{"id":3434,"date":"2025-08-05T17:38:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltoday.live\/?p=3434"},"modified":"2025-08-05T17:38:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:38:35","slug":"cm-pema-khandu-launches-water-bill-app-to-simplify-online-bill-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltoday.live\/?p=3434","title":{"rendered":"CM Pema Khandu Launches \u2018Water Bill\u2019 App to Simplify Online Bill Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ITANAGAR, Aug 5: <\/strong>Chief Minister Pema Khandu today launched the \u2018Water Bill\u2019 app of the department of Public Health Engineering & Water Sanitation (PHE&WS) that would enable citizens to pay their water bills online without having to physically visit the offices for bill payment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The app \u2013 as a pilot project \u2013 will be available for consumers in the Itanagar Capital Region (ICR) to begin with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lauding the department for the digital initiative, the Chief Minister termed it as – a step that brings essential public service closer to the people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cFor the people in Itanagar Capital Region, paying a water bill will no longer mean taking half a day off work or standing in a long queue. Now, it\u2019s just a few taps on a phone, a few clicks on a screen,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khandu urged the department not to keep the service confined to ICR but to take it to all the districts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut this shouldn\u2019t be just about Itanagar. It has to be part of a larger vision to bring digital systems for water connections, billing, and grievance redressal to every District Headquarters in Arunachal Pradesh,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digitalization of bill payments by citizens, Khandu observed, greatly enhances revenue collection and urged all revenue earning departments of the state government to follow suit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDigital revenue collection is transparent, happens in real time and there is no leakage. But the best part is accessibility and ease of payment by the consumers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meanwhile, the Chief Minister also took stock of the department\u2019s ongoing projects, future endeavours and departmental issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While assuring the state government\u2019s support with funds and manpower, Khandu suggested recruitment of trained people even for contingency posts in the department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTake in youths who have passed out from our ITIs. They are technically capable. All work departments should do the same. Recruit ITI pass-outs even if it is a contingency or MTS post. This way our youths would opt for the ITIs established across the state. They will get employment and you will get technicians,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PHE&WS minister Mama Natung, Advisor Pani Taram, Chief Secretary Manish Kumar Gupta and departmental officials were present during the launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ITANAGAR, Aug 5: Chief Minister Pema Khandu today launched the \u2018Water Bill\u2019 app of the department of Public Health Engineering & Water Sanitation (PHE&WS) that would enable citizens to pay their water bills online without having to physically visit the offices for bill payment. The app \u2013 as a pilot project \u2013 will be available…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltoday.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltoday.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltoday.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltoday.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltoday.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltoday.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3437,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltoday.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434\/revisions\/3437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltoday.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltoday.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltoday.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltoday.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}