Now, it would be mandatory to make the payment through e-Mode from April 1, 2007. The Finance Minister of India, P. Chidambaram has launched the Electronic Accounting System in Excise and Service Tax (EASIEST).
[This article was published in the March 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The Union Government of India has increased the allocation for e-Governance programmes by 82 per cent to INR 719 million to fund the ambitious programmes of e-Governance.
[This article was published in the July 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
In December 2002, the Government of India approved a policy for the grant of licenses for setting up of Community Radio Stations to well established educational institutions including Indian Institute of Technology and Indian Institute of Management (IITs/IIMs).
The Finance Minister of India, Mr P. Chidambaram, launched a website of the National Savings Institute (NSI) for dissemination of information and online redress of complaints related to various small savings schemes offered by the central government.
The Finance Minister of India has planned up to double the taxpayer base by 2010-11. To make this plan successful, a massive IT networking strategy that promises to increase the number of the tax payers in the country is going to be introduced.
