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From the Finance Desk
The "due date" for filing income-tax returns for the Assessment-Year 2019-20 is 31.08.2019 for certain categories of taxpayers. Due to difficulties being faced by taxpayers, the Central Board of Direct Taxes has extended the "due date" from 31.07.2019 to 31.08.2019.
From the Marketing Desk
An OBPS awareness campaign for PWC team has been launched, which brings in to fold 809 city officers and state principal secretaries.
From the HR Desk
A big congratulations to Rishi Katara, Manikanta, Satish Puttaswamy, Elzan Mathew, Shahid Ali and Narsappa Shelar on their work anniversary.
Hidden Talents
We all have deadlines to meet and transactions to complete. In this hurly-burly sometimes, we miss spotting different facets of our colleagues. Let us pause for a while and take notice of one such talent amongst us, Nimita Biswas. Multi-Talented, that she is Nimisha is an accomplished Bharatanatyam dancer, who holds a diploma in Bharatanatyam from the prestigious dance school Kalakshetra (Chennai).
eGov Talks
Appreciation of impact created by PMIDC
The on-ground impact of DIGIT can be evaluated by metrics and measures. Beyond that the true measure of success is the adoption and acknowledgment from the end-users. Here is a testimony of impact eGov is making on the ground behind the scenes.
Miscellaneous Collections is Live
Miscellaneous Collection System has gone live on production in Punjab. It is piloted in 4 ULBs, Kurali, Zirakpur, Mohali & Morind.
Kurali has picked-up well and in 1 week 30 receipts have been issued with a total collection of Rs.4,28,676.
In 1st week of Aug. (5th to 09th Aug) PMIDC would observe the system in pilot ULBs and training for MIS team & all 10 corporations will be conducted in parallel.
From 2nd week onwards roll-out of MCS will start in all ULBs and it would be in 3 phases as below:
Phase-I: All Municipal Corporations
Phase-II: All Municipal Councils
Phase-III: All Nagar Panchayats
This module was one of the most awaited modules by the Principal Secretary, Local Government, Punjab. He has a strong vision that this system will be very helpful in reducing financial leakage in all ULBs.
From Partnerships
eGov will partner with Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore in building an open-source data exchange software platform called Indian Urban Data Exchange – IUDX.
IUDX is being created as an open-source and collaborative effort, involving contributions and support from a wide variety of stakeholders in industry, academia and civil-society organizations. A collaborative ecosystem ensures that this critical piece of national infrastructure is responsive to the needs of cities.
IUDX will facilitate data discovery and sharing between disparate urban systems using open standards and APIs. It will help existing and new systems to evolve in their own way while providing a policy-driven standard way to exchange data in a safe and secure manner, thereby providing the necessary balance between data privacy and security on one hand and data empowerment of the ecosystem on the other hand.
National Urban Stack (NUS) Workshop
Imphal, Manipur
A one-day regional workshop on OBPS in the North-Eastern States was held on 20 July'19 at Imphal, Manipur. The program was jointly organised by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) and the Department of Town Planning, Government of Manipur in association with Town and Country Planning Organisation, MoHUA and National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA).
The workshop is a very important milestone in the implementation and achievement of reforms agenda under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT), a flagship mission of MoHUA.