The National Informatics Centre, Uttar Pradesh State Unit, at Lucknow has successfully computerized the Entertainment Tax Department's revenue handling procedure.
The software named as ERIS (Entertainment Revenue Information System) incorporates many essential features of quality software development techniques. The data from the district is transmitted through NICNET thereby eradicating bottlenecks such as loss of data, time-lag etc. The only manual activity involved is capturing of mail, rest is taken care by the software. It takes out relevant information from the mail captured, sorts it in a required format and prepares it for report generation.
Report generation is a very important process. Emphasis has been given to the report generation sequence which is totally menu driven. The various reports generated reflect:
- the revenue collected in a district by means of entertainment tax (fortnightly, monthly, quarterly and annually).
- the percentage by which each district exceeds or falls short of its projected target every fortnight.
- growth or decay of tax collection
- monthly and annual comparisons of tax collection over the years.
The data which is transferred every fortnight is in a very compact form and is required by the Commissioner Entertainment for planning and framing of various policies.
Another important feature in the report generation sequence is the status information of defaulter districts. This indicates the districts which do not send the data.
On-line messages, prompts, error flashes guide the User throughout the software and whenever one needs associated or additional information about a particular aspect help is just a keystroke away. The framework of the software has been developed to facilitate smooth operations and no special training is required to run the software.