Ministries /
Departments
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62
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Pay and Accounts Offices
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468
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Cheque Drawing DDO
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152
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Banks
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22 |
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e-Payment started in Railways, CPWD, Ministry of Urban Development for
152
Divisions, a total of 278 Divisions to be onboarded by the end of this year.
Welcome to Railways, PAOs of Indian Audit and Accounts Department, Ministry of External
Affairs & Department of Telecommunication.
©
Accounts Informatics Division,
O/o,Controller General of Accounts,
National Informatics Centre.
06-10-2024
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October
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Till Date
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Count
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Crores
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Count
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Crores
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Count
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Crores
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0|0|0|0|0|
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0|0|0|0|0|
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1|3|7|1|3|
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0|1|4|1|9|
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4|3|3|6|1|2|1|2|
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1|8|8|3|9|1|3|
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The Government e-Payment Gateway (GePG) is envisaged
to provide a payment gateway for the Civil Ministries and departments with the
specific objective of leveraging the existing IT capabilities of the Core
Banking Systems and application software functionalities of the CGA's
organisation towards the development of an integrated payment and accounting
system for all levels of usage with seamless interface and data communication.
This would result in the elimination of physical cheque processing system and
traditional issues associated with it, which would ensure major cost savings for
the department by greatly enhancing the overall payment processing efficiency;
Online reverse file (payment scroll) giving MIS on unique e-Authorization ID for
all e-payment fund transfers; Online auto-reconciliation to facilitate major
savings in time and efforts and speed up the compilation of accounting
processes; and Ensuring a secure single point data capture of transaction data
thereby eliminating duplication of work and data inconsistency.
- High Security Standards and System Logs of Transactions.
- The PAO’s applications would have the following security requirements in place
for effecting e-payments
- 128 Bit PKI encryption.
- Integrity of information: Hash Algorithm (SHA1): security standards are designed
to ensure confidentiality of data, authenticity of data and integrity of data
being conveyed on the internet by PAOs to the bank.
- Non-repudiation – Key generation / Digital Signature based on 128 Bit PKI
Infrastructure (as recommended by RBI)
- Digitally Signed e-payment Authorisation along with Itemised tracking of each
e-payment authorisation and automated reconcilation.
ELECTRONIC PAYMENTS
The Controller General of Accounts
is launching a full-fledged electronic delivery of payment services through the
Internet. To enable this, an Government e-Payment Gateway is envisaged as a
critical infrastructural component to ensure that such transactions occur
without any hitches and in total security over electronic networks. This
component has multiple benefits, with critical ones being multiple payment
options, secure transmission, payment settlements and rapid processing. The
e-Payment Gateway will provide an operational component of the e-Governance
infrastructure and a full payment facility that will allow secure online
payments (e-Payments). The e-Payment Gateway will operate as a critical shared
service with the COMPACT application at PAOs and Core Banking Solution of Banks.
The goal of the e-payment gateway
is expected to provide a mechanism to handle all Government payments
transactions by the Pay and Accounts Offices of the Government of India. The
e-payment gateway is a key enabler to the successful delivery of payment
services and would increase the adoption of e-services due to its efficiency and
ease-of-use. It would provide a single point of access for all Pay and Accounts
Offices that serves all Central Government Ministries and Departments for online
payment transactions. In addition, all Government payment transactions would be
allowed to be searched and collated.