Government e-Payment Gateway developed by the Accounts Informatics Division, NIC (an initiative of the Controller General of Accounts, Deptt. of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India) has recently bagged the prestigious elets CloudGov Award of year 2014 under the category – “Best Cloud Usage for Business Efficiency”.
The CloudGov Award 2014 was received by Shri Dipankar Sengupta (Senior Technical Director) and Shri Vivek Joshi (Principal Systems Analyst) from Shri Ram Sewak Sharma, Secretary, DeitY, Ministry of C & IT, Government of India at The Royal Plaza, New Delhi on 10th June, 2014. The nominated projects were evaluated according to innovation, scalability, replication ability, ability to overcome challenges, achievements and impact potential.
Government e-payment system is a secure payment delivery system for direct credit of dues from the Government of India into the account of beneficiaries using digitally signed electronic advice (e-advice) through the ‘Government e-Payment Gateway’ (GePG). This system enables the successful delivery of payment services from Pay & Accounts Offices (PAOs) for online payment into beneficiaries’ accounts in a seamless manner under a secured environment. GePG serves as middleware between COMPACT (Computerized Payment and Accounts) application at PAOs and the Core Banking Solution (CBS) of the agency banks/RBI to facilitate paperless transaction, reducing overall transaction cost and promoting green banking.
e-Payments through GePG touched INR R 8,25,568 Crores as on 1st-July-2014 with over 68,62,053 successful e-payment transactions from 406 Pay and Accounts Offices and 8 Cheque Drawing DDOs of 54 Ministries and Departments made through 22 Public Sector and Private Sector Banks.
Dipankar Sengupta, NIC HQ, Delhi