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No more queues, middlemen as 100 govt services to go online

Friday, 21 June 2013 09:35 administrator
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The Indian Express               21.06.2013

No more queues, middlemen as 100 govt services to go online

The long queues outside government offices for drivers licenses, birth or death certificates and payment of bills may soon be a thing of the past as the UT Administration is set to make some 100 such services available online.

As a first step in this regard, two e-governance projects including the e-District and State Portal/State Service Delivery Gateway were approved by the UT Adviser K K Sharma in a meeting of State Apex Committee held on Thursday.

Conceptualised by the Department of Information Technology, the two projects will ensure that all associated departments have the necessary IT infrastructure to provide the electronic services to city residents. One can get hold of the e-Forms on the Internet, which are to be then submitted online on the state portal. From here, the applications will be transmitted to the respective departments. The officials would process them electronically.

After applicants receive an SMS from the corresponding department, they can then download the applied certificate, digitally signed by the authority of the concerned department. The public services in their electronic form would go live in a phased manner with the launch of some expected within this year.

The two projects will provide over 100 public services online to residents of Chandigarh in. The projects are budgeted at around Rs 12 crore and would be funded under the Centre's National e-Governance Plan. The projects were conceptualized earlier this year.

Officials stated that the two projects would improve the speed and quality of public service. People would be spared the hassle of standing in long queues for submission of certificates. The service would also ensure that middlemen are not involved with the process. The services pertain to all departments including education, police, RLA, Estate Office, Municipal Corporation, etc. Information regarding EWS seats, facility to deposit fees of schools and colleges, registration of domestic servants and police clearance certificates among other facilities would be available online.

 

CCTV cameras must in all 19 civic corporations

Wednesday, 19 June 2013 11:16 administrator
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The New Indian Express               19.06.2013

CCTV cameras must in all 19 civic corporations

CCTV cameras should be in places included commercial establishments, industrial and religious places, educational institutions, hospitals, sports complexes, railway and bus stations, organised congregations etc. | EPS
CCTV cameras should be in places included commercial establishments, industrial and religious places, educational institutions, hospitals, sports complexes, railway and bus stations, organised congregations etc. | EPS

The state Assembly on Tuesday adopted a bill making it mandatory to install CCTV cameras at places where the gathering was more than 100 people. The places included commercial establishments, industrial and religious places, educational institutions, hospitals, sports complexes, railway and bus stations, organised congregations etc.

The “Andhra Pradesh Public Safety (Measures) Enforcement Bill, 2013” was piloted by minister J Geetha Reddy on behalf of chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy. It was adopted unanimously.

If any establishment fails to install CCTV cameras, action ranging from penalty to closure will be taken.

Geetha Reddy said rules would be framed soon and that fixing CCTV cameras was mandatory in all the 19 municipal corporations in the state.

In view of terrorist violence affecting public safety, it has been felt there is a need for public safety measures, according to the Bill.

However, TDP members staged a walkout protesting against Geetha Reddy, a tainted Minister, introducing the bill.

Geetha Reddy said no agency or court had found fault with her and that the TDP was behaving as though it was higher than a court.

The Andhra Pradesh Value Added Tax (amendment) Bill, the AP Value Added Tax (second amendment) Bill, 2013, the AP Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments (amendment) Bill, 2013, and Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences University (amendment) Bill, 2013, were also adopted in the Assembly on Tuesday. In all seven Bills were adopted.

The Bangaru Talli Bill, introduced in the Assembly on Tuesday, would be taken up for discussion later.

VAT ON PETROL REDUCED: The Value Added Tax (amendment) Bill reduced tax on petrol from 33 percent to 31 percent. Introducing the Bill, finance minister Anam Ramanarayana Reddy said the amendment bill was only to rationalise taxes and not to increase government revenue.

 

Online building plan submission to be mandatory

Tuesday, 18 June 2013 12:02 administrator
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The Times of India              18.06.2013

Online building plan submission to be mandatory

KOZHIKODE: The Kozhikode corporation will make online submission of building plan a mandatory one in 55 wards of old corporation limits.
 


The mandatory online submission will be applicable to the building plan above 300 sq m in its limit.



The civic body has taken the measure to avoid the delay in providing approval for the building plans above 300 sq m. The civic body takes at least a month to give sanction for a plan above 300 sq m.
 


At present, the civic body approves residential plan up to 300 sq m within a day under the one-day permit system.
 


Though the civic body had planned to launch the facility last year in the old corporation limit, the difficulty expressed by the registered architects, licensed building supervisors and engineers in purchasing original versions of AutoDCR to draw plans and obtaining PreDCR software for online submission of plan put the decision on hold.
 


Kozhikode corporation deputy mayor P T Abdul Latheef said they decided to make online submission of plan mandatory from July. "Through the move, we hope to make speedy clearance of building plans,'' he said.


An official with the engineering section with the civic body, said the preDCR software was incorporated in the Kerala Municipal Building Rules (KMBR) to pass the submitted building plans at the earliest.
 


"If the system works then it needs only three to five minutes to pass the submitted plan. The official can clear the plan within 10 to 15 days after conducting site inspection, verification of documents on remittance of fee. The system is hassle-free like online railway seat reservation facility. In the long run, the site inspection can be avoided with the cooperation of Global Positioning System into the system,'' said the official.
 


Job Mathew, district president of Licensed Engineers and Supervisors Federation (LENSFED) said they have purchased cheaper software ZWCAD from a China-based company headquartered in New Delhi. "The software similar to AutoDCR allows the user to make all required layers in one click for the drawing of an architectural plan. LENSFED purchased the software after some of the members expressed difficulty to purchase and install original version of AutoDCR software spending around Rs 1.5 lakh,'' he said.
 


"We don't know how the civic body will implement the mandatory submission of plans. The anomalies can be detected only after the launch of the system. LENSFED had already imparted training to 200 members in drawing the building plan using ZWCAD software and online submission process,'' he said.
 
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