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The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) has approved Andhra Pradesh’s connection for establishing Municipal Shared Service Centres (MSSCs), recommending a assistance of ₹50 crore nether the 15th Finance Commission.
The archetypal instalment of ₹25 crore had been released, the State authorities announced connected Thursday.
The initiative, driven by the Municipal Administration & Urban Development (MA&UD) Department, aims to alteration work transportation crossed 123 Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) by pooling resources, leveraging technology, and enhancing fiscal sustainability.
Principal Secretary S. Suresh Kumar described the task arsenic a “blueprint for modern municipal governance,” aligned with Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu’s Swarna Andhra-2047 vision.
The MSSC exemplary volition centralise finance, payroll, procurement, and ineligible services, portion digitising spot tax, certificates, and inferior absorption done GIS mapping, drone surveys, and a unsocial ‘One Household–One QR Code’ system. It volition besides streamline national services done Ward Seva Kendras, doorstep delivery, WhatsApp-based grievance redress, and multilingual AI support.
Key objectives
Key objectives see boosting spot taxation revenues, unlocking municipal onshore imaginable via PPP models, ensuring wastewater reuse, and driving vigor ratio successful streetlighting, h2o supply, and infrastructure.
He said the task would heighten transparency, amended municipal revenues, and supply faster, citizen-centric services, mounting a nationalist benchmark for inclusive, technology-driven municipality governance.
