The total number of e-governance transactions in the country has crossed Rs 10 billion this year, the government web portal eTaal said on Friday.
The portal — which disseminates e-transactions statistics of national and state level e-governance projects — said the e-transactions increased by 33 per cent from last year’s Rs 7.6 billion..
Based on the analysis by eTaal, since 2014, there has been a mass increase in the number of e-transactions undertaken by the e-governance projects. The total e-transactions were around Rs 3.5 billion in 2014, and increased to Rs 7.6 billion in 2015 .
Currently, the e-transactions have crossed Rs 10 billion, which is 33 per cent increase from last year.
The government web portal — etaal.gov.in — receives transaction statistics from web based applications periodically on near real time basis and presents quick analysis of transaction counts in tabular and graphical form to give quick view of the transactions done by various e-governance projects.
The portal takes into account all e-transactions delivering public services from the government to citizens across categories such as agriculture, health, transportation, telecommunication and MNREGA.
By Baishakhi Dutta
