The Rahuri Municipal Council in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district on Thursday became the first Municipal Council to attain the status of integrated with 'digital locker'(Digi-Locker) for the issuance of all essential documents.
Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad launched the service as part of 'Digital India' Programme.
Speaking on the occasion, Prasad called upon civic bodies all around the country to follow Rahuri in expediting the process of digital governance.
"The process initiated by the NDA Government has started gathering pace and states and local bodies should come forward to make this initiative a grand success. Digitalisation of governance was essentially meant to bring in transparency in the administration and restore peoples' confidence in Government, he said, while directing the IT Department to help all municipal bodies in digitalising governance and making administration paperless.
According to Dilipji Gandhi, Member of Parliament, who personally took interest in the initiative, the website is integrated as an issuer and Requester with DigiLocker, where the citizen will have access to all these documents at any time.
"They will have freedom to access them from anywhere in the world at any time. The citizen of the area can now apply for the certificates such as birth, marriage and death online without going to Municipal Council and these documents will be available in the Digilocker signed to the citizens. This will also ensure them the peace of mind provided by the easy security of their documents forever," he said.