₹54 crore sanctioned for smart revenue offices project
The project is aimed at constructing smart revenue offices with modern facilities in phases at Collectorates, revenue divisional offices, subcollector offices, taluk offices, and village offices, and other special offices to ensure fast delivery of online and offline revenue services to the people. The project envisages improved services to the public and officials by making basic infrastructure and information and communications technology available in revenue offices from the village office level to the land revenue commissionerate.
The smart revenue offices project has five components – construction of smart village offices and spillover work; renovation of other revenue offices and spillover work; related work; Revenue Bhavan; and Pattaya Mission.
The special working group that met to take a decision on the project proposal submitted by the Land Revenue Commissioner stipulated that the work should be taken up only as per the estimate prepared in the PRICE (Project Information and Cost Estimation) software as per the Delhi Schedule of Rates, 2021.
An amount of ₹41 crore has been sanctioned for the first three components of the project; ₹10 crore for Revenue Bhavan; and ₹3 crore for Pattaya Mission.
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