The Hindu 14.12.2013
MCC shortlists six software developers for online foray
The Mangalore City Corporation has taken one more step in introducing online filing of property tax returns and filing applications for trade licence. It has short-listed six companies for developing the two software programmes.
Sources in the corporation said that eight companies had responded to the expression of interest called on October 10 to develop the software for filing property tax returns online. Similarly, of the seven responders for preparing software for filing web-based trade licence, three have been short-listed.
After studying their request for proposal (RFP) documents and financial proposals, two companies would be selected for developing the two software programmes, sources said.
They said that the corporation would not phase out the manual system of filing in both the cases. The online system of filing would be introduced as an option.
Sources said that before calling the expression of interest, the civic body got a test software done by a private agency, to ascertain if the proposal of online filing of property tax returns could be implemented. Bolar ward, which has 1,800 properties, was chosen for the experiment.
Once the company developed the software for filing property tax returns, it might have to provide technical support for one year and upload data since 2008-09.
