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the receipts. The Tax demand can be accessed by
citizen through their mobile number attached to
properties or by giving assessment number. The
portal is bilingual and demands and receipts
are available in Tamil as well as in English. This
Application has significantly reduced the work
load of Village Panchayat Secretaries.
The collected taxes are transferred to
Single Nodal Account (SNA)) account which are
maintained by State RD for all 12,525 Village
Panchayats, for both receipts and expenditure
done by Village Panchayats.
The VP-Tax application follows a systematic
workflow-based architecture. On receipt of
the application, the President marks it to the
Secretary for verification. The Secretary verifies
the application and returns it to the President
for approval. In certain cases, like name transfer,
the application will be further forwarded for
concurrence by the respective Block Development
Officer (BDO).
The application is highly customizable to cater
to the needs of individual Village Panchayats.
Each Panchayat can decide the tax levy and
other charges based on the Village Panchayat
resolution. The application provides the facility
to configure the same on the system, without any
dependency of TN RD headquarters.
A Mobile Application has been developed and
installed in Point-of-Sale (POS) Machines which immediately updated in the Village Panchayat in complete Open-Source Technology using Linux,
were distributed for Tax Collection in all Village Tax Portal and new Assessment ID is given to the Nginx with Postgres as backend. It is developed
Panchayats. Tax Collectors can go and collect the property. as a Responsive Web Design (RWD) using
Taxes at citizen doorstep, print the receipt and This Application has significantly reduced Bootstrap Libraries for easy viewing in mobile
handover to the citizen. Easy payment options the work load of Village Panchayat Secretaries. also. AlmaLinux 9.5, Nginx 1.25,PHP 8.1 (core PHP),
like cash, debit/credit card, UPI, internet payment Demand, Collection and Balance (DCB) reports, PostgREST for API
etc. are provided for the citizen to make the tax daily collection report under various categories
payment. All the communications to Citizen (Counter, Online, POS collection) and many more Hardware and Connectivity
happen via SMS and email. reports can be generated at Village, Block, District Each Village Panchayat has been provided
The VP Tax application was seamlessly and State levels. with Desktop machines, Printer, POS Machines.
integrated with Property Registration Portal. Sufficient Broad Band Connectivity is also
Whenever a property is registered in the Property Technology Stack Used provided through ISPs
Registration portal, the property details get The VPTAX Application Software is developed Conclusion
The Village Panchayat Tax application has
Fig 10.1 VP Tax online Hardware Architecture revolutionized collection of all kinds of taxes in
Tamil Nadu Village Panchayats. The Tax Collection
has improved many folds and the Government is
NIC TN State Data Centre - Chennai TN State Data Centre able to centrally monitor the collection across
Chennai
Application Production the State. Citizen service will be introduced
NFS
User 1 server (Physical) (Uploaded Docs) Application DR Server
1U shortly for New Assessment, Name transfer, Water
connection etc., so that citizen can submit their
App Sync 1U request online without the need to visit the office.
User N A mobile app, named ‘OORAGAM’ (meaning Rural
VM
Application Sync in Tamil), has been developed in local language
for payment of all kinds of VP Tax services in
Administrator Flutter framework for compatibility with Android
and iOS. This app will be released shortly.
SAN VM
Staging Server Contact for more details
2U 2U
State Informatics Officer
NIC, Tamil Nadu State Centre
Production Database Production Database Database- DR Server
Master (Physical) Slave (Physical) E-2-A, Rajaji Bhavan, Besant Nagar
2U TN State Data Centre Chennai, Tamil Nadu - 600090
NIC TN State Data Centre - Chennai Chennai
Email: sio.tn@nic.in, Phone: 044-24917850

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