The National Informatics Centre, East Khasi Hills District Unit has taken up the responsibility of computerization and monitoring of the revenue collection by the Excise Department in the office of the Deputy Commissioner, East Khasi Hills District.
A large part of the revenue in the State comes from the revenue collected by the Excise Department from various wine dealers in the District. Every month the wine sellers in the entire District submit the treasury challan (TC) in the Treasury Office and permits are issued by the Excise Department for lifting the Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) from the bonded warehouses. A large number of permits are issued every month by the District Excise Branch to the wine sellers. And the collection of revenue amount to several lakhs of rupees every month. Maintaining the daily records of treasury challans and permit issued, in the register, is a tedious job. Moreover their is time limitation as the amount collected is to be submitted to the Commissioner of Excise by the first week of every month. Another major problem faced by the Excise Department is in various calculations, as every month the average number of challans issued by the Office is more than a thousand.
Keeping all these constraints in mind a software package is developed to eliminate the manual process of monitoring the excise revenue collection. Using the computerized system will reduce the time factor by more than 50 percent and work will be accomplished in a few days time. This will enable the staff members of the department to devote time for the other important services in the office.
The software designed is entirely menu-driven and extremely easy to use.