Rahuri Municipal Council of Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra today
became the first Municipal Council to attain the status of integrated
with digital locker for the issuance of all essential Documents. Sh.
Ravi Shankar Prasad formally launched this service here as part of
Digital India Programme.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr Prasad called upon civic bodies all around
the country to follow Rahuri in expediting the process of digital
governance. He said the process initiated by NDA Government has started
gathering pace and States and local bodies should come forward to make
this initiative a grand success. He said digitalization of governance
was essentially meant to bring in transparency in the administration and
restore peoples’ confidence in Government. He also directed the
department of Information Technology to help all municipal bodies in
digitalizing governance and making administration paperless.
According to Dilipji Gandhi, Member of Parliament who personally took
interest in the initiative, the Website is integrated as an issuer and
Requester with DigiLocker where the Citizen will have access to all
these documents at any time. They will have freedom to access them from
anywhere in the world at any time. The citizen of the area can now apply
for the certificates like Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates online
without going to Municipal Council and these documents will be
available in the Digilocker signed to the citizens. This will also
ensure them the peace of mind provided by the easy security of their
documents forever.
