e-stamping made mandatory in entire state from March 1

Chandigarh, February 5

With a view to providing a hassle-free, citizen-centric and secure way of paying non-judicial stamp duty, the Haryana Government has decided to make e-stamping mandatory in the entire state with effect from March 1. The e-stamping was earlier made mandatory in four districts of Gurugram, Faridabad, Sonepat and Panchkula.

While stating this here today, Finance Minister Capt Abhimanyu said that any citizen could generate stamp paper online through the e-stamping system available on https://egrashry.nic.in.

He said that all other offices and agencies, namely Treasury Office, Sub-Treasury Office and authorised branches of the State Bank of India would stop selling non-judicial stamp papers. Stamp vendors would generate non-judicial stamp paper up to Rs 10,000 per person through e-stamping module only.

He said that the system was implemented in two parts, including making the payment for stamp papers in the relevant receipts head and generating e-stamp paper through e-stamping portal after online confirmation of the payment. Any depositor could make payment for generation of e-stamp paper by using payment aggregator service on E-GRAS portal or manual payment on the portal, he added.

Giving further details, he said that the payment aggregator service had been implemented with Punjab National Bank, IDBI Bank and State Bank of India with effect from May 2, 2015. These banks would not charge any fee for collection of government receipts through net banking on E-GRAS portal and have also been allowed to collect government receipts using debit and credit card. The depositor would pay charges amounting to 0.70 per cent for up to Rs 2,000 and 0.73 per cent for above Rs 2,000 in case of debit card and 0.90 per cent in case of credit card, exclusive of all taxes, charges and levies, which would be automatically deducted along with the payment to be made. After successful payment, the citizen could generate online e-stamp paper immediately through e-stamping system.

He said that the Electronic Government Receipt Accounting System (E-GRAS) had been implemented successfully all over the state. The SBI, Punjab National Bank, IDBI Bank, State Bank of Patiala, Central Bank of India and Treasury Bank branch concerned of other banks dealing with the Haryana Treasury business were collecting government receipts through E-GRAS manually. Any citizen could pay through draft or cash after generating requisite challan on E-GRAS manually, he added.

He said that after successful payment, the depositors would generate online e-stamp papers immediately and seek the date of registration from the revenue authority using Haryana Registration Information System (HARIS) portal. The revenue authority, after verifying the payment online through E-GRAS portal, would register the document and the system would automatically deface the e-stamp and corresponding government receipt number (GRN) online to avoid duplication.

Capt Abhimanyu said that the Cyber Treasury established by the Haryana Government in Chandigarh would verify the payment details received from the banks concerned in the management information system (MIS) with the credits in its nodal account every day. In case of any un-reconciled payments, the Cyber Treasury would inform the bank for resolution through the system. The accounts of those successful transactions received in the Cyber Treasury through e-scroll or hard copy of scroll would be prepared automatically on daily basis and reported to the Principal Accountant General on prescribed date. The Cyber Treasury Officer would closely monitor all activities for reconciliation of payments, he added.

He said that the depositor could apply online on E-GRAS portal for refund of unused e-stamp paper by filling up the requisite information in the prescribed format available on the website. Thereafter, the system would send the information to the Drawing and Disbursing Officer concerned in the district concerned who would prepare refund bill through e-billing system and get it passed in the treasury concerned.

Source:Tribune

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