ITANAGAR, 29 Apr: The excise licensees and officials of the tax, excise & narcotics department were given hands-on training in ‘Electronic government receipt accounting system (eGRAS)’ during a three-day programme at the e-Office training hall of the civil secretariat here.
The training for the excise licensees was held on 27 April, and the training for the officials of the department was held on 28 and 29 April.
Tax, Excise & Narcotics Assistant Commissioner Teli Ngomdir supervised the training sessions as resource person, along with officials of the NIC Itanagar.
The finance department has decided to roll out the eGRAS to serve as a common collection portal for the state.
“eGRAS is a secure web application which provides the citizens and the business community the facility to pay taxes, non-tax receipts to the government electronically at any point of time from any location, using banks’ internet payment gateways. Its purpose is to know the accurate and factual position of state receipts at any given point of time,” the tax, excise & narcotics department said in a release.
The department has been selected for implementation of eGRAS as a pilot project, to be followed by other departments.
The NIC Itanagar is the nodal agency for on-boarding eGRAS.
