India ; Bangalore utility payment services go online :
[India News] Bangalore, The Karnataka government Saturday rolled out its latest e-governance project, Bangalore One (B1), to provide people integrated services, including utility payments, under one roof.
The ambitious project, conceived during Microsoft chairman Bill Gates’ first visit to Bangalore in November 2002, has been designed on the build-operate-own-transfer (BOOT) model for computerising government-to citizens (G2C) services.
“B1 will enable the six million citizens of Bangalore to pay power, water and phone bills, besides property tax, commercial tax, road tax and a host of 20 civic services, from a single e-kiosk on 24×7 basis,” state Additional Chief Secretary Vijay Gore told reporters here.