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Government launches online payment facility to improve ease of doing business

10 Jul 2015 Evaluate

In order to improve ease of doing business for exporters and importers, the Commerce Ministry has launched the facility for online payment of application fees via credit or debit cards and other electronic fund transfers. This facility will help in exporters and importers in terms of facilitating the country's trade and reducing their transactions cost.

Through this facility, applicants can now pay fees online to Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) via their credit or debit cards or through net banking 24x7. Additionally, this facility will too make the field offices of DGFT paperless to a large extent and enable them to function in a 24x7 environment, while saving extra expenditure on storage space.  Also, it will ensure transfer of the fee amount into government account on T+1 working day, avoiding undue delay in deposit of bank drafts.

DGFT has signed an agreement with the Central Bank of India, which will provide payment gateway services to the online portal of DGFT to enable applicants, exporters, importers to pay their application fees by credit or debit cards or through net banking.  The Central Bank of India will provide e-challans, banks scrolls, transaction IDs for all successful transactions; refund amount to the applicant within 3 days and in case of failed transactions. Apart from central back, several public and private sector banks, which are providing these facilities such as Allahabad bank, Bank of India, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, IDBI Bank, Punjab National Bank, State bank of India etc.

The government had already taken a number of steps in last one year to improve ease of doing business in the country that includes having a timeline for clearance of applications and de-licensing the manufacturing of many defence products, Process of applying for Industrial License (IL) and Industrial Entrepreneur Memorandum (IEM) has been made online and this service is now available to entrepreneurs on 24x7 bases at the eBiz website, etc.

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