MCD e-governance platform to be launched soon

Delhi residents will be able to get trade licences, birth and death certificates, building plans sanction online from July

PTI | May 18, 2011



Getting trade licences, birth and death certificates or securing sanction of building plans online can be a reality for Delhiites from July this year.

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) plans to make 71 services of its 40 departments online by that timeframe as part of its ambitious e-governance project.

Officials said trial runs for the software applications have been carried out. The e-governance project is costing Rs 180 crore and the MCD has signed a pact with Tech Mahindra in March last year for implementing it.

The company has helped in development of new and integration of all existing software applications along with implementation of hardware in MCD for seamless information flow and providing citizen services online, they said.

A data centre which will act as a server has come up at the Civic Centre, the new headquarters of the civic body.

Under this project, citizens will be able to fill online forms and make payments, following which birth or death certificates will be posted to them. There is also a provision to sanction building plans online, besides issuance and renewal of health or trade licences.

"The e-governance project will result in transparency, accountability, single-point information including online applications, approvals, certification for citizens across 40 departments of the civic body," an official said.

Several departments of the civic agency have already started online system for e-tendering, property tax assessment and payment and factory licensing.
 

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