The dream of Digital India appears to be coming true in Jammu and Kashmir. After digitalizing two dozen authorities providers, now each family in Jammu and Kashmir will get a singular identification UID. In keeping with the federal government, it is being executed below the Digital India program the place all the small print of the residents together with the small print of the property, like the character of the property, dimensions of the property, and site can be digitised. Though the locals of the Srinagar metropolis are apprehensive that it is step one in direction of implementation of the property tax within the Valley. The federal government says this may assist them to retailer the information of each family together with their tackle, variety of members of the family, their electrical energy and water payments together with different crucial data.
Chief Secretary, Jammu Kashmir Arun Kumar Mehta mentioned that when folks used to go to a authorities workplace, they wanted to offer all particulars and it used to take hours. “In digital time, there must be no want for that, we do not need any ques in places of work, every part may be executed on-line. We’re primary within the variety of on-line providers supplied within the Union territory. Individuals must be conscious that they needn’t go to places of work however all providers can be supplied on-line. This may profit the locals lots. The thought is that locals needn’t come to us for work, and the federal government will go to them,” mentioned Mehta.
The Distinctive ID can be supplied not solely to the homes but additionally to industrial buildings, streets, and heritage websites. Srinagar Municipality Commissioner Ather Aamir mentioned that each home within the metropolis that falls below the jurisdiction of Srinagar can be given a singular ID quantity which can assist to find the tackle of any individual simply whereas clearing that it has nothing to do with the property tax as that may be a separate challenge.
“We have now executed surveys of over 2 lakhs 30 thousand premises. We have now checked whether or not the properties are residential or industrial. The drainage, water and electrical energy system has been checked. We have now numbered the streets. It is a digital planning of the town. Now we’ll put a metallic board exterior each home and it’ll have a QR code, this may create a greater system of planning. Tax is a separate half. It is a trendy method of bettering providers,” mentioned Aamir.
Final yr, when the UT authorities of Jammu and Kashmir introduced the imposition of property tax in city areas, nearly all of the political events, civil societies and different commerce unions opposed it. Sensing the state of affairs could flip ugly, the UT administration then put the choice on maintain. Now that the federal government has began the method of offering UID and is registering all the small print of Srinagar households, the property tax points have been raised once more. The transfer to challenge a “Distinctive Identification Quantity” (UID) to the Srinagar residents has been criticized by the regional political events as properly.
