New Delhi, May 4 -- In a move to strengthen targeted policy framing and financial autonomy at the grassroots, the Centre is set to expand rollout of its Samarth Panchayat portal to states including Assam, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra, a senior official said. Successful pilots have already been run in Chhattisgarh and Himachal Pradesh.

The online platform helps village panchayats generate and collect tax and non-tax payments, maintain records and track revenue. It was designed to help them manage their revenues, bring transparency and efficiency to local finance and targeted policy framing.

"The portal, already piloted in Himachal Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, will digitize OSR (own source of revenue) collections and also enable online paym...