The Indian Express                      08.04.2013

PCMC standing panel’s work to go paperless

Functioning of the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation’s standing
committee is all set to go paperless by this week or next week. An order
to this effect has been issued by Municipal Commissioner Shrikar
Pardeshi.

With this, the PCMC becomes the first civic body in the state to
adopt computerised system to facilitate standing committee work.

“The standing committee work will become fully computerised by
this week or next week. The paperless work will ensure real-time
monitoring of files and reduce unnecessary costs,” said Pardeshi.

Pardeshi’s top priority this year was to adopt paperless system.
He had declared it as his New Year resolution when he announced a
10-point agenda to be implemented throughout the year.

Civic officials said Pardeshi hastened the computerised system
for standing committee functioning as it sat on hundreds of files for
months. “Despite civic chief’s request to clear the backlog, the
standing committee sat on files for months. Pardeshi took serious note
of this and decided to implement the computerised system in a bid to
ensure real-time monitoring of files,” said officials.

Welcoming the move, former corporator Babu Nair said that the
step will ensure transparent functioning of the committee that has
earned the notoriety of being a “commission committee.”

Last week, Shiv Sena corporator Asha Shendge had questioned the
way standing committee framed its agenda. “It was shocking to note
committee’s agenda which lacked clarity. I had exposed it during the
panel meeting and had also lodged a complaint with the civic chief, ”
said Shendge.