The Hindu 27.06.2013
After trifurcation, civic bodies will now get separate web portals
A year after the trifurcation 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.
