Centre to launch National Urban Technology Mission for Municipal Services and ULBs

The Centre is about to launch a five-year National Urban Technology Mission which is able to infuse technological improvements in municipal providers and infrastructure of 4,500 city native bodies within the nation. The mission, to be spearheaded by the ministry of housing and urban affairs, can have three main sub-heads. A be aware ready for the approval of the expenditure finance committee (EFC) pegs the mission outlay at ₹15,000 crore for 5 years.

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More About National Urban Technology Mission:

  • The primary sub-head is online governance. The mission will establish six primary frequent citizen providers which each city native physique should provide on-line. These would essentially embrace issuing beginning and loss of life certificates, offering water and electrical energy connections, computation and assortment of property tax and grievance redress.
  • All city native bodies declare to supply a number of providers on-line. Some even listing very excessive numbers like 35 providers that are on-line. An in depth scrutiny of this listing exhibits that these are providers that don’t have an effect on the lives of residents, like library administration.
  • Beneath this mission, all city native bodies might be required to supply six frequent providers to residents. This may imply that the complete nation will provide these providers on-line to the folks. The second sub-head could be monitoring and environment friendly administration of the environmental infrastructure of 1,000 cities. Beneath the mission, sewage remedy, air high quality, flood administration and water our bodies of those cities might be monitored via technological interventions.
Piyush Shukla

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