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).
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is planning to offer bundles of banking services with mobile telephone SIM card. This initiative will push branch banking into the background with rural banking going mobile.
Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India was overwhelmed at the changing scenario of common man in the nation in using communication technologies for running their economy.
“Our government has taken the decision that the entire internal functioning of the government has to be automated so that can bring about transparency and responsiveness. We have learnt lessons from the e-Government projects of other states also.
[This article was published in the May 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Building strong microfinance institutions entails improving governance, professionalising management, strengthening internal controls and accounting practices, and introducing low-cost ways of doing business
[This article was published in the March 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Rapid diffusion nature of the digital technology enables related crimes to escape the grip of cyber laws. Hence there is an urgent need to develop more technology-effective cyber laws much ahead of the rapid technological changes.
After successfully introducing the electronic order-matching system for trading of gilts and Treasury bills, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is now considering launching a new electronic platform for the auction of T-bills, along the lines of the NDS-OM.
[This article was published in the January 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Understanding the benefits of the use of ICTs in the larger interest of the public, the Indian Apex Court has also become conscious to make it judicially applicable for the deliverance of justice appropriately.
