BBMP never learns from its past mistakes. Again it is time for online payment of property tax and BBMP is back with its outdated, badly maintained and stupid online payment tool. I struggled for over 30 minutes to pay my tax and following are the hardships faced -
1) Once you enter all the card particulars and hit the payment button, immediately you are alerted by a sign saying that the portal is not safe and someone may be trying to steal your data.
2) If you compromise on that aspect and proceed, the PayU portal takes its own sweet time and finally one gets frustrated and exit. By the time you get a message from the bank that the money is debited.
3) You go to BBMP site again and check payment status and it says "pay again". If you press that button it says "payment already made check status again". So you check the status once again and now it shows that payment is received. Finally, one relief!
4) Now you try to print the receipt and it says some error occurred and try again. So you keep on trying again and again until the idiotic system finally prints the receipt.
This is typical of BBMP. We face this issue every year and the Worshipful Mayor of BBMP gives out a statement that the system would be set right and there ends the matter. Once tax payment season is over, everyone connected with it goes to deep slumber to wake up again at the next season. Even God can not help BBMP at this rate.