The recently launched National Urban Digital Mission (NUDM) by the Government of India (GoI) will soon be implemented in Jharkhand for the integration of e-governance services in cities across the Country. In this regard, a four-member team of National Institute of Urban Affairs met Secretary, Urban Development and Housing Department, Vinay Kumar Choubey on Friday and through the power point presentation discussed this new plan and the entire plan.

On this occasion, Choubey said that it is a good initiative and said that the State Government has already made a lot of efforts in the direction of database integration. “We are determined to provide basic facilities to the citizens on time, so most of our urban services are being provided online and monitoring is also being done from the data centre.

Many services including tax collection, cleanliness, trade license and map approval are online in all our bodies. There should also be a system for tracking solid waste management in the board of National Urban Digital Mission,” he added.

Speaking on the occasion National Institute of Urban Affairs Director Hitesh Vaidya said that all the municipal bodies of Jharkhand have done good work in the field of e-governance. “We will celebrate this achievement at the national level. The technology-based delivery of urban facilities in more than 4400 municipal bodies of the Country, bringing more transparency in civic amenities, bringing accountability and equal cooperation of the Central and the State Governments in implementing this mission to bring about a positive change in the standard of living,” he added.

Earlier, the team gave its presentation by visiting the Command Control and Communication Centre of Ranchi Smart City and Ranchi Municipal Corporation.

At the same time, took information about the system operated from the Command Control and Communication Centre of Smart City and expressed great happiness to see the centre.

On behalf of the State Government the Secretary, the Municipal Commissioner of Ranchi, Mukesh Kumar, Director of SUDA, Amit Kumar, General Manager of Smart City Ranchi, Rakesh Kumar Nandkyoliar, Deputy General Manager of JUDCO and many officials including Utkarsh Mishra were present. On behalf of the Government of India, Director, National Institute of Urban Affairs, Hitesh Vaidya, Kakul Mishra, Anirudh Gupta and Manish Thakur were present on the occasion.