Commissioner reviews E-governance project

Chandigarh, January 30:- Sh. K.K. Yadav, IAS, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation Chandigarh-cum-CEO, Chandigarh Smart City Ltd. reviewed the implementation of E-governance in Municipal Services during a meeting held at Conference Hall, MCC building, here today.

During the meeting project of E-governance, which is being implemented was reviewed in presence of various departments/stakeholders. The Commissioner directed to all the stakeholders to review and finalize the Software Requirement Specifications document submitted by the implementation agency so that the Municipal services can be made online at the earliest for facilitation of citizens of the city.

He said that by implementing the online services citizens will be able to get the services from the comfort of their home such as water and sewage connections, online booking of community centres, submission of the property tax, grievance redressal, Online Building Plan Approval System etc.

The Chairman also advised that a single mobile app shall be developed to access all the services managed by Municipal Corporation and U.T. Administration for the facilitation of the citizens. The Chairman also directed the implementing agency to make the web portal of Chandigarh Smart City live by mid of February 2020.

The Commissioner said that with the facility of e-governance in the Municipal Services will have the ability to transform relations with citizens, business, and other arms of government. He said that these technologies can serve a variety of different ends; better delivery of government services to citizens, citizen empowerment through access to information, or more efficient government management. The resulting benefits can be less corruption, increased transparency, greater convenience, revenue growth and cost reductions, he added.

The Commissioner said that by usage of latest technologies of information and communication technology (ICT) and to make government more efficient, effective and to provide transparent services, the e-governance project has been devised under Chandigarh Smart City Ltd. He said that to achieve this goal, the CSCL is focusing more to avail government services to citizens through internet. So, e-Governance is a broader thing that deals with the whole range of the relationship and networks within the Municipal Corporation regarding the usage and application of ICT. He said that this will deal with the development of online Municipal services to citizens and business such as e-tax, e-transportation, e-procurement, e-participation etc.