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Government E-Payment System to be Inaugurated; will Bring Transparency; Facilitate Paperless Transaction and Reduce Overall Transaction Cost

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..... Government E-Payment System to be Inaugurated; will Bring Transparency; Facilitate Paperless Transaction and Reduce Overall Transaction Cost - News and Press Release Dated:- 29-10-2011 - News - Press Information Bureau Government of India Ministry of Finance 28-October-2011 17:06 IST The Controller General of Accounts (CGA), Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance has developed .....

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..... a fully secured Government e-payment system for direct credit of dues from the Government of India into the account of beneficiaries using digitally signed electronic advice (e-advice) through the Government e-Payment Gateway (GePG). The Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate the Government e-Payment System on Monday. Government e-Payment Gateway (GePG) is a portal which e .....

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..... nables the successful delivery of payment services from Pay Accounts Offices (PAOs) for online payment into beneficiaries accounts in a seamless manner under a secured environment. GePG serves as middleware between COMPACT (Computerized Payment and Accounts) application at Pay Accounts Offices and the Core Banking Solution (CBS) of the agency banks/RBI to facilitate paperless transaction, red .....

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..... ucing overall transaction cost and promoting green banking. This system will bring transparency and expedite direct payments from central paying units relating to subsidies to the users and consumers of fertilizer, kerosene and cooking gas which is already a declared objective of the government. This will increase the adoption of other e-services due to its efficiency and ease-of-use for all C .....

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..... entral Government Ministries and Departments for online payment transactions. The digitally signed e-advices uploaded by the PAOs on GePG portal is downloaded by the concerned banks to credit the beneficiaries accounts through CBS/NEFT/RTGS as applicable. The e-payment system will save time and efforts in effecting payments and will facilitate elimination of physical cheques and their manual proc .....

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..... essing. Further the constraints of manual deposit of cheque by the payees into their bank account would also be eliminated. The system will also have online reconciliation of transactions and efficient compilation of payment accounts. Under the traditional system of government payments, paying units in central government are using cheque, cash, DD or in few ministries ECS for payments to emplo .....

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..... yees and vendors. In the past few years RTGS and NET faculties provided by RBI are also being utilized for central government payments in various ministries through the banking channel. DSM/SS/GN - News - Press release - PIB Tax Management India - taxmanagementindia - taxmanagement - taxmanagementindia.com - TMI - TaxTMI - TMITax .....

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