Within a year in Punjab, services like property tax, water and sewerage management, complaints and grievance, licensing, fire service, verification of birth and death, Urban Local Bodies (ULB) web portal, mobile app, state and ULB dashboards, payroll and financial accounting will be available just a click away.
This was disclosed on Wednesday by the Punjab Local Government minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on the occasion of inking of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with e-Governance Foundation (e-Gov) of Nandan Nilekani regarding the managing of electronic governance of Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) throughout Punjab.
“The Punjab government is fully committed to make good its promise of delivering the citizen-centric services to the people of the state in a transparent and smooth manner so as to ensure that they don’t have to make rounds of government offices to avail the same,” said Sidhu.
The minister further detailed that in total 67 services would be provided online within a span of one year under 12 modules.
Listing other path-breaking measures undertaken by the department Sidhu further revealed that the department has decided with the assistance of the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) to go in for the beautification as well as cleaning of seven-kilometre long Tungdhab Nallah (drain) in Amritsar, a project worth Rs Five Crore.
Similarly, the Jamalpur Sewerage Treatment Plant (STP) along with Budhha Nallah in Ludhiana is in the initial phase and the initiative would be replicated throughout the state. He said that the work on cleaning and beautification of Tungdhab Nallah in Amritsar would begin before 16 March.
Divulging more, the minister said that the project worth Rs 31 Crore with regard to Budhha Nallah would first be presented to the cabinet for necessary clearance.