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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.

OBPS Awareness Campaign

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 

our search for belonging and community, our digital future, our inextricable connection to the State and Society has been brought out with clarity and insight through 2 powerful eGov talks by Ms. Rohini Nilekani & Dr. Poornima More.  The excerpts of the talks can be found on eSankalan @

eGov Marketing

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 - An appreciation letter to the CEO of PMIDC.

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 1^st week of Aug. (5^th to 09^th Aug) PMIDC would observe the system in pilot ULBs and training for MIS team & all 10 corporations will be conducted in parallel.

From 2^nd  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.

Property Tax system Live in Jalandhar Corporation

The property Tax system has gone live on Production in Municipal Corporation Jalandhar. This is the first major corporation which we have made live along with legacy data.The successful go-live is a remarkable testimony for the synergy created by combined efforts of eGov and PMIDC. 

MoU with IISc Bangalore. 

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 organized 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.