Water bill payments through banks soon
Our Correspondent
Kohima | October 14
A computerized water billing system for Kohima town water supply, the first of its kind in Nagaland was launched here today. As of now, the PHED has a total of 6072 domestic consumers and 12 commercial consumers in Kohima. Launching the new system, Er Kevisekho Kruse, Chief Engineer, PHED said that with the launching of this new technology for improving revenue management, “we hope that the same software will be adopted in all major towns in all districts soon, thereby bringing much improvement in the revenue sector.” He said that Kohima Urban Division is now the best performing division in terms of revenue collection out of the 14 divisions of the department. He informed that the target for the year for this division alone is Rs. 80 lakh, and hoped that the final achievement for the year will exceed this target.
“For a long time until now, the department had been struggling to carry out revenue collection through conventional manual method of billing which involves much volume of work and also subject to many avoidable human errors,” he said, adding that it has been the endeavour of the department to shift over to a computerized system of billing and also to open up more payment counters involving the services of banks.
As of now, only the computerized system of billing is introduced but soon we will be making facilities available to all consumers to make their water bill payments through banks, he added.
