People in the city may soon be able to pay property tax and water bill to the Mangaluru City Corporation online as a special meeting of the council on Monday approved a proposal to this effect.
The council approved a Rs. 1.54-crore proposal to provide 19 client services, including payment of property tax and water bill online, and make the offices of the corporation paper less by developing a software. Once the software is operational, there will not be manual files and people could use the website of the corporation to use online client services and it would serve as the interface to the public.
Of the Rs. 1.54 crore, Rs. 94.61 lakh has been reserved for developing software and Rs. 60 lakh for purchase of hardware.
Some of the other client services planned to be brought under online are applying for water supply connection and sewage connection; applying for door number; registration and issue of khata; applying for birth and death certificates; applying for trade licence and building licence; and applying for occupation certificate.
It has planned to make the refund of deposits under engineering, revenue and town planning departments online. It also includes online revenue (bill) collection from various sources.
The proposal was part of complete automation of the offices of the corporation planned in future. The meeting authorised Keonics, a Karnataka government undertaking, the task of calling for bids for the first phase of automation.
An agenda tabled in the meeting said that the civic body had reserved Rs. 3.44 crore in the 2014-15 budget for the purpose.
The council of the corporation in its May 31, 2014, meeting had approved the proposal on complete automation.
The proposal approved on Monday was part of it.
With 60 wards, Mangaluru City Corporation caters to the needs of around five lakh people in its limits.
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