Kolkata/Bhubaneswar
Business Standard
The people of Orissa can get their land and other documents registered in less than an hour compared to 30-45 days taken under the prevailing system manual registration, thanks to the roll out of e-Dharini, the e-registration project of the state government. The e-Dharini, a Rs 100 crore project was rolled out on Monday by chief minister Naveen Patnaik.
This project which is one of the Mission Mode projects of the state government is implemented by by Orissa e-Governance Services Limited (OeSL), a special purpose vehicle formed by Orissa Computer Application Centre (OCAC) and IL&FS-Infrastructure Development Corporation. The project is being taken up on the public private partnership (PPP) mode and it would be implemented by on BOOT (build, own, operate and transfer) basis
“The e-Dharini project is aimed at offering citizen centric services to the people of Orissa. Under this project, a deed can be registered in less than an hour”, Patnaik said after rolling out the project. S N Patra, the state minister for revenue and disaster management; Ramesh C Majhi, the minister for information technology; P K Mohapatra, the state IT secretary; R K Sharma, revenue secretary and Dinesh K Tyagi, chief executive officer, OeSL were present on the occasion.
The project will make use of biometric authentication system to ensure that there is no manipulation of records by unscrupulous methods, he added.
The e-registration project will be applicable to all essential records including birth, marriage and death certificates as well as land records.
E-FILING HELPS STATE REAP SALES TAX RETURNS BONANZA
Yogesh Naik, Mumbai
The Times of India (Mumbai edition)
The state’s finances would have been severely hit, but for the 100% e-returns scheme introduced by the sales tax department. This switch will help the department not just comfortably meet, but cross its revenue target for 2009-10. The department is expected to rake in Rs 34,000 crore against the target for the period of Rs 31,346 crore.
Sales tax commissioner Sanjay Bhatia said, “We introduced compulsory filing of e-returns in January 2009 and Maharashtra was the first state to achieve 100% filing. Before we introduced e-filing, traders and companies barely filed returns on time. The system shows that around September 2007, only 30% of traders had filed returns.
“But this year, when we checked in October 2009, we found that 80% of them had filed on time. This has led to a big increase in revenues and without e-filing, the earnings would have been in a mess.”
The state has also introduced e-refunds, interstate forms, e-registrations and e-audit forms. This has helped reduce red tape and corruption. “Earlier, people had to queue up for two hours to collect forms and there was corruption in the sale of forms too,” said a sales tax officer.
“Before e-filing, it took us nearly four months to find who had defaulted. Now, they can be found immediately after the last date of filing.”
The sales tax department has also begun sending email and SMS reminders to traders.
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