{"id":12833,"date":"2017-12-17T01:15:18","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T19:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=12833"},"modified":"2017-12-17T01:15:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T19:45:18","slug":"dc-launches-biometric-payment-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2017\/12\/17\/dc-launches-biometric-payment-system\/","title":{"rendered":"DC launches biometric payment system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Dec 16:<\/strong> Capital Complex Deputy Commissioner, Prince Dhawan, inaugurated the Aadhaar-based biometric payment system at Akashdeep Complex here on Saturday.<br \/>\nDhawan said it is the administration&#8217;s effort, as part of the Digital India initiative, to ensure that all the market establishments in the Capital Complex have access to a basic biometric device for cashless transaction.<br \/>\nUrging the vendors to register themselves with the GeM (Government e-Marketplace) portal to access its benefits, the DC said the government would otherwise be compelled to buy from vendors outside the state, &#8220;and that would result in loss of business for the local vendors of the state.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe also informed that the Akashdeep area will shortly be made a &#8220;free wi-fi zone.&#8221;<br \/>\nIT Joint Director, Hano Taka, presented a brief on the GeM portal.<br \/>\n&#8220;It is a technology-driven platform providing one-stop end-to-end solution, making public procurement transparent and efficient, thereby ensuring faster delivery of goods and services online at a much cheaper rate than in offline procurement,&#8221; he explained.<br \/>\nTaka informed that the state government is very soon going to make public procurement through the GeM portal mandatory in the Capital Complex.<br \/>\n&#8220;The help desk of the IT department is always open for the vendors to register themselves,&#8221; he added.<br \/>\nItanagar Market Welfare Association President, Yumlam Achung, said the system has been launched with a view to bring transparency in the system of payment, and urged all the vendors to get registered. He also assured all-out cooperation from his end.<br \/>\nLead Bank Manager, Prabhat Rajkhowa, also spoke. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Dec 16: Capital Complex Deputy Commissioner, Prince Dhawan, inaugurated the Aadhaar-based biometric payment system at Akashdeep Complex here on Saturday. Dhawan said it is the administration&#8217;s effort, as part of the Digital India initiative, to ensure that all the market establishments in the Capital Complex have access to a basic biometric device for cashless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}