Indian Govt. goes for e-Transfer
The Indian government is set to establish a trail of all foreign exchange transactions, including electronic transfers through various intermediaries by NRIs in the Gulf and America.
The Indian government is set to establish a trail of all foreign exchange transactions, including electronic transfers through various intermediaries by NRIs in the Gulf and America.
The Bahrain Government has launched new web portal, www.e.gov.bh, which will allow citizens to pay their electricity and water bills through debit card.
The Union Panchayati Raj Ministry has developed software to maintain database of bank accounts of all Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) to transfer the funds through electronic banking channels. Once the data is entered, the money would be transferred directly to the2,40,000 PRIs from the State’s Consolidate Fund.
The Malaysian Islamic Development Board (Jakim) website is the most popular among government agency.
Singapore government aims for a nationwide Wi-Fi initiative. The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) and the Finance Ministry are taking initiative steps for making government services more accessible by using Internet.
In India, the Custom Department is approaching towards National e-Governance Action Plan (Negap) by developing a new software package for total e-Governance in the department.
[This article was published in the November 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
What’s on
The Central Board of Excise and Customs of Ministry of Finance,Government of India has decided to make electronic payment of service tax mandatory for certain service tax assessees.
The Fiji Chamber of Commerce and Industry has called on the Government to encourage growth of the information communication technology sector.
The Finance Ministry of India has made it mandatory for all government departments and public sector companies to go in for e-Procurement and e-Payment to save on costs.