Hyderabad: Telangana Information Technology Association (TITA) has welcomed the Telangana State government’s move to make revenue services online by making reforms in revenue laws. Sundeep Kumar Makthala TITA Global President said that the new Revenue Act will usher in a new revolution in the administration. Sundeep Kumar Makthala said that making key services online is a welcome move and it will help common citizens of the State and lauded the government for taking such a popular initiative. He appealed to the state government to provide more services online by saying that it will benefit to the common citizens.
Common citizens will reap benefits if the government makes various services online. People used to make rounds of various offices to get their work done. online services will resolve the long pending lands and other issues. Digitization of revenue services online will resolve all such issues, TITA chief said. The new revenue legislation will bring transparency and put an end to land disputes and litigation.
TITA chief said that according to the new revenue law, the land will be digitized based on its longitudes and latitudes and the entire data will be available online. This is a first-of-its-kind initiative and a revolutionary step, Makthala said. He said that over 60 percent of people working in the IT industry in Hyderabad hail from other places. Earlier, there was a sense of insecurity for this working section over buying lands in the city. However, the online services for the new revenue law envisage, provides much-needed relief to all those who all are willing to buy land in the city.
Sundeep Kumar Makthala said that the common citizens expect the revenue administration to be hassle-free, transparent, and graft-free. The new law will provide all these and is a comprehensive one-stop solution for efficient, accountable, and transparent revenue administration in the State, he said. With the new law coming into force people dealing with land transactions need not wait for months in selling or buying land, changes in ownership, booking slots for the registration process which was a norm earlier, he said. Time-bound services, transparency, and accuracy are what all online services in revenue administration provide to the people. The government should bring in such revolutionary changes in other departments also to ensure hassle-free delivery of various services to the common citizens.
Sundeep Kumar Makthala said that TITA has always advocated the usage of automation and upgrading services to online mode to ensure smooth delivery of services and has been accordingly doing its bit to achieve this objective. The Association chief said that TITA launched services like the T-Consult app during the COVID pandemic which helped thousands of beneficiaries in availing medical services at their fingertip. The massive response to this initiative shows that the necessity of technological services in various fields. Likewise, TITA partnered with the Telangana government’s Department of Languages and Culture to provide a special identity card for artistes who will benefit scores of artistes across the State, Makthala said.
The TITA Global President said that the Association was always ready to work with the government to render hassle-free services to the common citizens by providing technology-based support.