PANJIM: Multiple visits to the village panchayats to avail various services, certificates and licences issued through them will be a thing of the past soon as all panchayats across the State are slated to go online from the first week of November this year.
“All 191 village panchayats across Goa will go online from first week of November,” said Director of Panchayats Siddhi Halarnkar. She said that in the initial phase services such as house tax payment, birth and death certificates, trade and other licence renewal, NOC for electricity and water etc will go online.
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Services such as issuing of construction licence, occupancy certificate etc will be offered online subsequently, she added.
Halarnkar opined that going online will help the village panchayats increase its revenue as people will be able to avail services and make payments online thus reducing pending arrears. The services will be made available on the Directorate of Panchayats website https://panchayatsgoa.gov.in/
