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Institute for eGovernment

Addressing a function to mark the occasion, the Chief Minister said that this will go a long way in the implementation of e-governance in tax administration of the State. He said that full scale preparation is going on for introducing e-filing of return, e-registration, e-generation of statutory forms and e-refund through its own portal by the Commercial Tax Department in future.

More than 4,000 common service centres are already operational in the State and another 7,500 centres will be in place during the next six months, said Minister of State for Energy Atanu Sabyasachi after signing of the MoUs.

‘‘The webiste is in place and people can log on to the new portal — www.mcdpropertytax.in — and file their property tax returns online starting from Sunday,’’ said assessor and collector, MCD A K Ambasht.

The objective of National E-governance services is to make all Government services accessible to the common man in his locality, through common service delivery outlets and ensure efficiency, transparency & reliability of such services at affordable costs to realize the basic needs of the common man and for that “PayWorld” has signed the agreement with 3 I Infotech Ltd., Orion eServices Limited, Zoom Developers (P) Ltd, G&G Group, which are newly appointed SCA (State Coordination Agency) to run CSC (Common Service Centre) at Panchayat Levels, out of 19 other appointed agencies by IL & FS (A nodal agency for implementing this programme at National Level).

Facing a tough time in paying their bills in the Municipal Corporation offices, the residents would not have to wait in long queues for making their payments. The authorities have invited tenders from banks, who would provide them net-banking facility. In the meantime officers have also started the facility on its website from where the residents could easily get information about their monthly bills. They just have to click at the MC's official website www.mcludhiana.com and fill their identification number to get information about the bill amount. The ID number is printed on the bill dispatched on their address.

With the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) doubling the cap on mobile transactions, mobile payment companies are bullish on the prospects for m-commerce — especially in the rural unbanked space.

The RBI recently increased the daily transaction limit for cash transactions from Rs 2,500 to Rs 5,000 and the daily transaction limit for goods and services from Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000. Companies reason that as the metropolitan users are equipped with card-based payments and the Internet, rural deployment becomes more significant for them. Over 30 per cent of the new mobile subscriptions every month come from villages.

Soon, residents of Haryana will be able to make their payments online for all their property-related deals as the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) is going to launch its new web portal on September 14.

“The portal will enable the residents of Haryana to make online payments, directly through the bank account and also by way of credit cards. With the launch of this facility, the HUDA will become the lead development authority in the country to have implemented such a programme,” Haryana Chief Secretary Urvashi Gulati said.

Even though, the online system is being used by the RTO just to give appointments to those seeking learning licenses, in the near future it plans to upgrade this system for the online payment of road tax.

According to official sources, the facility will first be introduced for registration of vehicles by dealers and then extended to payments pertaining to licences, permits and fitness certificates by the public. Transport minister K N Nehru is likely to inaugurate the system in November.

The National Payments Corp. of India (NPCI) plans to link Rupay, its soon-to-be-launched domestic payment gateway on the lines of global gateways such as Visa and MasterCard, with the unique identification programme Aadhaar.

The move will allow customers to use their Aadhaar identity - a unique set of 12 numbers that would be issued to all residents of the country - and their fingerprints registered under Aadhaar as their banking password.

India is on the cusp of a digital revolution. There are more than, more than, more than US$30 million in digital payment transactions processed through the indigenous Unified Payment Interface per month and about providing digital platform services. India has adopted digitalisation in all spheres, but technology policy and infrastructure are slipping behind this growth.

The telecom industry that is building the requisite digital backbone for India is struggling. The sector once witnessed fierce competition with ten mobile operators but has now consolidated to . Mobile operators will pay more than US$20 billion to the government after a long litigated regulatory fee settlement issue. This leaves most operators with nothing to invest in 5G and other future technologies.

To promote the Digital India initiative in the Indian Railways, a statutory board of the Ministry of Railways, the government is encouraging passengers to purchase food through digital methods via catering units at railway stations. 8,878 static units have digital payment facilities, a press release has stated.

Additionally, the government has provided handheld point of sale (PoS) machines at catering units to generate printed bills and invoices reflecting all details of transactions undertaken and to address complaints of overcharging. At present, 30,81 PoS machines are available on 596 trains. 4,316 static units have been provided with PoS machines.

Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Chief Minister of Haryana State said that the new website with e-services would benefit citizens greatly and will bring in more transparency in the department’s operation.

The gateway falls under the National Payment Services Platform (NPSP) which was launched by Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) as part of the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP). NPSP aims to provide payment gateway services for e-governance projects. It is to support a complete transactional experience for citizens using the Government’s various online services.

State Infrastructure and Industrial Development Commissioner V N Garg launched the portal, called Nivesh Mitra, which has a user-friendly interface with online payment facility and other unique features for facilitating quicker processing of matters relating to entrepreneurs and investors.

The e-payment portal accessible at www.udyogbandhu.org also assists entrepreneurs for getting clearances from 12 government departments.

Although currently in testing mode, registered individual and corporate taxpayers can begin to take advantage of the service. They will need to register at sse.pajak.go.id using their Tax Identification Number (TIN). Upon registration, users can fill out their personal details which will be stored by the system, and can then obtain a billing code from the system.

Seamus Brennan, Minister for Social Welfare and Family Affairs, has revealed that a review of the department's methods of paying customers is underway, with a view to identify a payment system that would be flexible, cost-effective and would take account of the needs of social welfare recipients.

Instead of having multiple e-payment systems built and launched individually by Jordanian companies, 'e-Tasdeed' will serve as a single, unified platform that caters to the needs of all companies and institutions while being directly interfaced with core banking and credit card systems, unlike the previous solutions which used to be technically complicated and limitedly useful.