The Centre is about to launch a five-year National Urban Technology Mission which can infuse technological improvements in municipal providers and infrastructure of 4,500 city native our bodies within the nation.

The mission, to be spearheaded by the ministry of housing and urban affairs, can have three main sub-heads, a senior official instructed ET, requesting to not be named. A observe ready for the approval of the expenditure finance committee (EFC) pegs the mission outlay at ₹15,000 crore for 5 years, the official stated.

The first sub-head is online governance. The mission will determine six primary frequent citizen providers which each city native physique must supply on-line. These would essentially embody issuing beginning and dying certificates, offering water and electrical energy connections, computation and assortment of property tax and grievance redress.

“All urban local bodies claim to offer several services online. Some even list very high numbers like 35 services which are online,” the official stated. “A close scrutiny of this list shows that these are services that do not affect the lives of citizens, like library management. Under this mission, all urban local bodies will be required to offer six common services to citizens. This will mean that the entire country will offer these services online to the people.”

The second sub-head can be monitoring and environment friendly administration of the environmental infrastructure of 1,000 cities. Under the mission, sewage therapy, air high quality, flood administration and water our bodies of those cities might be monitored by means of technological interventions.