Indian Express 19.01.2010

Security audit of 1,100 PCMC computers soon

Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) would soon do a security audit of a total of 1,100 computers installed in its various offices. Recently, the municipal corporation introduced several initiatives such as e-governance, online building permissions, e-tendering process and accepting complaints through e-mails.

PCMC officials said that various departments in the municipal corporation are being computerised and an emphasis is now laid on greater use of technology to increase work efficiency of the staff. Works like paying taxes, building permissions, tender process and birth and death registration are now being done with the help of computers and the internet. Information pertaining to environment status reports, various initiatives started by the different departments, information pertaining to Right to Information Act are all available on the website.