Thiruvananthapuram : The integration of documents related to land and buildings into K-SMART, which is dubbed as the next level of digital administration, is fast nearing completion.

Once completed, this integration will facilitate seamless services pertaining to land and buildings through local self-government institutions. Nearly 77 crore documents related to 38 lakh buildings are currently being uploaded to K-SMART in the 93 Urban Local Bodies. The completion of the data purification process will also ensure the full realisation of a paperless office concept.

So far, entire documents from 87 municipalities and six corporations have been integrated into K-SMART to enable the seamless delivery of services through local self-government institutions. Once the data purification process is completed, all documents related to buildings, land, and their owners will be accessible through K-SMART. Issues such as data ambiguity and incomplete documents will be addressed once this process is completed.

The integration of WhatsApp for providing documents requested through K-SMART is also underway. This will facilitate delivery of documents via both the K-SMART application and WhatsApp simultaneously.

The Government of Kerala has implemented K-SMART with the aim of revolutionising digital administration by consolidating all services of local self-government institutions into a single online platform. The application has been developed by the Information Kerala Mission. Once embedded with the complete set of features, K-SMART will be capable of predictive governance, designed to predict and deliver the documents a citizen may need at a given point of time.

At present K-SMART is embedded with eight modules – civil registration (birth, death, and marriage registration), business felicitation (licences for trade and industries), property tax, user management, file management system, finance module, building permission module, public grievance redressal and complaints and a ‘Know Your Land’ App, apart from K-SMART App. In the next stage, the planning module, Grama Sabha meeting management, pension services, survey and forms, public infrastructure, waste management, and disaster management services will be incorporated. A GIS Ruel Engine and e-DCR RuleEngine have been incorporated into the building permission module and ‘Know Your Land’ App for the first time in India. Again, for the first time in the country, video KyC has been introduced for issuing marriage certificates to couples separated by different geographies. Work is underway to include more services and modules.