The Hindu 28.06.2013
Illegal data entry: Tirunelveli Corporation files police complaint
The Tirunelveli Corporation filed a complaint with the
police seeking a probe into entry of illegal electronic data on tax
fixation in its computers, Mayor Vijila Sathyananth said.
When
Councillor T.N.Umapathi Sivan raised a question in the Corporation
Council meeting held here on Thursday, the Mayor admitted that tax
details were fed into the computers of the Corporation by some people
hired for this purpose.
Presenting a statement in the
meeting, Ms.Vijila said the 10 data entry operators and an assistant
programmer, all appointed by Bits Computer Systems, Palayamkottai, to
which the work had been outsourced, were working in the urban civic
body’s four zonal offices and the central office.
To
download the orders pertaining to property tax, change of name, change
of name in drinking water connection, building plan approval and
registration of births and deaths, these personnel had been given
separate User IDs.
Using one of these IDs, someone
entered a property tax amount for the house of one Padma of NGO New
Colony into the Corporation’s server even before an official assessment
was done to fix the quantum of tax.
When it was
detected, a comprehensive examination was done, and it was found that
there were 55 other such entries made into the Corporation’s server.
The
Mayor alleged that the internal investigation conducted by the
Corporation officials had revealed that Raj Kannan and Baby Rani from
Bits Computer System were involved in the criminal act.
She said the entire system would be revamped and made error-free.