New Delhi, Aug. 26 -- The Centre is set to launch a dedicated portal, SAMARTH Panchayat, to help the country's rural local bodies track and manage their tax and non-tax revenues and bring transparency and efficiency to local finance and targeted policy framing.

"To digitize the OSR (own source of revenue) collection of the panchayats, we have developed the SAMARTH Panchayat portal, a dedicated digital platform that facilitates the generation of tax and non-tax demands, maintenance of tax registers, and online tracking of revenue," said Vivek Bharadwaj, secretary at the panchayati raj ministry.

The portal, already piloted in Himachal Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, will digitize OSR collections and also enable online payments and asset managem...