SOON, ONE APPLICATION FOR ALL SERVICES OF CORPORATIONS

The South Delhi Municipal Corporation will soon be launching an integrated mobile applications through which people will be able to avail all the facilities of corporation like submitting of property tax, renewal of trade and other licences, and downloading birth and death certificates.

The proposal was placed for discussion at the house meeting of South Corporation on Thursday but has been put referred back for further discussion.

Mayor Kamaljeet Shehrawat said, “We will discuss it in the next meeting of the house after which it will be executed.”

The next meeting of South Corporation will be held next month.

The application will also have the facility for checking status of community hall and parks, and other services will be added over a period of time.

A senior official of the South Corporation said the application will be a one-stop solution for people of Delhi.

Since, it is an integrated application people can access facilities of the three corporations – North, East and South— by clicking on the same application.

It will also have the facilities to help people file complaints on a real-time basis

The Income Tax Department of the South Delhi Municipal Corporation, the nodal agency for all three municipal corporations in national Capital, is working on the development of the application.

The official said that the corporation is also trying to add other features in the through which people could find parking lots, hospitals, public/community toilets, located near them.

The application will also have details of the wards, councillors and there contact information.

“This is corporation’s attempt to bring every facilities that the three corporations provide under one application.

Official can issue ‘mobile challans’ to unauthorised hawkers, vendors operating on public land by sending an SMS on the spot and a notification online.

The department has already invited the tenders to design, develop and customise the mobile app. The facility is expected to function in the next two months.