Facebook has always been a platform for the common people to speak out their problems and issues. It can even act as a catalyst for many political movements. With Facebook, it has become easier than ever to share events with the world as they unfold right in front of people\u2019s eyes. Many government departments and law enforcing agencies use social media to interact with their citizens. We can use social media to draw the attention of the administration and speed up the rather slow pace of official processes.<\/p>\n
This was proved when a 4-year old pending matter of nine families were resolved\u00a0 after a student, related to one of the families, posted a complaint on Facebook. S Arunkumar<\/strong>, a student from Madurai posted his family\u2019s plight on the Facebook page of the Madurai district collector Anshul Mishra<\/strong>. The post caught the attention of collector Anshul Mishra and the matter was resolved in hour’s time.<\/p>\n Arunkumar said that he learnt from media reports about the collector taking action against erring officials.<\/p>\n “Since I have a Facebook account, I tried my luck. To my surprise, I got the reply immediately. Subsequently, the work was done.” said S Arunkumar.<\/p>\n Arunkumar is a resident of Panaiyur village and the representative of nine families. The nine economically poor families had been running from pillar-to-post to get house Pattas in a hamlet 10 km from Madurai. They had approached several officials for resolving the issue and had allegedly paid a bribe of Rs 10,000<\/strong> to a junior assistant last year.<\/p>\n Finally, Arunkumar, who has just completed his Plus-2 came to the rescue of the villagers. With all the details he posted a complaint on the Collector’s Facebook page on Sunday morning and by evening the collector responded that necessary action would be taken and a number was provided for further contact.\u00a0You can Arun Kumar’s post here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Facebook page named ‘Collector Madurai’ has more than 17K likes<\/strong>. Anshul Mishra constantly connects with his citizen and addresses their problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Facebook has always been a platform for the common people to speak out their problems and issues. It can even act as a catalyst for many political movements. With Facebook, it has become easier than ever to share events with the world as they unfold right in front of people\u2019s eyes. Many government departments and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}|Also Read: Bangalore city police joins Social Media<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n