Now BMC to collect spot fine through POS machines
   Date :30-Aug-2019

 
 
Staff Reporter :
 
Now spot fine will be collected by using (Point of Sale) POS machines. Bhopal Municipal Corporation has purchased around 200 POS machines which will be distributed ward-wise to the health and anti-encroachment squad officers. This initiative has been taken as to facilitate cashless transactions. Training will also be provided to the officials for the smooth implementation of spot fine drive. Earlier, spot fine was collected by hard cash and receipt used to be given and many times it was found that as person did not have money then notice used to be issued for the payment.
 
This also resulted in ensuring proper maintenance of the record so that revenue can be collected and follow up can be done by the officials. But now with cashless transactions such process can be avoided. On Thursday, Bhopal Municipal Corporation anti-encroachment team carried out drive in Karond area. Good number of builders and contractors had put up construction material on roads. The BMC officials also faced problem to collect spot fine from them as many a times they show reluctance to pay fine owing to less money in hand.
 
With POS machine now such problems are expected to be resolved. The BMC is gearing up for total cashless transactions from paying municipal taxes to booking marriage gardens. Earlier, it was decided that Bhopal civic body will install 120 POS machines that will be provided by a private bank for free. All the BMC ward offices, zonal offices, public facility centres, building permission branches and the Bhopal City Link Limited with equipped with POS machines.
 
Now, it has been decided that even spot fine collection will be made through POS machines. Apart from the POS machines, Quick Response Code (QR) system are also introduced to facilitate people to pay digitally, a BMC official said. A workshop was organised recently to sensitise accountants, ward incharges and zonal officers of BMC about the digital transactions. BMC stated that the imperative for the corporation to go cashless as digital transactions would save time and maintain transparency in the system.