The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) is promoting digital payment for better transparency and convenience and discouraging cash payment also.
While the trade licence payment has gone into 100 per cent digital, the civic body wants owners of holdings to go digital payment of their holding and all other taxes, fees through online.
The BMC is also planning to publish an advertisement to make people aware on the use of www.odishaonline.gov.in so that it would be more convenient to people, will involve no cash, no need to go to tax collectors henceforward. Currently under the e-Municipality platform services like holding tax, trade licence, birth and death certificates, collection of water cess and urban transport in city buses are coming under the digital services.
The BMC is now planning to go for the Common Payment Card System (CPCS) with which several city-level services would be digitally linked for payment with a single card. Under the Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited, the SPV for Smart City work, the CPC would be launched shortly with the ICICI Bank, which would be a milestone for entering in an era of present world with a manifold and magnificent effect.