Jammu, Jan 9: The Housing and Urban Development Department has introduced Citizens Service mechanism to provide online birth and death certificates and also provide information about building permission status and objection certificates received from different departments. An official spokesman said the system also provides facility to the department for creating data bank about births and deaths, building permissions, accrual based accounting and status of court cases. “It has also provided facility for maintaining personal management and administrative module and e-tendering for development works,” the spokesman said.
During the last year, the spokesman said, the Housing and Urban Development Department has got enacted J&K Municipalities Public Disclosure Act, J&K Municipal Ombudsman Act 2010, Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibitions Act), J&K Property Right to Slum Dwellers Bill 2011, J&K Development Act 1970 Amendment Bill 2011 and J&K Municipal Law Amendment 2011. “The Department has also notified by-laws and policies for parking at Srinagar and Jammu, advertisement policy, municipal accounting manual, building by-laws for Srinagar and Jammu Municipal Corporations, J&K Municipal Accounting Manual for ULBs,” he said.
The spokesman also said that under JNNURM Rs. 247.62 crores have been sanctioned for various projects for urban infrastructure which include projects like Urban Structure Governance (UIG), Basic Services for Urban Poor (BSUP), Integrated Housing Slum Development Programme (IHSDP), Urban Infrastructure Development for Small and Medium Towns (UIDSSMT). “The income slab for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) and Low Income Groups (LIG) has been increased from Rs. 50,000 to Rs. one lakh for EWS and Rs. 1,00,001 to Rs. 2,00,000 for LIG,” he said.

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