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NDMC plans to enhance services

Tuesday, 19 October 2010 06:38 administrator
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The Pioneer  19.10.2010

NDMC plans to enhance services

Parvaiz Sultan | New Delhi

Aiming at better distribution and management of electricity and water distribution, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has given nod for introduction of innovative “Electricity & Water Utility Software”. With the approval, the agency is hopeful it will enhance the efficiency of the public services and utilities managed by it. According to a senior NDMC official, once the new software will be in place, the statistics and accounting data will be available online including billing and distribution of electricity and water. It was also informed besides the civic body; ultimately consumers will also be benefited.

Director Public Relations NDMC Anand Tiwari said the objective for introduction of the software or “commercial automation” is to make our distribution and management of utility services efficient and it will also benefited our consumers.

“Consumers will be able to see their consumption online; they can also pay their bills through Internet. It will also help them to monitor their consumption as their previous consumption of services for the last six months and payment history will also available online,” he said.

Tiwari also added that the software will be of great help for the NDMC as with the available data including accounting data will assist to enhance our performance and our planning. “After examining the statistics, which will be accessible easily then, the agency can differentiate its consumers that will also help out to chalk out planning. Regulation will also be easy,” said he.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 October 2010 06:39
 

Coming soon, BDA online banking

Tuesday, 19 October 2010 00:00 administrator
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The Times of India                 19.10.2010

Coming soon, BDA online banking

BANGALORE: Your regular transactions with the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) could become easy and transparent through kiosks and online banking. Very soon, you can even use your mobile for any transaction with the BDA.

The BDA on Tuesday signed an MoU with the Corporation Bank. It's a two-year agreement during which the bank will develop IT solutions and integrate with the BDA server for all financial services -- collection of application fee, property taxes, rents, online payments and e-auctions.

The rent payments of BDA properties are already into the new mode. These services will be extended to property tax collections shortly. Within a month, the bank will also set up kiosks/service counters at BDA for banking services.

As per the MoU, Corporation Bank will extend credit limits to BDA for its various projects, including site allotments. There are plans to sanction loans at `attractive' interest rates to applicants for BDA sites/houses. Application letter for the sites can also be routed through the bank across Karnataka. Yet another good news is that loan facilities will be extended to landowners displaced on account of BDA's Land Acquisition Act.

"The main objective is to achieve synergy between the two organizations, keeping customers as the key focus. The arrangement is to ensure better transparency in transactions. It will look into the financial needs of land losers,'' BDA commissioner Bharat Lal Meena said.

BDA HOUSES FOR EWS?

Subsidized housing units for the economically weaker sections (EWS) and middle-income groups (MIGs) are among the new BDA projects this year.

Nearly 200 acres of the 300-acre land earmarked for this project has already been transferred to BDA. According to officials, tenders have already been floated for EWS housing units at Valagerehalli near Kengeri and Nandini Layout at Nagarabhavi.

"To begin with, BDA will take up these projects at its own cost. However, the bank may extend loan facilities to applicants. We are planning similar units at eight other places that include Electronic City, Peenya and Whitefield,'' Meena told TOI.

These housing units will be similar to those built under the Basic Services for Urban Poor scheme. The only difference is it's not under the Jawarharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) and the applicants will have to pay up entirely for these subsidized houses.

 

Online property exhibition from October 16

Thursday, 14 October 2010 11:05 administrator
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Indian Express   14.10.2010

Online property exhibition from October 16

Express News Service Tags : Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporations, pune Posted: Thu Oct 14 2010, 04:22 hrs

Pune:  CREDAI-Pune will organise an online property exhibition in the city from October 16. Nearly 40 prominent builders and developers will be participating in the 15-day exhibition, which will showcase around 300 projects, said a press release.

CREDAI- Pune has tied up with Mantra Media, which has developed a special tool for the event. Anuj Bhandari, chairman of the exhibition committee said, “The main aim of the exposition is to make the process of buying a convenient experience. Consumers will get to see all the projects at one place, at the click of a mouse.”

The exhibition will also enable visitors to interact with prominent people from the city such as the heads of the Pune Municipal Corporation and the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporations, the Mayor and so on through live chats. “We are also trying to rope in people such as Vidya Yerwadekar and Deepak Shikharpur who can give people various insights into the city,” said Satish Magar, president, CREDAI-Pune. The online exhibition will be available 24X7. “We have done this to ensure that people from any part of the world can access our website and get all the information they need at any given time,” added Bhandari.

The exhibition will showcase projects from 1 BHK to penthouses, row houses, offices and commercial spaces. The cost of the properties will range from Rs 14 lakh-8 crore. “We have received 1,143 registrations from places such as the US, Kuwait and Dubai apart from entries from various cities in our country,” he said.

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