PMO sets ambitious paperless target.

New Delhi : The Prime Minister's Office has set an ambitious target to shift at least 90% of all government transactions that involve payments or receipts from citizens and businesses to electronic or paperless mode by the end of 2016, replacing the use of cash, demand drafts, cheques and challans in government offices.

      To move towards that goal, all government departments and ministries have been asked to provide electronic options for all payments and receipts by March 31, 2016.

Transactional experience.

      The Department of Electronics and Information Technology or DEITY is working on an end-to-end transactional experience for citizens and businesses to access various services through Internet enabled with a payment gateway interface for online payments, as part of the Digital India mission, a senior official told The Hindu. The official said a panel under the PMO mandated a targeted approach.

 (Chennai edition of " The Hindu " Tuesday, December 22, 2015.)

Courtesy : M.P.Subrahmanian.