untreated and dumped in water bodies like lakes, rivers, making it toxic and diseased.
At this point, you’re probably slightly alarmed but comforted at the thought of environmental technologists, eco-conscious philanthropists and green entrepreneurs who would have thought of ingenious solutions to such challenges by now…and you’re right.
One such solution is the Omni Processor technology.
What is Omni Processor technology?
It is a self-sustaining technology that turns human waste into electricity, potable water (and a little ash); quite literally, transforming human excreta into a valuable commodity. The Proof of Concept model was funded and spearheaded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. OP technology was designed to improve sanitation in poor and developing nations. It is a portfolio of technologies that is capable of processing fecal sludge from various sources, hence ‘omni’. Instead of a single trademarked technology, the idea is to use different approaches for community specific needs, such as pyrolysis, supercritical water oxidation, electro-catalytic oxidation, double membrane treatment, combustion, among others.
How does it work?
We have described below a few examples of popular OP technologies used for fecal sludge treatment.
Janicki OP: A combustion based incinerator style plant, this OP burns wet sludge at 100°, separating dry solids and water vapor, which are then incinerated to produce high-pressure steam that powers the OP while producing electricity. Steam is also purified and distilled enough times to make drinkable water.
US-based Sedron Technologies (formerly Janicki Bioenergy), who was commissioned by Gates Foundation, developed a Janicki Omni Processor in 2014 and launched a pilot plant in Dakar, Senegal in 2015. The company is planning to ship their J-OP to commercial markets in the future.
SCWO: Supercritical Water Oxidation technique (notably used by Duke University researchers), completely destroys pathogens in septage, fecal/animal waste, biosolids inside a small shipping container-sized treatment unit which is scalable, eco-friendly and cost-effective.
Organic compounds in wastewater are oxidized at temperature and pressure conditions above the water’s critical point, producing water with minerals that can be used as fertilizer and later distilled to render clean drinking water.
Pyrolysis-based fecal sludge treatment plant (FSTP): This process thermally decomposes sludge at high temperature, creating byproducts like biochar to increase soil fertility and produce water.
The problem of fecal waste disposal
City-dwellers take sanitation as a basic amenity and take waste disposal for granted, unless they see staggering numbers that proclaim otherwise.
A 2018 Landscape Report titled ‘India: Market Insights for the Omni Processor’, yielded following summary:
“While 86% households in urban India have access to individual toilets, only one-thirds of them are connected to a sewerage system.”
“From the waste generated in these sewers, only two-fifth is treated due to very few Sewage Treatment Plants (STP) across India.”
“While a higher percentage of households are connected to a septic tank (38%) compared to sewers, almost none of the septage collected was being treated.”
Untreated fecal waste dumped in landfills or water bodies causes diseases like diarrhea, malaria, typhoid fever, among others. India is known for an inhumane practice called ‘manual scavenging’ or manual cleaning of human excretions. Hundreds of manual scavengers die in India each year cleaning sewers. Some sewer cleaners die by ingesting methane in clogged residential septic tanks.
The government was mostly focused on providing toilets to solve the open defecation problem, but now it has started considering Fecal Sludge and Septage Management seriously. Under the Swachh Bharat umbrella, and Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT), pilot FS treatment plants were built in Devanahalli (Karnataka), Warangal (Telangana), Leh (Ladakh), Wai, Sinnar (Maharashtra), Narsapur (Andhra Pradesh).
Why use Omni Processors?
The Omni Processor technology is a ground breaking solution to recycling fecal waste without the need for sewage systems and can go a long way in aiding the government’s initiative of dealing with fecal sludge in environment-friendly ways. Two private companies in India are at the cutting edge of OP technology, Vadodara’s Ankur Scientific (Ankur OP) and Bangalore’s Tide Technocrats (Tide OP).
Regular sewer networks are centralised, unsustainable and unfeasible financially in developing countries. Omni Processors are essentially innovative, decentralized, scalable, and leave no environmental impact. Capital investment required is less than traditional sewer systems or FSTP set-up.
At Reinvent the Toilet expo in Beijing a few years ago, Bill Gates sipped water distilled from human feces, a feat he has repeated on Jimmy Fallon and Trevor Noah shows as well. He has successfully removed the stigma and disgust around OP generated water even though public perception may not change that easily. The fact of the matter is growing urban areas cannot afford to spend years waiting for FSTP treated water while freshwater availability dwindles due to high demand. FSTP markets are ripe for growth in India in the coming years with 2000 plants being planned in the next five years. Yet there’s a space for Omni Processor technology to fill the gap between the need for clean water and fecal sludge management in the meantime for smaller, private or residential areas. As a matter of fact, they can also be a sustainable addition to government funded FSTPs.
OP technology for housing societies
Residential societies in urban areas often face water shortage and have to pay for individual water tankers when civic bodies reduce water supply. Societies outside of corporation limits pay for water all by themselves.
If a number of residential societies pool together its resources and invest in an Omni Processor, it can indeed pave the way for a truly sustainable future. Janicki OP can cost around $1.5 million with additional operational costs but can pay for itself quickly in terms of providing 86,000 litres per day to be used for around 40,000 people, while producing 100-200 kw electricity per day. Whether your sanitation system is connected to a septic tank or sewer system (which may be linked to a dysfunctional STP that cannot bear the load), urban sprawl and waste is so enormous that it cannot be treated free of cost and you may have to pay extra for sewage cleaning of your building complexes frequently.
Bank loans are available for building STP for residential areas, so you might want to consider investing Rs 10 to 15 lakh in an Omni Processor that will save you monthly water and sewage cleaning bills. Omni Processors don’t require electricity or water and have a 20-year life expectancy, thus they are a more sustainable option than regular STP. They also treat gray water, digested/undigested sewage sludge, biosolids and residential septage.