Finally, the officials of the Municipal Corporation of Dehradun have initiated efforts to update the MCD website.
As a result, several pages of the website which were earlier defunct have now been restored while work is under process to restore the remaining pages which are out of order. After the instructions of the Mayor of Dehradun, Vinod Chamoli and Mukhya Nagar Adhikari, Ashok Kumar to the MCD officials, they have started to revive the defunct pages of the website. The Pioneer had published a report on November 20- 'MCD website needs updating'.
Environment officer of Project Implementation Unit (PIU), Pankaj Bhatt informed that necessary guidelines were already provided to the software company Web Solutions, which looks after the updating and designing task of the MCD website. He added that required data has been provided to the software company and the website would be updated completely in a few days. The software company is paid annual charges of Rs 9,500 for reviving the domain space.
Meanwhile, Sharad Sharma a software engineer of Web Solutions stated that many pages of the website have been updated and restoring task of remaining pages is in progress. He added that he has received necessary data from the MCD officials, which was missing from the site and is busy updating them. He informed that till date he has restored pages like Departments, Services, Administration, Tender and Achievements.
Services on the site have also been updated including the Grievance Redressal, which has now started working successfully. The tender details have also been updated on the site. Earlier these pages were corrupted and some pages were displaying the 'page under construction' message. Till a few days ago many pages of MCD website were still under construction, some pages were corrupted and many of its important links were left blank without any information.
Pages including Citizen Charters and achievement were under construction for last one year. No forms were uploaded in the 'download forms' section of the site. Many pages on the site were even missing relevant information including e-mail id, address and phone numbers of many officers in Who’s Who section. As per the officials of company the content of the MCD website was last updated in 2012.
But due to insufficient data and irregular payment to the software company the website was not being updated for the past one year.