BMC opens Online Service Centres

Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has opened four Odisha Online Service Centres (OOSC), providing multiple services like registration and issuance of birth and death certificates, reservation and cancellation of marriage mandaps, payment of electricity bill, water and holding taxes..

The centers are at Chandrasekharpur, Old Town, Unit-V and Nayapalli.

The OOSC project is being implemented by Odisha e-Governance Service Limited (OeSL), a special purpose vehicle built by Odisha Computer Application Centre (OCAC).

“We have started the service at four places on an experimental basis. It will be inaugurated shortly,” said an OeSL officer. More such centres would be opened in other localities soon, he added.

“We will soon sign an MoU with OeSL to provide single-window OOSC service to people. The draft MoU has been approved by the corporation,” BMC mayor A N Jena said.

Currently, one can apply online for marriage, birth and death certificates, tenders, Kalyan Mandap reservation, Mahayatra (reservation of hearse), online cess pool emptier and water tankers.

Sources said OeSL chose the municipal corporations of Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Berhampur to start the OOSC service.