BMC’s SAP system to be shut for upgradation

BMC office

The BMC is upgrading its SAP software so the system will be shut down from July 9 to 21. As all SAP servers will be shut down during the period, citizens and civic employees will not be able to carry out any transactions including citizen services, issuance of purchase orders or processing payments, issuance of birth or death certificates from before 2016, FICO challans, licences, marriage certificates, building factory licence, etc.

The SAP system will be closed from 8 pm on July 9 to 8 pm on July 21. During this period, the SAP servers will be migrated to another data centre and will be converted to SAP HANA platform. "To upgrade and enhanced security, the BMC is implementing SAP HANA a new version of SAP system that provides users faster applications with a real-time generation of online reports, facility of document management, faster testing of new applications, new user interface, more responsive and user-friendly mobile applications, and various dashboards," said an official from the BMC.

Services other than those on SAP system will be available to citizens e.g. issuance of birth or death certificates after 2016. Property tax payment facility will be available on https://ptaxportal.mcgm.gov.in water bill payment facility will be available on https://aquaptax.mcgm.gov.in and building plan approval on https://autodcr.mcgm.gov.in. As BMC is going to use the eProcurement System of the government of Maharashtra, the tendering processes of all departments will continue.