An online portal of the Meghalaya Residents Safety and Security Act was launched today to enable landlords, tenants, local authorities of localities and sub-localities to register and enter the details of their residents.
The web-based system is first being rolled out in seven localities of Shillong. The first phase is being implemented in the localities of Nongrim Hills, Lapalang, Nongmynsong, Nongrah, Pohkseh, Riat Laban and Wahdienglieng.
The State government had introduced the act in 2016 with the purpose to ensure and enhance security of the citizens by making careful and thorough examination of tenants residing in the state.
The online application developed by NIC will enable the citizen (landlords/tenants) to register themselves with prior verification from the local authorities.
A statement from the Chief Minister’s office said that EPIC will be used to identify the landlord while tenants can be identified by EPIC, Driving license, PAN, AADHAAR, Student ID, Passport No. etc. The web application can be easily accessed from PCs, laptops, tablets, mobile phones, etc and has provisions to upload mandatory documents as per the act.
With the implementation of the web application, the State government will have the digitised database of basic data of all the landlords/tenants who are residing in Meghalaya.
Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma who launched the website said that the implementation of the digitised system will not only ensure the safety and security of the residents, but it will also act as a strong intelligence gathering system for authorities to monitor and act, based on the intelligence inputs gathered from the online database.
‘This kind of exercise is something that is going to help us not just in terms of the safety and security but also it will help us to digitise things and even help us to monitor the different services, schemes, and programmes implemented by the Government, and we will be able to do it in a much better manner. We want to expand this digitisation not just for MRSSA but also for effective implementation of other Government services’, he said.
Home Minister Lahkmen Rymbui, underlined that safety of the people is of paramount importance and acknowledged the various proactive steps taken by the dorbar shnongs for the security of the residents in their respective localities.
