SMART CITY KICKS OFF E-GOVERNANCE PROJECT

 Chandigarh, October 23:- Sh. K.K. Yadav, IAS, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation Chandigarh, who is also Chief Executive Officer, Chandigarh Smart City Limited, Chandigarh took a meeting of all the stake holders which includes MCC, Estate Office, U.T., Chandigarh, Chief Architect, U.T., Chandigarh, Chief Engineer, M.C., Chief Engineer-cum-Special Secretary, U.T., Chandigarh, Chief Engineer, Chandigarh Housing Board, Chandigarh, besides other officers of the Chandigarh Administration for implementation of E-governance project in the city. 

            It is pertinent to mention here that the agreement has been signed with M/s PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) on 16.10.2019 by Chandigarh Smart City Limited for implementation of E-governance services.  The project has been formed to minimize manual intervention, ensure transparency, 24×7 excess to online citizen services and public grievances by eliminating the need of visiting the Govt. offices.  The project aims at online delivery of the services for the citizens.  There will be total of 27 E-Governance services out of which major E-governance services includes Online Building Plan Approvals, Booking of Community / Banquet Hall, Online Grievance Management, E-Horticulture Services, Online Permissions & NOC, Online Water and Sewerage connections, Integration with Property tax and Integration with Birth and Death registration etc. etc.  Citizens will be able to access these services through Chandigarh Smart City Limited Web-portal and Mobile Applications.  Citizens can track the status of their applications anytime, anywhere.

            The Commissioner advised that single point of contact persons should be pointed by each department for enabling the data to the agency on priority and the same will be approved by the Head of Department concerned.  He further directed that a Steering Committee comprising of Additional Commissioners, Chief Architect, Officers from NIC and SPIC and Deputy Commissioner, Chandigarh should be formed to monitor the progress as well as for approval of formulated plan by the agency M/s PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).  Regular meetings will be conducted in the office of Chandigarh Smart City Limited and Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh to overview the project.  The completion time of the project is one year.  Next meeting has been scheduled for November 1^st, 2019.

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