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The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) is planning to make cheques history in its transaction. It is soon going to release all its payments through online mode. NMC makes payments of Rs 650-700 crore every year for its various works. It has so far been making these payments through cheques. The finance department of NMC issues over 3,000 cheques in a month to contractors and others.

As a part of the e-governance project taken up by NMC, it will issue tenders online and would also make payments for works online. The work of e-governance project is almost complete. A circular has been issued announcing that payments would be released through ECS, RTGS, NEFT mode from April 1. "Contractors have to open new accounts or get the facility of these type of modes before April 1. No excuse will be given in the payment mode," said the circular.

An official said the plan was to bring transparency and ease in the process. "It will be beneficial for NMC and also contractors," he said. It would eliminate chance of bogus cheques being issued as had happened recently and malpractices with release of payments. Besides, eliminating use of paper cheques would be ecofriendly.

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Autor(en)/Author(s): Anjaya Anparthi

Quelle/Source: The Times of India, 14.03.2012

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