HDMC all set to launch software for local bodies

HDMC all set to launch software for local bodies

Girish Pattanashetti - The Hindu

It is designed to conduct day-to-day activities, transactions

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Management Information System cell has developed it

HDMC yet to decide its price

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HUBLI: The Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) is all set to become the first municipal corporation in the country that will sell integrated management system software for use by other urban local bodies.

In fact, the HDMC has given the new software, designed to conduct day-to-day activities and transactions of urban local bodies, to Mangalore, Mysore and Belgaum city corporations.

The software is an integration of various software developed by the Management Information System (MIS) cell. The MIS cell was set up to facilitate computerisation of the HDMC. The HDMC now has custom-made software for handling birth and death registrations and issuing certificates, and an accounting software for transfer and receipt of funds and tax collection.

The MIS cell has also developed various working modules for different departments and software that would ensure adherence to administrative procedures and guidelines.

The software developed for the corporation’s Public Works Department enables officers concerned to keep track of the all the pending, sanctioned and ongoing works.

“At the click of a button, an officer will get details about various works, a project’s progress and details of tenders and work orders, among others. And, if there is no budgetary provision for a project, the software will not allow you to go ahead with the tendering process,” Commissioner of HDMC Ajay Nagabhushan said.

He said that experts from various fields, including M.S. Subhas, Dean of Kousali Institute of Management Sciences of the Karnatak University, had assisted the corporation in coming out with an integrated software system that would suit the requirements of urban local bodies.

Mr. Nagabhushan said that the Public Works Department of Goa had evinced interest in the software.

“We are yet to decide on its price,” he said.

Mr. Nagabhushan said the MIS cell was finalising the price for the integrated software. After it was decided, the HDMC would start promoting it in other States.

He said that the software would be made available to urban local bodies in Karnataka free of cost.