RAIL TICKETS

■ More than 6.38 crore railway ticket bookings and cancellations were made during the period through IRCTC and over-thecounter, making it the fourth highest number of transactions ■ Various services under the Pradhan Mantri Jan-dhan Yojana, the government’s financial inclusion programme recorded the third highest e-transactions during the two-month period with over 10.47 crore transactions for services such including banking facility locator, Sms-based information, etc among others. The etaal platform automatically pulls the e-transaction count from applications that are integrated with it.

In Telangana, the highest number of electronic transactions were in rural development services such as NREGA musters, and weekly payments, followed by commercial tax services such as collection of VAT and online Central Sales Tax returns.

In Gujarat, apart from commercial tax services, various public distribution system (PDS) services, such as PDS SMS alerts, issuance of bill receipts by PDS e-fair Price Shops were the most transacted services. Similarly, in Kerala as well, apart from commercial tax services, state specific services such as its IT mission’s mobile governance services and downloads of tourism information was among the top used electronic services in the CPI (M) ruled state.

The highest number of electronic transactions in Uttar Pradesh, state with the largest population in the country, were across various VAT services such as return filing, sales and purchase transactions, along with online dealer search service on the state government’s management information system.

In the Bjp-ruled states of Chhattisgarh and Haryana, utility services and bill payments were among the top made electronic transactions. In Haryana, the amount of electronic payments for social welfare and pension schemes also helped the state push its rank up.

In Tamil Nadu, online extraction of land records such as title deeds was the most undertaken, followed by patient registration on the state health department’s management information system. Apart from the patient registration, e-transactions for record generation at pharmacy and lab services were also done in high numbers.

Central Govt Services

Among the central government projects, during the aforementioned two-month period, services provided by the Unique Identification Authority of India such as Aadhaar authentication and electronic KYC topped the list with over 113.61 crore such transactions conducted between November 9 and January 9.

This was followed by agricultural services such as Kisaan SMS Portal, which is a project run by the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare to disseminate the information about seeds, farm equipment, fertilisers, dealers, etc to farmers and other stakeholders.

Various services under the Pradhan Mantri Jan-dhan Yojana, the government’s financial inclusion programme recorded the third highest e-transactions during the twomonth period with over 10.47 crore transactions for services such including banking facility locator, Sms-based information, etc

More than 6.38 crore railway ticket bookings and cancellations were made during the period through IRCTC and over-the-counter making it the fourth highest number of transactions. This was followed by various public financial management system services such as NREGA transactions like muster entries, food subsidy, housing subsidy transactions, etc. Judiciary services such as online access of case status, cause-lists, orders, apart from online filing and registration of cases on e-courts accounted for 3.13 crore transactions.

Graphic: Suman Ghosh