GRIPS
Finance Department, Government of West Bengal introduced on-line receipt of Tax and Non-Tax revenue through Government Receipt Portal System or GRIPS Portal.
In respect of EMD/SD money, refund will be drawn on sanction of respective Departmental Officer in whose favour amount has been deposited through GRIPS portal.
To allow issuance of system-generated e-receipts through web based applications e-Vahan and e-Sarathi only against payments made at any motor vehicles office.
RBI has authorised additional Banks to handle Govt transactions. The State Government Offices and the Autonomous Bodies/ Statutory Corporations may maintain bank account with it.
Electronic Deposit of State Government revenue collected by the Directorate of Commercial Taxes and the Directorate of Excise has already been made mandatory through GRIPS.
Governor is pleased to include the facility for receipts under deduct recovery heads for recovery of overpayments pertaining to all departments under a new service Recovery of overpayment in GRIPS.
West Bengal Health Recruitment Board having completed the process of tuning their system to electronic receipt of examination fees approached Finance Department to enable the GRIPS portal to receive fees for examination to be conducted by them from this year.
Government is pleased to include Syndicate Bank and Andhra Bank in the list of Banks with authority to receive Government Tax and Non Tax Revenue both online and off line through GRIPS portal.
GRIPS is being integrated with IFMS and is going to be rolled out as a Module of Integrated Financial Management System (IFMS) on and from 31st October, 2016.
It will be mandatory for all the departments of the State Government to collect their tax & non-tax revenue only through GRIPS with effect from 01.07.2015.
Inclusion of Heads of Accounts for e-Receipt of Motor Vehicles Tax, Driving Licence Fee, Motor Vehicle Border Check Post Receipt, Road Toll, Transport Workers’ Welfare Cess, etc. administered by Transport Deptt. through GRIPS Portal.