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eGov Products & Services

Charts and Graphs depiction at IFMS, Punjab
eReceipt [https://ifms.punjab.gov.in] Salient Features:
This module facilitates collection of Tax/ Non- • Availability of vehicles and POL Expenditure at a
Tax revenues in both Online [via NetBanking, Debit/ particular Office, Tehsil, District and State Head
Credit Card, Airtel Payment Bank, UPI Payments Quarters etc.
(Google Pay, PhonePe, Bhim App, PayTM and Amazon • Each earmarked vehicle mapped with HRMS Code
Pay)] as well as Offline mode (via Challans). Salient • Intimation regarding No. of Vehicle with an Official
Features are: • Intimation of excess use of vehicle to Seniors
• Online 24*7 preparation of Challan • Helping state government in crisis by providing
• Depositor can deposit Govt. receipt PAN INDIA in information like vehicle available at particular
any branch of SBI, PNB, IDBI and PNB (For VAT only)
• Debit Card/ Credit Card/ NetBanking/ NEFT/ RTGS/ region/ institute/ offices of the state
Govt. Property Management System (GPMS)
UPI based payments through payment aggregator facilitates keeping track of immovable properties
of PNB (PayU) and SBI (MOPS) (Land/ Buildings) of Govt. of Punjab. Once a Property
• Auto bifurcation of VAT deposits (11% in Dept A/C is verified by authority, the designated officials can
and 89% in Government Treasury) search for un-utilized Properties and allocate the
• Integrated with portals of Agriculture, Legal same to needed offices/ departments.
Metrology, Excise & Taxation, PSP & eSEWA, Health
& Family Welfare, Director General of Police, Rural Technologies Used
& Panchayat Development, Labour & Employment, All the modules were developed using Micro- Hence facilitated seamless payments
Revenue, Chief Electrical Inspector, Transport and Service Level Architecture where one backend can
Industries for online submission of fee serve many frontends like WebApp and Mobile • Linkage between Receipt & Refund, AC & DC Bills,
EMD & PD/ PLA Bills has reduced leakage of funds
• Stamp Vendors can deposit Stamp Fee through App. The portal was developed using following
technologies:
Online Mode and can avail discount of 1% or 2% Way Forward
as per applicability • Frontend: Angular 11 with Material Design The team has designed an excellent application
• Backend: NodeJS 14 with Express 4 & NET Core 3.1
• Online verification of fee through GRN (Government • Database: SQL Server 2019, PostgreSQL 11 architecture which can be extended further for heavy
Receipt Number) loads in future. Some of the In-Process activities are:
• Cyber Treasury for reconciliation and preparation Benefits • New Debt Management System in integration with
of State receipt account with the authorized banks • Using new eBudget module, State Govt. can assign eReceipt
at a central location District Wise Receipt Targets to any Department • Implementation of e-Vouchers in the Treasuries
• Integrated with GSTN for SGST Receipts • Using Vehicle Management System (VMS), State • Integration with e-Kuber (RBI) for Receipts, so that
Government has saved more than 17 Crore Rupees Receipts can be monitored in real time without any
Vehicle Management System for State Government manual intervention of banks
(VMS) and Govt. Property • Using GPMS, State Government can check
Management System (GPMS) availability of vacant office space at a particular
Vehicle Management System (VMS) facilitates location
a check on POL Bills of State Government vehicles. • Using Smart Dashboards of eReceipt, State Govt.
Every Govt. official (Earmarked) or Vehicle (Pooled) For further information, please contact:
has a POL Limit (on Fuel & Maintenance) assigned has recovered more than Rs. 13.50 Crore from STATE INFORMATICS OFFICER
by Department of Finance, Government of Punjab. banks NIC Punjab State Centre
VMS is keeping track of each limit. In first year of its • With introduction of Unique Payee Code, State Block No. 3, Ground Floor, Kendriya Sadan Building
Sector 9, Punjab -160009
launch VMS has saved more than 17 Crore Rupees for Govt. has reduced 98% of RNs (Return Note) CHANDIGARH
State Government. returned by eKuber (RBI) while making payments Email: sio-punjab@nic.in, Phone: 0172-2747357

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