No Payment in Gram Panchayats without Digital Signature | 11 Jun 2022

Why in News?

• Recently, while attacking corruption, the government has now implemented dongles in the village panchayats of Champaran district. Under this, it is necessary to make 'digital signatures' of the heads and secretaries of all the gram panchayats.

Key Points

• Giving this information on June 10, 2022, BDO Pankaj Kumar of West Champaran of Bihar state said that the state government has made digital signature certificate necessary for withdrawal of funds of 15^th Finance Commission.
• Now without a digital signature, the amount of state finance and 15th finance will not be able to be paid. These steps have been taken by the government regarding the corruption in the withdrawal of financial funds.
• Account operations of a dozen Gram Panchayats have been suspended for not creating digital signatures.
• The BDO said that in the light of the instructions of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India, instructions have been given for DSC registration, vendor agency, registration, accounting and other technical work under the process of onboarding on the Gram Swaraj Portal, so that public representatives should be aware of it. in order to accelerate the development plans.