Chennai, Aug 18 (ANI/Business Wire India): Sify Technologies Limited (NASDAQ: SIFY), a leader in Consumer Internet and Enterprise Services in India with global delivery capabilities, announced today its partnership with the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM), the country's first and largest municipal corporation.
This partnership will enable MCGM to leverage Sify's ePort cyber caf? chain in Mumbai to provide online services to Mumbai's citizens including:
-Payment of water tax and property tax,
-Renewing shop and establishment licenses,
-Applying for birth and death certificates,
-Applying for health licenses,
-Registering complaints and tracking the status of complaints
Mumbai's citizens can now visit any of the 250 e-port caf?s in the city to access these facilities online. The city's ePort's will function as civic service centres for the MCGM, so citizens need not have a Sify account for availing of these services.
Commenting on this partnership, Naresh Ajwani, President- Consumer Infrastructure and Operations, Sify Technologies Ltd, said, "This partnership is aimed at making the lives of the citizens of greater Mumbai easier with convenient access to online services from a nearby ePort. This is a reiteration of the trust reposed in us by the public and public institutions such as MCGM in being associated with us."
"They see the advantages of partnering with the largest branded retail chain in the country and trust us for our dependable infrastructure and delivery systems. Sify is the only Internet company in the country to have wide spread reach in terms of number of retail outlets, reliable IT infrastructure and robust backend systems within cities and across the country. We hope this will be the first of many such partnerships to improve the lives of the citizens of the country," he added
"The advantages of such a partnership are many, and accrue to all stakeholders-the MCGM, citizens, the cyber caf? industry and business and industry. For the MCGM, access to their services online is available round the clock and all seven days of the week; Citizens do not have to travel to the corporation office, nor do they have to wait in long queues anymore; as these services are accessed widely, the cyber caf? industry will be perceived to be an enabler of convenient online access to multiple services making the Internet available for all; and business and industry will benefit from increased productivity as staff need no longer take time off to complete such chores. Such partnerships are therefore a winning proposition for everyone concerned, and we are very happy to be pioneering such a model", he further said.
Citizens need only follow a simple four step procedure to access MCGM's services:
1) Carry the bill or reference number to the Sify e-port
2) The caf? host logs on to the MCGM website at www.mcgm.gov and confirms the bill, name or amount
3) The cafe host accepts the money and pays online on behalf of the citizen
4) The citizen is given the print out of the receipt
So citizens need not be familiar with computers or using the Internet to use MCGM's online services.
At present there are 40 million bills being paid annually in Mumbai alone towards property tax, water tax, birth and death certificates, licenses etc. This facility enables Sify's ePorts to function as Multi Service Centers (MSCs) for large public and private organizations, and paves the way for more such partnerships to serve the country's citizens. (ANI)
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