A year after the trifurcation of the erstwhile Municipal Corporation of Delhi into three civic bodies, the authorities have decided to trifurcate the corporation portal as well. Instead of one, there will be three e-governance portals for the three civic bodies - South, North and East Delhi Municipal Corporations.
The SDMC which is in charge of the common information and technology (IT) department of all three civic bodies gave its go ahead for the trifurcation. The trifurcation is expected to be completed in another four years.
As part of the process, at least 16 citizen-centric software applications will be trifurcated. The applications include veterinary trade licensing, general trade licensing, health trade licensing, factory licence, hackney carriage licence, parks and community halls bookings, birth and death certificates, property tax, hawking permits and RTI, among others.
At present the important links, like property tax, birth and death certificates and other applications, are functioning but are not present on a single platform because of which people find it difficult to locate them. The trifurcation process is expected to bring them together on one website.
Corporation officials blamed trifurcation for the delay in website operations. They argued that since the present software applications delivered by Tech Mahindra were meant for the unified MCD, every thing will have to be done from start again.
The website of the erstwhile Municipal Corporation of Delhi was a huge hit and was very user-friendly. The online property tax system of the corporation was popular because it enabled them to file the returns and make the payments from the comfort of their homes.
